Grand Space Opera 2D Entry: Peter Davis

#7

I love the concept story!! Cant wait to see some refined sketches.

Jose

#8

Excellent concept mate, obviously extremely well thought out and planned. A real neat backstory to set the scene certainly helps to visualise what your trying to put accross. Will definately keep an eye out for updates as you progress. Keep it up, thanks for you comments in my thread.

Its not rare but us aussies seem to be few and far between in these comps it good to see more of us around here showing off their tallent amongst all the other great artists from all over the world. Have a good one.:thumbsup: :beer:

#9

the planet crashes into the outer surface of Coronam Vitae. as this surface harnesses and processes and enormous amount of energy for the entire planet, the result of a planet crashing into its surface is a chain reaction that creates a spherical supernova effect that bursts from the outer surface, sending shrapnel (think very BIG chunks of shrapnel though =]) and an enormous energy wave outwards.

On top of that, even though the geography of the planet has a troposphere and other outer layers (although on the inside), busting a hole in the side causes the vacuum of space to suck everything out, including energy from the column in the centre that had been fractured from debris.

My first idea is to change the planet Iudicium into a small star with the same name (think Fifth Element) to make it more consistent. If the god was so angered by the destruction of Sancta, I doubt heÂ’s that eager to go throwing planets around like a metaphorical game of dodgeball.

But my main query is whether to portray all ive mentioned so far from inside or outside the planet. Ive given a slight idea of what both will kinda look like, but I plan to extrapolate. Thing is, the view from the outside will have impact on a greater scale I feel, but the inside view will be more personal and possibly tell more of a story. (if only it were possible to do a psycho pan that shows both, but I cant image how =])

Im sorry I cant give any visual representations at this time, but if you could all give me your opinions or advice on how I should approach this, itd be very helpful!

  Pete.
#10

Yep, I just can’t get enough of these challanges. Good luck to you too friend. It’s like I said with the machine flesh, even if you don’t win a prize you are sure to have other artists look at your work.

#11

You’re right, it doesn’t have to be phisically possible, nevertheless I must ask where they got all the material to build that shell-thing which is mutch bigger than the brightest sun they could find which I guess is incomparable in size to any planet orbiting it… :scream:

What about an view from outside, but near the hole so that we can see both, the inside and the outside? Though it would be difficult then to portrait the sun…

Good luck to you!

#12

Peddy, thanks for your comments on my thread.

I think you have a sweet concept and you’ve obviously done a lot of thinking here. I like the original concept sketch, but I dont really understand what is going on entirely. I think it’s a problem of your value system, talking tones not religious beliefs. If that is a star inside the outer crust-like thing, then the inside would be much more lit up, and the star would be blinding making the outer crust appear as a sillouette against it.

I need to see the other composition camera angles more fleshed out to give feedback on them.

I’ll be checking back.

#13

Peddy-
Here’s an idea, you might try showing some of “shell” in the foreground- so you can actually see some of the civilization. This would really force the scale, and allow for all kinds of drama if it were cracking apart. As it is it’s a really cool idea, but there’s nothing in the picture to tell you how massive it is, no point of reference.

Good luck with school!

#14

Lol possibility is overrated. The concept is dope, i’ve subscribed to this thread in fact.

#15

Yeah, i love the whole Dyson Sphere concept :slight_smile:
Good to see things are all going well on the home front too - hoping to come back home before i start to like it here LOL.

Yeah, absolutley, this is a great concept - its got grand scale, potential for incredible detail, and plenty of depth.

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#16

replies are always good =]

coCoKNIght, funkbuttah: yeah the sun things a bit whack, so thats why i dont mention it in the story, cos i took it out.

coCoKNIght: refer to what malcolmvexxed said :slight_smile:

ebrowning: about the shell in the foreground, yes, its a very solid angle and im glad someone else agrees with it. i will try and implement it later.

unfortunately, i have 2 weeks to do a schizer load of work, so im committed to not doing any work on this project until after that 2 weeks. woe is me, but it has to be done.

#17

this is huge buddy… like ur starting… the concepts r also flowing smooth… i totally liked ur camera test… i also feel that the left one catches more drama and sence of huge space… keep goin buddy i wanna c more :thumbsup:

#18

Very nice and i like the background story so far, show us some more pictures im eager :thumbsup:

#19

hum, great ideia, show some more pics,

i liked the history… i can almost feel what you want to say… =PP

#20

Good luck with your art, it seems interesting!

:slight_smile:

#21

Great idea, although the almost-square proportions of your initial concept image take away from the dramatics of it. I’d go for a longer rectangle for the image, probably and upright (portrait) orientation, although a landscape could also work.

Edit: if that’s what you’re doing with the 2nd image, then great, ignore the above.
Looking forward to seeing more.

#22

Hey mate =)

I had a look on your first pic you uploaded, and I see a small inconsistancy in the light source:

The two planets in the background are lit from a source to the left. However the planet/moon in the foreground seems to be lit from another source.

Also, I would suggest working some more on the star field, give it more variety in brightness and grouping.

:slight_smile:

#23

thanks for picking that up, but its not entirely relevant because the concept has changed since then. but just so you know, it was intended that the planets on the right were in the foreground - thats just how big the planet on the left is.

#24

i got about this far in slapping paint and playing with textures when i realised i may be better off with an internal shot, or at least not this angle.

#25

Hi, nice concept…

I guess I understood right, you have abandoned the core built -around- a star idea, but an artificial planet that feeds off a star nearby (At any given day, the artificial planet should be smaller than the star :slight_smile: ), then things go wrong :slight_smile: I’d prefer the latter…

Sorry if I got it all wrong…

If you are not content with the latest one and want to change the perspective, I’d suggest you portray an internal view of the things happening and you would see the whole from the inhabitants angle… the inside of the planet would be full of lights, a sky dome which could simulate a sun, but then you have this big hole now where there is strong turbulance and you can see the star, whose light is much stronger than the lighting of the dome… You could add all catastrophic things like semi-destroyed vehicles and whatnot flying out…

#26

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