Grand Space Opera 3D Entry: Jeroen Hoekstra

#1

Jeroen Hoekstra has entered the Grand Space Opera 3D.

#2

Hi there, Iv’e entered the contest:D
I’lll be working on a lot of concept this evening and I’ll post some concepts and sketches by tommorow morning, wish me luck! :thumbsup: (good luck to everyone else too ^.^ )

#3

Welcome jeroen…This has potential above and beyond.I wish you luck and lot’s of fun.Now get to those sketches…:arteest: :wip:

#4

Some concept ideas.

#5

Sketch #1:
On the right side of the image you can see a bunch of humans who have landed on a just discovered alien planet and are checking out the area. The humans stand on plane land, not to much trees etc. On the left side you can see a little girl holding the hand of her grandpa. She’s pointing to the human that’s curiously looking through the bushes.

What I have in mind is a troup of humans with space-craft vessels on the right side. On the left side you can see a peacefull alien village living in the beautifull nature of that planet. In the middle you’ll see the curious man looking trough the bushes.

Sketch #2:
This is my current favorite. What you see is a huge throne room. You can see the king and a lot of servents, wiseman, guards standing in the room. You have this beautifull big window in the back, it’s curved. Trough this window you can see the beautifull evirment the palace is build in. Some flying aircrafts, moons, stars, the sky, you get the picture. 2 man (not shown) bring in the human explorer and everyone aims his attantion to this strange looking fellow.

Sketch #3:
Here you see again a human explorer, who has just arrived in a city in an alian planet. He’s totally shocked by the advanced minds of the population. All the fold around him are curiously staring at him.

Note:
Just to be sure you get this, it’s the concept. Sorry for the super quickly drawn images, but I wanted to capture the image in my head as good as possible. I’d also like some oppinions on the scenes before I really start to put hours of work in one image. All the characters are way basic and you cant’ see the difference between alian and human. In the next post I’ll show some of the Alian concepts :thumbsup:

The overall idea of my iconic image is the first historical contact between the 2 planets, the first bond. I don’t want any big fighting scenes, but I want you to be just as impresed with the culture and people living there as the explorer is. A peace full image full of new things and curiousity, not full of war and destruction. :love:

Shiroii

#6

Second update

I’ve drawn a few concepts here. I’ve got a possible king (lower-right corner) and a possible wise man (upper-left corner) The characters in the lower left corner are just population, overall sketches and ideas. The one on the upper-right, I’ve got no idea, I guess it could be a guard, I love it anyway :smiley:

comment! :wink:
Shiroii

#7

woohoo… ncie stuff… now ur the second person who got idea of a peaceful image (1st one was myself but i droped the idea and that leaves only u) and nice alien skatches… i loved the lower left alien picture, neat hand pose… now i sud like to suggest u that if u want the alien to sho in ur scene, b sure to put resemblences in them, making one being look like a gorilla and other like a penguin isnt such a good idea… we human do look different but u can tell by lookin at a man and know its a human… i hope u know what i mean… anyways best of luck dear buddy :thumbsup:

#8

hmm this is interesting also hehe, good ideas, the human explorers and all that stuff, i wish you good luck!! i think your entry will be very fun to watch hehe

#9

looks good so far. Looking at your concept images, gave me an idea about a scene depicting a firste contact type of scenario. Kind of like an official meeting between races with all sorts of pomp and circumstance. Good luck to ya:thumbsup:

#10

This is the first work that I saw here in this challenge using a funny subject. I liked the ideia.
Good luck.

#11

New character update. I’m trying to go for roughly the same look on all figures. All the alian creatures will have the moustace tenticle things, the characteristic brows and the cool ears and the flat head + wrinkles and big chin :stuck_out_tongue:

The guardians look different though, they’re more skinny, muscled etc, differend race if you will.

Please tell me what you think of the babes. I like the few on the bottom best :smiley:

EDIT: IF YOU CLICK ON THE IMAGE YOU’LL GET A HIGHER RESS :wink:

#12

Questions and comments:
All thanks for the comments!

@3doid, I’m going to give them all the same characteristics, they’ll show some resamblemts. In my next update I’ll tell some more about the story of my unniverse, there you’ll also get some character and classes description :wink:
Yeah, I like the peacfull stuff. I think it might even be original to not have war things, but just a peacefull and impressive image (I hope it will be impressive)
@3db2, thanks, I hope it will be as cool as I got it in my head, more about the explorer in the next update ^.^
@percydaman, Thanks, glad you like it and it inspires you :thumbsup:
@pddaugusto, thanks mate!

Some more info:

I’ve gone for the second sketch. I liked that one best. I’m currently messing with the possibilities and composition ideas. I think I’ll make a cozy room with a big window. In the window you can see the city, airships, all I saidin the last post. You’ll see the king playing some kind of hyper-modern chess game with a wise-man. The guardian will bring in the explorer and everyone will look up from what they’re doing.

-The rest of the scene: I’ll probably have some sort of sitting area on the left or right side of the image where kids are sitting playing with a dragon :smiley:
-I’m also gonna set up some other characters.
-Also exploring the possibility or multople floors

next update:
-Some more on the underlying story and concept
-way more detailed sketch for the scene
-probably some architectual things, chess game, stairs
-wiseman and king character

Tell me what you think :smiley:

#13

I like the concept number one :slight_smile:

Can you sketch “more detailed” the little girl expression?

thanks and cheers!

#14

I thought of kublai khan receiving marco polo when I read the concept you chose. I’ve got some painting in my head of the court and the visitor, but I couldn’t find it when I searched for it just now. Anyway, looking forward to more.

#15

I like all concepts… Can’t wait to see some more :thumbsup:

#16

Small little update tonight. Sketched out the king character, tried out some different clothing. I went for a lot of drapery kind of cloths with an egyptian look. Upper body is quite final, the lowerbody around the leg is still WIP. Don’t really know what kinda shoes I’m gonna give him, or whether I’ll give him shoes or not. Feel free to comment :wink:

#17

cool and fun character concepts jeroen…I want a couple hundred or so of these fun guys running wild on “Space opera” Battlefields…A grand battle.:wink: …Ok just a couple nice detailed ones in a vast set piece.:arteest:Looking good,keep at it hard Jeroen…

#18

Promised some more updates, but I failed :smiley: I have done the set all over again, still a lot like the original concept, but quite different. It looks much better. Still very WIP that’s why there isn’t a picture. I’ve also tried to get into the wiseman character, but I ran into a little creative-mind-block O_o It sucks, I will work on it some more over the weekend and you can expect the scenery sketch (in water color!) and the wise-man concept by sunday (I love making this schedual thing, that whay I feel bad if I didn’t make it :smiley: (which helps me trough the time limit)) I think I just might start modeling the king, I’m pretty happy with the head and the upperbody, so I can do quite a lot of modeling. It’s also a good distraction from all the concept design, so I can load up a bit more :thumbsup:

I’ll get into the concept tooo. I just attempted to write down a few lines about it. It’s a rather simpel concept, but since I’ve got like 4 to 5 characters in it, it’s going to get a bit more complicated. I’ll see what I can do and work on the details, fantasies a bit and write it down for y’all. Really want to get a good strong concept story so :smiley:

-shiroii

p.s sorry for the too big image ^.^ Looked quite good in Photoshop :stuck_out_tongue:

Virtuoso, thanks man! I’ll be sure to get a couple of detailed characters. Feeling quite good about the concepts and they’ll be tons of fun to modle, so expect some detail :thumbsup:

#19

Hey, really nice concepts and lovely characters!!
Looking forward for more…

#20

I like that your idea is character based. In the end it’s the story of the characters, not necessarily the environment that counts. Although, I guess setting is pretty vital to a space opera. Otherwise it’s just an opera. . . and you’d have people singin’. . . real different. . . anyway, lookin’ good thus far.