Steampunk Myths and Legends Entry: Rachel Quinlan

#1

Rachel Quinlan is entered in the “Steampunk Myths and Legends” update: View Challenge Page

Latest Update: Concept / pre-visualization: fish sketch 3

#2

Just a rough sketch to enter the challenge.
My idea was to illustrate the tale of the fisherman who caught a fish that could grant wishes. Hopefully, someone else hasn’t started on the same story.
The entire environment would be mechanical…maybe with the exception of the fisherman. The sea would be rows of gears, I’m even thinking about making the sky some sort of artificial construction. More sketches to come…

#3

cool concept, I think the sea of gears would be a bit much “gearage”, maybe a sea of oil to help out the gear steam ocean denizens? That would give you good contrast to the hard metal and nice reflections and something of suspension of disbelief. Anyway you decide to go, I’ll certianly be very interested in your progression!

~ Shane

#4

Just to clarify, the story I’m using is one of Grimm’s fairy tales and is called The Fisherman and his Wife. You can read the story here -> The Fisherman and his Wife

Shane, thanks for the advice! That’s not a bad idea, though I think the gear idea could work with the right composition. My sketch is still really messy…

#5

Just playing around with the composition and I also worked on the fish design a bit.

#6

I much prefer the first composition, the second one is rather more confusing, plus it looks as if the fish is floating, etc… go with the first one, but have the fish poking up out of the water, like this:

Make the boat a bit smaller and have the giant fish somewhat surrounded by steam and a bit of fog…really push the idea that it’s gigantic…gives it that nice epic feeling that CGSociety loves. :smiley:

#7

Love the idea, and as paperclip said go with the first composition.

Looking foreword to see more.

#8

Another rough sketch…just playing around with the composition still.

Theresa- Thanks for the suggestions! I took some of the elements of the first sketch and some from the second sketch on this third one. The first composition just seemed a little bland to me. I also really like that the fisherman is so busy reeling in his catch that he doesn’t know what’s on the other end yet. Anyways, I think this third sketch is a bit more dynamic and is pushing the scale a lot more.

Carl - Thanks!

#9

I really like this idea! Most of all I like how you want to transform all the elements (like the sky and water) into mechanical kinda things… its sets it apart from others. I also like your first composition, though good to go with one you are really comfortable with. It looks like it would be difficult to make it look like the man doesn’t realise what he has caught… at the moment it looks almost like he is heading home with his catch or something (of course only sketches) but anyways, best of luck, this could be really good!

#10

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