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A Handy Location!
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A Handy Location! // Work in Progress
Post by W!ZARD // Apr 4, 2007, 2:42am
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This is an idea that's been rattling around in the back of my mind for quite some time now and I thought that I'd finally give it a go.
Every now and then I find a new tS tool that I've not really used before. Recently that's been the NURBS tools which I've been using to make sails for my ship and clothes for my characters and so on. My latest 'favourite new trueSpace tool' would have to be the geometry paint tool which was used here to place the trees.
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Many centuries ago the Wizards, Witches and the Guardians Of The Earth went to war with the Tec-Knights - the immense forces of magic and science went head to head and the very fabric of reality was forever changed. This pair of massive stone hands, jutting from the coastal mountains, is believed to be the result of some unremembered battle between a powerful Mage and a well equipped Tec-knight.
No-one knows now if the hands were created as weapons or as shelter. It's not even known if the giant hands were created by magic or by the highly skilled application of a Tec-Knight submolecular morphic resonator but the locals do know that the water which rises from the lake in the palm of the left hand is pure and fresh and reputedly an effective treatment for warts.
In the drier times when other locations are running short of water the People of the Hands really couldn't care less HOW the water gets there - they are just grateful that it does. Because water is available here a local lord has built his manor house on the shores of the lake deeming it a very 'handy' location!
As always comments and critiques most welcome.
Thanks
WZRD |
Post by Steinie // Apr 4, 2007, 3:21am
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I like this one but boy o boy could we come up with lots of funny ideas.
Top 10 Steinie sayings
1) The watch tower is below
2) In war the middle finger is raised
3) The land came cheap, some say it was a 5 finger discount!
4) Some called it a hand grab
5) I think you nailed this one
6) Every Sunday is Palm Sunday
7) They really knuckle down in their efforts.
8) Not mentioned but there is evidence of another culture...but one hand doesn't know what the other is doing...
9) There were rumors of a Pig living on the far end of Town is named "Pinkie"
10) This place might be connected to a body called "Mech Devil" with a sign "Over 2 billion MechDevils sold"
Sorry W!zard.....I guess I like it too much!:) |
Post by jayr // Apr 4, 2007, 3:23am
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truely bizzare, is this from a story you've written or did you make it up to go with the picture? |
Post by prodigy // Apr 4, 2007, 4:04am
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2) In war the middle finger is raised
I think that one is for a first place.... :D
hehehehe.... |
Post by Birdnest // Apr 4, 2007, 5:07am
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Good job there wizard man! How did you do the background? Was that ALL one big TrueSpace scene? |
Post by W!ZARD // Apr 4, 2007, 5:37am
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Thanks guys.
Steinie I've got to hand it to you, you won that pun war hands down - I just can't handle that kind of pun-ishment!;)
jayr - "is this from a story you've written or did you make it up to go with the picture?" - LOL, actually a bit of both! I painted a picture along similar lines many many moons ago, a small village nestled in a pair of cupped hands and I've always carried that image around in my head (although the original painting passed on to others long ago). This location does not currently have any real bearing on my overall storyline but the idea of magic and science battling in the past - whilst hardly original - is a component of the backstory.
Birdnest. This is a render sandwich - the background sea, island and clouds etc are a single scene, rendered to use in the background shader. The same lights and camera setup are used in the second scene which has just the hands and foreground models in it. So it's actually 2 big trueSpace scenes. Ironically the background took longer to get together than the foreground.
I'm aiming to add some further details - figures on the roads, stone fences enclosing paddocks, maybe a few sheep. I'm open to any suggestions from the forum though as while I am quite happy with what I've got here it doesn't quite 'pop' the way I'd like it to (yet). |
Post by 3dvisuals dude // Apr 16, 2007, 4:20pm
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I'm aiming to add some further details - figures on the roads, stone fences enclosing paddocks, maybe a few sheep. I'm open to any suggestions from the forum though as while I am quite happy with what I've got here it doesn't quite 'pop' the way I'd like it to (yet).
This is awesome W!ZARD... I forgot just how much I loved Gullivers Travels until I saw this... reminds me of Liliput with a lot of elaboration.
I looked at this for quite awhile the other night and thought about what you said (which I quoted above here) rather deeply (for me anyway).
I think you are right... there's something not-at-all-obvious which would just "make" this image, something yet to appear. In my minds eye I see a main character, in the foreground of the lower left portion of the image, close to the camera... with an emotional expression and/or gesture defining or signifying your own interpretation of the overall scene. I can hardly critique your work at all given how many light years of talent you have over me, but that's what I think you may be looking for... or at least my mind's eye shows me that element "missing."
Well done, great work as always.:cool:
-3dvisuals dude |
Post by Michael Billard // Apr 17, 2007, 6:14am
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That looks really good! You must have lots of experience with ts and 3D art. My only suggestion: the water running off the hand in the foreground looks like the wrist was cut in a bad way. Maybe that was the intent. Perhaps consider running the water between the fingers. |
Post by W!ZARD // Apr 17, 2007, 10:11am
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Thanks 3d dude. This pic has actually gone on the back burner for a while as I've got myself involved in building another ship, this time using tS 7.11. Thanks for the suggestion - in my mind I've always seen this scene as little more than an odd location in my odd imaginary world, just a strange place that the heroes pass on there way to somewhere else. I've got a couple of ideas for further embellishments which involve pretty much what you have suggested in terms of a character or characters in the more immediate forground.
@Michael - yes I did wonder about the water running from the wrist like that myself - given that I specifically wanted the hands oriented to the viewer as we see them here I decided that having the water fall between the fingers was not going to work because the hand itself would obscure the water falls.
The tall building located right on the wrist is a mill and has a water wheel thus I needed the water to runn back toward the viewer in order to work compositionally (if there is such a word!). Originaly I did not have the river cut so deeply into the rock but decided that this hand formation was very old and thus would have suffered some erosion - associations with slashed wrists are probably unavoidable which is also one of the reasons I have stopped working on this pic for a while.
Thanks for the input gentlemen - it is valued and appreciated. |
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