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Loki · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2001 11:30 pm

Here we go. This one is about 80% done. I didn't want to put it under'WIP', becuase I won't continue on that one and nobody's looking at the WIP forum anyway.

Latest and probably last installment of the 'Stranded' series. Started from a sketch, worked my way through to that point. Resolution is around 3000 pixles (3K) ...

Loki

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Rage-lion · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2001 11:31 pm

Very nice. I like it alot. great detail and story telling.

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immi · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2001 11:35 pm

Kewl...I think you really get the feeling of being alone and stranded. May I use this as a potd puh lease?

Loki · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2001 11:36 pm

Thanks guys!

immi: go right ahead

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Roy Fielding · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2001 11:42 pm

Really nice painting. Nice composition. The only thing I would suggest is that the specular lighting on the wrecked spaceship doesn't quite match the overall lighting of the scene. Still, I know this is a WIP and you might already want to address issues like this anyway.

Still a great piece.... I envy your talents.

Roy

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Roy Fielding · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2001 11:44 pm

that was supposed to be a smiley face at the end of the last message...

Sumaleth · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2001 11:50 pm

Great stuff, Loki. Post big version! Post big version!

Row.

Loki · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2001 12:11 am

There you go:

btw - those 'highlights' are scratches in the paint ...

dr . bang · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2001 1:52 am

Holly shit!!!!!!! Thats too awesome!!!

btw I really like the bigger version better!

neebhore · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2001 2:03 am

F* me, i love that! Superb.
The bigger verson loaded quicker than the smaller version!?

Oli_D · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2001 2:34 am

Fantastic!

I love the way you get that gritty realism to your work - mine tends to look too plastic, too smooth.

Good series you've got with stranded.

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BooMSticK · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2001 3:12 am

Very nice Loki. This world looks very unpleasant and desertet.
First I was wondering if there shouldn't be more debris in the buttom of the valley, but then again - most of it probably fell of as the ship was crashing and what could come off probably already did until the ship came to a halt...
,Boom

SoMK · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2001 6:15 am

I'm in awe.. I so admire people able to paint technical stuff with mood, y'know... I love the colour range too. Thanks for the hires, it's extremely interesting !*bravo*

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Magicman · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2001 6:37 am

hi,

amazing work. you stuff so many details into this pictue, so great.

...and hey, the musik on your homepage is great too.

mfg magicman

feebsaint · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2001 6:43 am

Incredible weight and power to this piece!

I'm really very astonished. Is this digital? Traditional? Do tell!

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Sumaleth · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2001 6:45 am

Loki;

I hate to sound picky, but do you have a large version that isn't so much made up of jpeg artifects?

Row.

Frost · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2001 7:10 am

Very nice Peter! If I had to comment, I'd just say that I feel there may be a little too much contrast in the rockpile and the terrain in general up front the image... just thinking about that 'painterly' comment you got... I think maybe the ship's blue would be just a tad more of a washed out greenish/yellowish color considering the environment and ambiant. But I could be wrong here. =) Great work my friend.

Row: I wouldn't hand out high-res versions without jpeg artifacts if I was that good. =)

Socar MYLES · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2001 7:27 am

I love the forlorn feel of this--you've really got a great effect going here with the dingy, muted colours and the oppressive sky. Please, please don't clean up those visible brushstrokes on the crashed spacecraft in the final version. They really add to the junky, post-apocalyptic mood of the picture.

No crits from me, unfortunately. I just got up. My IQ is hovering around the Neanderthal level.

--- (I am a drooling idiot)

Adore the picture, though.

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Eric Pommer · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2001 7:39 am

Wowzers! Very cool! It looks like a sci-fi book cover. Great colour scheme, really promotes a fitting mood and atmosphere.

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Binke · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2001 7:42 am

OK Thats it!! I give up!

really asskicking loki.

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TheMilkMan · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2001 8:04 am

No crits for me..perfectly balanced and manages to take me to a far off planet alone and without hope...awsome work my freind!!

Chapel · member Member # Joined: 18 Mar 2000 Posts: 1930

Yo Loki! Nice stuff. Nice to see you still doing these series. I love the lighting in here very natural looking. I'm trying to figure out how to do that in comics. Everyone seems to like strong secondary lighting.. which to me is just not natural unless you are on a stage.

Anyway, I love the piece. I think it would be neat if there was some sort of acitivity around the ship. Like either sparks from damage or people scavaging stuff. Some alien wildlife maybe?

Jaymo · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2001 8:58 am

Damn, you dumped us on this deserted wasteland! What are we gonna do now?! WHAT??

Or something similar. Very good one, best of the series, IMO. Nice feel to it. Well, not really 'nice'...

shardik · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2001 9:35 am

loki how do u do those rocks??

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Bizarde · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2001 9:40 am

Wow, Loki this looking to cool, nice mod 'n all.
I'm with BooMStick on this one, maybe you need to add more crushed pieces (smaller) in the valley, but anyway you can find reasons for this absence.
looking good.

~bizarde

Jezebel · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2001 10:22 am

Wow! This is so great! I love everything about it... really really cool colors. I feel like I'm just repeating what everyong else has said (and will say) but this piece kicks ass!

Beth

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Mergatroid · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2001 10:49 am

Loki,

I really like this series that you set out to do. The environments you've made are brilliant, especilly the rocky ones, but I was wondering for variety sake trying one that could be set in a jungle or something. Anyway, always impressed and keep posting.

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-Shellshock- · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2001 11:37 am

HOLY SHITE!!!!!!!!! I love it, real good detail, i also realy like the way all the rubble has collected at the bottom of the ridge, it realy looks like there was a crash, and those scratches...aaaah.

Cant wait to see the finnished version.

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Spectra · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2001 1:18 pm

Your texture are amasing! Rock, ground and metal... they are just so good.
It look like ill never get how ppl do textures, for me this is the hardest thing to do

PandaX52 · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2001 1:38 pm

This is very cool Loki, as usual, This image has atmosphere, it seems like it could have really existed, very believable...

i can almost smell the sulfur...