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Loki · Posted: Sat May 05, 2001 11:16 pm

So, I'm taking a day off, to relax a little bit - what am I doing????

This:

original res: 3k

Of course all in PS, and god how it was fun!
The door for critiques are wide open ... bring your thumbscrews and glowing metalrods ...

Cheers

Loki

Spooky · Posted: Sat May 05, 2001 11:21 pm

I'm sorry about not bringing my glowing metal rod...gave it to some dude named Clark Kent...had something to do with a Fortress of Solitude or something...great pict though! I love underwater art...this is a great piece! It's tough to decide whether it's organic or man-made or sometype of organic ship! Very cool. Can't wait to see more!

Freddio · Posted: Sat May 05, 2001 11:44 pm

wow that is Awesme Loki..

I love the the light comming through the surface of the water.. Damm cool..
Its really has a soothing atmosphere about it..

Interesting creature.. I think I have one of them in my pool..

Dan Webb · Posted: Sat May 05, 2001 11:48 pm

WOW, this is beautiful...great creature. One question though, judging from the reflection of the water, is he going diagonally up, because the air bubbles emanating from his mouth are aligned to the picture frame...(or seem to be)? hmm seems a little deceiving... (maybe I�ll a fool?!?)

burn0ut · Posted: Sat May 05, 2001 11:52 pm

Nice, The tenticales give it such a sence of huge scale! and the lights in it mmm reminds me of that underwater movie i forget the name

anyways it kicks

Loki · Posted: Sat May 05, 2001 11:54 pm

thx guys!

Dan: dude - you got me there with the bubbles ... aaargh! Totally right - bubbles wrong - water surface = right

Dan Webb · Posted: Sun May 06, 2001 12:05 am

hehe, hopefully they're on a layer...(i would suspect)

Needless to say, your incredible...truly inspirational

BTW, i like your music too ...

Collosimo · Posted: Sun May 06, 2001 12:05 am

Hehe, Loki, you may be having a day-off... but thats no excuse! I bet next time you swim, your creature will eat you!

v1510nAry · Posted: Sun May 06, 2001 12:09 am

Well thats pretty sw33t

Blitz · Posted: Sun May 06, 2001 2:11 am

LOKI...The LOKSTER...LOKMISTER.....Ummm..LOKI....all out.

OK Here is my Crit. You are to good for me to crit.

I am digging that pic alot daddio. Its very origanal and looks so damn cool. I love the light comeing from inside him.

Did you have this planed out or did you just open up a new window and start painting?

You have some cool concepts...and you have this digital painting thing down pretty good. I say your gana make it far in the industry. Damn Im good, See I was right...WOW...

Catch ya around my friend.

And the green monkey seems to be a hit...Damn hehe

ceenda · member Member # Joined: 27 Jun 2000 Posts: 2030

Loki, this is astoundingly cool. Actually, I was thinking about something similar for a 20,000 leagues pic to replace the Nautilus one on my website.

I always admire the tones you use in your pics and the way you implement your ideas.

Nice work.

Magicman · Posted: Sun May 06, 2001 4:25 am

only one word can describe my feelings - amazing.

sock · Posted: Sun May 06, 2001 4:47 am

blubb!

wonderful lightning and good atmosphere = loki pic :)

greets to santa monica, i enjoyed my stay there 3 weeks ago, cya

christian · junior member Member # Joined: 01 Apr 2001 Posts: 6

Hey Loki,
I really like this image, I find it quite visually soothing through the use cool colors. The purple glow gets me and the overall organic feel of the creat. great work.

Bg · Posted: Sun May 06, 2001 6:27 am

Reminds me of the seamonster in Final Fantasy 7.. simply beautiful

see you in the paintchat

Binke · Posted: Sun May 06, 2001 6:28 am

loki-dude, that looks amazing! Excellent colors and values. Very nice water reflections. I agree with Dan here though.

Loki · Posted: Sun May 06, 2001 8:45 am

Thanks guys! Yeah - I'll fix the bubbles ...

Blitz: just started with a blank page in PS, that's it ...

ceenda: thanks - I noticed, sometimes we have a similar flavour in our pics!

sock: WHAT? you were in Santa Monica, and you didn't say hello to a fellow austrian???? how come???

thx!

bg: so long ago since I played ff7 - you mean the one that's superhard to beat? actually, I never beat it ...

Binke: thx!

on a different note:

I noticed that this image too more airbrush work than other ones, to get the soft transitions on the creature. Everything is soft under water - there aren't really any hard shadows, because usually everything gets diffused immeadetly, because of the particles in the water.
I should really get my scanner up and running and post some under water photographs I've taken ... some of them are quite cool IMHO.

Frost · Posted: Sun May 06, 2001 8:46 am

Cool stuff Loki. =)

nori · Posted: Sun May 06, 2001 9:32 am

aiiiiee. you should take more days off my friend. That's excellent.

Blitz · Posted: Sun May 06, 2001 3:52 pm

HAHA...Milkman you a funny guy

Leo · Posted: Sun May 06, 2001 4:40 pm

Hey fishy fishy...
now your stranged ships moved under the water hehe

. Well the image is nice and crisp as usual. Yeah this creature reminds me one of the spooge's bitmaps. As for the crits... if i'm not totally mistaken, underwater scenes usually have some noise (probably coming from filmgrain), little particles and due to the structure, shapes aren't looks sharp. But i may be wrong.
Keep on painting dude!

-leo

TheMilkMan · Posted: Sun May 06, 2001 5:20 pm

he he he...blitz

Kazz · member Member # Joined: 24 Mar 2001 Posts: 126

I caught a glimpse of this pic last night and I had a dream of it! The squid was chewing on my mom and my sister was going crazy cursing & swearing at it and all the stuff going on. It was a horrible dream.
Excellent pic. I love the organic & mechanic weirdness. Please do more!

-Kazz

-HoodZ- · Posted: Sun May 06, 2001 9:06 pm

any chance that theres a larger pic loki...im a whore for detail

pixualize · Posted: Sun May 06, 2001 9:25 pm

Man that completely rocks! It seems like some kinda underwater "living ship" like the spaceship on Farscape, but cooler.

Well done!

Loki · Posted: Sun May 06, 2001 10:15 pm

Thanks guys - glad you like my first real creature! : )
There will be a bigger version - or a highres crop (who needs to see a blue gradient highres?), but first I'll rework the image with the input you guys gave me (bubbles, blurrier, etc...).

Thanks again

Loki

Sumaleth · Posted: Sun May 06, 2001 10:28 pm

Loki: while you're reworking, move that damn email address away from the nice water effect .

Row.

sock · Posted: Sun May 06, 2001 11:02 pm

damn, you're right loki, i missed my chance to meet you

would 've been great to talk to you in real-life...
aaaah

nah, the time will come when i visit SM again -> austria meeting, hehe
hmm, on the other hand, when was your last visit to austria?

cya

Joachim · Posted: Sun May 06, 2001 11:09 pm

looks really cool loki. Actually it reminds me a bit of the space alien squid thing that spooge painted for a star trek motion ride or something, originally a sketch from stephan martinieres.....probably because of the lights on its stumach or something. Looks very good

TheMilkMan · Posted: Sun May 06, 2001 11:20 pm

Ahhhhh love images like this.....nothing like the feeling I am getting a glance at some far away alien world...truly excellent concept painting!!! I would love to see more stuff like this..wish all you top level concept guys did'nt work to the bone..

what in the hell...its not working??? Anyways fallow the link...wierd..

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