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pigbelly · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 7:33 am

Hi,
this started out as an atempt on an ice and water painting, but ended up in a James Bond villain kind of a theme Smile

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Yarik · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 8:20 am

Dam Pigbelly, I love it. That is really realistic!

Capt.FlushGarden · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 8:30 am

Awesome man!, love the dirt on the edge of runway on the snow! Keep em coming m8!!

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Capt. Fred · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 8:54 am

haha brilliant work.

The horizon makes me uneasy, though I can't see why it should. (placement?)

brilliant and funny as well, there seems to be something comical about the baddies little set-up haha. I love the way the iceberg meets the sea, with wave-cut nothces, and wave-cut platforms and etc. (surprised to find I remember those terms!) Brilliant and imaginative variation on the berg-den! (I imagine it has levels below sea-level too, that is if it's not got munitions and propulsion on it Smile

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Brillaint!

gLitterbug · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:53 am

Very awesome indeed.

About the horizon, something about it bothers me too, maybe it�s the blurryness of it?

Greensun · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 1:14 pm

more like thunderbirds Very Happy

very nice indeed, way to go!
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The Insane Lemur · member Member # Joined: 19 Oct 2003 Posts: 768

good job, love it, the lighting on it is nice, I especially like the tunnel in the ice

ddawghurl · member Member # Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 70

that's freakin awesome dude. i love it. i hope this doesn't sound wierd, but i think it would look even better if the ice, especially at the top by the radar thing, if it was almost transparent. like really pure ice youknow. not completely, just a little. i don't know how you would do this, but if you figured out a way, it would be freakin awesome.
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Odds · member Member # Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 374

Wow. Very realistic piece, my friend. I love the tones you used in the actual iceberg, as well as the water. Both are very realistic. Good job and keep posting here. Wink

AdamMiller · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 10:33 am

oh ya that is so awesome. few and far between my eyes go Shocked

but this is one of them.
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henrik · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:55 pm

Looks great,

Like people have pointed out; the horizon does not read well because your value range is off. The water is too dark. SL reads ok, SR doesn't. Soften the light and make the water disappear into atmophere gradually as distance increases and you should be there.
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Awetopsy · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 4:14 pm

Awesome work.

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weaselball2 · member Member # Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 101

the iceberg looks great. Very realistic, as everyone has already said.

I think the water could reflect the sky/sun a bit more though. Right now it looks kinda like water colored rock becuase it isn't reflecting the sky/sun much and it has black lines through it. It's also missing a few shadows that should be cast by the iceberg.

the water far off looks fine, its the water up by the berg im talkin about.

all I did was brighten a bit and change hue
heres what I mean:
edit: much smaller pic

sorry if im being a harsh critic, just tryin to help ya out.

Capt.FlushGarden · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 12:47 am

Weaselball2: are you SURE you calibrated your monitor properly? it looks more like the iceberg is in the desert now,

Think of water like tousands of transparent, bent mirrors, also this time a day the sun is up high and is basically pretty white, i dont think anything could affect water to become that yellow, maybe millions of alligators stiring up the sand Smile

P-Rik · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 12:52 am

Wow!! Just amazing stuff! Excellent!
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Stewart one · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 5:42 am

awesome work man! i actually did a painting of that same reference pic. but i quit halfway through. Got lazy i guess. i really like the way youve added your imagination to the picture! Awesome Smile

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-Tepox- · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 8:53 am

Looks great Smile

some more work with the ice textures here and there + water edges and it should look really impressive. (well, it's even now that Wink

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weaselball2 · member Member # Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 101

yeah yeah... I still think the texture isn't quite right for water. Confused

I did notice that my image is kinda monopolizing the page, so im gonna shrink it a bit.

pigbelly · Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:54 am

The darkness in the water texture is added to get a monumental feel to the iceberg. I have looked at reference pictures and water from this distance can really look quit dark, even in day time.. Smile

But you have a point, the sea doesn�t reflect the sky at lest not the water in the foreground, but I don�t think it interferes to much with the goal of the painting...?

Cheers
/Tommie
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