Jaxko - The Coming of the Ice - Human Colony

[Jaxko]

Ive decided to go with the sub theme of a human colony on an alien planet.
Im gonna get started on the sketch.

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Jaxko

[Jaxko]

I think Ill start with this panorama. Im wanting to do a close up of an army base that has just set up on its new planet.

http://www.a101avn.org/16%20Aug%20360%20Panoramic%20talafar.JPG

Original Photography owned by:
A/101 Aviation Association, Inc

[Suirebit-3DT]

looks nice but do you have permissions for it?

[Jaxko]

looks nice but do you have permissions for it?
thats a good point, I better go and try to get the permission before I do alot of work on it.
thanks for the reminder.

[Akim]

Hmm, do we need permissions for non commercial use of refs ?

[Suirebit-3DT]

if they are copyrighted, of course you do. And one thing is to take something from google and another one to use a military image :)

[Akim]

ok, clear

Sorry for offtop :roll:

[Jaxko]

ok, got permission. Better get back to work.

[Jaxko]

here is an update, Im doing the full 360 panorama, got most of the snow and mountains blocked in, about 4 hours work.

http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/3858/thecomingoftheice.jpg

im going to fix the snow that is on the ground (close to the camera) tomorrow and start to use other reference images.

thanks,
Jack

[Akim]

You should think about something in your base pic that you should make the main.
Now whole picture looks so much symmetric, the sight runing around and can't choose beetwen left and right hangars.

[Jaxko]

sorry for the lack of updates. just starting work on this again.

http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/3858/thecomingoftheice.jpg

I wanted to contrast the cold with the sun and give it a warm feeling, its kinda like an oxymoron.

Jack

[Suirebit-3DT]

jaxko, you might want to crop this panorama and focus on only a part of it. It's very hard to judge it otherwise and you won't be able to focus on details if you spread too much :)

[Jaxko]

jaxko, you might want to crop this panorama and focus on only a part of it. It's very hard to judge it otherwise and you won't be able to focus on details if you spread too much :)

your right I know where I would like to crop it anyway

thanks :D

[TheSaraf]

It is very hard to work with 360 panorama. You got much work ahead of you..Good luck. :)

[Jaxko]

It is very hard to work with 360 panorama. You got much work ahead of you..Good luck. :)

thanks but I decided to crop it down, although the way it was being made it integrated near perfectly thanks to the offset filter :P then put the stitching in the middle and painted over it and offset it back again.
but with it being cropped I have more of a focus.
thanks.

[Jaxko]

here is the new cropped version with new painted elements, gonna have some support towers and other sci fi sort of stuff. ;)

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/3858/thecomingoftheice.jpg

[Jaxko]

update:
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/3858/thecomingoftheice.jpg

[Jaxko]

possibly the final update:
http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/3858/thecomingoftheice.jpg

[Jaxko]

ok so as we all know. the way forward is through military. all funding for projects depends if it helps the military, this was the base for my idea.

once the planet earth became uninhabitable we had to make a break for a close new planet. however the atmosphere wouldn't sustain life so we had to build thousands of tall structures over the whole planet that can superheat the layer of gas and turn it into a plasma, this separates the atmosphere from harmful gas and essentially creates a vacuum, the next step was to create a weather generator that can produce a breathable atmosphere on the planet. The temperature of the planet is -45 degrees and makes it very hard for activity on the surface, it is getting colder as the planet goes into its winter which lasts for 267 days (large orbit of the sun). there are research labs dotted around the planet trying to produce a machine which can increase the temperature, possibly the implementation of superconductors which has strange properties at below freezing temperatures.


thanks for reading,
Jaxko

[Akim]

Well, I like the final colors and mood of your work!
Small advice: look at 2BIG3k final work (http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=73920). He did the night (dark) composition too and he add a lot of local lights there (dots, shinin parts). It gives new (more live and dynamic) looks to your work. So, use it when you make something like that.

So, I wish you a good luck now, and see ya in next challenge! :)

[Rievilo]

yeah, as Akim noticed it, good use of colours.
It always works : blue vs red.
Good luck !