Illustrations & Concepts

[Redface]

I guess you have already noticed that I don't contribute textures to DM anymore. It's my final year at the university and I'm writing my dissertation, while trying to earn some money in every way possible. There's not much time left for anything else, yet alone creating textures, which is not exactly my preferred idea spending free time.

 

However, I do fire up Photoshop now and then, so if I happen to do some medieval/thief based art (trying to get better at painting architecture atm), I might as well contribute it to the project. Here is the first piece:

 

Hi-res version (1600x1067)

 

 

I'm not exactly sure if you find any use for stuff like this, so I'd like to hear your opinion.

[Gildoran]

Wow... that's gorgeous!

 

I love the atmosphere of the lingering sunset over the bay.

[Crispy]

That is very, very pretty.

[Redface]

By the way, can you spot the thief ?

[Gildoran]

Only if I turn up the gamma.

[Springheel]

I'm not exactly sure if you find any use for stuff like this, so I'd like to hear your opinion.

 

Even if we can't actually 'use' it for anything, mappers usually find stuff like this inspirational, so post away.

[SneaksieDave]

That's great, Redface. Exactly the type of shot that catches me and gets me thinking about that scene as a gameplay space. Eventually I get overwhelmed and even fearful of the task, but it's still fun to contemplate.

[Domarius]

Yeah its good inspiration.

 

You used a photograph for the sky, didn't you? And boosted the sun brightness while darkening the rest of the sky overall?

[Redface]

It's a night sky photo from cgtextures.com, which was also the source of a few other textures in that illustration.

[Redface]

I know there's a bunch of mage concepts already, but here's yet another one.

Past 100 posts already, yay!

[Crispy]

That's really cool.

 

Reminds me of the Black Magician Trilogy by Trudi Canavan which I finished reading a month or two ago. But that's probably just me since most people haven't heard of it... (it's good!)

[Redface]

Is there a list of what concepts or other art has yet to be done ? Or any special requests ?

[Springheel]

We don't have any significant concept art left to be done for the mod. Indvidual mappers are usually interested in stuff for their maps, however.

[Redface]

A little inspirational piece...

[Redface]

Or a promo artwork, DM could use a few wallpapers. This particular piece isn't exactly saying much about DM though...

[sparhawk]

Wallpapers would certainly be apprecited IMO. The fans are always looking for such stuff.

[greebo]

Seconded, wallpapers would indeed be great!

[Dram]

That looks really good! I'm liking it

 

Yeah, wallpapers would really be nice

[Springheel]

Artistically it looks good. I like the contrasting colours although I'm not sure exactly what the red stuff is supposed to be. The spider definitely looks cool. It would work better as a promo piece of artwork if the thief character was more similar to ours, however, with a mask covering his face and perhaps a bow on his back.

[Baddcog]

Great work at any rate, thanks for sharing it.

 

I too looked at that first picture and thought about the gameplay possibilities so it is inspiring.

Looks like a cool place to loot.

 

As far as concepts, I'm still trying to pin down ideas on bots, if you have time to paint some up, any ideas would be great. In the models forums I've got a thread about them with the one I've almost finished aloing with other concepts and ideas.

 

Other than that I guess just any insprational architecture/objects would be great.

[Nyarlathotep]

Inspirational is indeed the word. Very nice.

[Redface]

I wonder how the wallpapers should look like. Modified screenshots ? T2-like dark or TDS sketchy style ? Presenting atmosphere, architecture, props and AI in an artistic or photorealistic way ? Ideas ?

 

[sparhawk]

That definitely looks cool. As for the content. Atmospheric content, based on our artwork or screenshots would probabvly best. Spring has also the logo somewhere, so you can add it to the screens as well.

[Springheel]

Wow, loads of atmosphere in that shot. I love it!

[Nyarlathotep]

That's going to be my new wallpaper! Move over, Duke Nukem!