Concept Art Thread

Darkov wrote:

I will try to make a cloud map with a tutorial i found:
http://www.solarvoyager.com/images/tutorials/LandPlanet.jpg
The cloud tut starts at step 6).

The link's broken...

Its not, its buggy no idea why. If it doesn't load, mark the link in the link box and hit enter. Or try to refresh the page.

If you do end up making them, please note that you MUST make them seamless.

Also, if we want to support mipmapping, it would be a good idea to put multiple resolutions of the texture into the same image.

Look them up if you don't know what I mean.

Sky textures shouldn't be too hard, bu i've got a very good idea for them to save on memory.

The textures will obviously have to be pretty big, high quality. To make up for the memory that could be taken up by these large images, i suggest that instead of having many images with many different colors on them each, we create a few B&W bitmap images for bases, then apply sky gradients to them to color them in. this way, you could hve one texture, but in as many colors as you could imagine.

This is basically what bungie did with muzzle flash effects in Halo 3
http://www.bungie.net/Inside/publications.aspx

For now, textures can be small and ugly. We don't need anything hyper-awesome if we even don't have anything to use it in.

Commander Keen wrote:

For now, textures can be small and ugly. We don't need anything hyper-awesome if we even don't have anything to use it in.

Not necessarily, it probably won't take long to make some basic terrain. It's the spherical terrain that will take a while.

Ello all.

I have created us an official logo. I do have it in vector form, so it can be scaled up or down infinitely without the loss of quality.

I wanted a simple, good-looking, one-color logo. I chose to surround "THRIVE" With the reflection of the sun off of a planet, and a gear, representing the natural and technological sides of this game.

So here it is.
Our new logo

~sciocont wrote:

Ello all.

I have created us an official logo. I do have it in vector form, so it can be scaled up or down infinitely without the loss of quality.

I wanted a simple, good-looking, one-color logo. I chose to surround "THRIVE" With the reflection of the sun off of a planet, and a gear, representing the natural and technological sides of this game.

So here it is.
Our new logo

I LOVE it

If I do make any more concpet art, I'll stick that in it

Pezzalis wrote:

~sciocont wrote:

Ello all.

I have created us an official logo. I do have it in vector form, so it can be scaled up or down infinitely without the loss of quality.

I wanted a simple, good-looking, one-color logo. I chose to surround "THRIVE" With the reflection of the sun off of a planet, and a gear, representing the natural and technological sides of this game.

So here it is.
Our new logo

I LOVE it

If I do make any more concpet art, I'll stick that in it

Make sure it's removable with the file so we can have a pure scene as well as one with the logo.

Awesome logo indeed!
You can place it in the forums too.
Gonna get started on the cloud texture now, it will not be anything awesome just a test and if you like it i will try to make the real one.

Just a basic whip up with the other scene I had made:




And the standard scene:

Pezzalis wrote:

Just a basic whip up with the other scene I had made:




And the standard scene:

That is... I'm just speechless. This is completely beautiful, we've really made some progress guys.

~sciocont wrote:

Pezzalis wrote:

Just a basic whip up with the other scene I had made:




And the standard scene:

That is... I'm just speechless. This is completely beautiful, we've really made some progress guys.

Thanks

I've now found a cool underwater filter for Terragen... Time to make some aquatic landscape (Well you probably wont be able to see very far :P)

This is very nice! Great work. Now you made me get terragen too

My cloud texture attempt failed, going to search for another tutorial, these clouds are much harder then they look.

Darkov wrote:

This is very nice! Great work. Now you made me get terragen too

My cloud texture attempt failed, going to search for another tutorial, these clouds are much harder then they look.

Remember, keep it grayscale. Get some cloud brushes and smear 'em up.

How's that for the Revolutionary Games logo?

~sciocont wrote:

Darkov wrote:

This is very nice! Great work. Now you made me get terragen too

My cloud texture attempt failed, going to search for another tutorial, these clouds are much harder then they look.

Remember, keep it grayscale. Get some cloud brushes and smear 'em up.

How's that for the Revolutionary Games logo?

Looks great
Love the shattered hexagonal style

Just a question, is the word Revolutionary in the studio name a reference to the word evolution?

EDIT:

A microbe scene... Kinda Blurry up close but its quite high res (1280x1024)


Looks better from a distance really

(Done from scratch :))


Might try playing with the hue to make it look more organic

Pezzalis wrote:

Looks great
Love the shattered hexagonal style

Just a question, is the word Revolutionary in the studio name a reference to the word evolution?

EDIT:

A microbe scene... Kinda Blurry up close but its quite high res (1280x1024)


Looks better from a distance really

(Done from scratch :))


Might try playing with the hue to make it look more organic

Ok, I gues that's our logo now. And I'm not sure abpout the name, ask dragoneye.

That microbe scene looks really good- try to center the logo more and make it green- your renders are really, really good.

Pezzalis wrote:

Just a basic whip up with the other scene I had made:




And the standard scene:

This is some great artwork you've got there! Keep up the good work. Things are looking quite nicely for Thrive. Literally.

Thanks, both of ya

Tweaked the Microbe one a bit - Looks more realistic now... That is until you zoom right in and see tine daisy petals -_- (Should fix that really)



And I finished that water one...


I reckon some of these environments would look cool with creatures in them... Someone mentioned they were able to make some creature models...

Perhaps we could superimpose some creature renders in... Or maybe we should wait until we have the Thrive Terrain generator and some creature designs in the engine...

I mean the school of fish in that didnt turn out too great

Pezzalis wrote:

Thanks, both of ya

Tweaked the Microbe one a bit - Looks more realistic now... That is until you zoom right in and see tine daisy petals -_- (Should fix that really)

*images*

And I finished that water one...
*moar_images*

I reckon some of these environments would look cool with creatures in them... Someone mentioned they were able to make some creature models...

Perhaps we could superimpose some creature renders in... Or maybe we should wait until we have the Thrive Terrain generator and some creature designs in the engine...

I mean the school of fish in that didnt turn out too great

That's an excellent logo you have there, Pezz, definetely an inprovment from our last logo. My only suggestion would be on the upper left side, rather than having the 2 spokes on the edges of the gear look not so cut in half, and the blob-thing on the upper-left, rather than having a sharp edge, be more rounded..

Here's a cheap 5 minute paint edit to show you what I mean..



Actually the current, unedited logo looks better now that I look at the altered version.

Noitulove wrote:

Pezzalis wrote:

Thanks, both of ya

Tweaked the Microbe one a bit - Looks more realistic now... That is until you zoom right in and see tine daisy petals -_- (Should fix that really)

*images*

And I finished that water one...
*moar_images*

I reckon some of these environments would look cool with creatures in them... Someone mentioned they were able to make some creature models...

Perhaps we could superimpose some creature renders in... Or maybe we should wait until we have the Thrive Terrain generator and some creature designs in the engine...

I mean the school of fish in that didnt turn out too great

That's an excellent logo you have there, Pezz, definetely an inprovment from our last logo. My only suggestion would be on the upper left side, rather than having the 2 spokes on the edges of the gear look not so cut in half, and the blob-thing on the upper-left, rather than having a sharp edge, be more rounded..

Here's a cheap 5 minute paint edit to show you what I mean..

Actually the current, unedited logo looks better now that I look at the altered version.

The logo was made by Scio

I just put them on some concept images

Pezzalis wrote:

The logo was made by Scio

I just put them on some concept images

Oh, heh, my mistake.

But looking at it up close it seems a bit blurry and aliased. Any way we can fix that or is it just my display?

Noitulove wrote:

Pezzalis wrote:

The logo was made by Scio

I just put them on some concept images

Oh, heh, my mistake.

But looking at it up close it seems a bit blurry and aliased. Any way we can fix that or is it just my display?

The logo or my concepts...?

The logo shouldnt be blurry =/

Pezzalis wrote:

The logo or my concepts...?

The logo shouldnt be blurry =/

I mean the large image posted on the Devblog, this one.

Your concepts are fine.

Noitulove wrote:

Pezzalis wrote:

The logo or my concepts...?

The logo shouldnt be blurry =/

I mean the large image posted on the Devblog, this one.

Your concepts are fine.

Looks fine to me, I sized it up in a couple of my concepts and it seems ok... It might be your display

Well I've learnt how to add additional planets in to Terragen 2. As many as you like. And Stars. o-O

Takes years to render though -_-

You can also add 3d models from any rendering program...

I do like the logo. Its like a claw and a gear and the sunlight over a planet... It manages to represent like 3 major aspects of the game in one simple symbol

It reminds me of the maxis logo... A very tiny bit...