Concept Art Thread

Darkov wrote:

Btw, is the font used in the Thrive Logo a custom one ?

It's arial, but stretched and heavily modified.

Yeah, he pretty much murdered it. It wasn't a pretty process...

Hello!

I am an old watcher of this forum who has never posted before, I have been monitoring the development of this fascinating game development process for a wuite while and this concept art section ever since it was page 4
I have just been allotted some harrowingly feeble free time in which I chose to do a little concept work myself for you. I hope I'm not jutting in at an inconvenient place or in the wrong thread for this but I believe this is where this should go... ...

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A quick two hour concept image for the dastardly adventurous Thrive indie project. The piece is hideously unrealistic in many of the biological facets but it serves its conceptual purpose. There are three creatures in this piece (durr!). They are buoyant in the atmosphere of their planet, similar to an airship (or any LTA craft for that matter). The organism in the fore I have nicknamed and "Air Mariner", and the two is the background are "Air Ivy". The Terran (earth) species they most resemble in their various biological systems are those of a jelly fish. I shall elaborate a little more when I am less pooped I have sketched out a rough biological matrix which I shall fill out based on four rational tenants.

-solvent
-temperature
-pressure
-energy source

Unfortunately the thing is very earth-organism-like in more ways than I would like but the concept is demonstrated.
I am willing to work on any little tasks that might be of aid, I have a fair amount of time to do this kind of thing

Thank you for reading
Liom

Thanks for posting! We'll look forward to more in the future.

It looks like a little orb with the organs in it, and surrounding the orb is a bubble. Now, if the bubble is filled with air, it could be possible, as the creature could control the pressure in its bubble and therefore change how high it is in the atmosphere. I think it's pretty realistic

Thanks, yeah my expression of dissatisfaction with the thing was more to do with the environment in the piece, the atmosphere of the planet wasn't really correct. But it's good that the concept is displayed in a lucid manner. I am a little bit of an LTA fanatic...

Liom wrote:

Thanks, yeah my expression of dissatisfaction with the thing was more to do with the environment in the piece, the atmosphere of the planet wasn't really correct. But it's good that the concept is displayed in a lucid manner. I am a little bit of an LTA fanatic...

Is there any wisdom you can share with us on LTA organisms and how they might work?

*Waves* I do like the air jellyfish. I'm thinking it's possible in-game, but in a heavier than earth atmosphere.

Created this yesterday. It's a suite of different modifications that we can use as render methods for sensory overlay.

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That's pretty awesome.

Dudeman wrote:

That's pretty awesome.

Thanks. That's all done by GIMP procedures. A brush was never used.

In case anyone's interested, I've decided to do some promotional concept art for each biome type (desert, forest, open ocean, cave, etc). Right now, the background here is open ocean, and I'm working on forest, which shouldn't take too long.

WARNING : The Spoilers contain REALLY large images

You guys may not have heard of me, but I have a post in introduction lol
also i brought some things that need feedback

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This is the template i used, i created it myself if you want you can print it out and use it for your own Creation, it is a very simplified bone structure of a frog

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this is Concept 1, Creatures : Frog, Rat, Falcon, Rat

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Concept 2, this is the best out of the two, Creatures : Frog, Lizard, Armedillo

Angelic wrote:

WARNING : The Spoilers contain REALLY large images

You guys may not have heard of me, but I have a post in introduction lol
also i brought some things that need feedback

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This is the template i used, i created it myself if you want you can print it out and use it for your own Creation, it is a very simplified bone structure of a frog

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this is Concept 1, Creatures : Frog, Rat, Falcon, Rat

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Concept 2, this is the best out of the two, Creatures : Frog, Lizard, Armedillo

That's some really interesting work you've done. Perhaps you could construct an evolutionary lineage of each? Showing how it evolved over time?

Two out of three are so large that all I get is a couple line breaks worth of blank space.

Try scrolling down, and sorry for late response was on vacation :p

An evolutionary tree would be really cool.

Is this what you'd call 'good'? (It's not exactly professional artist level...):

I didn't have very long at the time, but I came up with a tube shaped creature (similar to a jellyfish, but of course tube shaped) that moves by sending contractions down its body like an oesophagus pumps food, the water being pumped through gets filtered for small sea creatures. (As you can tell, I'm not very good at naming creatures)

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The filter doesn't look very effective. It probably isn't. Imagine them a lot thinner and closer together, and more of them. That's what it should have.

The Uteen wrote:

Is this what you'd call 'good'? (It's not exactly professional artist level...):

I didn't have very long at the time, but I came up with a tube shaped creature (similar to a jellyfish, but of course tube shaped) that moves by sending contractions down its body like an oesophagus pumps food, the water being pumped through gets filtered for small sea creatures. (As you can tell, I'm not very good at naming creatures)

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The filter doesn't look very effective. It probably isn't. Imagine them a lot thinner and closer together, and more of them. That's what it should have.

Thjat's quite an interesting concept. I'll have to remember that.

I created these two images a few days ago

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hope you guys like it

I really like those. If you could make your tag a bit smaller, I'll put the Thrive logo up on them and post them on ModDB

Also, portions of the images are a bit grainy. I'm assuming that's just because the stock you were using wasn't big enough, but If you could fix that, it would be great. Also, make sure all of the sticks you used were used legally.

I think we have our next background! If only we hadn't just changed it... They're great!

sorry I didn't reply before, I had a few problems here but right now I'm working on these images, so I'll probably end today...

Ok, so here it is, i make some changes on it, so tell me if anything isn't good or need to be better...

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I love your spacey art alot but... why are the motives always a sun being half behind a planet?

Try changing the perspektive to "looking from a planet surface at a overdimansional and colorful moon" or a "Asteriod flying through space"?

You have the talent you just have to try to explore more difficult and creative motives.