Concept Art Thread

So there was i drawing a brain. While drawing this brain i thought of biology. That lead me to thoughts of evolution, which lead me to Spore. Then i remembered Thrive.

Well i didn't draw the brain for concept art, but i think you can use it:

http://darkhunter1357.deviantart.com/art/BrainZ-302650871?q=gallery%3Adarkhunter1357&qo=0

GL, i do sometimes check on you guys.

It has quite the frontal lobe.

Hello again, Darkov! Nice drawing... Of a brain.

Don't come up with terrible jokes. Don't come up with terrible jokes.
I can't resist!

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^ Click only if you are prepared to get your brain melted with awful jokes. You have been warned. ^
...I mentioned brains! :facepalm:

Nice to see you around, darkov.

Darkov and Uteen: You made my morning.
(Uteen - number three! )

Mysterious_Calligrapher wrote:

Darkov and Uteen: You made my morning.
(Uteen - number three! )

My job here is done.

Well it would be wrong to call those jokes mindless

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Pezzalis wrote:

Well it would be wrong to call those jokes mindless

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talkin about mindless... you should see the image for which i drew this brain, in my dev acc haha

Darkov wrote:

Pezzalis wrote:

Well it would be wrong to call those jokes mindless

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talkin about mindless... you should see the image for which i drew this brain, in my dev acc haha

OR Your sig...Jeez that is a creepy sig dude....

MeowMan1 wrote:

Darkov wrote:

Pezzalis wrote:

Well it would be wrong to call those jokes mindless

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talkin about mindless... you should see the image for which i drew this brain, in my dev acc haha

OR Your sig...Jeez that is a creepy sig dude....

there are a lot more creepier things about me, but lets not get offtopic.

ok....sorry I'll stay on topic.

Have found and interesting blog with thousands of photos from microscopic beigns. I was going to post it in a new thread about concepts focusing on the micobe phase, but I don't have the privileges to do so

beyondthehumaneye.blogspot.com.es

I'm starting to do some concepts about the overall feel of the game, colours, light, effects, texture types... considering everything talked on this threads. I'm going to focus on something real yet plastical and pleasant to the eye.

Hope you like it when it's done

here is a first glimpse of what i'm talking about, this is how I conceive the microbial stage backdrop for now. I'm currently working in the microbes roaming around this drop of water, so the desired final effect is not achieved (for now)



Here goes the explanation:

This backdrop is made of 5 effective layers:

- 2 bottom layers with a color and two types of blurs wich can change depending the composition of the enviorment (different chemicals and so). This two layers are behind the player's layer and are not affected by his movement, they are only for cosmetic purposes

- 1 layer partially on top of the player, wich contains dirt spots, representing the overall slyminess of the medium. This particles collide with the player, slowing it a bit, hence the slyminess concept This dirt can chancge in color and appearance, adapting to the medium's chemical composition.

- 2 foreground layers on top with some more dirty spots and ocasional blurs. As the bottom layers these are only conceived as cosmetic layers, since they are not affected by microbes movement.

on top of everything there's a little cosmetic shadow and a little variation of the sciocont's GUi design.

these 5 layers can move independently, and are conceived this way to represent the "depht" of the medium. while the bottom layers are practically static, the 2 uppermost move relativelly faster, giving the microsize feel that we want to achieve.

I've included a xcf file with all layers independently separated, so you guys can play with it ;), there's a hidden layer with a small color palette wich I'm going to use for the overall scheme of my drafts, these are not the only colors i will use, but the tones will be fairly similar. here's the link:

www .mediafire.com/download.php?1ctvo4g8kik5vqi (delete the gap... new member cant post external links... )

I have the first microbe almost ready, but i want them to be included in one go, so you guys see the final effect i am visualizing.

Hope you like it!!

uverion wrote:

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congratulations! good job! a question: has the link as an image that you posted here or other?

Link contains this image in gimp format with his layers separated

thanks for the feedback!

uverion wrote:

Link contains this image in gimp format with his layers separated

thanks for the feedback!

Does this mean you use linux?

yeah I have Ubuntu with inmediate plans to taste Debian in my current computer, and windows 7 in both laptop and netbook.

If I recall it correctly, I think heard someone a while ago talkin about concepts for cell parts.

Originally i was going to post it alongside the backdrop, but I think we can start discussing the parts of the microbe with this one.



This is how I envision a prokaryote cell, I have not included all the possible organelles inside the cell, but this could be used as a starting point. One thing that can be really interesting is talking about the difficulty of doing this the procedural way, making sprites or models for the organelles and enveloping it in a high poly or vectorial procedural contour (calling our beloved programmers to arms!!)

The color scheme is the same used in the backdrop posted before. It's possible that some of you might be scared about the "childish" look of this colours, but I personally think that realism isn't ever confronted with bright colors, i think that using pale or brownish colors for this stage can tend to boring lifeless scenarios, but for creature stage can result in a more dramatic point of view in some cases.

Anyway, I'm waiting for constructive criticism so we can start to picture all the ideas for once and for all

Looks real enough for me, good job.

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yeah I have Ubuntu with inmediate plans to taste Debian in my current computer, and windows 7 in both laptop and netbook.

Go with Arch Linux. You learn a lot from installing from scratch. Are you 64-bit? Testing without cross-compiling would be great.

Anyone want to make a mirobial phase background?
that would be considered concept art, right?

MeowMan1 wrote:

Anyone want to make a mirobial phase background?
that would be considered concept art, right?

I uploaded one two or three days ago

Show me.
I'll give constructive criticism, if needed.

I've got some concept art here;

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It's basically just a pair of whatever these are, lurking around on the shore of a glacial lake.

Those have interesting jaws.