Steampunk Octopus

[raybender]

hi all ..

i´ve done this for the steampunk challenge over at cgtalk.com


http://www.alexbroeckel.com/pics/SteamOcto_Final1600.jpg

[Dr. Stein]

Stunning - great sense of scale. :)

[Professor Wagstaff]

thats bloody awesome! cool design of the octopus. sense of scale and the action is great. Hope you're in for a chance of winning stuff ;)

[raybender]

hmm anyone knows why there is no thumnail displayed in front of this thread ? did i miss something ? thought it should be generated automatically ?

[Professor Wagstaff]

put the image in as an attachment. (paperclip button, think it might be under advanced settings?.. been too long since i last posted my work!)

[Smarty]

wicked idea and epic scale, good luck

[misael]

Verry cool stuff.

[NathanLong]

You win.

[Aerius]

Awesome work, go gun mounted steamboat go!

[kMh]

wow is all i can seem to mutter at this time.

[Rocketrat]

Very nicely done.

Also, the ship name made me laugh, and reminded me of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

[LORD M]

Freakin amazing job, raybender. Loving all the details and the concept of the octopus machine. :D

[dannyboy91]

I said "woahhhhh" out loud when I layed my eyes upon it, that doesn't happen often when I look at ark work. Truly stunning, well done.

[Black Spot]

This I like – loads.

[DigitalProselyte]

Boom! That's how you do it, baby! I love the idea of a Nemoidian world mechanical Octopus ship. I'd love to see something like that on screen.
Well done!

[Kuidf^!]

Ha Nice work cant wait to see more :P

[sourgasm]

That's going to be a serious contender for top prize, definitely.

[SoufMeng]

I like it, especially the lighting on the octopus, very convincing, a bit more than the rest in fact, which is just fine regarding the challenge brief.
Nice job!

[Gonzossm]

awsome dude

[Chuck,mate.]

holy shit.

*****


P.

[embzz]

:mod: this is just great !!!! I hope You win :)

[Hookswords]

What an epic composition. Could I get the blue prints for that octopus? That is a mechanical marvel. I knew that competition was going to push some limits, glad to see how far it's being pushed.

[kaktuzlime]

That´s so extremely cool! I love it!! So many awesome things going on I don´t even know where to begin!!

[the wire]

freakin awesome, though I find it kind of funny that the guy has trouble hitting the side of a giant metal octopus.

[REGNIRUTH]

:jawdrop: :xpld: holy shit, man!! that is the coolest thing i've seen lately, i've seen all kinds of steampunk stuff. BUT i have NEVER thought of a freakin STEAMPUNK OCTOPUS! Brilliant work!

[Shmaba]

absolutely amazing! I just think you should have put some people on deck of the ship being attacked. Show some panic or have them fighting it off as well.

[a la bapsi]

what. the. fuck.


that's incredible.

[raybender]

thanks for all the nice comments guys! !

shmaba: yeah i was thinking about putting more people in it but than decided against. because the image is already really crowded by details...

[arghmisfit]

wow!, great piece u got here.

[destinyapocalypse]

yeaahh fantastic job

[Duman]

Thats very cool. The design of the mechanical octopus is fantastic. It looks like something a mad scientist would build, and thats great.
The only thing that bothers me in the slightest is the strangely ornate sight on the cannon. Everything else is gold.

[Liam Harvey]

epic dude, absolutly epic

[davi]

lovely man, just lovely!

[mariusz]

Amazing!

[anjin]

very very very cool! :D

[smokenmirrors]

very very nice. oops. my mistake. VERY very very nice! :)

[Gokce]

Steampunk setting + octopus... the stuff that dreams are made of :D
I really like the use of light and palette here as well. Fantastic work.

[Alexander K]

Very cool. I just find myself wishing I could see some bullets hit the octopus, not just the water. But still, very cool. Rad idea.

[Two Listen]

This is a really cool piece, the detail is wonderful and it looks incredibly real.

...however, as awesome as this is, I find one thing about it that gives me a headache from hell.

I find my eye being drawn to the right of the image, it goes from the gunner to the octopus and then it follows the octopus' arm all the way up to where it hits the boat - and what happens? I don't even get to see the entire point of impact! I find that to be the focal point of the image, and yet it's cut in half. You have this battle between an ingeniusly built steampunk octopus and it's version of the Titanic, and one utterly badass point of impact where a tentacle bursts through the side of it - and it's chopped in half... The gunner to me pales in comparison of what I feel I should be focused on.

I don't know shit about composition if you want to know the truth, just speaking from a viewer's standpoint, but I feel that if you'd cut the boat with the gunner off and focused more on the impact of the octopus and the ship, it would've been a whole lot better and served as that really, really badass piece you're just going to want to show everywhere.

Regardless of that, I hope like hell to one day have the skills you do.

[Coyotes_75]

Very interesting, I like it!

[kelly x]

You do win!

[tintaymanchas]

Hermosura! Loveliness! :)

[ZombieChickenCatcher]

Way to mesh a hybrid of cool subjects. I dig the movement and scary danger. Awesome work.http://zombiechickencatcher.blogspot.com/

[MoonChilD]

i like the yellow highlight on the tentacle on the right!:)

[RocketMonkey]

Nice!

[matjosh]

amazing o_o"
the only thing i could suggest would be maybe using softer brushes/shapes for the clouds, but yaknow, just an idea. it still looks great this way.
and the name of the ship is priceless :D

[shailesh138]

Awesome art work------Good composition & nice scale & color scheme also........good keep it up

[Thaw Naing]

very epic. best of luck

[Trudy]

amazing! the name of the ship really made me laugh ^^

[imperialrex]

Hi Alex,

Your stunning piece is a wonder unto itself! With what you've presented, your illustration is an exemplary avatar of concept art! Thank you very much for sharing, and I await to see more!

[Chris Noeth]

I already said it... THIS entry should have won!

Best,

Chris

[sony]

this is really entertaining. a-lot is happening :)

[raybender]

uuuh .. i am so excited... my steampunk octopus painting got featured in the Gallery of Digital Painting Techniques Vol.1 by 3dTotal.com !!!

can´t wait to get my copy ! :)

[artistcaleb]

That may be, one of the single most amazing and inspiring pieces I've seen in I don't know how long!!! wow.

[adammelo]

This made my day, good shat.

[DSillustration]

Glad you revived this, raybender.
I totally missed it the first time around.
Spectacular piece!

[GabeLucena]

seriously.. great work.. I hope to have the skills one day!

[Wulfsbane]

I remember this challenge from late last year. Myths and Legends wasn't it?

This is great! A definite masterpiece. And I'm a sucker for anything done well in Steampunk thematically :D

[NightHerald]

Shiny!

I got a real and proper reaction when I saw this. My mind was blown, so to speak.

Wonderful idea, and great execution. I love steampunk, and this only reinforces that.

Thank you.

[Victor S.]

Speachless!!! So inspiring

[Kfeeras]

wahnsinn!! geniales werk

[TuomasTormanen]

Amazing work!

[nanshu]

Yeaahhhhh!! , Amazing!!! , very beautiful composition!!

[Riddick]

It looks like a concept for the current NEMO movie with Will Smith!

It is an amazing Artwork, did you win?

[raybender]

once again thanks for all the nice comments! very much appreciated.

riddick: no.. this one won http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/steampunk/entry.php?challenger=16324