C.O.W. #208 ,The Titan Warbeast. WIPs Thread

[emerging]

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ROUND #208, the Titan Warbeast

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ROUND#208, the Titan Warbeast

This week's creature is going to be HUGE in all aspects. As many of you may know, in Greek mythology before the Gods became the rulers of the Earth, they had to defeat the Titans. This race was often interpreted as super race with god-like powers and a colossal size.

Your job is to design a warbeast/creature that Titans used in a war against the Gods. If you can pick an existing Titan and create his own personal warbeast - even better! Things to keep in mind: please make the creature original; minimal to no accesories; whether you want to include the bg or not is your choice but there has to be an indication of how enormous this warbeast is; really think about the weight of this giant and try to incorporate it in your concept/painting.

Can't wait to see your amazing work guys! Good luck and have fun!

Here is a link to wiki on Titans and Greek mythology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_%28mythology%29 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_%28mythology%29)

Deadline:
April 5th 9:00pm PST (GMT -8 )

here is Finals thread: http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=3073392#post3073392

[(lark]

As some of you will notice. This weeks cow is being run by emerging as a reward for reaching and now surpassing 6 stars.

Awesome topic dude! This one should be epic!

[DefiledVisions]

awesome! Will see if I can get something together for this one.. damn, titan warbeast! massive :D

[Fetsch]

sweet topic man, i see if i have time and can join the fun.

[Kambei Shimada]

Hmm gonna give this one a try.

My First C.O.W.

[Flame_Unquenchable]

Awesome, great concept. Now to get busy thinking of ideas.

[Lege1]

A rough start at work.....:yayca:

[DefiledVisions]

wip wip! .. solar steed of Helios

[.empyrean.]

Quick Doodle

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/2551/swarbeast.jpg

[Den Grimme Raeber]

Waaah, nice theme!

Think I found what I am going to work from. This combines (most) all the Titans into one Creature. Tomorrow I will get cracking on how to actually realize this vision (and within the COW rules). Gonna be real fun.

Tallyho!

[Flame_Unquenchable]

I think I've settled on Oceanus, lots of potential for super awesome creatures for the Ocean to have at his disposal.

[emerging]

nice to see you guys excited!
Lege1 - nice start but i would watch out not to have too much of a humanoid form in your creature

[DoctorDigits]

Ok, so i think i'm biting off a big chunk this week, my first C.H.O.W and now my first C.O.W, hope i can keep up with you peeps.

Anyway, heres a quick sketch for my warbeast i busted out in the student center waiting for my next class to start, going with Lelantus

[(lark]

suuuuuuuper quick sketch.

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[Lege1]

Emerging: For sure dude, I am going to follow through with the sketch and try to get that humanoid esq out of it...Just let me know if you think it will be valid and I will make corrections and so forth. Also, BIG congrats on being a COW King! Very cool to see you rockin the forum.

[Snafu]

Oceanus warbeast

will probably increase size and 'epicness'

[vrt]

Sketching out a little beastie for Iapetus..

[Jaunay]

Kambei Shimada Welcome to COW!~ Great to see more new participants. Work fast, think about what suits the brief and be prepared to change things that look off. Have fun. :D

Lege1 Great start so far, I'll agree with the humanoid point that emerging made. The composition doesn't really say threatening beast to me so far, it says I'm standing here look at me. Love the mask idea.

DefiledVisions Ohh hunchback, looks freaky, I'm thinking im seeing a weird muscular likelike face. Cool creepy i like. Also veins i totally see veins.

,empyrean Nice tones so far, but you're creature doesn't look like its very threatening or war like. It looks like a goblin head with tentacles at the moment. I do understand that it was a quick doodle though. :D

Den Grimme Raeber Ohhh nice concept. I like that you're putting them together to make an uber beast. It's going to be hard to get a good balance, think about what things make each character unique and the symbolic elements of them to try and get an uncomplicated design.

DoctorDigits Great sketch and starting ground. The city gives a good comparison of size and contrast. It's going to be hard balancing out the creature to landscape elements, so i suggest giving the picture some head room for breathing.

(lark Great quick sketch, Very intimidating and the reflection is going to look neat. Great painterly style so far. I know that the creature is going to change a lot from this sketch can't wait to see where you go with it. Little static but im sure youll fix that.

Snafu Interesting sketch so far, I'm liking the colours and the subject matter, underwater yes? The body looks a little humanoid for COW, but it's hard to tell. Looking forward to more progress. Also how does an underwater creature hunt, would it have legs? and if so maybe a half water half surface picture could be more dynamic.

vrt Great composition very angular and the perspective is very intimidating, im relating to the foreground character well. The shoulders show a good weight with the creatures walking. No crit so far just paint more. :D

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I'm read the wiki page and I think I'll be doing a warbeast with the modern interpretation of the titans in mind. I've chosen to do the titans Asteria - Titan of nocturnal oracles and falling stars. The Titan goddess of prophetic dreams, astrology and necromancy. I'm interpreting the falling starts as meteors/sun. Asteria was known to have changed into a quail to escape the advances of Zeus. She was an alkyonide and after Heracles killed her parents the daughter flung themselves into the sea and transformed to kingfishers. She married the river god Hydaspes, so water is going to play a part in this too. Should all come together nicely if i can think of a good layout and composition.

[EDIT: Here's a complete list of titans] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_mythological_figures#Titans)

[scorge]

Hey guys, I'm Dave, and I'm probably still an alcoholic.......Wait, wrong thread.
COW is looking good these days, new faces, old faces, and now you can add my ugly face to the list. Got a call from Emerging that he was gonna be the head honcho this round so I figured what the hell, I'll play.
Congrats to Emerging on 7 stars, and I see a few more of you have earned a bunch as well. Warms my cockles it does. Glad to be back.
I'll be using Selene as my influence (loosely). Her war beast is........The Moon! Turned into its real form. Ready to lay some whoopass on Mt Olympus.
Here's ma sketch. I'll give you guys some crits when we get a little further along and everyone makes some progress, seeing as how it's so early in the round. Best of luck all!

[vrt]

Updates; colour and a hint of texture.

[warburton]

Awesome some far all, gonna be an interesting round!

Also, shout out to Emerging, Lark and Si_Swe, just wanted to know what the rules were for collage, photomanips, mixed medias etc etc? Has it got to be purely 2d digital painting?

Also, gratz to Emerging for 7 stars, well deserved ;)

[Lege1]

New attempt...I think I am going to keep with this one...

SCORGE: You never seize to amaze me man, as far as I am I am concerned you demolished this round. Bad ass concept and the artwork is always hardcore on point. Kudos!!!

[Si_Swe]

logistic puppet - Using photo textures to help establish your image is fine by me, but your end product must be mostly your own drawing and/or digital painting. As collage goes, using it the way, say, MatejaPetkovic has been doing in his recent character work is fine with me, but like I said, the end product needs to be your own painting.

[(lark]

logistic puppet: that's a good question. As far as I'm concerned you shouldn't use photos in your work unless you use a texture overlay but only sparingly so that it only adds a little bit to a drawn image.

scorge: welcome back dude! I've caught a look at some of the stuff you've done recently in the dsg. Good stuff! Also I'm pissed at myself for not thinking of the moon as an idea. Great!

[Si_Swe]

Where I'm at right now.

[GoodSoup]

Weekend is finally here! yay! ha ha. Hopefully I will be able to squeeze in something decent for this round (last one was a great topic, but I could not make it ): )

Here's a couple ideas I've playing with... my problem is that I can't decide what direction to take. Cats keep popping in my canvas... but I don't know if I want a cat..

(I don't link the images directly to avoid flooding the thread)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r04IeTL4kMc/TY0l6JJcWyI/AAAAAAAAAXY/o3qjEquDq20/s1600/Themiss%2Bpet.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OCuaZlC-Uv0/TY0l6S-RgfI/AAAAAAAAAXg/vWO0bUNcH_4/s1600/Moonbeast.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nL2g8Wt5Yyg/TY0niUYjEeI/AAAAAAAAAXw/0QPbWE1nOUA/s1600/Titans%2Bbeast.jpg

Any thoughts? Guess I'll keep sketching for the moment.

[lkjhgfdsa]

lkjhgfdsa titan of trackies...

[Lege1]

Strapped for time getting ready to skip town but doing best to make some progress here in the wips...would really like to take this to finals...heading from Miami to Orlando at 5am (few hours) to go rip up some walls out there with the spray paint...:yayca:

[GEB]

I know this isn't an illustration contest but I'd really like to see some dramatic compostion to sell the creature. These things are huge so think God of War and go mental!

PS. It's easy to say this when you're not taking part I know ;)

[scorge]

Your words have inspired me to post a wip GEB.

[Flame_Unquenchable]

What I'm working with, added a color overlay layer to even out contrast, but I'm still working with the shapes and form some. Crits appreciated!

[jumei]

I love this topic! I might participate again...

I also wanted to point out that the link to rules and info is a broken link. Even when I corrected the first part of the link :/ Can I make a creature based off two existing animals? I want it to look like Greek mythology creatures, which are mostly a mix of different animals.

[emerging]

I love this topic! I might participate again...

I also wanted to point out that the link to rules and info is a broken link. Even when I corrected the first part of the link :/ Can I make a creature based off two existing animals? I want it to look like Greek mythology creatures, which are mostly a mix of different animals.

Ohh snap yeah that link is broken! its been like this for a while now i guess.. i am not sure where the proper link is, best thing is to ask (ark and Si_swe

As for the creature - i suppose chimera is not against the rules but it will be up to you how original your design will still come out. You know what i mean? You may just plant a head of a lion on a hippo body and that won't be appreciated much at all. Now if you plant the same lion head on hippos body, come up with your own colors for the creature make the transition from the head to body seamless, put something interesting in like 4 eyes or whatever (which is a cliche by now i know but i had to give a quick example).. i think in the end it will only benefit you and your votes if you do spend some time modifiying your chimera to something more than just several animals fused together

[Si_Swe]

I also wanted to point out that the link to rules and info is a broken link. Even when I corrected the first part of the link :/ Can I make a creature based off two existing animals? I want it to look like Greek mythology creatures, which are mostly a mix of different animals.
Rules and info link should be fixed now. Sorry about that.

[GoodSoup]

Ok, I'm beginning to define my concept. Here's a little WIP. :)
Any pointers in how to improve the composition would be veeery appreciated

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OzkHyEePWMs/TY6tTjFtppI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/KPw5IF63O00/s1600/Titans%2BWarbeast%2Bwip1.jpg

[Den Grimme Raeber]

Sure am far behind most of you people.

This is the not so small thumbnail sketch chosen from friday. Still all kinds of wrong with this and i will definitely also have to look into that pose suggestion, which is a good (and should have also been an obvious) idea.

Basically the idea I am working form is the combination of all (most) of the titans into one. They are going to be schemed into three levels (sort of loosely following one gnostic build with the base of the Demiurge, the Arch Deacon(?) in between and on top the realm of light).

so the build is something alike:

III - Ether / Celestial

II - Mind / Will

I - Earth / Water (Matter)

The lower plane is headed by Atlas and Oceanus, midplane by Pallas (with Cronus and Lapetus as main melee weapons) and top plane by Hyperion. The rest of the Titans have been assigned to council functions and will be implemented as smaller elements. I have been and am currently looking at creatures with appearances and functions that I can use. I - being mainly robust water and amphibian creatures, II- searching for tendons, muscles and plating and III - light, graceful, flying elements.

Maybe this is a bit of a complicated setup but i love this stuff and it is real just a basis for inspiration to have something cool to playground with.

Will have to see if I can put my pen where my mind (mouth) is :P


Tally-ho!



P.S.
Found this crazy beast in research, the double muscled BELGIAN BLUE, might serve as good inspiration for this challenge or in general. look 'em up!

[BAMeyer]

first cow entry, tell me what you think

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[metal_militant]

This is my 2nd COW.I hope I can do a better job than the last time (I made the Monkatoo).This is what I have so far.Comments?Suggestions?Threats?

Also,Melechesh is an awesome band to work to.

[Flame_Unquenchable]

Metal: I like where the concept is headed Metal. The one thing I'd say is that the brief wants the thing to be huge, I'd scale down the figure next to it so that it is a gargantuan creature. Personally I feel it should be big enough to knock over buildings and cause massive devastation since Titans themselves were supposed to be enormous.

[jumei]

Metal: I like where the concept is headed Metal. The one thing I'd say is that the brief wants the thing to be huge, I'd scale down the figure next to it so that it is a gargantuan creature. Personally I feel it should be big enough to knock over buildings and cause massive devastation since Titans themselves were supposed to be enormous.

Monsters in the Greek mythology aren't that big really... Do they have to be that enormous? The titans are only a head taller than man. I don't know where the idea comes from that they were gigantic in proportion. There is nothing in the Greek texts that suggest this.

http://www.theoi.com/Titan/Titanes.html

[Si_Swe]

A few comments for now:
BAMeyer - I like the dynamism. Maybe use some atmospheric perspective to push the scale a little more. Right now it looks like a tiny boat with a normal sized creature.
metal militant - Good start, try and push the scale even further. Reminds me of Final Fantasy Behemoths right now. Take a look at the rear legs, which seem to lack musculature at the moment. Use some animal reference.
Den Grimme Raeber - That is an intense design, if you can pull that off in a full render, it's going to be epic as hell.
GoodSoup - Excellent sense of scale. Looking forward to seeing this develop.
scorge - Man, super fucking epic. If I have one crit it's that the eye's position looks a little strange to me. Other than that, this is SO cool. Glad to have you back this round. I hope you'll be around more often.
lkjhgfdsa - Awesome sense of scale. Maybe get some of those tentacles flailing for a more dynamic sense.
Flame Unquenchable - Your edges are very unclear. Try and get some crisper edges and more of an idea of planes. Right now the value distribution is so even that the forms flatten themselves. Try using a bigger brush, so the amount of strokes doesn't clutter your image.

Here's some more on mine. Trying to get basic values down and establish some lighting.

[warburton]

Si_Swe Lookin good man, cant wait to see this rendered further. Some nice textures on its skin would make this beast look epic ;)

Thanks to Lark and Si_Swe for answering my question about the rules. I know this is prob way OTT on the collage and breaks the rules but I thought i'd share it anyways. Still prity new to digital art so i'm just playin about with different styles and techniques and stuff at the mo.

Peace

[Flame_Unquenchable]

Monsters in the Greek mythology aren't that big really... Do they have to be that enormous? The titans are only a head taller than man. I don't know where the idea comes from that they were gigantic in proportion. There is nothing in the Greek texts that suggest this.

http://www.theoi.com/Titan/Titanes.html


To quote the brief...

This week's creature is going to be HUGE in all aspects. As many of you may know, in Greek mythology before the Gods became the rulers of the Earth, they had to defeat the Titans. This race was often interpreted as super race with god-like powers and a colossal size.

I was commenting on what the instructions were as per the activity, I didn't want Metal's to be rejected because it didn't adhere to the brief. Maybe it's big enough, but when I see Huge in all caps and the word colossal, that sets a very specific notion of how large the thing should be.

[jumei]

@ Flame_Unquenchable: Yes, I understand. My post was actually more pointed to the mods :)

[emerging]

@ Flame_Unquenchable: Yes, I understand. My post was actually more pointed to the mods :)

hey Jumei - well, by modern interpretation of titans they vary in size, yes.. Some of them are super large and some just a head taller than humans. I was speaking more from a video game developing side. I have seen in numerous games the titans are portrayed as very big humanoids and i prefer that idea more than a classical example. I guess the brief is to create their super huge creature and i guess the challenge here is to make something look like it has a lot of weight and it is colossal. Basically a titan warbeast that would be a mortal creature but powerful enough to fight off the gods and their warbeasts (like one eyed giants and hydras). SOrry for any confusion

[metal_militant]

Thank you all for your comments. I will scale the creature up definitely but just to clear any doubts, the humanoid next to it is Chronos. As far as I can remember, he is just colossal in God of War III so....

[MattGamer]

WIP: Selene's titan.

[Jaunay]

Asteria - Titan of Astrology, Necromancy Falling stars and prophetic dreams. Creepy yet cool individual.

None of these are quite there yet. I can feel it's a coming though. Hope I've got enough time to get it polished. More updates soon. :D

[DyingAtheist]

Not based on any titan in particular, going to be a rock sort of...thing, powered by this red crystal sticking out of the bottom. Don't really like the perspective or anything but it's really just for general painting practice at the moment, hence what I imagine is a cardinal sin; blocking in and doing detail bit by bit instead of laying down an overall colour. Ah well!

PS : Having a slight problem, every time I change the Opacity Jitter it resets as soon as I press the pen down, rather frustrating.

http://i56.tinypic.com/14n0036.jpg

[DefiledVisions]

Scorge, good to see you! going to be fun battling you in this one :)

more work on my Solarsteed of Helios!

::question::

Emerging, I'm thinking of what you wrote about keeping accessories to a minimum.. is having some sort of chariot / artifact dragged by the creature too much? I'm thinking of some ideas involving a weapon of mass-destruction.

[jolen]

Hi guys
My first C.O.W and my first conceptart post. I got in to this one kinda late, and i should really do some school work, so i'm not sure i'll finish it in time. But it's always god practise.
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r119/jolen_t/war_titan1.jpg
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r119/jolen_t/war_titan2.jpg
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r119/jolen_t/war_titan4.jpg

[Farquad]

Geebus christobald Scorge! I love that thing!!

My take so far. Need to make it more actiony i feel...

http://i685.photobucket.com/albums/vv213/Farkwhad/BigGuy.jpg

Update:

http://i685.photobucket.com/albums/vv213/Farkwhad/BigGuy-1.jpg

[metal_militant]

I decided to follow last time's critique and did some black and white lighting testing first. Comments and suggestions are highly welcome.

[Farquad]

A little further, not sure if I'll get to painting.....

http://i685.photobucket.com/albums/vv213/Farkwhad/BigGuy-2.jpg

[SteelCobra]

Hey there, this is my first time participating in any of the challenges here, so any and all feedback is very welcome and appreciated.

Quick sketch from this morning.

[NoobConcept]

Hi all,

Nice posts all around! I must say I really like this topic!

Here's my WIP... I hope I'll manage to get some time to finish it this time around! Crits are, as always, more than welcome. :)

Cheers.

[MatejaPetkovic]

Farquad, i love your beast, but i think you lost that sense of scale with house on right, now it looks like any animal, but in previous step it look large as mountain

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[jolen]

@Farquad: Great Beast!, but i have to agree with MatejaPetkovic, you made him look smaller with the house.

Shortened the body, added some more detail, and did a little color test before bed. I'll try to get back on the Beast tomorrow.

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r119/jolen_t/war_titan6.jpg

[Farquad]

Thanks for the critique guys! I'm not sure if I see eye-to-eye on the shed situation though.
Hopefully this addresses the problem?

[emerging]

so much quality work here! you guys are killing it!

[Flame_Unquenchable]

Had an idea to redesign. After looking at it I think the front arm has some perspective issues, and I tried to vary the values this time to get a better range. Hopefully this one is a lot more in focus than the last one, tried a different technique to apply the colors. As always crits are more than welcome.

Farquad, that thing is awesome, so much good work in this thread.

[Flame_Unquenchable]

@ NoobConcept : Looks like he's a little off kilter there. Try bringing his head around to the right a bit more he looks like he's going to fall over to the left.

The creature's back right thigh might need to be shortened a hair.

Take a look at the claw in the front, from the way it looks like you want to show it, the claws are bent down and they should come toward the viewer more. Try moving the claws into the toes some and stretch the light on the underpaw all the way across, it will help define different portions of the paw. You might take a look at a bear paw or something similar and try to see how it articulates, that seems like it would be close enough to give you some idea of how the paw should function when stepping.

[Aeronik]

Hey folks, here's where I'm at so far but not sure where to push it from here. Any suggestions are very welcome.

http://www.aeronik.com/images/cow208_wip01.jpg

[(lark]

aeronik: thats awesome dude! only thing i can say is maybe try and push the atmosphere higher up the mountain to a little lower contrast to really drive home the fact that the creature is huge! that being said it looks pretty awesome already and doesn't absolutely need my suggestion.

so i changed mine up today. spent a little time on it, hopefully finish in time. so close to deadline already!

these are Hyperions war beasts that he uses at night while he is away. he is the representation of the sun fyi, but I'm sure everyone knows that from their research. also used as protectors of his daughter Selene (the moon).

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[Den Grimme Raeber]

Am currently working on the pencil sketch for the final render.

Here is one of the A3 of sketches from the last two days. Many of the elements are in place here, I would however like to have played around some more with the composition, the integration of the different parts and lighting and values but I think I will get a better exercise trying to finish this up within the time limit.

Probably won´t see a completely finished render by tomorrow so I will likely go for the finished pencil sketch, which I will then finish up at a later date.

Tally-Ho!

[warburton]

Flame_Unquenchable Interesting take dude, looks cool so far. Rendering its surroundings will help the perspective alot.
Also be sure to look at horizon shots to see how the value changes over long distances. Try and incorporate this into your creature for greater sense of scale.
http://hengki24.deviantart.com/ - This guy has some interesting foggy landscapes which show what I mean.

aeronik I agree with Lark, hes spot on with what he said. And also similar to what ive said to Flame. Perhaps throwing in some dramatic fog will help show scale. Also I just noticed the top of the mountain is a temple or something. More focal attention to that would be cool.

Farquad Awesome as always man, I agree with what ppl are sayin about the shed though. I think simplicity is workin beter here, more dramatic and epic. Seeing your first iteration brought back sweet memories - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13xbhz2il5M

Lark Wow, thats a dramatic change lol, still a cool idea though. The creature just above the lake indicates some essence of scale but part from that its hard to read it as a titan at the mo. Then again, not every titan is colossal in size so just ignore me if you had that in mind :dur:

Second wip. I'm not sure this is gonna make it to the finals for 'obvious' reasons when its finished but I need abit of help with the depth and scale of this thing. Its looking flat, boring and relatively small at the mo and I was wondering if anybody could help me with this problem please? >:|

[GEB]

A bit late in the day but I had an hour spare in my break and thought I'd have a doodle even though the sun's out... Doh!

[GEB]

This guy shits moiuntains!

I'm thinking it could be the beast of Atlas as it's made of the very essence of the earth he carries

[acb]

wow.. such a great round! id say make it a 2 weeks one :mittenbop: :D

heres what i have so far :
http://i53.tinypic.com/34s2ohe.jpg

i like 1.4.5.8 ....guess ill start with 1 and 5 and see how it goes :D

[SteelCobra]

Tried doing a slightly better sketch, the head is a bit better, don't like the backlegs. i guess just not sure about better posing. ill maybe try again today then drop it in photoshop and see if i cant make it more dynamic.

[metal_militant]

Hi,

I started adding details to the face.I guess I won't have time to render this in colour,although I decided to keep that red eye.Schindler's List style.

[Vulgar`]

Ummmm... so this should be one for the books.

Feedback later!

[jolen]

Same Beast, different view.
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r119/jolen_t/war_titan_other_other1.jpg

[Si_Swe]

Just a couple things:
(lark - The image is super cool and dynamic, but the creatures are all head, otherwise lacking form somewhat. Is there a way you can get some more body to them?
logistic_puppet - It's still really relying too much on collage and not enough on your own painting. Additionally, we're only getting the front half of your creature, we'll need to see the back elements to the creature as well.
Aeronik - Really dynamic, really nice sense of scale and great rendering. My big concern is that because we're seeing the back of the creature, we aren't getting so much of the design elements that are hinted at.

I've started rendering out the head. Colours on the creature itself are really up in the air (in a literal and figurative sense).

[NoobConcept]

Started rendering and pushing the values. I've taken Flame_Unquenchable's advice and tilted the head a little, tweaked the "paws" (not sure what to call them :P) and shortened the back thigh a little. Also got rid of the horrible orange background. :)

Stay need to work on this one for a while... I hope I'll be able to finish it by tomorrow.

Any crits, please fire away! :)

[Jaunay]

Here a WIP. Arg only today left!

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[GoodSoup]

I'm with acb about the extension... is that even an option? I really want to make it in the poll, but I'm not sure I'm gonna finish in time. ):
And there's so many awesome pieces that also seem to need a little extra time.

[Venger]

Well the titans were imprisoned in Tartarus, they found willing beasts deep in the earth...
obviously still WIP, not sure if I'll finish it - it was stuck in my brain so I had to get it down on paper. (hmm a tad dark - must lighten that up)
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[Den Grimme Raeber]

This is what I have done in this weeks time. There is still some things (especially that left arm and eye) but think I will take it to the Photoshops now and work it out there. Then hopefully next week I will work faster.

I actually sort of oppose the suggestion of the extension of this challenge. I think a tight weekly schedule will be better for measuring progress in the long run. Seeing as there are no prizes involved, one can always finish up the work and post it on a later date, makes not much of a difference.

Having said that I think it would also be cool to see a biweekly or monthly challenge in CA to be able to really dig into concepting(?) and have time to test out different things.
Maybe actually a monthly challenge that could run along side participation in weekly challenges.

…And while I am at it I think it would also be really great to see a weekly sculpting challenge. Now, I am no where near fast enough to participate in such a challenge (at the moment) but I have seen what some people are capable of achieving within just one day of work. Depending on how strong the sculpting community is present on the forum that would serve as awesome inspiration. (Maybe the last two suggestions should be raised elsewhere?)

Anyway over and out, looking forward to the poll party, I will be at the bar with a heavy long drink watching you kids play!

Tally-Ho!


also @ Jaunay, had hoped you would have gone with the second from the bottom left design of your sketch ark, the one with the round head and the smoke horns. That is a really nice design and I think you should definitely finish it up at some point.

[GEB]

Quick update on my creature, Had an hour or so to kill. Plan to open out the left of the piece as it's to cramped at the mo

Venger: Checked out your gallery, some pretty inpiring stuff mate!

[GEB]

That's inspiring... Not inpiring... Whatever that is

[Venger]

Venger: Checked out your gallery, some pretty inpiring stuff mate!

A lot of old stuff - ah NDA's ya gotta love em...

inpiring/inspiring - I'll take both as compliments, thanks :)

[emerging]

pretty cool creature - i think the perspective on the right building is completely off though



Flame_Unquenchable Interesting take dude, looks cool so far. Rendering its surroundings will help the perspective alot.
Also be sure to look at horizon shots to see how the value changes over long distances. Try and incorporate this into your creature for greater sense of scale.
http://hengki24.deviantart.com/ - This guy has some interesting foggy landscapes which show what I mean.

aeronik I agree with Lark, hes spot on with what he said. And also similar to what ive said to Flame. Perhaps throwing in some dramatic fog will help show scale. Also I just noticed the top of the mountain is a temple or something. More focal attention to that would be cool.

Farquad Awesome as always man, I agree with what ppl are sayin about the shed though. I think simplicity is workin beter here, more dramatic and epic. Seeing your first iteration brought back sweet memories - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13xbhz2il5M

Lark Wow, thats a dramatic change lol, still a cool idea though. The creature just above the lake indicates some essence of scale but part from that its hard to read it as a titan at the mo. Then again, not every titan is colossal in size so just ignore me if you had that in mind :dur:

Second wip. I'm not sure this is gonna make it to the finals for 'obvious' reasons when its finished but I need abit of help with the depth and scale of this thing. Its looking flat, boring and relatively small at the mo and I was wondering if anybody could help me with this problem please? >:|

[emerging]

i think a week is enough to produce a good quality image if you get to it right away. I had an idea of CA making another challenge which would be called "Illustration of the Week" and impose more concept rules on creature as it is being done on character atm. The Illustration could be a 2 week or a month challenge since usually it needs a lot more rendering of little details and backgrounds. A little more vague topic would be given like "crowning of prince Gruntas" or whatever and then people can take it in any setting they wish and illustrate the whole thing. I think that would be pretty cool but we'll see if thats possible

[emerging]

Update!

I got some good news for those who wanted an extension!

We will be hosting this round until the 5th of April - so everybody has a lot of time to finish up whatever they started and even work a little further on already finished work (you can always update your final by editing the attachement in Finals thread until it is closed).

[NoobConcept]

Wow, this is gonna be a tough one... lots of great pieces out there... :S

Anyway, since we've got some more time to finish the work ( yay! :) ) I've decide not to start with color yet and keep refining details here and there. Still not sure about how to go on with the hind leg and how much detail to put into that... my bet is to keep it basic and focus on detailing the head and upper mid-section. Does that make any sense?

Cheers!

[Flame_Unquenchable]

Update!

I got some good news for those who wanted an extension!

We will be hosting this round until the 5th of April - so everybody has a lot of time to finish up whatever they started and even work a little further on already finished work (you can always update your final by editing the attachement in Finals thread until it is closed).

Awesome I knew I wasn't going to have time to work on mine anymore today and it was deadline but I wasn't happy with the final result and wanted to spend some more time on it. Glad you pushed back the deadline!

[Jaunay]

Hey thanks emerging for extending the deadline I totally agree with making an illustration of the fortnight. Although some people may think that it overlaps too much with the current challenges. I was on CG hub yesterday and they have some fairly successful 2 week events, great quality work for 2 week, it gives you more reflection time. How do we go about this? Or maybe we should alternate between 1 week and 2 week challenges or something?

Are we still going to start the next project on time and run them consecutively?

Den Grimme Raeber Thanks for the feedback, by that point I was stressing about getting it done on time, so they're rushed and i should have labeled them so people could point things out easier. Thanks though I shall get the the little guy at some point. :D

Also you design is really well thought out, I can see you've taken the time to create a beast that works around your titan, and it shows. Can't wait to see where you go with it!

Also also also, Grimme you should totally get up a sketchbook on ca, id love to check out more of your work. :D

[Si_Swe]

Did a bit more refining. Almost done.

[GEB]

NoobConcept: You've picked a real tough angle on that one. To me your perspective is off, I think the arms could do with being a bit longer compared with the body. I reckon if you do some perspective line and get some some, maybe someone doing push ups since your body type is quite human

Si_Swe: Nice design! I kinda want to see multiple rows of teeth, and some sort of tongue, or tongues.

A bit more progress on mine. I want him to leave destruction in it's wake, eating trees and shedding boulders. I may well have trees and maybe even the titans castle on it's back

[Flame_Unquenchable]

NoobConcept: Nevermind, was looking at an older version of the drawing, you added in shadows to define the toes. :D

[metal_militant]

Planned on submitting this as a final but then I noticed the date extension so I shall improve it more.

[Den Grimme Raeber]

I think this is where I'll leave it for today.

Scanned my pencil sketch and tried working on it in Photoshop but as I applied a little bit of environment it started looking like a squeaky toy left on the beach. So now I have made a few new thumbnails and changed the perspective a little.

I figure I am gonna have the sun come down through the crown of Hyperion (the screaming birds on top of the other bird).

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In regards to the idea of the "Illustration of the Week" Emerging I think that would be awesome inspiration. Having a simple briefing and then letting participants go haywire across the board. Seeing the same brief interpreted in many different settings and with different focuses.

Hope you will be able to push that through.

Taking it up the other way around might also be fun. Having a very fixed topic, for instance an event like the coronation, maybe the entire ceremony. Having participants designing a piece of this ceremony, a creature, a character, an environment, a prop etc. It might not be the actual coronation but could be something going on underneath the stage, behind the curtains, in the kitchen, the hallway, before, under or after the event. It might be and entire environment or just a single subject with some function in regards to the event.

The brief could be something like the prince succeeding his father, the highly acclaimed king in celebration of the victory of a long battle. The court turned up side down in preparations, much turmoil and excitement.

Something that would create a very specific setting but still not limit what you would be allowed to do.

At the end of the period there then would be many stories woven around this single event, with sub plots etc. There might be a lot of princes being coronated and many different ceremonial halls. Still it could be cool working on for instance a creature and then be inspired by someone doing an environment that might supplement what you are working on, to view your own work in a new perspective or maybe take it in a new direction.

I can see the forum has a challenge & collaboration area but I figure this is more a kin to the existing challenges, you'd still do your own work individually.

Mah… anyway seeing as the 208 is still running I will let of of it here, taking my hands of the keyboard now and going home.

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Tally-Ho

[Si_Swe]

How is it that people don't understand not to post non-entry posts in the finals thread until the poll is up!? It's not hard. It says right there, in the thread, not to do it.

To answer the questions posed in that thread, the deadline is being extended because we have a special round coming up, but in order to do that, we have to get the timeframe correct. We will not be posting a new topic early. You are capable of waiting, do so.

[cz64]

did i post in the wrong section? sorry :-( probably more tabs were open and i missed the right one, my mistake.

i just suggested to edit the main post with the extended deadline, as now it is lost in the thread a bit, thats all, nothing hostile.

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edit:

I've been actually happy to see this contest extended, so i could sketch my idea:
Hyperion's (Sun titan) "Dragon"
this is supposed to be a solar dragon. instead of flapping her wings, it collects humidity form clouds, creating some kind of material from wich she can stretch a strong film. this functions as a sunray collector (lens), focusing beams to one point, putting the environment on fire. The heat keeps the dragon up in the air - practically the "lens" functions also as a "balloon". Accidentally, it can also harm inattendive populations.

Needless to say, i'm facing numerous problems describing this visually :-)

[Si_Swe]

No problem. It's possible I misread the post. I was just getting frustrated since there have been multiple comments in the finals thread of just comments. I'll edit the new due date into the OP.

[emerging]

ohh yeah wasnt sure if i should edit the date within the description too! and i saw the post in the final which i was trying to figure out how to delete but i do not believe i had priority to do so lol

Thanks Si_Swe

[sappet102]

this thread looks awesome! i love creating creatures! i am new here, and i and a pencil artist, and this is my first time drawing on photoshop. you guys are all amazing, i feel embarassed to post this :S. i hope to be as good as everyone else here some day. it's a giant demon creature rising from the lava, gonna be destroying people.
http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o205/pug826/Untitled-1.png

[GoodSoup]

Here's my latest WIP... Not sure how much further I can push this.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4gjfKFwySQI/TZaoytSlzqI/AAAAAAAAAYo/z-p6rvFqCJA/s1600/Titans%2BWarbeast%2B3.jpg

[SteFuunie]

awesome post. lemme give it a shot

[Eclectix]

I wasn't expecting to be able to enter this round as I had so much going on, but with the extended due date I might be able to get an entry done so long as things stay settled down around here. I am leaning towards this concept for the one to flesh out. I wanted to make something that is simultaneously elegant yet brutal.

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[Baconstrap]

Since the deadline was suspended I thought I'll try this one ^^
there are so many awesome entrys and some super duper awesome...do it just for funzies ^^

[tmyohlaing]

I just started it, hopefully, can finish it in time.

[Eclectix]

Trying on some colors for size

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[NoobConcept]

More WIP spam! :)

Following GEB's comments, I 've devided to rotate the canvas and stretch the beast's arms in order to suggest a larger size and fix the perspective... haven't had too much time so I'm still trying to render the details. No color yet... :(

Cheers!

[Flame_Unquenchable]

@NoobConcept: I think something that might help the perspective is to shorten the bottom teeth some. If you are looking almost directly up at his upper palate inside his mouth, then you wouldn't see the full length of his teeth because they're foreshortened.

Also that back thigh is still a bit too long, it needs to come up higher because his back half is further away.

It's looking good though! Keep at it.

[emerging]

hey guys doing great!

im wondering if you ever encountered the same problem i have with my tablet. It was working fine all this time and yesterday i wanted to paint but it just does not read the pen. The light is blue and it seems like its working but the pen is just not being read at all. Have you guys ever had something like that? and how did you fix it if yes? thanks!

[Eclectix]

Emerging, I get that problem from time to time with my Wacom. Usually it's a matter of the graphics program not reading it for some reason. For me, closing and re-opening the program usually does the trick. Sometimes I need to just reboot the computer.

May as well add my WIP. After today I may not have much more time to work on this, so I'm trying to squeeze in as much work as I can in the next couple of hours available to me right now.


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[cz64]

@emerging: i usually remove All User Preferences in Wacom settings then restart the photoshop. poor excuse, but faster than rebooting the whole box...

[NoobConcept]

Another WIP... added more details, set-up the background and finally started applying color with several soft light layers. Still not happy with the teeth, so I will fix that tomorrow and tweak a couple of things here and there but I guess this is pretty much final. Crits are, as always, very much appreciated.

Cheers!

PS: emerging, don't know if you already fixed it, but whenever I've had similar issues I've managed to fix them exiting the software. If not, I'd try restarting the system (duh!) and, as a last resort, I'd uninstall the tablet and do a clean install with new drivers. Anyway, I hope you fixed it by now. :)

[scorge]

@ Emerging: Probably have to reinstall the driver. I keep the latest version on my desktop for just such an emergency.

[metal_militant]

hey guys doing great!

im wondering if you ever encountered the same problem i have with my tablet. It was working fine all this time and yesterday i wanted to paint but it just does not read the pen. The light is blue and it seems like its working but the pen is just not being read at all. Have you guys ever had something like that? and how did you fix it if yes? thanks!


Delete the Wacom preferences. I had the same problem and I think every Wacom product user faces the same problem the world over. Deleting the preferences always works. Its done from the Control Panel on Windows but if you have a Mac its probably from System Preferences.

[emerging]

Delete the Wacom preferences. I had the same problem and I think every Wacom product user faces the same problem the world over. Deleting the preferences always works. Its done from the Control Panel on Windows but if you have a Mac its probably from System Preferences.

thanks guys reinstalling drivers doesnt help but i havent trued deleting the preferences.. i have pc with windows xp.. where do i find it again?

[metal_militant]

thanks guys reinstalling drivers doesnt help but i havent trued deleting the preferences.. i have pc with windows xp.. where do i find it again?

Control Panel ---> Hardware ----> Wacom Tablet: There should be a 'remove preferences' button there. I have Windows 7 so I'm just assuming that XP would have a similar control panel. I've used XP before but never with a Wacom tablet.

[jrbarker]

Initial concept sketch...Look at the final thread for the "finished" piece.

By the way, is anyone else having trouble seeing the images in these threads? None of the pics are loading.

[emerging]

just the heads up guys that today is the deadline to submit your final the poll will be up in 15 minutes so hurry in with your entry if you havent done so !

[Si_Swe]

Sorry for the delay, all. The poll is being set up now.

[emerging]

the poll is up in the finals section - sorry for the name of the thread is still not VOTING but FINALS since i have no access to edit my own posts. This should be fixed soon as i get hold of (lark and Si_swe!

[Si_Swe]

Just a heads up to everyone, there may be some delay tonight in setting up the new topic. I assure you it will be up in the next hour or two.