Thunderdome Round 3: UNLEASH THE DOGS OF WAR!!! CONCEPTART.ORG vs. EATPOO.COM

[gekitsu]

Originally posted by Oblio
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills...

...Aceeees hiiiiii-iiiiigh!

clodhopper, glad to have you back :)
hope you had a lot of reference for monster stuff in the hospital ;)

[daarken]

ahhh!! i havent had any time to work on anything since school started up again. just some sketches and some 20 min. color studies. (i forgot the skeleton guys gun arm :P )
hopefully soon i will be able to get some better things for you guys!
http://www.daarken.com/newnav/sketches/acromion.jpg
http://www.daarken.com/newnav/sod/creatures4.jpg
http://www.daarken.com/newnav/sod/thewretch.jpg

[killing.people]

shiiiat daarken!

those are killer, i love whats going on with the most intricate of the sketches - the big quad-psycho damnation with the tiny-creepy head. the painting has cool tenticles, niiice.

i am sketching out a new composition for my monster. the monster has been mutated - less deer .. and a little more deer .. you'll see.

-kill

[Oblio]

Gentelmen, I can not find any other apropriate words to describe the status of my last action other then:
I'M STUCK

http://members.fortunecity.com/afantana/monster2ice.jpg

I'm pughing paint around witout advancing for loong hours...
Here is the photo reference i've built for it...

http://members.fortunecity.com/afantana/monster2.JPG

Yes.. i've gone too far from what i can do and.. if anyone can help here... the country will be greatfull.

@sparth - please advize your background painting abilities that i require your intervention.

Oblio

[killing.people]

uh oh, obilos (http://www.drlarrypetvet.com/child_dreaming02.html)
^
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i think 'zane' already thought of the giant pet turtle.

all i can say is - work with defining the form more. work with its darks more and drop in details and some dramatic lighting. good luck!

i think the turtle idea is a litte tacky .. hey, a little honesty never hurt anyone .. right .. obilo ..

however! you can prove me very wrong, if i were to do this concept i would focus on the defensive aspect of the tortise. make this thing able to thwart any kind of attack, i picture flame throwers all around its head .. the tanks safely away from his head, somewhere not so dangerous, eh?

heh, top secret .. oh you.
-killing.nudge

i think you would be happy to hear i am done with pages of new sketches for my concept, i will get them scanned and posted, laaate!

-eat.poo.bad

[Oblio]

Killink.Turtles - you have discovered my inspiration site... :D
(how did you find that "lovely" quote?)
I would like to prove you wrong but I lack.. the "Skill & technology".
I have to keep close to whatever animal I find since I have no anatomy background to do something else!
So... i can put some hair on the turtle and make some arrangements or... dunno - start again with an evil goat or something :D


Oblio

[killing.people]

i dont think you mean quote .. i dont know what it would be called.
i wanted to tease your turtle concept, i heard if you pick up some kind of turtle it will pee itself until it dies.
i was searching for turtle facts to find out if it were true and i went to a animal doctor site that had this funny little turtle picture .. i thought eh! good enough.

:idea: stick with it! the turtle reminds me of a tank, maybe you can give it a gun barrel for a head, or on top of its shell .. or something.

-killing.half.shell

[gekitsu]

yeah, oblio... stack the turtle with some freakin guns!

you know, like that one pokemon, just bigger and meaner :D
imagine two ultra-heavy gun constructions, one left, one right. so heavy that they press the turtle down, so that it has to creep close to the floor. that's the heavy artillery we need, oblio! :)

warheadkitsu

[killing.people]

just not mini guns on the sides .. i did that on my elephant man ..

[Fozzybar]

Damned!!! I'll fly saturday into holidays...and will be back after the due-date!!!

Now I work every night until saturday morning to finish my part for conceptart's army...

We will prevailchrrr...chrrr... :dead:

daarken: This creature on the second image at the top (with this 4 holes in his head or whatever) is great...maybe you can work it out?

oblio: Spikes for the turtles back and maybe wings...sounds weird, but it could be interesting.

ooops...i forgot i was sleeping :rolleyes:

[Batteram]

Hey everyone, I'm new here. I recently just posted a piece of my work in the 'Finally Finished' forum if you all didn't see it.
Anywayz, I really like the idea of this Thunderdome competition thing. I really have enjoyed viewing all the concepts so far and thought I might give it ago.
Here is the link to the monster I am drawing at the moment: http://bendavisart.xnapster.com/custom.html

I was inspired by the now famous Doom3 pic of that half-dog-monster-half-machine thingy eating that dead fat zombie in the bathroom. So, I decided to have a go at my own rendition. I really liked the creepy feel of that Doom 3 screenshot and wanted to draw my own monster in a pose like that for the Thunderdome comp, only thing is that the dead guy won't be lying flat on his back and as you can see from the pic, the monster is much different.
Background info for this monster: He eats humans for a living and is a little bit biochemical in appearance. His mouth is hideously deformed due to the amount of humans he eats. He has teeth similar to sharks teeth and like a shark if they happen to break off, they are replaced by new ones. Sometimes he doesn't kill the humans and devours them alive. The large gape in his back is where all the resourced human gibs and parts are and some humans that aren't fully digested can be seen poking out of his grisly back. Anywayz, thats enough chatter from me now. Once the pic is done you'll see what I mean.
Anywayz, I'd just thought I'd post this WIP since everyone esle is doing it and I am really looking forward to seeing the final entries for this compeition.
C&C are appreciated.

[N D Hill]

Awesome stuff!

Hey daarken, how the heck did you do that background on that last image of yours? It looks incredable!

[nil]

damn batteram, that is one ugly looking mofo. its as little hard to crit at the moment cause its so unfinished, but maybe you should do a more detailed sketch before start painting the thing in too much detail? meh, maybe not :rolleyes:

[Batteram]

hey nil, thanks for saying that my monster so far is, uh, ugly :)
I guess everyone has their own style and technique when it comes to drawing, painting, etc, and unlike most people i like to add detail by detail to one part at a time. Of course art teachers wouldn't advise you to do that but they can get stuffed. I mean, as long as you complete the final product, thats what matters, right?
Anywayz, I'll be working on this guy a little more and maybe post another WIP so you can see what he is meant to look like :)

[daarken]

exo: haha, that is my feeble attempt at a justin sketchbook page. i can only find the stupid grey tones of the tria ink refills...so i used one of those and just a brown of the higgins ink.

here is another character i sketched out today. he is an assassin that uses a very special weapon called a neuroknife. when the victim is stabbed with the neuroknife, messages are sent to the victims brain telling them that they have been killed, regardless to the location or severity of the stab wound. the one on the left i had a gun arm, but i decided to just drop the gun and give him two knifes instead. i also changed his costume to rags and leather so that he would be more agile and more silent...as opposed to all the loud, restricting metal.

http://www.daarken.com/newnav/sketches/synapse.jpg

[gekitsu]

hey daarken, your concepts remind me a lot of tsutomu nihei's manga "blame!"

this last page's characters could appear in the world of blame! as they are...

cool :)

[killing.people]

nice job guys! daarken, i love your stlye i feel comfortable with your works, in attempt to make myself feel better and hopes for compliment - i see relation in our stlyes.

btw:

killing.updating ... (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=7215#post7215)

[daarken]

gekitsu: yes, i am nihei's bitch. i think i need to lock myself in a little room and draw for a few days, completely isolated from outside influence.

killing: thanks! i really liked your new design of the smoking pilot. it seems to be really well planned out, and you executed the design of the body very well (i already said all this in your thread, so i guess ill just stop now) keep going with it!

[Fozzybar]

Damned....i am flying in a few hours into holidays...i will send my entries in about 2-3 hours to General Manley...2 monsters, i already have another 3rd one, but just the linework...it was my first monster, and a real killing machine, but no time means no monster...

However my 2 monsters will support conceptart-beasts...

But i think i will render the other monster, when i am back and post it...

[usagi yojimbo]

when is the deadline for the submissions?

it says october 15th but wasnt that changed? or was it changed to the 15th?

[killing.people]

as i understand it, october 15th.

[usagi yojimbo]

sweet,

heres my monster, its also posted in the forum for unfinished stuff, hope no one minds.

Its a mutant bat, originally it was gonna be a kamikaze hummingbird who needs to be constantly drinking nectar from the tube on his back. I changed it to a bat because i thought it would fit better in the thunderdome but kept the nectar thing. Its kind of a scout, using enhanced vision and echo-location to send information back to home base but instead of using a radio or something it uses it voice which wouldn't be intercepted by the enemy.

link (http://www.geocities.com/pastymesa/pastymesa.html?1027393701260)

[mcotie]

I'm pretty much satisfied with my final piece for t-dome. I was just wondering if we are posting them publically before emailing them or what?
If anyone has any ideas let me know.

Mitch

p.s. : is it october 15 or is it october 15 ?

:beer:

[McNallyism]

Hey Usagi, did you know that Kamikaze bats were almost used as REAL weapons of war in world war 2? Allied scientists seriously contemplated dropping thousands of bats from bombers with the idea that they would immediately roost under the eaves of the roofs of the buildings below. There, the explosive capsules which they were carrying would ignite and start a giant city-wide inferno. The plan fell through during testing, though. They had a batch of their kamikaze bats in a truck at an air field waiting to be loaded onto a bomber to be tested on some dummy targets, when they escaped. They burned down a couple hangers and even a high-ranking officer's car, if I remember right...

Theres some useless trivia for ya.

-Sean:evilbat:

[killing.people]

no no you are confusing people mcotie ..

its october 15th

.. was that perdictable?

[usagi yojimbo]

McNallyism: honestly? they tried some crazy stuff then. i heard that gthe first attempt at guided missiles were piloted by pigeons inside the missile trained to peck at a set of contols,

not sure if thats true though

anyways i could really use someones opinion on the monster design, (hint, hint)

[relinquish]

usagi, love the bat - his goggles have a sort of 1980's shades look to them, very cool.

not sure about his feet though: are they bat feet, or eagle talons or dinosaur feet? not that they look wrong, just sorta funny when you consider what bat's feet are really like...
can't wait to see it painted

[usagi yojimbo]

i kinda agree with the you about the feet, the problem is that finding reference photos of bats is impossible, they're always blurry as hell, and either tons of them flying or tons of hanging in a cave wrapped up in their wings

in short i have no idea what bat feet look like

[McNallyism]

Usagi, sorry for not criting your work right away. I think the basic idea is sound, although I think you could go further with mixing in the bat anatomy. I would suggest getting a book on bats from the library, they are some really other-worldly creatures. I really think you should sonsider changing the nose into more of a bat-nose. Depending on the species, bat noses can look pretty interesting, and I think it would be a good source of contrast to have an ugly ol' up-turned bat-nose poking out from under that futuristic helmet. Also, research the wings more. Right now, it appears that the wings are too small to support the weight of the rest of the body, especially with that huge tank-thingy hanging off his back. If you make them more akin to those of a pteradactyl rather than a bat, he will be able to use his hands in combat. Basically my suggestion to you right now is research, research, research. Get anatomical reference for the feet as well. Even if you feel you have a firm grasp on the character's anatomical structure, researching will help you find details that you never would have thought of and will make your concept seem that much more believable.

-Sean

[usagi yojimbo]

no problem mcnallyism, just kinda annoying when you people have looked at what youve doen but dont say anyhting about
although i do it too

i never thought about gettiong a book from the library(theres even one across the street from me!) ill try messing around with the stuff you said and do some research.

thanks

[mcotie]

Usagi

I'm sorry for not giving critiques on your guy. I get pissed too, so plz accept my apologies.

I like it. 'twould be cool to show a number of these guys in your final comp. A swarm would be viscous. I agree with Mac, about the foot, it is a bit too big or something. Watch the foreshortening on that right leg too.

Mitch

[usagi yojimbo]

thats cool mcotie, like i said i do it to

yeah, i was thinking of there being a fleet of them but i didnt know if i would be able to ( i though there might be something against that in the rules, maybe unfair somehow) ill definitely be doing it now

i think im gonna add a pair of machine guns, one on each hip maybe not, you're use of the word viscious has me thinking of some sort of blades bolted to his arms/wings or something, a melee weapon at least

[Batteram]

once we've done our character art do we just post the final version in this thread or do we send an e-mail attachment to Jason?

[negativespace]

I was wondering the same thing.

[usagi yojimbo]

yeah i think you just email it to jason

[daarken]

man, i dont think im gonna make it before the deadline ;____;

[mcotie]

c'mon daarken. you can do it!!

[Nordstrand, T]

I just sent my sketchy entry to Jason, I can't be working on it more since I'm leaving for the US in two hours. I guess anything is better than nothing, huh? I'll be keeping an eye on things from over there. Good luck to all of us! :waves:

[gekitsu]

:(
i guess if there isn't happening any wonder soon, i'm out.

after finishing the backgrounds for the first attempt, i saw it was horrible and dumped it. the second, third and forth attempt stopped before being born. all the underlying paintings and sketches didn't have any life, no shapes did form, no anything.

i guess i'm too burnt out right now.

[Lono]

I neeeeed more tiiiiiime!!!!






:help:

[Oblio]

Only 4 days left! Come on people... this is WAR!
The monsters will roll on in here... the battle will be huuuge... prepare the monsters.
I repeat: prepare the monsters!

Oblio

[mcotie]

Stay with me. And if you suddenly find yourself in green fields with the sun in your face, do not fear, for you are in Elesium, and you are already dead!

Strength and Honor!

[Hedrus]

OK, what do I do with my image when it's done? I plan on working on it untill the last possible minute, when is that? It's due the 15th(tues) but when on the 15th? Just making sure so I don't miss the deadline. Thanks,

Kenzie

[Lono]

I too would like to know the answers to these questions..

i will be sliding in to home right as the ball is being caught aswell.

those crap snarfing butt bandits are going down.

Bam!@

[Oblio]

Check Jason's announcement!!

Obli

[Hedrus]

So to get the assignment done by the 15th, I drank like 3 huge cups of coffee at 2am this morning so I could pull an "allnighter" to finish my piece and then would go to work all day! Then I read that the deadline is moved to the 30th! So now what do I do that I'm WIRED!!! I guess I'm just going to work on it all night anyway because going to sleep right now would be stupid. I am glad about the extension though. I'll be able to really get what I wanted done. Not just the "rushed because I procrastinated for 15 days". I worked my but off the first 2 weeks then burnt out and didn't touch my piece for at least 2 weeks. This last week I started working on it again. Not enough time to color this monstrosity. Especially since I suck at coming up with cool color schemes. I spent 2 days trying to get a color scheme and ended up with poop. Lucky for me, tonight I had a breakthrough and the color is looking good (for my skill level). I have a feeling there are going to be some really amazing stuff(like there already isn't). :beer: :D

[sym7]

was over at eat poo checking it all . we have solid people and images to boot going on here. i have to say poo has some secret wepaons , once unleashed could make this whole thing quite a suprise. keep tis in mind . this will get deadly for sure .

[Fozzybar]

Woohooo!

I am back from holidays...and ready to enter the thunderdome. Hmmm...there aren't many entries yet, but i think they all are waiting up to the end for opening their present-boxes.

Actually i don't like these deadline changings, but in this case i am lucky, so i have more time to finish my pics...

[pyrro]

Day 4...
..they told me that i'm the third...the "white man" is my second MASTER... ... BUT I WILL BE ALONE IN THIS BATTLE !!!!