ConceptartCohesion #001: 8th Day >>> EOW VidaNova Corporation

[Red_Rook]

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ConceptartCohesion #001: 8th Day

Storyline:

The year 2446 CE

Mankind and its technology have advanced at an exponential rate, however trivial political, religious and social demands have caused the splintering of former superpowers into smaller nation states, pitting themselves against each in a number of minor conflicts.

Since 2395 a minimum of 27 conflicts, hostile incursions and border disputes have been raging in various confined areas across the planets surface, sparking a new global economy.
Covenants of major corporations have banded together in various factions and are now the true international players, feeding the ever increasing demand of new weapons technology.
The change in style of warfare has rendered weapons of mass destruction virtually useless increasing an appetite for more unconventional weapon systems, specifically the VidaNova Corporations newest developments in the field of creating new species of animals bred for specific purposes.

The idea behind this new move is too harness the animals natural intelligence, sensory abilities, and ability to traverse difficult terrain. They are currently working on models for civilian implementation, ranging from beasts of burden for remote areas to leisure models as pets. However there have been worrying reports of certain products escaping from captivity, and having unexpected effects on the flora and fauna they interact with, conspiracy theorists place blame on a huge range of subjects, ranging from the Cytarabinoside used in manipulating metabolic pathways in the animals, to mother earth resting control back from humanity to satan himself.
Some minor political and religious groups are already rallying, trying to bring this series of unnerving events to the public eye, wild rumors and conspiracy theories are already calling this the 8th day of creation.



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Topic:

VidaNova Corporation - Genetics and Biological Materials Department - Site C


Description:
VidaNova Corporation - Genetics and Biological Materials Department - Site C - Somewhere along latitude 14° South, this large isolated facility of the VidaNova Corporation Houses several small but vital research, development and construction departments. Intelligence suggests they have recently made large strides in the fields of tissue synthesis and behavioral adjustment of their products.
Visual reports describe massive, and entirely self sufficient architecture, housing at least three hundred employees including support personnel, Vehicles, holding pens and the suggestion of a large underground tunnel complex.

Deadline:
Sunday, 05th March 2006


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Linked weekly activities:

COW - Creature Of The Week
Mounted Predator For Hunters
LINK: COW thread for ConceptartCohesion campaign (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=759600)

IDW - Industrial Design Of The Week
Mother Machine
LINK: IDW thread for ConceptartCohesion campaign (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=759607)

ChOW - Character Of The Week
Leader of the Special Unit Jungle Force
LINK: ChOW thread for ConceptartCohesion campaign (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=759601)


Link to the campaigns main thread:
main thread for ConceptartCohesion campaign (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=62480)

[_Mario]

300 hundredThat could confuse someone. 300 or 300.000?


Houses several small but vital research, development and construction departments-sounds like 300

describe massive, and entirely self sufficient architecture, housing at least 300 hundred employees including support personnel, Vehicles, holding pens-and that makes it looks like 300.000 could be the number.

My guess: 300.

[Red_Rook]

oops my bad, it is in fact just 300

[Zeitwolf]

wow - hope to see some neat entries in the end taken to poll!

[koshime]

i have no bloody idea waht we are meant to do. can someone run a simplification summary?/?? syntax error

[Red_Rook]

koshime, in a nutshell, its almost like before, in this case, draw a freaky secret base with a lab in it and your gold. It just fits in with the other weeklies and theres a tad more flavour. Could be anything from an outside areal view to a scene in an underground corridor, jes run with with it.

[walnut]

I get the impression that this lab had to be some kind of living organism itself. Am i terribly mistaken on this?

[Red_Rook]

yes you are, self sufficent only means, like they grow their own food sources and make their own electricity they dont need outside help to run

[W!L]

i sould do this one as i suck at enviroments but i will prob be a pussy and go for the chow and cow.... we will see.

[walnut]

Red Rook: Ah ok, glad to have that cleared up. So we gotta draw farms and a power plant too? Or something like that? Man, this is gonna be one hell of a project. I think i'll keep this assignment for the last, enviros aren't my strongpoint.

[Red_Rook]

well you gotta be creative with it "a farm" sounds a tad dull if you get my drift, what his the the entire top level of the building was like green houses, and what lets say the power plant was a damn, maybe the entire complex is built as part of the damn in a huge valley, that kinda thing.

[chaosrocks]

Bionova 1

this large four building complex has large water gathering funnels on the roofs, which due to the heavy rainfall at this tropical latitude not only collects all the water needed for the facility but provides hydroelectric power through a series of cascading generators. The builings are solar heated and water cooled and nearly entirely made of Glasstex a clear, impervious substrate.
The doctors and staff of this facilty have found that their genetic creations flourish and survive much better in a semi-natural environment, so the entire upper survfaces of the buildings are cultivated and planted as gardens and farmed for food crops. as well as being holding pens for the experiments.

done

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e181/chaosrocks/bioviva6.jpg


repectfully if tentatively submitted

chaosrocks

[W!L]

i likem this. just draw serveral views then for the final piece with a description of each...and one main pic of a long view of it.

[Red_Rook]

Just a final piece, i dont think lots of views are needed, but if you want feel free, we want a really sexy illustration.

[koshime]

sorry - we posting just one final image for this as normal or work up sketches/paints as well?

[masque]

i don't think i'll have time to do an EOW, Rook, but in case i do, i have a ? about the 14deg S latitude -- it's pretty specific, and in fact was a major factor in the direction i took for the COW topic -- should that be considered a significant brief spec for the enviros?

[koshime]

i was thinking 14 degrees S lattitude...isnt that strange. Lattitude means more east to west and longtitude north to south isnt it?

[masque]

looky here: http://jwocky.gsfc.nasa.gov/teacher/latlonarchive.html
technically it might be more accurate to make it -14deg, but the "S" sort of takes care of that in casual usage.

[pritch]

Yea, latitude is north and south not east and west Koshime. I wasn't sure myself until I looked around on the net.

So here's a WIP.

http://www.pritchslapped.com/art/VidaNova.jpg

Hopefully I'll have the time to finalize this, but we'll see.

Oh, and one question Rook. Do we need a description of our own with these or does the original suffice? Though I guess some description is in order.

Thanks

[koshime]

well - looking at the existing world. 14 degree S lands us in N australia, Fiji, Papa New Guinea, congo, Tanzania, peru- N brazil. So guess thats semi tropical....

[chaosrocks]

assuming no major climate change.....;)

I planned for global warming and made it fully tropical rain forest

c.rocks

[koshime]

was Thinking....Incredibles lost paradise island....

[masque]

if anyone would like some interesting landscape refs for Northern Territory, Australia, try googling "Kakadu National Park," some nice escarpment/jungle juxtapositions, waterfalls galore, etc.

[Panagos]

Pritch - That's a great start. But my first thought when I look at it is "Saruman's Tower from LOTR"... anyone else get that vibe? It think it's the black tower circled by the far off wall connected by radiating pathways - coupled with the proximity of the mountains.

It's not necessarily a problem, but something you might want to look out for.

[pritch]

Thanks for the feedback Panagos. I totally see what you're saying. The circular area with the pathways I actually am aiming to be a canopy which cover a valley or giant pit where the animals are bread and what not. I was thinking of making it surrounded by cliff walls instead of mountains, but that would be just to insert a waterfall into the background.

So yea, I don't know. I like the idea of a tower but I definitely want to stay away from anything that overtly reminds people of LOTR or anything else. Maybe less of a towering shaft in the middle will help.

Thanks again Panagos and any other crits are extemely welcome.

[digitalfly]

I think it can be a big industrial complex with a huge security wall and only one possible way to get inside - the overground autobahn.
The tubes allways smoking. And local people call this complex "The CloudsMaker"

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/6289/8thdayenvrtmnt1ds.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[pritch]

Wow, that looks sweet digitalfly. Nice depth and very epic structures.

[Interceptor]

that's going VERY well, digitalfly

[digitalfly]

Thank you Pritch and Interceptor.
It's only sketch and I hope I'll not fuck up
He he ;)

[Laurentiu_Bontea]

Yo digitalfly, that looks great; the buildings stand out nice. Very dramatic. Keep it up!

[goran]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v17/smogyboy/production%20design/Vida-Nova-Corporation.jpg

[chaosrocks]

Aw shucks fellers...I give up. the perspective of four glass buildings has me totally stumped....I think I'll just stick to making my COW spiffy...I
ll colour and post wjhat I have ,, but by no means for poll at all .....


it was a nice idea with the water and power generation taken care of in a self sufficient fashion and lots of greenery for habitats.. but beyond my abiity to make it cool.

c.rocks

[ceberae]

:D chaosrocks, me too. I've started a few ideas, but I'm too stressed right now to struggle with an industrial complex.

One thing I was completely stumped with is how do you suggest a large underground tunnel system?

[masque]

One thing I was completely stumped with is how do you suggest a large underground tunnel system?a cutaway isn't out of the question, i think, pretty sure i've seen one before in one of these activities (probably EOW)

didn't Red_Rook do one?

[Hideyoshi]

just a question: is it okay to do an indoor view of the facility?
Goran: superb entry!!
digitalfly: love it!

[koshime]

i was going to do an indoor looking out on an outdoor...at least that was my intepretation

[Hideyoshi]

ah, ok, thx Koshime!

[chaosrocks]

posted my rough attempt back at the begining. I just wanted to point out that both man and animal thrive better in the presence of plants and fresh air....It amused me I thought I might amuse you all too.
I know the perspective is wrong in more ways than I can possibly count, I gave up trying to get it right.

C.rocks

[Red_Rook]

yo yo yo relax kids you dont need to show everything at once, its impossible!
so just pick and choose some things you like and have fun with it, and it doesnt need to be a big industrial waste building complex either, the generators could be inside the building the whole complex could be a serioes of interconected buildings, it could be made out of steel and glass to let in light but because of certain nanomechanics in the windows they will dim at certain angles, certain times of day and to prevent industrial espionage, it doesnt need to be centralised or thaaaat big, but sufficently large enough you could get lost inside. I tried to give you a bunch of info so you had somethings to choose from, it could be a corridor looking in on the mothermachine doing its job or maybe some kinda of bearthing chamber you invented, feel free to add bits to the building that haven beed described, you dont need to illustrate everything you just need to have fun with it and produce something nice, that is within but not displaying all the parameters i gave you. :)

[Laurentiu_Bontea]

Thanks a bunch Red Rook, helpful info! Espcially for me that I'm new here.

[chaosrocks]

indeed thanks Red.....and as my COW is nearly done...maybe I'll try to clean up this one too. I appreciate the clarification. btw are we just leaving the "Drifting wildwood" to drift?
s'okay we've moved on anyway.
c.rocks

[brokk]

Cool entries guys, digitalfly can't wait to see yours finished.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c399/bksketchb/cch_eow_fi.jpg

[chaosrocks]

update....finished COW thoguht Id ttake another crack at this
c.rocks

update: I think thats as done as it's gonna get....I think.

[Laurentiu_Bontea]

VidaNova Corp. set its Genetics and Biological dept. in the Southern Peruvian Andes. There are many VidaNova scientific labs strewn across this region, but this one has a crucial role in the research and development of new "in vitro" species. Thus, it was projected with a unique defensory system that can make the entire section disappear; but to the human eye, radars and scanners only.

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d38/Laurentiu000/conceptart/VidaNovaCorp_Laurentiu_Bontea.jpg

[Hideyoshi]

laurentiu: awesome work and welcome to the forums!
The best entry so far imo!
Some scale refs. would be nice, though...

I give in due to time constraints.

[Laurentiu_Bontea]

Thanks Hideyoshi, your Mother-Machine rocks, dude! I had some scale ref guys at the beginning but I covered them and then forgot to paint them back. Now that you reminded me, they're back on that terrace. :)

[koshime]

I give in due to time constraint as well...
hopefully better attempt next time for me. hah ha

Here is my pathetic attempt
http://www.medievalfx.com/concept2/EOW-CohesionVN2.jpg

The VidaNova Corp. is rumoured to have a secret genetics installation somewhere within the Fijian island chain, powered entirely by a hydroelectric powerstation linked to a underwater base, allowing virtually undetected passage of scientist, and top military personnel in this undisclosed privately funded research facility

[rawwad]

Laurentiu_Bontea: Wow! Fantastic piece, I like your style and atmosphere in this picture.:teeth:

[StenP]

Cool entries, everyone!

Here's a quick one from me...

http://www.canterburydream.com/bright/env1b.jpg