E.O.W Round 19: Cradle of Life

[Red_Rook]

E.O.W. - #019: Cradle of Life

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Round #019

Topic:
Cradle of Life

You MUST include a description or backstory this round, or your image wont be taken to poll. Good luck!


Deadline:
Friday, 24th March 2006 6PM GMT

[Red_Rook]

Have fun with it, something far less structured then the last two organised topics, come up with a cool story for it, anything related to the title "cradle of life"

[Dr. Tyrell]

You might want to change the deadline date :P

Otherwise awesome topic

[chaosrocks]

Im in.....too many ideas......auuughg!
c.rocks

[artiphats]

nice, I'm in. I'm still mad I missed the last one. But I'm happy with my IDofW, so I'll just make more of an effort to do both this time.

[mbetteker]

i am going to start doing these...expect an environment from me soon!

[artiphats]

ok so a quick brain storm before I go to sleep. If I find the time, I'm thinking:

A crib
A flower
A pit, crater, or some ruined ground
A ray of light
Graffiti
Abandoned buildings, broken fences
"God Lives"
pipes
barbed wire
rain clouds

The vision exists, now to render. (Argh, the hard part).

[Red_Rook]

http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/archaeology/sites/africa/olduvai_gorge.html

artiphats the "cradle of life" is generally accepted as the spot of homosapiens genesis, the oldest peoples ;) where life started.

[artiphats]

Red Rook, thanks for letting me know. My idea was basically an environment where there is destruction and vandalism all around. In the center of this chaos are the remains of a crib, where a beam of light is shining out of the clouds and at that very spot a flower grows. If the topic has to revolve around the Homo-Sapien idea, maybe my take on it could be the same but I could substitute the flower for something else relating to a people starting new in the aftermath.

My first thought when I saw the topic was in fact some genesis, garden of eden enviro, but then I really thought that I would like to take the concept somewhere else. Genesis is about a beginning, it is my belief that Homo-Sapiens are the result of the evolution AND genetic mixing of beings both less than and greater than ourselves. Think "Homo-Erectus" + "The Gods".

Not trying to start any long religious conversation here, but if I do go in the direction I have stated (again losing the flower), will I be totally off? I mean, Genesis / Cradle of life does not have to mean a beginning from nothing, or a very first time. I'm thinking more, "new-beginning", emerging again new out of destruction.

Any thoughts are welcome as I am still in sketching stage anyway.

[Red_Rook]

No no, i was just making sure you knew what the reference was commonly too ;) your free to do whatever you like :)

[chaosrocks]

I was thinking of primordial goo...myself.... life as in life rather than life as in Humans. I guess we are all going in different directions...could be a fountain of youth kinda thing too... or even a treasure. exciting to see the different ideas forming

I understand theres a refernce here to LaraCroft..I dunno. one to be avoided I guess

Chaos Rocks......and then there is Life?

[artiphats]

ah, ok, then back to my flower idea I go, lol. Thanks again Red_Rook.

Chaosrocks... primordial goo you say, I like it already!

[Red_Rook]

uhh the tomb raider movies just nabbed a popular idea, lets be creative and not make a reference to em ;) But its a good example, i mean its a very liberal interpretation of it. You guys might wanna remember its an environment :P just keep that in mind. and build something neat around it Also the cradle of life is generally thought to be a place in africa, the origin of species :) so i can imagine some weird deep african jungle where the most primitive ancient life forms still rule in some isolated river basin or something, or some ancient ruins of some culture that existed looong before any mesopotamians, atleast those where my first ideas :)

[chaosrocks]

ah more of a cradle of Humanity, or cradle of civilization..... I thought of hotsprings and blorping mud amoebas and stuff..lots of mist and fog accompanied by torrential rain and early morning volcanos ,,wish I had time to do this but Im off to NYC tomorrow early

I only brought up tomb raider so we could reject it....
I like the post-apocalyptic direction....cradle of life is a bomb shelter....
anxious to see what emerges :P

c.rocks

[Lohan]

Here's mine.. I just went with the first thing that popped into my head, cause your guys' posts were confusing...

I picture it as a sacred place in some small world where the Gods first created Man (in a fantasy/mythological setting).

http://tgarbarini.com/images/gallery_large/cradle.jpg

I think i'm the first person in EoW to use lines in a submission :E

[Red_Rook]

so wait.... its one day before the deadline and we have.... a grand total of ONE submissions. Its a nice one, however it doesnt seem to be much of a competition.

[Tyranx]

Here's a WIP for mine, if I don't finish by Friday (playing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion) this is my final.

http://tyranx.com/images/cradleoflife.jpg

[yAdam]

Dude stop playing and finish it ;) this is hot!

[JakkaS]

Nicely painted Tyranx, as always. :D
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Here is mine. I was sitting on the…., a never mind. I know it’s profanation but couldn’t resist.
Red_Rook, I hope you will not ban me on this forum :D

Cheers!
Kuba

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f209/JakkaS-ws/1e57f3af.jpg

[cesaraguilar]

my particular version storyboard
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/6154/born17xm.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/2271/born28sz.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/838/born38ab.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[artiphats]

This ended up being more of an expirement with Barontieri's brushes, and a fun speed paint to try and put some style into my vision more than anything else. Here goes.

http://www.houseofscion.com/artwork/speed-mono-web3.jpg

The world couldn't sustain the fallout in the aftermath of a 4th world war. Mankind, never reaching its technology cap, has all but destroyed itself. Only the small percentage of people who were able to get deep underground survived, and only in the last decade have any of them started to surface again, with hopes to rebuild. In the middle of what was once a warzone, and before that a crouded city, are the remains of a nursery. Sun rays piercing dark clouds shine on a flower that somehow has managed to grow. To those who see it, it represents the beginning of a new world. It has been decided that this is the spot civilization will rebuild from.

[Lohan]

die tyranx ;)

[chrismax]

damn tyranx this is so awesome *o* !

[Tyranx]

Thx for the comments guys,

Ugh this Oblivion game has got me HoOKED! why does it have to be so damn good!? you guys should check it out: http://www.theelderscrolls.com

Maybe you'll get hooked too, then no one will get anything done lol ;)

[Jonoy]

Oblivion is cool, so are the lovely pictures in this thread of course...
But, just to side track, ElderScrolls iv; Oblivion is the sixth game and yet it is the fourth...hhhmmnnn,
Arena
Daggerfall
Battlespire
Redguard
Morrowind
Oblivion...
4th to allow any race+calss maybe...

[koshime]

i've gotten oblivion on order. arrived in a post but have to go pick it up from teh depot tommorow morning. Not goign to bother with EOW the next few weeks! whoopee!

[Lohan]

slackers \w/

[artiphats]

man, only what, 3 entries? I guess everyone got caught up in CHOW and COW this week. Or is Oblivion really stealing everyone's time these days? Either way, I hope there are more votes than there were entries.

[chaosrocks]

been out of town
deadlines fell awkward for me this time
i love eow
it is the closest to what I really do
oblivion? what's that?
c'rocks

[artiphats]

Oblivion is the new Elder Scrolls PC / XBOX 360 RPG. I hear it's pretty good.

[chaosrocks]

Hey I have an Idea!.....give us another week on this
I wanna do it
please please please Mr.Rook?

chaos rocks

ps and all you game-player-pewrsons gotta get off yer Duffs and do it! k?

[Red_Rook]

umm a whole week is silly, how about till wednsday, ill lock the thread and put up a new topic then. And for fucks sake come on draw ;) wont take you very long, and anyway youl wanna avoid that painful nintendo finger ;)

[bumskee]

eee, today is 27th..is this round still running?

Tyranx, awsome dude!

http://www.minart.net/temp/eow_4.jpg

Y3k, new virus has spread after endless nuclear wars between countries, known to disfunction human reproductive system. The virus spread quickly, countries started introducing AIS (Artificial Insemination Scheme), implementing facilities through out the cities.

[artiphats]

well hell if we got till Wed I am def gonna push mine further.

By the way, was there ever voting for the Driftwood round? I didnt enter that one, but there were some awesome images!

[chaosrocks]

thanks mr rook

and no...Driting wildwood never went to vote

[Red_Rook]

oh really it didnt? fuck im sorry guys ill sort that out tonight, things where a little chaotic with the cohesion thing, ill get on it as soon as i can. Bumskee dude, awesome entry :)

[chaosrocks]

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

QUESTION: this is the first thing that came to mind, since I went with a more mythological take on this. is this too much Character and not enuff environment? I am perfectly willing to go back to the drawing board. this is a rough wc ..should I finish this one or regroup?

thanks
C.rocks

[artiphats]

Hey so the deadline will be Wed night at midnight now or what? I started expanding the details in my entry, I just want to gauge how much time I'll have to resubmit the new final image. Let me know Red, thanks!

[Red_Rook]

im really closing the thread on thursday morning my time so that means till midnight in the last time zone on earth ;) ummm chaos rocks dude, im not really sure, like if you could make her a big statue it would be awesome, or some god that is permanently bound there making her part of the landscape youl get away with it, but f its jes a chick holding a bowl of cereal its.... meh it comes down to your description i think ;)

[chaosrocks]

oooh the müesli of life......sounds... hearty.:P
ok cool
we'll see what I come up with by the end of the day
c.rocks

[chaosrocks]

Bored with the violent creations of the other Gods, Volcanos, tempests, mountains leaping from the earth, Gaia sought solitude and a quiet Valley to create something a little more intricate, smaller but more complicated.....
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e181/chaosrocks/cradle3.jpg
let's call this finished

Chaos Rocks!

update....duh