E.O.W Round 28: Abandoned Colony Survivors

[Red_Rook]

E.O.W. - #028: Prototype Testing Facility

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/images/EOW.jpg



Round #028

Topic:
Abandoned Colony Survivors

You MUST include a description or backstory this round, or your image wont be taken to poll. Good luck! Sorry for the lateness I was travelling :x


Deadline:
Thursday, 6th July 2006 6PM GMT

[Red_Rook]

Heres my idea, i know it doesnt exactly describe a location but i was thinking there was a colony of some kind, something bad happend and now their are only a few survivors left holed up in it. :)

[Wafflehouseninja]

Aliens?

"The mostly come out at night....mostly."

[Tyranx]

Into the Unknown
http://tyranx.com/concepts/tear.jpg

Ted Nackman, UDF Research Division, 05/23/2245 - Recently we have had trouble with communications to Earth, and Ramirez tells me the power generators are acting up again, I don't know what the hell is going on but its been like this for about a month now. Only 23 more days and I'm off this pile of shit... seems like an eternity...

Ted Nackman, UDF Research Division, 06/12/2245 - We're FUCKED. The portal to Earth has dissapeared!!

Ted Nackman, UDF Research Division, 08/27/2245 - Today an interdimensional tear appeared in the sky, it is sucking up everything, INCLUDING US. Thankfully the anti gravity generator is still working and we haven't yet lost any altitude, but its only a matter of time.

Ted Nackman, UDF Research Division, 08/30/2245 - We have decided to take our chances. Staying here means certain death, by unanomious vote we have decided to turn off the anti grav generator and fall into the tear. Only god knows where the hell it leads.

[redehlert]

oh how i love the voodoo you do, tyranx!!
that's sweet!!
cheers,
d

[bumskee]

can I hate you tyranx? :P it's quite different to what you usually do, it's very loose & efficient.. Love it

[Tyranx]

red - hehe thanks ;)
Bumskee - thanks dude, can't wait to see what you come up with!

[bumskee]

hehe, well not sure if I want to do anything after seeing yours mate..:P

[J.Mac]

Thanks Tyranx now you make me really wish i could do more then scribble thumbnails... lets see if i can get anything worthwile now. Time to brainstorm...

-Jesse

[Hideyoshi]

awesome brush-madness, Tyranx! :-D

[Tyranx]

Bumskee - aw, you make monkey sad ;(
Hideyoshi - thanks, I'm waitin to see your entry too.

[rawwad]

Simply beautiful, Tyranx, grrrrrr >:|

[FunkytownP]

Alright, here we go:

The Gathering Darkness

http://www.pstone3d.com/art/abandonedcolony.jpg


Facing the eclipse of not one but both of their suns, these colonists must abandon their home for brighter ground as not even the hull of their long ago crashed ship will be able to protect them against the coming extremes.

[Tyranx]

Cmon peeps! post! Dun leave me all alone ;(
Rawwad - post dammit ;)

[jasonnavarrette]

oooooooooooooo *fires up photoshop*
sry, just now saw it :)

[jasonnavarrette]

One colonist scrambled behind some piping in the outpost's hallways. He watched on with horror as the rest of the inhabitants met their fate. Through his paniced breaths he swore to himself, he would survive.

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f210/corbeledg/AbandonedColonySurvivors.jpg
(note: this was all created within the last 3 hours, using tools at my desktop, and all original material. Just want to avoid the potential flame-starting like we saw in a recent community thread :) )

[jasonnavarrette]

tyranx, that sure is inspiring. I don't even want to imagin what the original-resolution size that is!
That's one of those things I'd want to have framed in my study

[Dile_]

That wasnt much to enviroment!
however, nice tyranx!

[Hideyoshi]

corbeledg: That doesn't scream 'environment' to me at all... In fact you need to point your entry into that specific direction for this weekly activity... :-)

Tyranx: Ah, I'll try! Still some time left, I hope, inspiration strucks...

[jasonnavarrette]

My original idea of environment was to put a person hiding from the elements, but as I drew I started to realize a dark environment would be much more intense if it was focused on a person's face. That way I could show the location's stark shadows and eerieness just by reflecting light. I'll try to make another environment piece tho!

[FunkytownP]

added image, post #13

[bumskee]

eeeee, I will post mine hopefully soon.. :P I forgot I had LMS to do.. shhhh....

[jasonnavarrette]

oof that is fantastic funkytown

[rawwad]

FunkytownP - nice work, love your idea

FINAL

Sector 12ssc-dh34 Space Scientific Mining Colony
position: Planet Zeti, station at moon Zeti-troi
abandoned status: 94%
scientists: 2 - Scott Oro
Sean Delaur
program: a) scanning and testing new minerals and raw materials.
b) testing moder space mining technology
remaining transport time: 114 days
remaining sun return time: 490days



Scott: Sean? Did you see this?
Sean: What?
Scott: SUN! haha!
Sean: Yeah, really funny.
Scott: Is there any problem? haha!
Sean: haha, yeah, f*cking sun!
Scott: Right, f*cking sun.
Sean: And f*cking heat ,and f*cking station ,and f*cking space ,and, and, and ....
Scott: And what?
Sean: F*cking transport, agrrrrrr! How long it will be take!
Scott: I think, it will be about 114 days.
Sean: Agrrrrr!
Scott: Let´s go, say it. Haha!
Sean: F*ck!
Scott: I totaly agree with you.
Sean: What will be with station?
Scott: Will burn.
Sean: It cost lot of money, then it ....
Scott: That´s not our problem. We only work at this place.
Sean: Damn place!
Scott: Haha! sure.
Sean: 40 years is such a long night.
Scott: Pretty long night. Let´s go in.
Sean: 40 years ?! huh
Scott: Yeah, but we are here only 2years. For us it´s only 2years night. haha! D
Sean: Only? you are crazy!
Scott: Nevermind, Party is over. But we have still some tests to do. Do you go in?
Sean: Yep.


http://img433.imageshack.us/img433/8129/final7yd.jpg

[Hideyoshi]

Funkytown: that's funky! :-)
rawwad: great as usual!
corbeledg: yeah, cou can put in characters, but the environment really needs to be the 'protagonist' of the piece. Just like it's said in the description up there! :-)

[Tyranx]

Rawwad - great colors and composition! ;)
Funkytown - cool idea.

[Octothreat]

Awesome entries!
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/5466/eow289lw.jpg
After more than twenty years, there was nothing left of the floating colony but falling debris amid the megastorm. Only a handful of colonists made it through the burning sky and violent winds to land on one of the small polyp islands dotting the lower atmosphere of this alien planet.

[Migsta]

Here's mine.

http://www.miguellleras.com/images/EoW_ACS_Migsta.jpg

The Titan Mining Colonys final day came sooner then expected. While drilling, the crew had burst a pocket of gasses which when exposed for certain periods of time, protected only with miner gear, would mean certain death. The project had to be immediately abandoned. All that where not present for evacuation where presumed dead. Everyone had boarded the evacuation vehicles and were safely on their way to Earth.... except for four miners who had gone on a survey of land for future drilling and they were protected with surveyors gears for such an event. They had come back minutes too late, only to witness their only way off the planet quickly disappear.

[speculart]

http://www.dudleybirch.com/sijun/colony.jpg
The cleft of skin, once damp, warm and dark, now was a living hell for the colony only the one remained deep in the innermost crease. For all fungus fear the onset of summer..and shorts.

[Phaytfool]

Haha speculart, great take on the "colony" wonderful imagination

[nuclearbavaria]

hello

well this is what i got so far
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y200/skala/steamponk1.jpg

Edit: Story

Something happend in CITY-R706.

The revolutionary government of the UDSSUSA could only send out a few troops to find out what, since there are more important things to clear right now.

[silliKONe]

whoa....very nice, nuclear

[Tyranx]

Nice dynamic composition Nuclear.

[nuclearbavaria]

thanks guys,
i think the perspective of the bridge is a bit off, i hope i find the time to fix this until the deadline

i liked the abstractness in your painting tyranx, but i think it needs a bit more non abstract shapes to make the viewer understand whats going on, really nice entry tho!

[Hideyoshi]

yeah, Max! That rocks!
the perspective on the bridge is ok, but it's a lil off on the big calve like structure. hope you get what I mean... nothng to be concerned of really, though. :-)
Gonna add some color?

[rawwad]

I must agree:bashful: Great work nuclearbavaria, perspective rocks, and characters are great too.

- update description

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[ferak seg]

"Because in faith is the salvation of the hopeless. Please, murciful God, give to your abandoned people the strenght to follow the path you have drawn for them. Even in defeat, even in destruction, we will stand to serve" sermon of Father Cyprian - Church on the mountain - 23rd century.

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h13/ferakseg/abandoned_colony_survivors.jpg

Congratulations everyone, it is a great week of EOW

[nuclearbavaria]

thanks hide, i got what you meant with the perspective, color was planned first but then i liked it that way somehow ;)
wheres your entry btw? : P

ferak seg: i really like the idea with the f***** up church and this religios theatralic lighting, good job!

rawwad: thanks man

[speculart]

This is a great week, gonna be a hard one!! Well done everyone.
Thanks phaytfool.

[PianoForte]

Nuclear, that is my favorate so far, nice layout, and the b&w aproach gives it a nice feel as well. well done

ps. it could just be me but the cityscape has a real corpse feel to it, like the bones of an civilisation

[IcyM]

Wow, you guys had a really great week, awesome topic!

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i88/icym/eow28_AbandonedColony.jpg

The survivors of the Zahara colony could only guess what catastrophe stuck throuhout the Atlantian kingdom. The colony's last scholar theorized it was a worldwide event. Huddled in makeshift camps, many simply wondered, where was the ocean that once spread as far as the eye could see? Others wondered when Atlantis would send help. They are still wondering today...

[Idiot Apathy]

Hmm, am I too late? Damn deadlines always creep up on me...

Story to be edited in, in just a minute:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/Ragnarok27/blue2psd6.jpg
When their colony had been declared unprofitable and the planet unsuitable for resource excavation, all the others had left- three men stayed behind. These three men had were all involved in an accident during their shifts in the excavation site. During their recovery each had experienced lucid dreams that they could not ignore, these dreams were powerful enough to keep these men from leaving the planet.

The dreams called them to the excavation site. Prior to the colonies exodus, strange formations in the rockface were discovered. The colony fathers had decided that these were mere abnormalities, caused by an indigenous beetle. Yet, although in abundance these beetles were actually quite small and did not seem capable of the large formations these men had seen.

As the men made their way to the ruins, they noticed that all around them small flowers sprung up in their footsteps. When they were sufficent enough distance away these flowers seemed to disappear. The men were unnerved and couldn't help but feel that someone, something knew they were there...

[johnny78]

ferak seg : Very beautiful. It has a lot of atmosphere.

[FunkytownP]

new topic!

[dragon4lunch]

what FunytownP said, new topic please! Deadline was days ago. Are you traveling yet again?

[Kian]

I'm reeeeeelly liking Tyranx and Ferak Seg

[Artifex33]

Tyranx: That's some very natural looking texture buildup you managed. What's your process? :)

Nuclearbavaria: Awesome design! My fave so far. Going to drop some color on that?

[Tyranx]

Artifex33 - Well I wish I had a process, I like to experiment alot. I wanted to do something slightly abstractish for this one since I usually don't do abstract. I used alot of custom brushes and lay down some texture over the whole thing and then I made a few new layers with some color gradients to see how they interact with one another.

When I end up with something that I am happy with I flatten the pic and paint over it. and repeat. Dunno if that helps any ;)

[Artifex33]

Artifex33 - ...Dunno if that helps any ;)

Yeah, it does a bit. A specific question I had for you is your brushes. I'm guessing that you tend to stick to very hard-edged brushes. I would think that anything else would run all the colors together in a muddy fashion.

Do I remember right that you did a brief tutorial detailing a jittered angle flat brush?

[Tyranx]

yup

http://www.tyranx.com/images/brush01.jpg
http://www.tyranx.com/images/brush02.jpg

[Red_Rook]

hey im really sorry for the delay guys, once again ive been travelling and im hella jetlagged still. Im gunna sort out the eow as soon as possible, i will however leave this thread open caus looks like tyranx is givin out some useful info :)

[nuclearbavaria]

red rook: stop your shit talking and just post the fucking poll, plz, the deadline was over a week ago, and 3 days ago you said the poll will be up in a few hours, wtf??

[rawwad]

haha:D , yeah, you have right nuclearbavaria

[Hideyoshi]

haha, actually quite right. I would have loved to participate, had I known this was open for so long...
nevermind.
servers are fu*ked up...

[Idiot Apathy]

Jez, be nice - it's not like he's getting paid to do this or anything...