Concept Art Competition WIP Thread

errr does anyone know if you can delete posts by the way..my last 3 ended up as seperate ones, because when i click on modify, it seems to post it as a whole new post

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Amazing works.
Love that angle and the graphical style Prostshocker. Hope yours in.
Great athmosphere silent wayfarer i think yours has my vote :p. Really like Godwins entry too, much action going on .
There are many entries we have not seen yet, me is really anxious what else we will see.

Here is my final submission.
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And some progress shots:

Best of luck to all. May the best entry win.

AStepIntoOblivion: Yeah and not just Homeworld 2, they used speed paintings to great effect in both Company of Heroes and World in Conflict as well.
And... what "asteroid things" are you talking about? Neither are those "pink explosions". Have you seen the larger version of the piece? You might've been trying to be funny, but the joke's lost on me.
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Pr0stSh0cker: Very nice to see something in a different style.

silent_wayfarer: Thank you! I like your piece, lovely textures, and great poses and definition on the soldiers. Nice story to boot too.

Concept artists use different mediums for different reasons, you don't go all pencil all the time simply because you're a purist that way, there're right tools for a job. Now I'm not professionally trained, but personally and logically I'd use linework (which itself could be digital too) for more focused designs of vehicles, characters, weapons, and so on, and do painting (blocking colours, shapes and forms into a composition) when it comes to set pieces for mood, action, environment, etc. This could be a matter of preference too, you do not always have to start a piece with linework if you do not want to. How polished a piece ends up also depends on the objective at hand - any medium can be speedy or detailed, it's just when you choose to stop.

Dragonlord wrote:@Pr0stSh0cKeR: Similar style to Makkon ( just not as morbid ). Great design. What pen you used btw?

I used a number of them.
.05, .1, .5, .8 micron pens; and ink + bamboo brush.

Anyway, I think I made it in, I got a "goodluck in the competition" response. Holy piss that was close. Hahaha

I spent a good week or two researching true-to-life military equipment for accuracy. If anything it's a concept with focus on the character and game environment. Yet, seeing all the other beautifully dynamic entries, I decided to make mine visually appealing as well. To achieve the stark visual drama, I wanted to depict a zombie FPS game with a close quarter melee combat style like Gears Of War and Dead Rising. Hence the rifle butt attack. What's shown in my piece is a possible "Alamo" game mode:

Set in a city, two teams of a military outfit have to hold their own on a residential city block for a set amount of time (or one team only with game objectives, i dont know, haha). Both teams are across a street from each other, so they can observe how the other team is faring. On the street, there's a torrent of zombies that will continue spawning until the round ends (When the calvary/rescue arrives). A team loses when all members of their team dies or the zombies push into the residential tower they are supposed to defend

The city blocks are set on post-modern urban landscaping to give the playing area a nice look and provide an uphill battle: plenty of high ground to retreat to, and a lot of places that are hard to defend. i.e.(http://www.toronto.ca/npsquarecompetition/images/plant-aerial-day-lg.jpg)

But ya, that's what I had in mind in creating my concept art. SO IT ISN'T ALL PRETTY AND NO SUBSTANCE :>

Edited by: Pr0stSh0cKeR

Its important to understand that concept design and illustration serve two different functions.

Concept artists of course communicate their designs and ideas through visual mediums (if I describe my idea verbally I have no clue what you are seeing in your head). Usually they begin with a series of quick thumbnail sketches that they pass on to an art director. Upon approval, they proceed draw and render the piece out to whatever degree asked of them.

Whether the final piece of concept art is just a pen/pencil drawing or a full blown matte painting really just depends on how much information the piece needs to communicate. Nowadays in the gaming industry for example, the level of visual sophistication has increased to almost feature film quality, and the demands of the concept art are beginning reflect that.

In concept art the emphasis is on *clearly* communicating your design, since it will be passed on to a 3D artist to interpret , whereas an illustration is an end-product the function of which is to narrate a storyline. The line between the two is often blurred because the success of a design depends on its relevance to the story.

Bunnyjen wrote:I wonder if people wil be able to click on our images in the gallery and zoom in..my pic and a lot of other peoples has quite a lot of detail when you look closely..might be a suggestion

most likely, I would like to see them without names as well, keeps them impartial, unless of course the person knows the exact work.

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Dosn't the example on the first page of this thread show that concept art and "2d final art" are both welcome in this competition? Personally I don't really see that much of a difference between the two.

Setting a mood for a pic, or showing the blunt design of a character, both of them fall into concept art.

Straight from ze dictionary, "mood" of a scenario is just as important as the design of a vehicle or character, it just depends what you're making the concept *for*, it could be a keyframe of an in-game cinematic or anything. I'm not trying to insinuate that you do not know much about concept art, the quote from the dictionary wasn't meant to be patronizing or anything. ^^; IMO, if the image is applicable to be a concept for something in game production, in this case most pics are, and the artist hasn't really done that sort of work before... then it's all good.

often time when it comes to casual concept art i desperately wish that i could devote myself to simply the idea behind the piece, and not silly things like rendering and light sources etc... however, in my almost weekly participation with conceptart.org's industrial design of the week activities, its usually those exact things that win. sometimes i will stick to my guns and go for what i believe to be a killer design decision or mechanic, only to be poll raped by lenze flarhhh, but honestly, all this has done is made me strive to do both.

i expect the other contestants to really bust their ass on the renders and low and behold, its something i need to get better at! you gotta just drop it, and ultimately its up to the judges and peers to decide what they think the best blend is.

that being said, often a perfect render of a dead and beaten horse of a cliché will send up flags, and often times won't win... or in my case i won't vote for them out of principal

i say lens flare to mean nice shiny bling kinda stuff...

Quote:@BlightedArt - I'm taking my definition straight from people in the industry. That beats dictionaries in this context

... =P Good point.

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i just dont understand why we need to get tied up in all this technical crap, just draw

How comes you DamageINC are the only one scratching at others in this topic? Discussion means talking about a topic from different points of views in a civilized manner not trying to muffle other peoples opinions with the very same line three times ( or maybe two, stopped counting ) in a row :/

Gibberstein hits nail on but Bunnyjen has valid points too.