Concept Art Competition WIP Thread

oh my...! thats amazing.

T.T lol that's AWESOME

Yeah.. that IS awesome

Holy Mother Jehoshaphat bael...

Hehe, can't wait till our Urban Warfare concept artist releases his piece, I'm expecting it to be awesome... but... that's just epic bael, definitely hard to beat O.O

@ Damage, yeah, I prefer that background

He posted a link on concept art???
Now they will flood the competition

Alright, I'll give this a shot.

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A blockout. If you can't guess it, it is an intergalactic space opera. Everything in the scene weill be redone by the time I am finished. It's just a blockout people, not much to crit except the concept, feel free to do so.

okok... I may show mine soon... just need some work on it to make it... cute

Ship fleshed out a bit more, getting to the idea here, they'd all be stabbing the planet (missing) with these giant death rays.
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Again, everything is temporary, that star-BG is something I made a long time ago, the binary star is new however, and it won't be used for this, I just needed filler.

@JangoFett. I'm considering it, but i'm leaving that out till the end, if I have time I already have an idea I want to throw in.

I'm feeling a bit swamped that I'll be doing mine in graphite. Ugh. That and considering the vast majority if not everyone else is doing coloured photoshops. haha

Ya, I think I'll be going digital, I won't go down without a fight. I'll need that powerful machine for my schoolwork when I do my transfer to Parsons.

unfortunately, when it comes down to the public vote, people will route for the one with more eye candy and relevance to their interests. I may just stick with a B&W ink job. I currently have an idea where I've sketched the concept of the environment and then built it with 3DStudio max for proportional reference. So I will take that and use it for my picture when I start sketching it. This will be the third attempt at something for this contest, the others I've done didn't engage me as much as I would've liked. Now I'm vying for something with a more dynamic angle with an "intense" setting. I want to avoid the generic "box-art" fantastic look and go for eye-candy via immersion and place the focus on tight action. It's a concept on a game's selling point: the in-game experience itself, lolol. THIS IS GOING TO BE FUN, IM PSYCHED. 8]

But then again, as long as I can get it done in time. 3:

Edited by: Pr0stSh0cKeR

Can "War on the Water" be war under water?

This is starting to sound like the old war between "traditional art" and "digital art".

I too am good at both traditional and digital mediums. In fact I may be much better at traditional since its where I started my interest in art after all. Digital is just plain easier, since you can undo/erase all you want without affecting much of your work. That however doesn't make it less of an artform that it is. Ditto with concepts. Concepts are art. Sure they have to represent intended ingame resources, but most of all they have to convey the game' atmosphere. You can't do that with an blue-print like drawing of something. That usually comes later when the development is already well on its way. This is a preliminary concept - a proposal of sorts. You have to make it as attractive as possible to game developers so they will see its potential as a game.

Try to see game box art, that should be the inspiration. Not the sideview/frontview/backview/..etc (aka "orthos") that are just used to supplement the developer's imagery of the object. And yes, black and white concepts are not inferior just because they aren't colored. In fact they can convey a very good sense of one of the criteria in this contest - Noir. One of the artists I most admire uses mostly flat colors and black and white interplay to make awesome concepts - GenocidalPenguin.