RAW Power Concept Art Competition Thread

UPDATE: Winners are now announced.

So we've just launched a hot-new RAW POWER themed concept art competition sponsored by the good people at Dell.

Post your works in progress for the competition in here and feel free to comment/critique other entries. For more information about the contest, click here.

Edited by: INtense!

Awesome - i'm looking forward to seeing what people can come up with, for this more "abstract" topic

It would a lot better, if You put some modern city in the background instead of the sky/small hills, it would bring more depth to the image. As an elder begging a robot to destroy his own village... it wouldn't make much sense wouldn't it. but it would if it would ask the statue to destroy the big city which threatens the village.

Setis wrote:hate to be picky but ebonk said the priest begs the robot not to destroy the village. But I see your point with the city in the background, it definitely would create more depth than the hills + sky. But maybe it would work better if the city in the background was already laid to waste by the robot. Just throwing out some ideas

Indeed, I've got to apologize since Setis is right, I've omitted *NOT*

OOh I'll be entering this

Elezzzark wrote:

Thats rather nice. I like the image of pyramids on tracks and rolling around. Can I just ask what the idea behind the image is?
Ekonk has quite a nice idea, and I was just wondering whether you had any ideas yourself. Just curious that is all.

ahh the eye of providence, not sure if speculation regarding freemasonry and whatnot would constitute a political context (ie against the rules) but the concept is cool :-D. To be honest though i think the angle is a little too conventional, you could probably get alot more drama from a different perspective. If you did a shot from infront of the pyramid as if its coming towards you, looking up to see the hellfire behind it and people/cities being crushed beneath its tracks could really emphasise the depth and scale. Just ideas.

Edited by: Koroshiya_Ichi

I gotta say, I like both ekonk's and elezzzark's ideas. I think the eye of providence should be acceptable, as it isn't a direct political context. I mean, freemasonry has its roots way back in history as a secret sociey with backgrounds in social status of its members (which usually happened to be rather influential, not just economically but also politically). So in that regard I can see the political context, but I still thinks its pretty much border line

Now, to the idea: As Koro already said, a different angle might be exactly what it needs to lift it away from the competition. I think if it was a more unusual view onto the pyramids and their brute destructive force, it would turn more heads than compared to a standard approach. Also, I definitely like the scaling of the pyramids compared to the vehicles and houses. The only thing off is the actual road. I think if emphasis was put onto the sheer size of the pyramids in relation to the rest of the world, it would look bad ass

The pyramid reminds me of the back of a U.S. one dollar bill, ha ha! You know, the one with the eyeball at the top that is captioned "The Great Seat". It's really similar to an idea I had, if you just substitute a huge Mech for the pyramid. I think it's a good idea and if you really want to express some "RAW POWA" you should use a low angle looking up at the pyramid instead of looking straight on or down at it. That's just classic composition theory. Look up at things and they are scary, intimidating, overwhelming, dangerous, etc. Look down at things and they are harmless, weak, small, lame etc. Good start though and it will be cool to see how you develop it.

My suggestion for your piece Elezzzark, is to fix the perspective on the row of buildings next to the Pyramid.

First of all: Hello every one, and thanks to ModDB and Dell for this great competition.

 Ok, now I'd like to explain the concept behind my concept art. This is game concept art so I thought up the game that it would be based on. It's a kind of planetary sumo wrestling. Two teams start with a planet each and three kinds of ships: Movers (ships that move the planets), Shakers (ships that try and take out the other team's ships) and Brakers (ships that try and brake up the other teams planet). So now we have a bunch of space ships flying around thowing planets at eachother and the team with the biggest piece left wins. What more power could you want? Well, there's a super nova, but that's the bonus round. So here's my VERY rough first draft. This is mostly to get the framing and possioning of the planets and some of the ships (final with likely have more). I wanted it to have a very cinecatic feeling to it, so I'm using a very wide aspect. I wanted you to FEEL the gravity of two planets ready to rip eachother to pieces. So here you go.

I thought i'd give this a chance. Haven't drawn anything serious for a looong while, so here we go, sketches:

Yes, the left one is awesome! Srry for the lack of update, as I said before: school work be rapin me! Noes!