All Hail General Art!

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Way cool, mon. Don't sell yourself short, I like all the extra files sitting around, and the colour works well.

What did the lady in question think?

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wow, Marcus, that's fantastic.  I've seen scenes on the actual show that weren't drawn that well.

a cover image for an old fanfic that I was originally touching up but, at some point, started completely rewriting:

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Why is it whenever there is snow, ice or sand involved they never decide to land the ship in hover?   

That looks sweet -  I especially like the lighting on the ice sheet.

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consider this an early x-mas present

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@ El and FHM: many cheers guys, double-kind of you Present went down well, with an ego-affirming amount of fuss made over it  Files a late addition to fill space, but I liked the look of them; them spilling over the 'border' of the pic is a technique I stole from some excellent Coldy pics.

wow, Marcus, that's fantastic.  I've seen scenes on the actual show that weren't drawn that well.

High praise indeed, whoa! Thank you very much I was happy with Drowning Dude, though I'm not as thrilled with Put-Upon Woman.

a cover image for an old fanfic that I was originally touching up but, at some point, started completely rewriting:

Suddenly, smashing through billboards doesn't seem so traumatic for Leela, huh...  Nice ship model, and impressively detailed ice.

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a cover image for an old fanfic that I was originally touching up but, at some point, started completely rewriting:

Whut?  Which one?
And that is so typical of you, I suppose, isn't it...

Concur with what was said about the lighting and the details, and that it does seem a rather daunting scene.  That massive sheet/block of Space Ice looks fairly intimidating..

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its from a scene in The Leelazarus Effect where the brainspawn shoot down the ship.

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Ah, okay, yeah, for some reason I was blanking on which fic of yours involved any icy landscape scene like that.  So you are rewriting it, why did I have a feeling you kind of might..  Also that background there looks similar to the one in that supernova explosion clip you linked a while ago.

Mm - Hope that lecture went all right, by the way..

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yeah, the background is basically the same.  There's a paintbrush in Maya that lets you spray stars over a surface, and another one that makes pink nebulae.

So you are rewriting it, why did I have a feeling you kind of might.

it was that obvious, eh?  I'm not rewriting it entirely.  I just added a couple of chapters in the middle, and I'm going to change the ending because it was too abrupt and too obvious.

the lecture isn't for a couple of weeks yet.  The real reason I made those animations was as an excuse to not be working on my term paper for the same class.  Actually, that's also the reason I'm posting right now.  Yay procrastination!

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Oh, so THAT would explain why you couldn't change the pinkness level of the nebula in the supernovanimation.

You.. added a couple of chapters.. okay.  Well, I do recall you being somewhat dissatisfied with the ending in the first place, way back when you first finished it, though you didn't end up tweaking it then; but overall I felt it wrapped everything up fairly well.

You know what, I'll stick a brief digression on LE in your thread then, it would globviously be more apropos there.

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A little something I just did.

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reminds me og WoW?

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That is a Turian from Mass Effect.  Well done!

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16x20 acrylic painting i did for my sis

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16x20 acrylic painting i did for my sis

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[*Looks at image*]

Uhm... Quitting time at the 'scrubbing bubble' plant?
Tadpoles getting out of school?
Brain Slug convention?

[*Smoke puffs out of SpaceCases' ears*]

I have no idea what hat is supposed to be a pucture of.

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it's obviously a bunch of frogs drowning in molten lava.

or maybe not.

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Lemmings.

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the molten lava thing is correct.  I like to think of these lil buggers as life seeds. 

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the molten lava thing is correct.  I like to think of these lil buggers as life seeds. 

Sperms? 

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quite possibly...

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Since art is open to interpretation, I'm gonna call that a planet in front of a star with an asteroid belt full of sentient green things next to it.

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Lemmings.

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Really like the frog supernova.

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Fuck! I was trying out the new CS4 and I really liked the style of this particular brush tool but I accidentally clicked on something else and I can't seem to find the same brush tool. Can anyone help me identify which brush tool I used?



I feel like a n00b

EDIT: I found the brush tool again! YAY~! 

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Because shut up this movie was good.

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Inspired by two different frames from a scene of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, this one is intended as a gift for a friend and fan of said show.

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a rendering I did for a friend's fan fiction:

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Soylent my boy, brilliant rendering you've got there. Love the glowing light effects you've done.

Made a poster. I should make a Futurama one and get off my non-Futurama-drawing rear.

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tmnt

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great job SO

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playing around with the toon rendering settings in Maya:

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I WILL PAY GOOD MONEY...

...to whoever can give me a good framegrab of a 1/4 shot of Morgan Proctor's face (i.e. where the 'camera' is behind her and slightly to one side). I've got through about a dozen draft pics that were ruined by her weird, weird head (samples follow), and  I know when to concede defeat





Please note I was lying about the money.

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If you are interested in a larger version of one let me know.
Looks like a longer neck & collar, smaller nose, and taller forehead would get it real close.

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excellent, cheers man! And no, those are good quality grabs, thank you for taking the time. I think the whole thing is out of proportion - MP's head is more of an oblong than the circle I've made it. Some things you can cheat when drawing (I'll likely combine elements of Morgan 1 + 3 to keep it easy), but you still need a solid base to start from. The help is much appreciated

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Hmm... her head does have a regulation circle if you know where to look.

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Oh, that's quite an interesting way to look at them; heads as a circle and a cylinder? I've always thought of the heads from collar to crown, hence the circle/oblong comparison:



But, hurray, I'm learning things!