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Mutant Maraudersby ~ricochet188

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Sci-Fi

Disclaimer: FOR SOME REASON THE PREVIEW IMAGE IS DARKER THAN THE ENLARGED DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO FIX THIS???

This picture was for an event recently here in vancouver called Crit night [link] where we had some local concept artists host a big critique session where we can hopefully learn something.

We got to pick from 3 different sci fi esque themes and we had to create a picture in that theme. I chose the theme: Mutant Marauders. I was tasked with showing some distopian world where mutants are running rampant.

I finished the picture the morning it was due and you can see the old version of it on that site above as well as a bunch of my friend's works too. But the critiquer's tore it to shreds and I decided to tidy and fix it up a bit before submitting it here.

I really tried to push myself with this project to learn a thing or two and I guess it was a success!

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My idea was that in the far future after some cataclysmic apocalyptic event has happened, the world leaders put together their efforts to preserve the human species, they create these mechanical beings made of trillions of nano bots that can shape themselves into different forms and self repair as well as provide their own ever lasting energy, they are also super strong and agile.

A lottery is held and among hundreds of high ranking officials and important scientists aproximately 50 thousand of the worlds people that are left were chosen to have their minds implanted in each of these cyber/organic machines.

THUS the process of bonding human and machine takes 100 years, so all the chosen people went underground to start the procedure. The machines were designed as tools as well as life forms, in a world where machinery is now scarce it is up to raw man power to rebuild society and preserve the future for human civilization, thus these machines are super strong and durable.

As time went on the remaining humans on the surface were left to fend for themselves, and after a hundred years the machines rose from the ground and right away regular humans held distain toward the machines.

As time went on the two races grew to hate eachother and a fatal flaw in the machines made them somewhat crazy and barbaric and eventually it was all out war

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*eriwib Jan 30, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

This is just awesome!

~noneofurbussiness Aug 23, 2012

Im rooting for the humans, just saying.

~IronNarwhal Jun 12, 2012

THIS IS JUST LIKE THE RP I'M IN!!

=yellowbronco May 17, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

WOW, this is so kool, I love that you used the newer military vehicles. Adds so much to the piece. The distopian world you created is so believable, Outstanding!

~RushAndRuleIt Apr 29, 2012

I love the sense of action! I feel like I'm playing the most exciting video game ever!

~DeadCobra Oct 31, 2011

Cool

~Craizdraw Oct 19, 2011

Fantastic!!

!Xemnas666 Oct 19, 2011

I really like this picture the use of dynamic posing and perspective is amazing, the characters really convey a level of action and the overall detail is stunning. There is something about the overall piece though, it seems really crooked towards one direction that is a little off putting, it's not unnatural just unsettling and I was wondering if that was intentional because it does very much convey a sense of wrongness to a world that to us would be very wrong. I reminds me very much of the filming techniques used by James Whales in Frankenstein.

~Valsharess Oct 19, 2011

This is quite amazing! Love the amount of detail. I'm very curious to know what kind of criticisms the artists gave you for this. Do you mind if you share?

~ricochet188 Oct 19, 2011 Hobbyist Digital Artist

It was mostly compositional stuff they brought up. If you look at the original picture in the link there's a flying dude coming from the right attacking the rear jeep. They said he needed to go. If you look at that jeep you notice that there are so many lines drawing your vision into it:
the horizon line, the guy shooting, the flying mutant, the mutant shooting, the road. Everything, and it's like your view got stuck there ignoring everything else. Getting rid of the flying mutant helped

Aside from that point of focus that I didnt intend, I also didn't realise i created a little circle where the viewers' eye floats around without anything to settle on: notice the guy in the foreground, he's shooting toward the right leading you to the second jeep, then that jeep is shooting toward the left, leading you toward the last jeep, then if you follow that jeep's headlight, you see the mutant running and starting the cycle all over again. I think I fixed it a bit by brightening the action int the foreground and tweaking the contrast in the background jeeps making more of a center of focus.

Also they said that the gun the guy in the forground is holding seems to be emminating more ambiant blue light then it should, which I think they missinterperated what I was trying to convey (the gun just shoots an emp laser thing that vaporises the mutant's nano-machines, making them fall apart, and when they die they glow blue and sparky) but anyway, they were right I needed to make that more of a focus in the whole picture, so I turned into a bright scary laser!

Lastly they said I could make the foreground dude have a bit more depth to his shading. That was it pretty much.

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