Posts by Minos

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How useful is this book stepp? Do you recommends??

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He created modern day mainstream pop music. Nobody ever considered modern mainstream pop as particularely good music (except for the fanboys and fangirls). He is no ABBA. Most of his songs are not very catchy, especialy his later work. His music is also missing the timelesness. Stuff like Thriller or Beat It is no music that you could cover or remix and would instantly create a new charts hit.I mean he was nearly forgotten already by the public before he died. What we see now is a hype. People get nostalgic, remember the good times they had in the 80's. And they forget for now why they didn't like him anymore. Soon he will be remembered as the child molesting freak again and his grave will become an morbid attraction like the catacombs of paris.

It was never proven he molested those kids...

thanks guys =)

Alright, here's a WIP of something I want to work on more and possibly make a scene in unreal based on it.

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Quote from Skjalg

quake level editor!

minecraft level editor!

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Great art book with stunning environments, including some by big names like ryan church and feng zhu. A great piece of art and design! I recommends!!

tnx guys =)

I decided to do a series of speed paintings to try new compositions and color palettes. I'll also try to be as loose as I can, to get a better sense of big picture rather than focusing on tiny little details. There's no point in going micro if you can't get the basics first

This is the first one. It's called Strange Planet and it took about 2H

My main focus here wasn't the subject itself, but shadows and scale, as I felt I'm kind of lacking in these areas.

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Happy BD KFS

Aiight calling it done!

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Doesn't look anywhere near as good as crysis imo. Looks like just another "russian" game with photorealistic rusty textures all over the place.

haha awesome! You really liked the movie eh?

Good to see you posting sketches again kokoz!

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I suppose you should read up on why he turned white actually before talking crap especially now when he's dead.RIP

uh? I was talking about his music and not about his attitude.

Quote from Dark

Micheal died 13 years ago in my opinion

Michael Jackson died the moment he turned white imo.

Bye bye open source engines =)

lol cardo I never thought of that but yeah it's great reference =)

My biggest reference so far is this book. Everyone with an slight interest in classic sci-fi art should get it =)

Thanks for the comments so far everyone! I'll probably finish this baby tonight and all your suggestions have been quite valuable!

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Ehhr were is the DL link???

It's included in the mod, just download it on steam =)

Looking for crits on something I want to work on more, I worked mainly on the lighting here. I'll probably redo the small ship later because the design fucking sucks

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Good job man, the sense of scale in this map is amazing!

Great normal!!

woah awesome tips kokos, thanks a lot!

I should actually take the time to plan out my compositions better before painting any details. This one (as all my past sketches) started as a loose doodle that I basically went ahead and carved out details on the fly, without any real beforehand planning. I only noticed composition problems after much of the structure was done so I decided to balance things out a bit using contrasting colors. Orange vs blue, green vs red, etc...

I'm now planning on doing a series out of this with a little story I have in mind. I'll try to plan my compositions better from now on.

BTW I'm reading this Andrew Loomis book at the moment and I highly recommend it. It's got tons of valuable tips on composition and planning. Everyone should give it a read =)

Thanks for the crits guys, these studies have been really helpful. Here's tonight sketch. This one has a little story included:

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A distant alien civilization launches an ambitious space program with the ultimate goal of conquering nearby planets where precious natural resources were detected.

Their first stop is at a nearby moon where they plan to set up a research facility which will be used to develop bigger and more powerful space crafts. The first ship sent had a rough landing though.

Nobody was hurt but much of the structure was damaged in the process. A team of engineers was sent to repair the ship.