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Celeun — The Golden City

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Published: 2017-08-13 23:01:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 814; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 5
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Description I'm a little hesitant to show this one as it is so different than any other of my pictures, but I guess it's better than uploading nothing.

My first try in texture based concept art after watching the Guild Wars 2 art livestream with Vasburg, this man is brilliant. The textures were a picture of a nicely laid table once, before I tortured it with ASDFPixelSort and other techniques.

Nonetheless, this is how I imagine the capital of Xenon, homeplanet of the Neophron. The translation of its name is "The Golden City", and it stands up for this name. Space birbs are not modest. But it's not actual gold - well, most of it isn't - but brass, and the architects said "fuck it" in terms of practicability and space saving. The architecture is even more open and breezy, with huge archways and curtains instead of windows made of glass, but that would have exceeded my painting abilities.
Most of the towers are living or office space, the capital must be as quiet, clean and aesthetic as possible. There are also huge parks and silent places, public schools and universities, sport parks and many many other possibilities to relax or have fun.
There are flying cars in this scenario, but they are banned in the Golden City, it would ruin the panorama. Instead there is a dense public transport network in the underground. Birbs are not only not modest but also a little vain.
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Comments: 8

Scottthespy [2017-09-08 07:17:07 +0000 UTC]

This is so stunning. The textures worked out beautifully, they add so much interest and style to the piece. I honestly can't see a table anywhere in that, I would have  guessed they were carefully chosen textures you made or found from multiple pictures. You really get a sense of the sweeping grandeur and form over function aesthetic the architects were going for in the buildings, the opulence of the whole place is striking. 

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Celeun In reply to Scottthespy [2017-09-08 07:49:25 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so so much for this huge compliment and the nice comment, I'm glad you like it

If interested, here are the steps for creating the texture: orig04.deviantart.net/f620/f/2…
After that it's simply just warping until the patterns fit and different layer settings.

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Scottthespy In reply to Celeun [2017-09-08 16:45:26 +0000 UTC]

That's super neat! I can't figure out complicated editing programs at all, so I doubt I'd ever be able to do something like that. It makes really neat textures though!

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Celeun In reply to Scottthespy [2017-09-08 19:35:46 +0000 UTC]

The using was much easier than the installation xD Thanks!

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SharkAttackHere [2017-08-14 16:29:40 +0000 UTC]

This is really beautiful and amazingly done! Truly an amazing work ^w^

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Celeun In reply to SharkAttackHere [2017-08-14 20:03:03 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much! Glad you like it

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Tacimur [2017-08-14 05:28:21 +0000 UTC]

Das ist grandios, wäre eine totale Schande gewesen das für dich zu behalten. Genial, wie das ganze um einen Blau-Gelb-Kontrast herum aufgebaut ist, und die Concept Art mäßige Optik führt sehr effektiv dazu, daß das Gehirn des Betrachters die restliche Arbeit macht. Lädt echt zum Tagträumen ein.
Und das ganze dann noch gefüllt mit schön kontrastierenden, weißen Neophronen... jup da hat jemand gewußt, was Stil hat.

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Celeun In reply to Tacimur [2017-08-14 20:02:47 +0000 UTC]

Danke danke danke für dieses große Lob o.o Die Architekten klopfen sich sicherlich noch immer selbst dafür auf die Schultern.

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