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Hera-of-Stockholm — Crystal Thieves
Published: 2018-11-11 11:57:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 1148; Favourites: 150; Downloads: 8
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The deciet had worked, and now Galathine and Zerlan were on the run from the Sultan of Gorath's villa with the stolen crystals of power. If everything worked as planned they had three hours to get out of the city of Meladramim with their new fortune, and be on their way through the dessert towards a bright future in a far away city. And they would be legends, that much was for sure.°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
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Great work on the lightning. Atmosphere is perfect!
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Something tells me there is going to be a hiccup. I would love to see more in this story.
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Perhaps there'll be one, we'll see
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Excellent! It's rare to see on Sci-fi artwork characters wearing a white costume.
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Thanks a lot - I love when they dress in white in most genres, and I agree it's never common in scifi or fantasy.
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It's like the old Star Wars clothes, since Ridley Scott Alien's, the use of white clothes in Sci-fi is extremely rare.
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Yes, I'd love to see more of it. It make for clean, sterile enterprising entities. More scientific than innocent. And harsh if shot in overexposed pictures, as in movies like Minority Report and AI.
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You're right, it's that.
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Yes. I imagine it's a kind of trend. Old scifi, during the golden age was very colourful. Then it was dominated by dirty and dark hues for a while and then came all those technicolour superheroes and the colours were back. But no white. Too bad
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Basically, the sci-fi costumes were colored and much more metallic colored in the old movies, look for example one of the best sci-fi made "Forbidden planet" - for me which inspired Star Trek- colorful.
As for white color, with Star Wars, the white fashion arrived, but, never forget Star Wars is only a sci-fi adaptation from Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress, maybe George Lucas changed the black and white from the samurai to a white color?
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Yes indeed, Star Wars borrows a lot both from Kurosawa and from Tolkien as well. And these gentlemen too borrowed from older writers and legends. From Wagner, Homer and the unknown makers of the King Arthur circle. Then again one might claim that there's only so many ways at writing a post-war saga. And none has ever been the first, because we'll never know who the first camp fire bard was.
Back to white, I guess it's sometimes seen as too neat too. Too unreal. Remember Gandalf's reincarnation as Gandalf the White. IMO he passed through some kind of initiation rite not unlike what happened to Jesus Christ after the crusification (and in no way meant as a blasphemous saying, just a hint at those allegories have a hard time leaving the common human mindset). And in some way that kind of bright and shiny white seems as something holy, divine and unreachable. Perhaps that's why it's so hard to work with.
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You're right, white has symbolism in the cinema, for example, the mighty Hk wuxia movies, the white color for the HEROES means the good, in the other hand, the black means the bad guy.
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Yes, indeed, Darth Vader, Br No, the outfit of various witches and mobsters. All in black.
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At reverse, we can see the black dress as a symbol of the Good. For example, a great cinema gender used the black dress as this kind of symbolism: Western movies! Look at the Magnificent Seven (Sturges) Yul Brynner dressed in black. Even more, the spaghetti western or Italian Western, there is a bunch of Good heroes wearing black: Django (Franco Nero) Sabata and Sartana (Lee Van Cleef) etc,
Nice avatar my friend!
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Yes - and of corse - Zorro!
And Batman and Volverine and Trinity in the Matrix.
Then - of corse we have Luke Skywalker who suddenly dresses up in black in Return of the Jedi.
I guess black can at times also be representing the sombre and wise character. The one who has been around and learned the lot. The former student turning into a master. A bit like Christian priests as well.
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You're right.
Zorro, great superhero, Robin Hood it's a pure
Back to your artwork, are they post worked on Photoshop? And what kind of postwork you use? NVIDIA render isn't easy to work on photoshop because of the ultra-realistic render.
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Yes, I do almost all of my postwork in Photoshop, and it depends on how much I do. Sometimes I add different backgrounds, from photos and such, because the HDRI bg's often leave a lot to wish. Then I might change colours and saturation, lightness and such and smooth out leftover grains. Oftentimes when I have trees in a work, I tend to find them a little bit leafless, so I clone in more leaves to give them a bit more verdant look. People's clothings is another area that tends to be given some more post work, adding wrinkles, fixing bent buckles and buttons and so on. More seldom do I crop or do changes like that, I often select the render window I want already when rendering.
Yes Iray is realistic enough, but there are still props and things that leave a lot to wish.
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Thanks for the long explanation, it's a long work.
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