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Published: 2012-11-08 16:31:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 28821; Favourites: 1187; Downloads: 901
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Hey everybody! Yesterday I finally managed to record myself painting something. It was quite fast and sloppy, but a lot of fun. It's very rough and off in a lot of places. But it was just a quick 1,5h concept. I might do something more planned out with this idea.. I also tried out some new brushes from Jama's [link] brushset while painting this. I love some of them! I just haven't sorted out which ones to keep and whatnot. . Anyways!I've got it uploaded on both YouTube and Vimeo .
So take your pick. Obviously vimeo hasn't got any commercial stuff on it. Which is always nice.
And finally, if you find this interesting and want me to do more videos like this, please share and spread the love.
Best,
Thomas
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Settle down kid, and let me tell you about these 'Empties'.
Back in the days of the Stranarkian Empire – yes, it was that along ago – there was a primitive race called 'humans' and the Stranarkians, being the paranoid beings that they were, decided they couldn't let this race survive. Their only extrasolar colony was demolished by an armada of ships far beyond anything that humanity could combat, and with all attempts at contact and diplomacy being ignored save for one message: a starchart of the Stranarkian Empire. It covered hundreds of systems, a boast that there really was no way humanity could hope to survive.
The civil human government began to fall apart, but the military seized power and began a massive program that they claimed would save their race from extinction. Hundreds of small sleeper ships would be built, each carrying a number of human colonists. Loaded with supplies, it was hoped that at least some of them would survive. The true purpose of the project was, however , kept secret from the public.
A full half of the sleeper ships were loaded with soldiers, equipped with the heaviest weaponry the humans had access to, and were pointed at the Stranarkian planets as a final gesture of defiance. It was suspected that the life support systems would fail en route, given how far away the Stranarkian worlds were located, but the combat AI in the servo-suits would take over and complete the mission.
My cousin's brother's wife's best friend's ex-wife was working in orbital control on Ktarr Minor - yes, that Ktarr Minor - and detected a ship coming in for a very hard landing on the other side of the planet. The rescue party reported that nothing was alive on board, but there were a few suits with remains inside and so we brought them back to the colony so that we could give them a decent burial.
My cousin's brother's wife's best friend's ex-wife was working in orbital control on Ktarr Minor - yes, that Ktarr Minor - and detected a ship coming in for a very hard landing on the other side of the planet. The rescue party reported that nothing was alive on board, but there were a few suits with skeletons inside and so we brought them back to the colony so that we could give them a decent burial.
Midflight the rescue party's ship failed to respond to hails following some erratic flying, but scanners detected that their transponder had failed so no-one thought there was a reason to panic - border world, old equipment fails all the time and they assumed it was just a system failure. The only odd thing was the ship's computer was downloading an awfully large amount of data from the central core.
Obviously all she had access to was the transponder data and unencrypted communications, but what she saw was that the ship followed standard approach procedure towards the landing field until it flew over the center of the colony, upon which the ships hastily descended and crashed into the main governmental building. She then heard reports of suited figures emerging from the flames, massacring the survivors and any bystanders. The last contact from the surface reported the spaceport was being overrun by eerily silent figures who could take a plasma bolt to the chest, have half their torso vaporized and pick themselves back up and carry on. After that nobody's really sure what caused the explosion that destroyed the colony, but a simultaneous overload of the central power grid combined with the detonation of the emergency reactor fuel stockpiles would do it.
Orbital Control naturally panicked, and called for help. The garrison on Ktarr Prime sent a reaction force, but when they landed there was nothing left of the colony but a smoking crater and a few badly damaged emergency data recorders. One of them was the internal monitor from the rescue ship, and even through all of the static and data corruption you could hear the terror of the crew as the supposedly dead creatures rose up and slaughtered them all with the calculated brutality of a machine designed for nothing but death.
You see, back in the days of the Stranarkians Ktarr Minor was a major refueling point for their armadas. The humans must've pointed one of their attack craft towards it and hoped for the best, not realizing that Stranarkia would fall centuries before their dead soldiers arrived.
Of course, the official investigation told us that it was renegades from the Outlier Cluster, but who're you going to trust – some politician who's scheming to advance his own agenda and hasn't seen anything past his own constituency or me, a seasoned starship captain who's seen things that'll flash freeze your blood and thaw it out again before you can even think about screaming? It was the Empties I tell you, the Empties! Spirits of vengeance from a long dead species, uncaring as to the identity of their victims and driven by a single line of logic – revenge.
Now remember what I told you earlier, about how half of the human ships carried colonists? What if, somewhere out there in the depths of unexplored space, one of those ships defied the odds and made it? What if there's a world covered in enraged monsters, biding their time and contemplating revenge?
I've told you what their dead can do kid, and I lose sleep at night imagining what their living are capable of.
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The more i stare at the picture, the more I see a male and a FEMALE space suit. And dthis all of sudden makes picture very sad.
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Whoa looking at this makes me think of System Shock 2
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Imagines how they came to be there and how they got stuck... and how one inevitably had to go first and the other one is left there and knows he is next... 
Awesome dude!
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Looks amazing. It looks like they didn't made to save there innocent lives, shame. Let their souls rest in peace.
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I actually like this one better. It's really cool. Nice work.
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Really nice, and I agree with many of the previous posters, it's got loads of story potential 
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Brilliantly Eerie Wow such a wild look a truly Amazing!!!
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*checks self for second shadow*
Whew! Just one.
Great job with this!
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Guy #1:i told you we shouldnt have done this
Guy #2:shut up!
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I don't think the safety harness worked for them . . .
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Or it worked too well.
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Hey who turned out the lights?
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great pic, I love how it bears a lot of stories
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Man, the concept of this really gets me. but it's a great one, I love it!
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Very nice ! I love the Motive kinda reminds me of the Fallout games. Dont know why ..
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This looks like a nice premise for a horror/sci-fi mystery. Well done for a fast and sloppy painting.
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beautiful work, I enjoyed watching the paint, what I had time for at least. Keep it up! I'm in for a watch.
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Great! Eerie and very cool; the lighting is well handled.
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love this so much, you're so good with lighting. please make more videos!
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That's exactly what I thought, man!
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It made me remember the book 2001: Space Odyssey. The chapter that the hibernation men died.
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That was the first thing I thought of when I saw this, I guess I got beaten to it xD
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ahaha, I guess we all must be amazing people then. xD
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