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steve-burg In reply to Shabbs [2012-01-14 22:04:52 +0000 UTC]

It's hard to say exactly how long the working time is, since it was made a little bit at a time.
But I suspect it was more than 20 hours, because of all the custom textures that had to be painted.

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Shabbs In reply to steve-burg [2012-01-15 03:37:37 +0000 UTC]

thanks for your reply, i'm just really interested in your work and hope to get to your level some day....its just awesome stuff that you do. pretty inspiring actually

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steve-burg In reply to Shabbs [2012-01-15 03:50:19 +0000 UTC]

Well, thank you!

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steve-burg In reply to sevenofeleven [2011-09-25 15:40:25 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Some day I'll actually finish this... I hope!

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sevenofeleven In reply to steve-burg [2011-09-25 16:24:48 +0000 UTC]

For an atmospheric piece, I would stop here
but its not my picture.
Maybe I would add a little robot using a brighter color
palette that was used in the picture pulling a broken toy rabbit.

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steve-burg In reply to sevenofeleven [2011-09-25 16:28:03 +0000 UTC]

I like the broken toy rabbit!

Actually, this environment... I want to do an animated scene with it. It's made to look good from many angles, because I don't know the shots I want to do yet. Once I'm able to get into the animation, then I can dress things up for the final camera views...

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steve-burg In reply to 2753Productions [2011-02-04 15:37:47 +0000 UTC]

Thanks - I've got to try and get this thing finished (I started another full-time job, so time has become a problem once again)

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2753Productions In reply to steve-burg [2011-02-07 22:09:39 +0000 UTC]

Very welcome sir - yes our day to day lives do tend to get in the way don't they lol - dammit lol!

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steve-burg In reply to 2753Productions [2011-02-08 06:42:51 +0000 UTC]

It's the never ending struggle, that's a fact!

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2753Productions In reply to steve-burg [2011-02-13 02:53:18 +0000 UTC]

Sure is!

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steve-burg In reply to RobCaswell [2011-01-25 15:28:15 +0000 UTC]

Matte painting work is a very sporadic thing for me. Although these days film concept work is moving into full-blown 3D (which may or may not be a good thing, actually). But at least I'm capable of doing the stuff in that form

I highly value the sketch, the loose atmospheric painting, with a worthwhile idea behind it. But it seems like there's a serious case of "the Shiny" syndrome sweeping the land. So we'll see where the river takes us, I suppose...

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RobCaswell In reply to steve-burg [2011-01-25 15:32:44 +0000 UTC]

I wonder if it's a case of ADs telling producers and directors that "shiny" is easier, thus cheaper?

Have you ever gone onto a production as a digital modeler AND concept artist? Are many open to that, or has it already become too specialized and subcontracted?

So with your sticky tar clumps on this work, is a lot of it just a texture "tar plane" that your bringing up to poke through the recesses in the tech plating?

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steve-burg In reply to RobCaswell [2011-01-25 16:08:52 +0000 UTC]

By "Shiny" I mean the level of fidelity in the artwork. It is preferred nowadays that the concept be close to "photographic". It's an infatuation with technique.

The gloppy trash much is a series of objects displaced up through the ground.

I've never worked as a modeler per-se, because I'm using the 3D to communicate a designe, and a modeler is making an asset for production requirements. But the 3D design studies are quite handy when someone has to make the final asset

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RobCaswell In reply to steve-burg [2011-01-25 16:29:20 +0000 UTC]

Ah. Shiny. Got ya.

I wonder how much of that is an outgrowth of the "all done in render, no postwork" fetishists. That always sounds like an excuse to me and what they're really saying is "I have modeling skills and don't know the first thing about digital painting". I mean who usually cares what it takes to get to a final image, as long as that image meets expectations/requirements.

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