Wonder

Photo Manipulation \ Composite | 07/21/06 @700 | PMD | critiques (27) | views (1560)

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Hi everyone,

Made a bit of a mess of uploading this

I wasn;t sure where to put it, but it landed in Photo Manilpulation because there is a lot of photo-referencing, particularly for the citadel which is an assembly of various bits I liked of loads of buildings, bits I painted in PS, all lit/bent into perspective etc in Photoshop.

The little fella is an over-paint using a photo as reference.

I was trying to capture the magic and wonder a child feels. Its a feeling I hope I never lose

Hope everyone's well!

Phil

All the images were sourced from stock.xchng - www.sxc.hu

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Comments (27)

kittyKat

07/21/06 @711

Nice work

I sent you a PM

loneorbit

07/21/06 @713

Well done on the details in the Citadel and the child. The child is well detailed as just stated, but the hair needs to loosen up just slightly to give a more realistic feel to it. The shadow on the grass of the child is opposing the Citadels' shadow, not sure if it's correct, thought I'd mention it.

George

07/21/06 @761

Great art....I just feel the kid is less realistic than the grass and the rest... could need more treatment, maybe some painting

ARZILLIER66

07/21/06 @764

Nice work! I like it

purplerose

07/21/06 @875

Very nice!

Daykan

07/21/06 @879

amazing work!! really great!

einschlafen

07/22/06 @969

nice.

hey, i think i see a kitten in that cloud over there!

Kaduflyer

07/22/06 @653

I think you should have either over painted the grass or left the child as a photo (the best choice IMO)...the two styles don't quite mix here...shame really cos this is just a tad away from awesome!

amado

07/22/06 @703

i looooooooooveeeee it alllllll my marks .... no i realllyy mean it

PMD

07/24/06 @483

Thanks for all the comments guys - I tweaked a few details, including the little fella's shadow -

http://www.vyro-games.com/phil/site/wonder.html

Thank you for the constructive crits!

Arthony

07/26/06 @654

This is fun to look at!

Good job.

try bringing the atmosphere on to the distant grass, the horizon needs a little haze

CreativeSchism

07/26/06 @725

I think it looks really cool! Nice job putting all those buildings together! Good work!

tsin

07/27/06 @145

this looks great, someone was posting a WIPa litttle while ago with somethiong like this, dont know if it was you, well done on good job though. i think shadowless works better, the sky is brilliantly white and would give a balanced lighing anyway. also the shadow grounds the child, so the eye looks up then down then stops at the child, for me better to let eye move up and down up and down.....

PMD

07/27/06 @404

Thanks guys, appreciate the comments. Tsin, the shadow was a bit of a head-scratcher alright, sometimes it is difficult to match light perfectly - it it bounces everywhere! Good point abut the brilliant white sky - it probably would give a very soft diffuse shadow. Cheers, Phil.

acida

07/28/06 @047

woa... amazing, i definately like this one. +10

WarrenLouw

07/29/06 @463

Dude! thats awesome! i love it! although my only small concern is that the rocks/greenery part of the floating island on the outer edges needs to be more textured and detailed, because it appears to be cut out too cleanly. other than that its a superb piece of work!

Clackamore

07/29/06 @764

So fine

ZedoCaixao

07/31/06 @870

Incredible concept!!!!
Great work!!
+10

klyph

08/03/06 @393

Very nice idea. no crit here!

Rochr

08/22/06 @793

How the heck did i miss this. Excellent!

Albtraum

09/22/06 @297

Nice work and awesome composition. This feels to me like an adult's idea of what a child imagines. A child that young would not come up with all that conglomerated detail. LOL, just my gut reaction. The concept is still sound.

MLynch

10/19/06 @614

I saw this over at CGTalk some tima ago... I stil love the emotional aspect of this piece. The awe and wonder and innocense are all captured and portrayed wonderully.

Top notch work!

leloops

12/06/06 @403

you have an absolutely great grasp of perspective, you've exactly nailed the trickiness of distance with the citadel (which happens quite a lot to me if I view an object from the top of a slope which looks quite close but as I walk down the slope the object becomes farther) =)))

max vote from me (:

I forgot to tell my opinion on the emotional aspect, when viewed as a whole, it gives the feel of a music in the background, just like the ones played in a movie with some similar scene, a good example would be stephen king's "it" =D

siffert

12/07/06 @583

Good work!

dakoo

12/13/06 @500

AWESOME !!! the body expression of the boy is spot on !! Just got a nice mood this one !! Top marks !!!

Excorbac

05/09/07 @321

Wonderful ! Here the boy has folds on his clothes (see my c&c on 'imagination')

I really like how the flying city tones match that of this fairly cloudy sky. Top marks too !!

NunoDias

05/11/07 @876

WOW...great perspective!!awesome manip...

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