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Yes, despite what it looks like, this is an unfinished. Anybody familiar with my previous work would understand that this isn't up to my usual par, and I'm sure those people are wondering why on earth I decided to release something that wasn't finished.
Well, the thing is, I'm a person who thrives on feedback. Most of my inspiration comes from all the great comments from you guys. If I go too long without releasing anything, or if something that I released gets few responses, I start to lose my inspiration to start anything new.
I've been working on this picture for an extremely long time at this point. At first I had some huge expectations for it, but the problem with large expectations is living up to them. As time dwindled on, editing this picture became more and more tedious, up until I would simply open up the GIMP file and go "...guh, fuck this. I'm doing something else." The problem was that, as long as I wasn't finished editing this, I wouldn't be able to start a new picture without feeling I had abandoned this one.
So I decided to release it. It may not be complete, but I'm sure that some of you will get some enjoyment out of it. It also means that I can finally start something that I will have more fun creating. This picture isn't entirely dead though. I may pick it back up some time in the future, but it isn't a priority.
Now, as for the picture, as some of you may have guessed, this started out mainly as an exercise in smoke effects. All of the smoke in the picture (including that huge plume on the left) was created using one small smoke reference. (You may have seen me mention it before) And yes this picture was very, very, very slightly inspired by that "Get closer I want to hit them with my sword" picture.
Well, there's my speech.
Comments, Praise, and Criticism Please!
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Holy fuck this is awesome.
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'Bout time you made something awesome.
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It sucks.
No, I'm kidding, its fucking WIDE. Great posing, I love the fire and muzzleflash effects, and the scenebuild is just awesome. Is it a scenebuild?
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Yea. It's on GM_Atomic. The only thing that was part of the map was the terrain.
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The smoke looks good. I don't really see where the large amount of work has been put in.
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Francis made me lol.
Fucking awesome work. Could use some more apocalypse tough.
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So you finally released it? It looks great, man.
Can I grow up to be as awesome as you? :3:
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Oh my. I have only one thing to say. Have a honest palette. Amazing work there.
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The smoke from the plane looks stretched.
Can you describe what you were going for when you started making the picture.
I mean I can't see what more there is too it.
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I died of awesome :lol:
Palette for you Vman.
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Awesome! The editing looks good!
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Wait what the heck, what tank model is that?
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needs more medieval infantry fighting dinosaurs
god wills it
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Nice.
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Anyone know David After Dentist?
Okay now... Okay now... Okay NOW, I am fucking dead.
Becouse of epicness.
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It was going to have a lot more going on in the backround. There were going to be missiles flying through the air, explosions, the buildings were going to be smoking, and the tank was actually going to be firing it's main cannon.
A Frontlines: Fuel of War russian tank, with 2 resized L4D miniguns, the rocket pods from the FFOW american AA vehicle, and a plow from a STALKER bulldozer.
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Ah, I see. Damn nice combination. Where did you get these models from?
Oh wait, don't say. I don't want to hear.
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This is Erotic.
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It's just one of Dtmech's models. It's here on FP.
Why wouldn't you want to hear?
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Fucking awesome, but I can see how it's unfinished
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Also, I have to give it to you, the way you make the smoke look more than 2 dimensional is great. It's almost impossible trying to make a good cloud of smoke look thick without using more than 1 layer. It really inspires me to do something.
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V-Man please finish the picture.
It would be great.
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That's why you use more than one layer :3:
Just keep layering the smoke on and dodging/burning it to give it depth.
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Thought it was private...
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Yea I'll figure it out, thanks :)
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Oh damn. Rate me boxes.
Bombard me with boxes. I know you want to.
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That is Epic to the max. :D
Excelent scene build and a vehicle that's right out of the Apocalyps.
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absolutely beautiful vman, looks like an extended cover art of an awesome mod or something.
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Really nice, but for some reason the smoke on the right goes to the right, and all then other smoke goes to the left. :p But it looks awesome!
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The smoke going left is farther back, so it could be a different wind pattern.
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That is absolutely amazing.
Reminds me of the thermo tank from Prototype.
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Looks good Vman! But honestly when I first opened the pic, it felt like something was missing and looked strange. But that's probably just because it isn't completely finished. All-in-all it's still a great picture!
And as a side note, I think Francis looks completely badass :D
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Epic picture you got thar.
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Yyyyyyeeeaaaaa.....
I noticed that right after I finished the smoke. There was no way that I could possibly flip it unless I put it on the other side of the screen (where it wouldn't be as pronounced)
I'll just go with the different wind pattern thingy like Wateva suggested.
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You never cease to amaze me, Vman.
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holy fucking shit this is awesome.
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Wow.
Awesome.
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This is unfinished?
Sweet lord, the final version would look hella sexy (not that it doesn't already).
As always, nice work vman!
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Late x 2
Dumb x 1
Funny x 1
Agree x 3
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Bad Reading x 1
Bad Spelling x 2
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