Background Blitz - Big or Small (Winners Announced)

Dropped Monocle Games · Tue 15/09/2015 08:31:17

Create a background that has the theme 'BIG or SMALL' maybe your character has been shrunken to the size of an ant or maybe been made huge, towering over buildings.
maybe your character is stuck inside a big whale! have fun and get creative with this one!
Voting will start on the 5th October

...what are you waiting for, get arting!!

VOTING TIME!

Grok - The Giants Hut
Mouth for war - Monster Shark
selmiak - Big World Tree

Voting will end on the Sunday 11th

sketchess · Sat 19/09/2015 14:22:14

Lovely.
One wrong move. Wasn't Simon eaten by the frog?

I do remember a long tongue.

Grok · Sun 20/09/2015 17:12:57

The giant's hut

Dropped Monocle Games · Tue 22/09/2015 06:54:25

wow I love it. nice work

selmiak · Tue 29/09/2015 03:21:06

started sketching around...

selmiak · Tue 29/09/2015 04:06:37

I like how that moon came out.

Snarky · Tue 29/09/2015 15:53:00

Yes, it looks nice. When you continue on the planet, you do remember that the Earth and the moon are always lit from the same angle, right?

selmiak · Tue 29/09/2015 15:59:19

I'll try to align it to sun as a lightsource.

btw, is there an easy way to embed your big imgur uploaded images as thumbnails after the imgur userinterface revamp?

Snarky · Tue 29/09/2015 16:36:14

I think imgur is currently broken. The layout is all fucked up, and I don't see any comments at all.

sketchess · Tue 29/09/2015 19:44:53

My first-ever attempt using GIMP. Boy, felt like I started over and over a hundred times. At least I got a template so far.

selmiak · Tue 29/09/2015 23:42:24

screw imgur, fiddeing around with bbcode tags and stuff... click images for full size.

a view into space

blocking in some brown color with basic lighting

getting somewhere?!

sketchess · Wed 30/09/2015 20:14:47

Does it come easy to you, @selmiak? I feel like it will take me forever.

selmiak · Thu 01/10/2015 01:56:20

been playing around with leaves. No idea how to shade them!

what does take you forever sketchess? Drawing?
Well, yes the ratio of time spent on the painting to the time the average person spents looking at it is in no relation, but it's great fun creating stuff...

Snarky · Thu 01/10/2015 08:09:30

Quote from: selmiak on Tue 29/09/2015 15:59:19
I'll try to align it to sun as a lightsource.

The moon is aligned, but the shading of the earth really isn't (it implies a sun in the top-right corner-ish, and since the sun is way off in the distance, far more of the planet should be in shadow, which should also be darker, just like with the moon). Also, if we're at all concerned with astronomical accuracy, the axis of the earth looks tilted way off (though that might have something to do with the huge tree growing out of it), particularly when you remember that the earth, sun and moon are all more or less in the same plane (the ecliptic, which is why you regularly get eclipses like on Monday morning). Basically, if you just rotate the earth so that the shading lines up with the position of the sun, it would be more or less accurate.

sketchess · Thu 01/10/2015 17:40:25

Drawing? I'm not even near to that. I figured out how to handle these sassy brushes a bit. There must be a trick to it, I just can't see it yet. The manuell is not very helpful. Well learning by doing, I'm on some first rough outlines.

Don't wait for me guys, I'm just not ready yet.

selmiak · Thu 01/10/2015 21:19:24

I didn't like the scribbled leaves, so I made a leaf brush. If you ever make a leaf brush DON'T add a stem. It's just annoying, trust me!

some shading with the leaf brush and layers

pulled my best bob ross in space!

Some more lighting in this weird perspective with interesting lightsources...

turning that planet earth placed the treetrunk somewhere in the mediterranean...
I'm wondering in what whacky directions gravity would flow up there...

Mouth for war · Fri 02/10/2015 00:19:21

Here we go then. A monster shark

Mouth for war · Fri 02/10/2015 13:00:10

Btw i really like your idea there selmiak. It looks really cool :-)

selmiak · Sun 04/10/2015 06:01:12

turned on some more lights

More highlights and some more darkness

and some more details

@Mouthforwar:
thanks, I likeyour shark attack too. Especially now that you added some more ... taste (for the shark) to it.

Dropped Monocle Games · Sun 04/10/2015 19:39:31

one day to go, if anyone needs an extension let me know!

selmiak · Mon 05/10/2015 21:49:22

I will hopefully finish my entry tonight and post the result later on...

selmiak · Tue 06/10/2015 03:31:47

I'll see tons of places where it needs improvement tomorrow, but yeah, this is done for now! My comp entry.

click for full size!

everyone shouting 'please make this game' has to team up with me, visit space for research purposes and then make the game!

Mandle · Tue 06/10/2015 04:57:19

selmiak: That BG is so epic! i can so see that picture painted on the side of a '70's panel van!

Dropped Monocle Games · Tue 06/10/2015 12:41:10

VOTING TIME!

Grok - The Giants Hut
Mouth for war - Monster Shark
selmiak - Big World Tree

Voting will end on the Sunday 11th

selmiak · Tue 06/10/2015 15:55:26

vote under different aspects or just vote for one?

Mouth for war · Tue 06/10/2015 19:37:31

Well I vote for Selmiak then. Unique design and really well done!

Dropped Monocle Games · Tue 06/10/2015 21:14:05

oh sorry, vote for the one you like best

selmiak · Tue 06/10/2015 21:37:41

Well I vote for Mouth for war then. I dig that wrinkle under the sharks nose and the overall gory scene!

Mandle · Wed 07/10/2015 05:49:10

My vote must go to selmiak...That is just way too trippy-awesome!!!

sketchess · Wed 07/10/2015 15:35:10

My vote goes to Grok, it's something about that picture that got me.

JudasFm · Wed 07/10/2015 16:40:03

I vote for Selmiak! Definitely

Cassiebsg · Wed 07/10/2015 16:42:14

My votes goes to... selmiak.

Creamy · Wed 07/10/2015 17:15:24

I vote for Mouth of War. His picture is really impressive in full size. Kudos for leaving the head of the shark in the dark.

@ Selmiak : Nice composition, very detailed.

@ Grok : Simple yet effective. Pretty colours, as always with you. It's the only true background here, although it looks like a normal house with bonsai trees.

I wish Sketchess had the time to finish her giant table. It looked promising.

sketchess · Wed 07/10/2015 20:45:00

Thanks for the kind words, but I never intended to make a giant table out of it.

GIMP is still driving me crazy, grr.

EDIT:
I'm a snail, I know. I might should finish it. At least it is practice.

SilverSpook · Wed 07/10/2015 21:07:18

Selmiak. That is frickin' bonkers! I have literally never seen anything like that before, and I've seen a whole lot of things.

selmiak · Thu 08/10/2015 00:17:07

Thanks Silverspook!

Yeah, I didn't even bother looking up reference images of trees in space

Stupot · Thu 08/10/2015 00:55:52

I'm'a vote for Selmiak. I would happily have that on my wall.

Mandle · Thu 08/10/2015 01:25:40

Quote from: selmiak on Thu 08/10/2015 00:17:07
Thanks Silverspook! Yeah, I didn't even bother looking up reference images of trees in space

SilverSpook · Thu 08/10/2015 01:29:37

HAHA! THat is a tree in space! Good job bro!

selmiak · Thu 08/10/2015 03:01:43

I haven't even seen that one, but should probably do so. I don't like superhero movies but afaik they have fart jokes in gotg

Mouth for war · Fri 09/10/2015 20:53:17

Ok not much action here with the voting! Let's just give Selmiak the grand prize and be done with it (grrr...bastard....mmm..nggg...grrrr)

selmiak · Sat 10/10/2015 04:22:57

give me some more votes, they are good!

And I have some time to come up with a contest theme.
Why do I always enter contest where there are no trophys, man!

Myinah · Sat 10/10/2015 20:09:19

Sox make Selmiak a trophy. You know you want to!

SilverSpook · Sat 10/10/2015 21:28:30

Can we pay for art commissions with votes?

(Whips out a fat sheaf of vote ballots and makes it rain on selmiak)

Dropped Monocle Games · Sun 11/10/2015 13:53:48

in 3rd place with 1 vote is Grok
2nd place with 2 votes goes to Mouth of War
Annnnnd the winner with 6 votes is... Drum roll please

Selmiak

1st Place - Selmiak
2nd Place - Mouth of War
3rd Place - Grok

sketchess · Sun 11/10/2015 16:24:23

you gotta...

Well now we have it, you guys take me home as trophies.

selmiak · Sun 11/10/2015 20:39:55

Cool! Thanks for all the votes and congrats to all other winners and participants that entered this bg blitz. Will open a new one soon.