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Published: 2010-05-17 03:26:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 66408; Favourites: 2848; Downloads: 0
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Description The Legendary Ladder is a renowned structure built by a race of aliens to take advantage of their close proximity to a neighbouring and tidally-locked fertile moon. The Legendary Ladder serves as a colossal elevator between both worlds complete with a stop-off station at the near-halfway point where the gravity of both worlds is in tie with each other. It is used for both practical and leisure purposes and is the central hub of huge cities at both ends

My sole entry to TheLuminarium 's 10th online exhibit and the last "themed" one to my knowledge, given the theme Legendary. As most think of the past when they think of Legends, I deliberately went the other way and thought towards the future.
Creating buildings and spaceships often feels like such a chore to me, regardless of whether I do them in 2D or 3D (much of it was 3D though) I have no idea how other space artists handle them so well so this is a little unusual for me. Was hard trying to get a good composition and angle too, even now - I had to "fake" the perspective to an almost fisheye-like view to be able to get the whole structure in view to appreciate its length, which almost disappears into a hairline on the other end

Made using Cinema 4D, Vue 7 and Photoshop, oh, I'm aware the copyright says it was made a few months earlier than the submission date...that's because it was and I had to hold it for a while.

Edit: Wooo! the first time one of my sci-fi themed deviations gets a DD, it is after all one of my favourite things to do! Thanks a lot to *hoevelkamp and ^taenaron , both quality sci-fi/space artists in themselves

Artwork is my copyrighted creative property and is not to be used for any manner by anyone without my consent
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Comments: 685

Chromattix In reply to ??? [2010-05-27 03:51:13 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a lot, those buildings although I already had "ready to use" from past scenes, still originally took many hours to model a ig enough variety of them, so I guess I composed the buildings relativly quickly, much of the work was issues with perspective and composition, and yeah - the buildings still needed a lot of extra details painte don them too, this was incredibly long compared to my usual time spent, so it dosn't come easily

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AfterDeath In reply to Chromattix [2010-05-27 04:02:18 +0000 UTC]

I agree, with all your work I can really see the time and detail spent on them, and that is what really makes it stand out. I need to fallow your lead, I know if i could just spend more time with my work i can make then look much better, but I seem to have a quick attention span so it makes it hard for me, lol

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Sun-Seeker In reply to ??? [2010-05-26 03:49:54 +0000 UTC]

great work mate! congrats!

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Chromattix In reply to Sun-Seeker [2010-05-26 04:01:50 +0000 UTC]

Thankyou!

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DTKinetic In reply to ??? [2010-05-25 21:30:52 +0000 UTC]

Your description alone astounds me and I love the concept, how there exists a close link to another planet (well moon) The spaceships look very dynamic and pop around the page, the city is detailed to the pixel and has great colors--and you've had quite a few DD's and this is your first scifi themed??
I thought your entire gallery was sci-fi!!

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Chromattix In reply to DTKinetic [2010-05-26 01:17:36 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a lot, I'm glad you liked it so much, even the spaceships (which are practically my first-ever, not something I'm used to in any dimension )

Yes it's true, while my sci-fi ones are most enjoyable to make, so far until this one all previous DD's were on non-sci-fi art. Remember I'm kinda all over the place with what I draw lol

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DonLawride [2010-05-24 21:44:46 +0000 UTC]

That is utterly amazing. ._.

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riven0 In reply to ??? [2010-05-24 20:50:28 +0000 UTC]

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ceruleanvii In reply to ??? [2010-05-24 15:09:36 +0000 UTC]

very nice, now why didn't this show up in my inbox? Or maybe it did and I missed it... I get so many deviations from groups these days that I miss out on the people I really want to keep up with

Anyhow, very well done, love the concept and the color scheme too. And nice perspective!

Congrats on the latest DD!

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Chromattix In reply to ceruleanvii [2010-05-25 00:47:55 +0000 UTC]

Someone said they also missed it on the DD's list and teir inbox too, maybe because it's one of those ones that only looks interesting up close but rather passable by thumbnail even with a nice colour scheme it's still only half as vibrant as my usual works lol

Glad you liked it anyway

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Mako666 In reply to ??? [2010-05-24 08:02:46 +0000 UTC]

Wow this is amazing. I totally want to go there! ^.^ And I think you did a great job with the perspective, it looks really good! Awesome work!

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Chromattix In reply to Mako666 [2010-05-24 08:57:07 +0000 UTC]

Thankyou, and I'm glad about the perspective too, wile it technically isn't true to life, I thought it needed to at leats be artistically interesting

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mitchellnelson In reply to ??? [2010-05-24 07:13:26 +0000 UTC]

good job man! and congratz!

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Chromattix In reply to mitchellnelson [2010-05-24 08:46:07 +0000 UTC]

Thanks man

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mitchellnelson In reply to Chromattix [2010-05-24 21:05:34 +0000 UTC]

welcome

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sntXrrr [2010-05-24 05:52:23 +0000 UTC]

Hey, congrats on the dd! Great picture and surprisingly colorful

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Chromattix In reply to sntXrrr [2010-05-24 06:15:03 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, yeah lot of sci-fi stuff is very dull and desaturated, I needed at least some colour

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phoenixleo In reply to ??? [2010-05-24 04:49:49 +0000 UTC]

Cloud's #1 fan has a DD in sci fi at last!

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Chromattix In reply to phoenixleo [2010-05-24 05:03:50 +0000 UTC]

Where is he, I'll kill him Oh, you meant me thanks

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phoenixleo In reply to Chromattix [2010-05-24 05:23:35 +0000 UTC]

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laratigergirl In reply to ??? [2010-05-24 04:02:38 +0000 UTC]

It's really fun to think about this one.

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Cooleosis [2010-05-24 02:00:34 +0000 UTC]

so you would take the up elevator to the center, and then the down elevator to the other planet?

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Chromattix In reply to Cooleosis [2010-05-24 03:35:37 +0000 UTC]

You got it! thanks for faving too

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Thibi In reply to ??? [2010-05-23 20:39:15 +0000 UTC]

Wow...

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VelCake In reply to ??? [2010-05-23 19:02:52 +0000 UTC]

Oh,WOW,dear,this is just fantastic.
*shoots herself for not seeing this DD beforex___x*

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Chromattix In reply to VelCake [2010-05-23 23:47:50 +0000 UTC]

Lol, well it's only been a DD for a couple of days, and some don't even log into dA in that amount of time

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VelCake In reply to Chromattix [2010-05-24 10:16:24 +0000 UTC]

I know but it's an epic fail that I didn't see this...and I check DD page every single dayx____x
*shoots*

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icecheetah [2010-05-23 09:51:52 +0000 UTC]


Just wow.

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kynxtasy In reply to ??? [2010-05-23 05:47:02 +0000 UTC]

This is cooooool!

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blackbelt777 In reply to ??? [2010-05-22 16:50:24 +0000 UTC]

Amazing!

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kalinnnnn [2010-05-22 10:55:40 +0000 UTC]

You're very imaginative and I find your conncepts most interesting.

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Chromattix In reply to kalinnnnn [2010-05-22 13:58:17 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad you do Thanks for faving

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thaez [2010-05-22 09:54:12 +0000 UTC]

reminds me of Asimov's description of planet Trantor from the Foundation series

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Chromattix In reply to thaez [2010-05-22 13:56:26 +0000 UTC]

Sounds cool, but I havn't heard of it

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thaez In reply to Chromattix [2010-05-24 10:54:47 +0000 UTC]

read Asimov
[link]

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Fredy3D In reply to ??? [2010-05-22 09:53:12 +0000 UTC]

Most excellent!!!

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relu65 In reply to ??? [2010-05-22 07:17:47 +0000 UTC]

Excellent work,I love this pic!

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Chromattix In reply to relu65 [2010-05-22 07:28:24 +0000 UTC]

Thankyou

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Grey-the-VIII In reply to ??? [2010-05-22 06:06:17 +0000 UTC]

Thats awesome. Your very imaginitive

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Chromattix In reply to Grey-the-VIII [2010-05-22 06:43:14 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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Grey-the-VIII In reply to Chromattix [2010-06-03 05:33:50 +0000 UTC]

Your welcome

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martini34 In reply to ??? [2010-05-22 05:56:31 +0000 UTC]

this is sweet! great concept!

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sugarsmilesss In reply to ??? [2010-05-22 05:17:58 +0000 UTC]

woah, this is so amazing
i cant even get over how intricate and detailed it is
its like mindblowing
ahh
and so realistic looking!!

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Chromattix In reply to sugarsmilesss [2010-05-22 06:17:07 +0000 UTC]

Thankyou, Oh I never skip on the details glad you liked it, and thanks for faving

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DemoComics In reply to ??? [2010-05-22 04:52:30 +0000 UTC]

looks really cool

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captbullett In reply to ??? [2010-05-22 04:41:39 +0000 UTC]

why should I ...

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Martenzo In reply to ??? [2010-05-22 04:20:07 +0000 UTC]

Awesome. Best sci-fi artwork I've seen in the past few months.

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Chromattix In reply to Martenzo [2010-05-22 06:09:23 +0000 UTC]

Wow, thankyou very much if you think that

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AbsenteeKiller In reply to ??? [2010-05-22 04:13:12 +0000 UTC]

Wow, just wow

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GodofCider In reply to ??? [2010-05-22 04:02:32 +0000 UTC]

Amazing; need I say more?

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