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Published: 2010-05-17 03:26:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 66410; Favourites: 2848; Downloads: 0
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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 endsMy 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
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
furball-kun In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 20:48:07 +0000 UTC]
nah its cooler cuz its from your own mind
i like it, and not just cuz im in a sci-fi mood as of late. its very interesting and unique, ive been thinkin about the same idea but i could never figure out how the people could realistically make it work so i never really gave it life in any way shape of form
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Chromattix In reply to furball-kun [2010-05-22 03:14:56 +0000 UTC]
Well part of the fun of being an artist is to illustrate the impossible, dragons don't exist but people draw those for instance
Good luck, and thanks for faving
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furball-kun In reply to Chromattix [2010-05-22 03:31:38 +0000 UTC]
i suppose,though i like to keep laws of reality intact, dragons arent a physical impossibility, they just havent happened to of been.
aye quite welcome
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Sephirath21000 In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 20:26:13 +0000 UTC]
nonetheless: VERY AMAZINGLY Beautiful! I give it a 40/5 stars as my rating!
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Chromattix In reply to Sephirath21000 [2010-05-22 03:12:29 +0000 UTC]
Good question, even two in-sync planet orbits are bound to have slight wobbles and distance-shifts. Your idea of tracks for the towers to coast along sounds great actually, but my idea was the tower would be in segments that allow for some degree of bending, stretching and shrinking
Only 40 stars?...baaaaaw
Haha, glad you liked it
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Sephirath21000 In reply to Chromattix [2010-05-22 03:50:21 +0000 UTC]
I'd have given you stars, but I was afraid that my computer would burst into flames and explode like my pingas did last night!
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Sephirath21000 [2010-05-21 20:25:07 +0000 UTC]
Never before has it been encountered to see something like this, especially with a tidally-locked moon, but what if the gravity causes themoon to drift just slightly to one side, is there amulti-directional track that runs along the planet cities surface for such anevent: otherwise the structure is in peril as the cables that hold it in place will be sucked up into space while the body will de-segment itself and collapse to the planet and have it's parts raining down all over the city below?
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newyam In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 20:14:10 +0000 UTC]
Congrats to your DD! For this awesome masterpiece and all what you've done for us user, you really deserve it!
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Chromattix In reply to newyam [2010-05-22 03:09:05 +0000 UTC]
Thankyou very much I hate non-contributung artists regardless of their skill level, they always seem to eletist
I try to make a difference
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newyam In reply to Chromattix [2010-05-22 10:50:35 +0000 UTC]
But its also hard to talk with everyone, because I think you have now much fans/watchers, (including me )
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Montalve In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 20:09:52 +0000 UTC]
amazing work
the DD is quite deserved
congratz
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Montalve In reply to Chromattix [2010-05-22 08:05:07 +0000 UTC]
we well be pending for more fo your art
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InfiniteFruit In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 20:04:19 +0000 UTC]
...Wow, another Daily Deviation for you!
That's awesome, man.
And that is one BIG ladder.
I love it. The clouds far below make it feel so much more massive. You sure as hell know how to break the boundaries of traditional sci-fi stuff! Damn, I wish I was as good as you when it comes to huge scenes like this!
For now, I'll just stick to character design, like the one I'm currently working on...
Now I wish I had the buck$ to get this as a print! All I can say is GREAT JOB, man.
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Chromattix In reply to InfiniteFruit [2010-05-22 03:03:07 +0000 UTC]
Thnakyou for the compliments, and yes - clouds add a great sense of scale to anything, you can tell something is really high when it goes above the clouds
Eh, most traditional sci-fi stuff is boring and cliche, so I have to do something different otherwise I may not do it at all
Glad you even would consider a print anyway
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XerxesMrc In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 19:25:12 +0000 UTC]
I love fantasy and sci-fi themes. This is the masterpiece
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Chromattix In reply to XerxesMrc [2010-05-22 02:25:28 +0000 UTC]
It definetily makes for the coolest art subjects
Thanks for faving too
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Stigmartyr762 In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 18:19:59 +0000 UTC]
This is a brilliant painting of a Bean Stalk!
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Chromattix In reply to Stigmartyr762 [2010-05-22 02:08:16 +0000 UTC]
A very expensive, metal beanstalk
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Stigmartyr762 In reply to Chromattix [2010-05-22 12:49:34 +0000 UTC]
....and very pretty too.
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yunomee In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 17:27:24 +0000 UTC]
I dream of this kinda stuff! Very nice... it's like seeing my dream come true..
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Moonchilde-Stock In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 17:21:04 +0000 UTC]
Congratz my friend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is an amazing piece.
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Ayedail In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 16:39:36 +0000 UTC]
If only it were that simple to build a ladder to the moon but then again.. what's on the moon
awesomep painting man!
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Chromattix In reply to Ayedail [2010-05-22 01:27:53 +0000 UTC]
These guys have a much mor einteretsing moon, ours is only for for transporting rock and minerals to Earth and perhaps a dumping ground for the overpopulation issue
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Tatamae In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 16:31:20 +0000 UTC]
Creating a tale of a whole new world through your image. Captures my imagination and boggles the mind. But the spaceships seem very cylindrical.
On point of physics how does this ladder connected between two worlds? Should not the different orbit of the planet break the ladder?
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Chromattix In reply to Tatamae [2010-05-22 01:26:52 +0000 UTC]
Thanks, as for the spaceships I've neve rmade those before. Spaceships aren't usually my thing and I can't imagine doing many more even after this one
Both worlds orbit at the same rate, they always have the same sides facing each other, like Pluto and it's moon charon
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strawberryzombie In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 16:07:14 +0000 UTC]
how long took this to get done?
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Chromattix In reply to strawberryzombie [2010-05-22 01:14:56 +0000 UTC]
Probably 20-30 hours...spread out over the course of a few weeks hew:
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strawberryzombie In reply to Chromattix [2010-05-22 08:17:03 +0000 UTC]
geez, now i'm sure, that i'm imptient xDDDD
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solomon-russell In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 15:33:01 +0000 UTC]
Far out...literally
Seriously, nice job
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IevaPieva In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 15:07:47 +0000 UTC]
niiiiiiiiiiiice! An excellent work. Everything looks ok with the perspective, at least for me, you did a great job putting all this in one piece. I wonder for one thing only: how about the rotation? as planets rotate around their axes and moons rotate around the planets, right? But for the sake of the concept of this piece laws of nature can sometimes be ignored, i guess. And congrats on a well deserved dd! My hat off if a had it
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Chromattix In reply to IevaPieva [2010-05-21 15:24:23 +0000 UTC]
That's a good question though, it shows people consider the science, but I already have that covered
Both planets orbit and rotate at the same rate, realistically called "tidally-locked" because they're locked into the same positions relative to each other. Pluto and its moon Charon behave like this. Even so there's bound to be slight shifts in distance, so I'm guessing the tower would have segments or shafts that allow for some bending or stretching/compression
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IevaPieva In reply to Chromattix [2010-05-21 17:51:06 +0000 UTC]
ooh, thanks for lighting up that was interesting to find out
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