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Legendary Ladder
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 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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Very well thought out! And awesome art!
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That was an easy favorite. I've seen one or two examples of space ladders, but this is the first one I've seen done with so much devotion and effort applied. You've built not only a spectacular example of sci-fi art, but a facinating place that one can explore. After all, I'm curious as to who made this tower and what their united worlds are like. That's a sign of accomplishment. When you're audience is left wanting more.
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I havn't seen many either, admittedly some others though are more realistic, but I've never been the one to go for full-one realism and favour a bit of a far-out approach that could still be believed by a creative mind
One can bet in order for such a huge task to be done, their nations or even neighbouring worlds would have reached a state of universal co-operation since I think this would require resources and efforts from around the planet, sadly I think if such a thing wa sbuilt on Earth today, it'll probably be treated as a big, fat "screw you" to other nations 
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*mouth hangs open*
You.Are.Amazing!!!
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I... don't know how to say this.... it's just purely an Awesome Job......
The clouds looks more than real painting, the earth was just the same as what people would see from the outer-space, the spaceships are as if they really are a design from an alien race, the buildings are as real as real estates, and whoa yeah it is an Awesome Job!
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Thanks! glad you took the time to notice everything, I guess my spaceships look alien since I don't know enough about what makes a successful Earth vehicle yet, could never get into that stuff 
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it's so beautiful and peaceful i love to what you have done to everything wanna put this in my faves.
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you're very welcome do you like working for 3D movie
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I've never worked for a movie
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a video/computer game
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Nope, not that either
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commercials/ads?
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I've done a poster to advertise something, but the bastard didn't pay me for it
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that's harsh did you report him? That also happened to me I was asked to make a sketch design for our class shirt so i worked hard for it i mean very hard with extreme designs (The design looks like Oxygen) but then it turns out that it'll not be used because it's so expensive and now it's my fault I was so frustrated with that because they're putting the blame on me that it's my fault that i used so many designs that it costs a lot I just can't fight them because they are so many and I'm only one wishing someone could understand me how hard it is to make and think designs I understand their statement that don't have much money to pay the cost but blaming is a no no I was just doing my work! I wanted to cry but i cried so many times so I have to be strong and i didn't but deep inside i hate them the most.
Sorry for the long story
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Like you, I'm powerless to do anything 
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but you're not a student like me and you already have the right to do that.
And oh what do you mean by "I could sue e'm for a fortune that's why I've kept the art and e-mails as proof"
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I mean that later when I can afford lawyers I can sue them since I had proof they said they were going to pay me and they used the art and I didn't get a CENT!
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what was that poster for?
what is the product they advertise?
And the name of the company/industry famous to the people?
And It's good that you kept those evidences for your future use. I hope that you'll get a good lawyer. (Sure that bastard really pirated your work)
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It was advertising a big, bi-yearly club event. And the company that runs and promotes the events really is only known in Australia and only in a few cities...but still, they make tens of thousands of dollars out of these huge parties, they could have EASILY afforded to pay me by now
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yeah if they could earn tens of thousands of dollars why would they pirate your art without paying you?
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'Cause they suck, that's why.
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Oh there's a new way for you not to be cheated like that wanna know?
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OK then, how? But if it's not giving the finished peice until after payment - then I have learned that now
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Well my trick was the percent down payment thing. (Do you know that?)
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I sthat where you ask for a certain percent of the sales from anything involving the art? if so then in some ways it's good, but people can also lie and say they havn't made much sales
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No what I mean was for example they asked you to make certain product and they asked you how much is that product costs so you give 500AUD but before you work on that project you'll be asking a down payment of 50% so it's 250AUD if they accepted to pay the 50% then work on it because the truth is 250AUD is the original price of the product and the other half was just an interest and if they were able to take the prod w/o paying the other half then it's ok because they paid for the original price.(That system of what malls do here I just don't know for the other countries) And be aware of the deadline of submission. I hope this helps
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wow amazing imgae added to favourites
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The space elevator of ΠΠΎΠ½ΡΡΠ°Π½ΡΠΈΜΠ½ Π¦ΠΈΠΎΠ»ΠΊΠΎΜΠ²ΡΠΊΠΈΠΉ (hey, I fnally figured out hot to use the cyrillic option) is one of my favourite concepts in space exploration and science fiction.
This is by far the most beautiful rendering I have ever seen.
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Yeah, it's an amazing concept, there's still lots of potential problems that technology needs to overcome today, but a real one would be a breathtaking sight
I'm glad you like it so much, thanks for faving too!
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Awesome tones and great detail!
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The moon looks a bit unauthentic to me, the space ships simple, could have more polycounts
the earth do not rlly fit into it would look better without or maybe smaller so there is a bigger feeling of distance.
i think u chosed the right cathegoria. coz i see more postwork than 3D. so right choise.
the modeling isnt that great but u have nice matte painting skills.
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There's only so much polygons I can give to objects on my computer before everything starts going ridiculously slow, so a lot of my models are low-poly and I just edit them back to quality in Photoshop. I've had significantly more practice in digital painting than 3D. I can't really afford proffessional training in 3D like I would like to have 
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yea man i mean u should start getting better PC then!
u can do awesome stuff with 3d progs srsly.
i mean by that success u seem to have with your art u should collect some moeny to buy better engine.. thats teh point... actually i like traditional painting more because no limits.
thats the problem with PC-involved "art"
though c4d is easy prog to learn.. but i heard vue loves to crash in important moments so i heard u need much patience for vue, or?
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All correct, C4D is the most user-friendly program (that isn't crap 
Yeah, Vue is otherwise good at handling huge polygons counts, rendering infitely-detailed terrains and effects like volumetric clouds, but at the cost of stability - it does crash a lot unless you have a real beast of a computer
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yea teh anger seems to be very huge with vue heard a lot
c4d is such an easy programm for beginners and professionals. but i ahve seen no real professional who made an organic render (i count aging processes to organic, like rotten wood or old houses, old beton, leaking n stuff) that looks awesome without postwork. i wish i could paint digital as good as u. actually traditional painting is more easy to me, but how to handle with grafic tablett? u have some tips to beginn with?
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Yeah, I see very few organic things done in C4D, I can make tree's and plants in it, but only when I need a certain shape or tree type that can't be done in Vue's plant editor but it takes hours 
I got my tablet in late 2008 so I spent many years with the mouse beforehand. The tablet was pretty quick to learn, just a week of practicing and I got started on my first proper peice with it. But it does feel different than traditional art, but still way closer to traditional than drawing by mouse 
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yea there u r right dude, i mean traditional art is still the direct art, from mind to paper. guess thats the biggest difference to digital art, muc more expressen, not so much planing n stuff, and less frustration if OC jumps out of the window or hang up itself. I guess practicing is the onliest way to get started.
actually organic modeling is suicide for the most home computers
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Well done Mathew congratulations m8
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Looks like deviantART finally graces a `priteenerd with a well deserved DD. 
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lol, you knew it was coming eventually with the response this piece had already received.
Grats man on yet another feature. ;D
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Thankyou, it wa smy first submission in a while too, so I guess this makes up for a slack period of time before, at least I have something new for later, but I'd better wait for this to settle first
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