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Published: 2010-05-17 03:26:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 66411; 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

rugia-chan In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 12:02:24 +0000 UTC]

this is so cool ;u; i love the moon, its clouds and landmasses look excellent. love the atmosphere on the planet, too.

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Chromattix In reply to rugia-chan [2010-05-21 12:16:56 +0000 UTC]

Thankyou, who knows which one is the moon yeah I spent some time on those clouds/planets to get them just the way I wanted

Thanks for faving

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Yondercat In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 11:56:13 +0000 UTC]

that is cool

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where-to-next In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 11:53:29 +0000 UTC]

very nice work mate

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Sniper115A3 In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 11:42:33 +0000 UTC]

Congrats on getting DD
You must be getting like 400 messages after every 10 minutes. I cant even imagine how you handle that..

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Chromattix In reply to Sniper115A3 [2010-05-21 11:46:59 +0000 UTC]

Haha, it's not too bad - it's more 30 messages for every 10 minutes, I just keep refreshing and checking them momentarily as I work on other stuff

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zJoriz In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 11:09:49 +0000 UTC]

Very impressive paintwork! love the concept and even more how it looks.

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Chromattix In reply to zJoriz [2010-05-21 11:21:58 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, concepts are always nice, but one can't use it as an excuse for not making the work look the best they can

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zJoriz In reply to Chromattix [2010-05-21 11:44:13 +0000 UTC]

There you go ^_^

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Wytherwing In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 11:08:57 +0000 UTC]

fantastic concept and artwork... congrats on your well-deserved DD!

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Chromattix In reply to Wytherwing [2010-05-21 11:20:36 +0000 UTC]

Thankyou

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Wytherwing In reply to Chromattix [2010-05-21 11:30:38 +0000 UTC]

you are absolutely welcome

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gygyman In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 09:47:24 +0000 UTC]

This very nice, I like the background, I like to imagine how a view from that tower will be if it was real. The city looks like Coruscant from Star Wars.

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Chromattix In reply to gygyman [2010-05-21 09:51:07 +0000 UTC]

I imagine the view would be great, and eerily calm asides from the odd spaceship going past here and there The ever-changing light and weather conditions and the moving of the tower's shadow on the planets would also be quite spectacular

Thanks for faving

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LionBeef In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 09:22:51 +0000 UTC]

holy cow! Aussies are good at this art thing is seems! : D great work!

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Materia-Arts In reply to LionBeef [2010-05-21 11:08:18 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, we are not all brutes and convicts you know

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Chromattix In reply to LionBeef [2010-05-21 09:38:30 +0000 UTC]

Really? the amount of good Australian artists I find on this site is disappointingly low, seems 90% of Australian deviants only do photography

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LionBeef In reply to Chromattix [2010-05-21 09:49:32 +0000 UTC]

...LOL! XD

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SilEnigmaArts In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 09:06:32 +0000 UTC]

A great big congrats on the DD Matthew !!

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Chromattix In reply to SilEnigmaArts [2010-05-21 09:09:56 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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chromic7sky In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 08:39:05 +0000 UTC]

Star wars!!!

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Silver--Sky In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 08:04:48 +0000 UTC]

Wow, fantastic detail!!

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thraxllisylia In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 08:02:29 +0000 UTC]

congratulations on a stunning DD mathew. Very strong colouration as usual and nicely designed architecture.

well done

Marley

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Chromattix In reply to thraxllisylia [2010-05-21 08:41:08 +0000 UTC]

I actually thought the colours were pretty dull compared to my usual

Thanks! Man I hate building buildings, no wonder why I do it so rarely

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ErikShoemaker In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 07:29:42 +0000 UTC]

I thought there was limit on DDs, but obviously there isn't congrats on your 8th DD O_O Well deserved!

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Chromattix In reply to ErikShoemaker [2010-05-21 07:36:29 +0000 UTC]

I thought there was after I got my third, I'm glad there wasn't since now that so much time has passed my first 3 DD's certainly aren't my best works anymore Then I was proven otherwise by being showed a graphic or web-designer whose been around virtually since day one here, who had like...13 of them!

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ErikShoemaker In reply to Chromattix [2010-05-21 13:27:49 +0000 UTC]

wow 13
8 was definitely the most I've seen so far

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Chromattix In reply to ErikShoemaker [2010-05-21 13:47:03 +0000 UTC]

I wish I could remember who it was...^gucken was the one who told me, but that was back in 2007 or 2008, so he might know or he might have forgotten. He told me after I made a journal celebrating my 3rd Daily Deviation showing concern for the fact that I thought three was the limit, since until then the most I've seen in anyone's gallery was 3

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ErikShoemaker In reply to Chromattix [2010-05-21 17:37:38 +0000 UTC]

hehe if it was in 2007 this guy might have even more by now O.O lol

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Alosa In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 07:21:38 +0000 UTC]

Congratulation to DD

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Chromattix In reply to Alosa [2010-05-21 07:24:04 +0000 UTC]

Thankyou!

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QAuZ In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 07:04:59 +0000 UTC]

Omg, congrats man I want this have like millions of favs

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Chromattix In reply to QAuZ [2010-05-21 07:22:37 +0000 UTC]

A million might be expecting too much a thousand would be good though thanks!

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QAuZ In reply to Chromattix [2010-05-21 08:09:40 +0000 UTC]

If that's so, then I wish it get around 6000 favs

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Exillior In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 07:03:25 +0000 UTC]

Congrats on the DD!

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Chromattix In reply to Exillior [2010-05-21 07:22:02 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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EniBelle In reply to ??? [2010-05-21 00:19:38 +0000 UTC]

Whoa, this is just such an interesting and cool sci-fi concept.
And as usual, your art is amazing and full of detail, too.

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Chromattix In reply to EniBelle [2010-05-21 02:18:28 +0000 UTC]

Thankyou very much

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EniBelle In reply to Chromattix [2010-05-22 04:35:04 +0000 UTC]

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IceCoffin In reply to ??? [2010-05-20 18:22:54 +0000 UTC]

Can I go live there, now? I love this so much!

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Chromattix In reply to IceCoffin [2010-05-21 01:53:41 +0000 UTC]

If you can travel to any part of the galaxy that has it, then be my guest

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ktlong In reply to ??? [2010-05-20 16:30:32 +0000 UTC]

Wow! Really fantastic image. Beautiful work!!

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Dygera In reply to ??? [2010-05-20 15:11:19 +0000 UTC]

Wow^^

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PhoenixGR In reply to ??? [2010-05-20 11:29:33 +0000 UTC]

i wander what their god would have to say about all this.
Since our god didnt even let us build Babel

Stunning work,as always but it seems kinda like the gap between the 2 worlds is too small,almost like one planet is going to crash into the other(moon).
I guess however its all in the perspective ure using

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Chromattix In reply to PhoenixGR [2010-05-20 11:41:30 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, the scale isn't as "big" as I hoped for, they would be super-close.

Hmm, I neve rknew that about Babel, I just think God dosn't wnat us accomplishing too much, it's like how some parents hate seeing their kids become smarter and more successful than they are

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PhoenixGR In reply to Chromattix [2010-05-20 17:29:03 +0000 UTC]

couldnt u have done it on higher resolutions? or at least stretch the image's size a bit?

what? u seriously havent heard of Babel? of all the stories in the bible?
I think its more like people who have power (religion-parents) dont what us doing things that are above them

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wiz2525 In reply to ??? [2010-05-20 07:57:01 +0000 UTC]

VERY NICE!

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popolollie In reply to ??? [2010-05-20 03:49:42 +0000 UTC]

that looks soooo kwl!!!! i'm bow to ur skills lol

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jon-rista In reply to ??? [2010-05-20 03:47:46 +0000 UTC]

Amazing work! I have always loved the concept of a space elevator, but a complete connection between celestial bodies is a nice, unique new twist on the concept. The detail is great, and scale is well represented.

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Chromattix In reply to jon-rista [2010-05-20 05:26:48 +0000 UTC]

Same, even though I've only know of space elevators for a few years - I hope they can build one before I die but never before have I seen one between two worlds...oh the ridiculous amount of resources they will need I'm gld you think its good

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