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Published: 2012-06-18 01:38:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 55163; Favourites: 2974; Downloads: 0
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The classic apple tree, an iconic symbol of fertility, prosperity and in some cases - even the earliest days of man. Here in a controlled keepsafe to give it optimum conditions. But one has to wonder, is this the first tree that ever existed, synthesized by another species? Or is it humanity desperately trying to save one of the last?This is my first of three submissions to the latest exhibit for the Luminarium's latest Gaia theme. Which I also proudly made it as the featured artist for the exhibit too and got interviewed, which can be seen here [link]
Created using Cinema 4D, Vue and Photoshop. I ran into a lot of issues with this one, being my last "complex" scene done entirely on my old computer. I owe a thanks to ~Kaioshen who rendered the Vue file for me since I would have been waiting days if I left it to my old system.
Other artworks will be uploaded in the coming days. I just don't believe in dumping a bunch of work at one. Let people digest one apple before feeding them the next
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Great concept and execution, man. One of the best pieces from the release for sure.
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Cool! Glad you think so. They chose this one as one of their featured pieces for it too
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Rofl, my wife loved this. Now she wants an appletree in a bubble for her birthday.
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The tree could be a realistic gift, as long as you have some yard space or a big pot 
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The bubble is nonnegotiable! Look what you have done
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Noo they grabbed the squirells house from spongebob...lol just kidden..its wonderful
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I guess Sandy really has to move back to Texas now
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This is great!!!!!!! btw what computer specs do you have now? I am thinking of getting a new one myself.
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It says I have two 2.20gz processors, but what I 👍: 0 ⏩: 1
The screen size is 13" wide (actual screen, not including frame) which is still the same as the last one, but at least it's not smaller. I would have liked a bigger screen but the only way to get one on an equally-powerful machine was to fork over another $1000...damn computers are expensive 
Render times have increased significantly though. A test render I did on the same Vue scene file on both computers (with nothing else open or running) had the old computer take 7 minutes to complete and the new one about 20 seconds 
that is what I thought. I saw one with similar i7 processors and 16GB ram now all i have to decide if I want to pay a lot more for an NVIDIA card or go with the Radeon one.So far I am looking at around 1500.US.
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I still get one message in Vue that says I don't have the correct drivers to use it in it's proper, hardware-accelerated mode. Which was kinda a kick in the balls after forking out $1600 for a new computer (and that was after a 20% discount due to a sale they had!) I can still use Vue and it renders really fast - but the actual operating of it when I do stuff isn't much better due to having insufficient drivers...And I'm no tech-head either so I don't know what drivers it does want and how I get/install them
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Can you contact the makers of Vue and ask,,, or if you go to Facebook and ask Dax Pandhi (he is an expert and beta tests and creates things for the program) he is nukeation here on dA but rarely hangs here anymore.
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Yeah I noticed he hasn't uploaded or updated in a few years, which is sad since he was valued among the Vue community. And I was one of his earliest watchers, he and I were always letting each other in on our experiments and ideas 
I don't have Facebook though, never cared enough about anyone or anything to sign up to that monstrous waste of time
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he is still doing a lot of work and working the Vue community and Cornucopia too.. he worked on BSG
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Ooh, nice. Wish I had something like that.
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This looks fantastic.
Would love to have one of these for real, in bonsai size.
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I think I saw someone create a bonsai in a sphere on here before...but they said it died 
Who knows, it could be done, but I think for a few hours of the day the top would need to be removed so the tree can "breathe", but it's not really the same. All I can suggest is using a fake tree that won't die
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I'm gonna go with the last option. Mostly because it reminds me of a story I want to create. The tree looks so lush and the apples delicious! I'd love to have a nap under it :3
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Good luck with the story 
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Thanks! And your welcome
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I LOVE it Matthew! 
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My immediate thought was this would be our future. It's sad but holds hope. Nice work, Matthew!
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I suppose nature on life support is still better than dead
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This is so beautiful.
Haha, I prefer the synthesized by aliens explanation of this. XD
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Same here. More optimistic, and it's cool to think we're the result of some alien experiment, which would make them almost a god-like entity
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Looks very cool.
Are the details on the walls modeled or just a texture?
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Modeled 
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That's alot of work put into it. It all turned out nice!
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This reminds me of Portal... don't ask why
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I haven't played that, but I know it contains a lot of high-tech machinery
There's two types of futures I guess, the grungy dystopian future which is usually more popular in sci-fi games, movies and art. And then there's the super clean, shiny, high-tech future that I actually prefer
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I'm sure the dystopia would be the least preferable to anyone but an evil mastermind <.<
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This is cool, reminds me of the movie "The Fountain" with Hugh Jackman. In particular the "future/dream self and the tree" scenes.
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Hmm, never heard of that actually
Actually I think I may have heard of it, but I haven't seen it
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It's a good movie, you might like it. [link] I have it on DVD.
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We might have it too (my parent's DVD collection is ridiculous...all they do for fun is watch movies 
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While it's romantic in a way, it's more mythological oriented than actually being a romance movie. It's more about the romance of the soul and the lives of the soul than anything else. At least that's my interpretation of it anyway.
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Very creative concept!
Amazing details as always and I love how you did the tree. <3
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Thanks! The tree is a mix of 3D and digital painting
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...How the heck do you do it??! Instead of choosing priteeboy, you should have
called yourself magicman! o.o Once again, you've blown my mind to smithereens!
In other words; This is clever and breathtaking.
picture of the scene. Extremely impressive as always. ^^
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I could have called myself a lot of things, but a lot of names were taken
Thanks for the compliment
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I was thinking of doing a drawing like this awhile back before I stopped drawing, but your version is a LOT better than the one I was thinking of in my head. The apples area a great touch.
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That happens to me sometimes. It's only after I saw someone else do the same thing I only thought about that I wished I actually did it, since that means I couldn't claim the concept even though I had it in mind first
Glad you liked this. It needed more colour than just green and grey, the apples were chosen instead of flowers since they seemed more traditional, and I have heaps of flowering trees in my gallery but not fruiting ones
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Exactly, seeing your version makes my want to actually get back into drawing and attempt it, but if I did, I'd feel like it was a clone, or go out of my way to do everything completely unlike yours.
How'd you make the tree? did you model that or is it a plug-in?
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