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Published: 2009-12-31 04:35:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 17088; Favourites: 232; Downloads: 1765
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I guess I'm on a bit of a spaceship trip lately... This is loosely inspired by the book Hyperion, although the tree-ship there is a whole other animal.Related content
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Wow!
A great picture of the Treeship Yggdrasill
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looks awesome! it kinda reminds me of the latest star treck movie ...
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Love this one - its a really unique looking ship!
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i like this its going to give me dreams tonight, you know when images give you dream ideas and theyre good
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Now that. That is cool. Especially the exhaust in its purpleness. So cool. Love all the motion.
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hey, are you going for the eve online ship making competition?
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I've actually done a bunch of thumbnails in a sketchbook, dialing in on a design... Hopefully I have time to put it together.
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Amazing job! The Hyperion Cantos are the best books ever.
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Thanks! Yeah, definitely some of my favorite sci-fi.
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Oh, I get what you mean! The original one had leaves and rotated, right? Yours is like a smoother/sleeker version than the one in the book. Ever think of drawing it just like the book? lol, that would take a while. I just love the shape and glow of the engines. When I think of the tree ship, I can help but tink of roots when I see the strands of light coming out of the engines.
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Yeah, from what I understand in the book, those tree-ships were pretty much just trees with "Hawking drives" that powered them, whatever that means... Kinda crazy if you ask me, but eh, it's sci-fi.
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lmao! I'm gonna write a book where you don't need to say "eh", you'll be like "oh...he actually explained it!" But I have to admit, I'm reading the book just for the fact that it has a freaking tree ship.
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This is an very intriguing piece, which gives a more unique perspective on space travel. Actually, I like the ambiguity in what the ship might be made of, although I at first thought 'tree' later I wondered about 'rock' like some others who commented. I don't think plant life clinging to the outside is necessary, though it would be another interesting spin. Faved.
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Thank you very much for the feedback! I kinda want to do another iteration of this at some point... Right now I feel like it's just a giant tree-stump with nonsensical fins floating in space, but I'm glad others find it interesting as is!
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May I use this in a video? If so I will give you credit if you want it so
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What kind of video? I don't mind if it's not for commercial/profit purposes.
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Well its a non commercial video that is basically a music video to a song, I show images of what is similar to what I see in my mind's eye when i listen to the song. Does that explain it for you?
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Sounds pretty cool! Yeah, feel free to use my image, but I'd appreciate a reference to kryoth.com in case you become rich and famous
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Certainly 
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totally awe inspiring-i've seen bio or organic type ships before-heck even i do them-with animal like patterns or scaling on them, but never anything like this before, with a wood look, brings a new meaning to the word driftwood, hehe, and yes the engine exhaust is equally cool.
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Haha, thank you very much! This was something completely different for me too
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This is just spectacular 
I haven't been commenting on deviations lately...but I had to here!
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Thank you very much! I'm truly humbled to see such positive comments, gives me all the more desire to get better
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I know the feeling.
But it really is a good work. And a very good design.
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Actually when I first saw it it screamed stone to me instead of tree but hey, who am I to say? It could probably use some rogue strands of tree stuff, like roots or something, coming off in areas. Or maybe that would make it look like moss covered rock to me. Either way it looks awesome, and that exhaust, oh dear god that exhaust is bloody wicked. It looks like its making its own nebula in order to propel it forward. I like that.
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Haha yeah, I could've done a better job of designing the ship to be more like a tree - the fins in particular don't make sense to me, and like you said, some stands/branches/etc. would've helped. Thank you very much for the feedback!
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nice ship ! and nice engine ! the background is not my fav color
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Thanks! Yeah, I should've played around with hue/saturation a bit on the background...
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you really nailed the in-space-feel. i really dig the engine exhaust. it's pretty interesting. the ship itself has a lot of texture. if you ignore the bottom fins, it looks a lot like a tree. the swirling light of the nebula really sells the whole image.
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Haha now that you mention it, the fins look really out of place here with a tree theme, oh well
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This is beautiful! There seems like there could be a cool story in this. Nice composition.
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Thanks! Yeah, I think the fact that there was a bit of inspiration from a book really helped me here.
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I would write a criticque if i could.
This is amazing.
The lighgt is beutiful and the
movement of the picture is amazing.
the shape is awesome and the colors are perfect. 5 stars
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Wow thank you very much!
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You deserve it!
ur welcome!
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