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Floating Fish
Published: 2008-01-25 10:46:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 313775; Favourites: 15541; Downloads: 10670
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This was made for CGSociety's "Strange Behaviour" Challenge. The story goes: In vertical oriental cities, gas-filled floating fish are commonly used for cargo transport. Being very docile creatures, they normally create no fuss. They glide slowly though the crowded markets, letting themselves be steered by their drivers to their docking stations deep within the city. But then once in a while a fish panics in the narrow passages and tries to get away, shaking off the little people climbing all over it and tearing down wooden bridges and market stands. Such behaviour is considered unacceptable and most strange. This painting depicts one such event.Related content
Comments: 824
I love the creativity and imagination it took to crate this. Your color palette for this piece works perfect harmony. This is excellent work, and is my favorite of all of your work posted here.
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wow i couldn't imagine all those little wooden bridges with no hand rails or anything, beautiful work, it certainly has a very fantasy world feel without being cliche and boring.
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The story is really good and the picture deffinetly captures that.
Beautiful
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Claustrophobic floating fish...
This is a really great piece, I enjoy the idea and the way the city looks.
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wow, great concept and you explained it so well
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i don't know why, but it made me chuckle when i saw this for the first time
i love your style, as well as the whole story.
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This is amazimg <3
the details are the best, and its so...origional. I love the close up of the person in the foreground. <3
great work.
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unbelievable, what a GREAT work, such an imagination... unbelievable
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The fishes expression is perfect xD. Its like, a cross between 'omgwtf' and 'GTFO'.....
the rest of the painting is nice too. :B
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It reminds of something from Studio Ghibli. Great concept.
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Awsome technique and idea. 
It easily coud be a scene from a Hayao Miyazaki story, which I like very much...
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This blows my mind, the amount of detail and the amount of work that went into this... man. You definitely have skill that I must strive for.
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snap! now who's gonna pick up after all those fish? nice job! XD!
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This is amazing. All the colors you used on the fish and the detail! You can see the brush strokes, but it just makes the picture come alive even more! The idea is very unique and so is your painting. Congrats on the DD.
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Oh wow. Really reminds me of Shaun Tan. Cool
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I just love the perspective view in this painting. Great job on the coloring too <3
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I can't even imagine attempting something of this proportion! You totally blew me away. I'm totally stunned. Amazing creation!
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LOVE it~! great imagination, i would love to see that scene in aan animated movie. could be a great story here ^^
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I dreamed something like this once. I remeber how I terrifies I was, seeing flyingfish. I thought they there to kill everyone. Seeing this feels good to think I only had some sort of "deja vu" experience! It looks great!
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This reminds me a little of Howl's Moving Castle; the gorgeous detail, the Miyazaki-like perspective and rendering of the fish, and, of course, the strangeness of it all . . . excellently well done, and well deserving of its DD.
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cool! that is so original... *goes to peek in gallery* 
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I can certainly imagine that happening. I read the author comments. Humans usually make the stupid mistakes in trying to domesticate any and all animals.
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