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Metametropolis
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Published: 2010-05-02 23:23:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 20980; Favourites: 1099; Downloads: 650
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Description
Their city just kept getting bigger and biggerβand there was only one solution: bigger people.--
Illustrator CS 4
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Comments: 75
It's an awful lot of vector shapes that is for sure, but can't really compare to the work in something like "paper planes" can it?
I agree with ~zedka your artwork descriptions are often works of art in themselves.
I am not sure I really get this image. I like the top half, but isometric feel of the bottom half leaves me feeling a bit blank.
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There is no perspective in Paper Planes, so the bricks and windows were more easily copied--this required lot of actual drawing, and muck less copying. Perspective is hard! Also, Paper Planes only required a few layers, because the drawing is mostly on one facade, this required dozens of layers to get the overlapping right.
The style was about being a bit retro-computer-gamey pixel-artish, so the isometric bottom half is the point!
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I am surprised there is no transform/scaling you can do on a completed layer to add the perspective after drawing in plan view.
I get the retro computer gaming thing. If only sim city looked that good.
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Illustrator CS5 has some interesting looking features like that, but CS4s perspective and distort tools are more of a pain than they're worth generally.
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The image is really great of course, but the description adds a very interesting meaning. Images that make you think are getting rare !
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whoa. love it...
interesting vision of a city, different from eboy's. a more muted take on a cityscape.
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i think they're a group of artists
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amazing, the depth to it is just so subtle. great choice using a really limited colour scheme too
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Mmm. That's a lot of windows.
Oranges-on-grey are a nice palette, too.
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Yeah it took a while... three years in fact!
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But the finished product is worth it!
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Heh. I've got a few pieces hanging around unfinished that way myself!
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Holy S@&T balls that's a whole lot of vector shapes!! Good piece, I like it a lot.
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The perspective is really stunning, and the softly glowing colors are so beautiful.
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