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Sarapsys — attempt at a clockwork tower redesign
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Published: 2012-12-06 04:40:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 4430; Favourites: 215; Downloads: 15
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well, i want to have clockwork's tower as part of this cover for 's infinite potential , but the tower in the show is very swiss-mechanical-clocks-only (and has a bit of a case of Giant Random Winged Skullsitis), and i thought it might be cool to incorporate some other timekeeping devices. so in there are bits and pieces of a su song water clock, a couple types of sundial, and an armillary sphere.now alls i gotta do is wreck it
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No words of how AWESOME this is. I just LOVE the design!
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Amazing work
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Ooh! 
This is gorgeous, I love it! All the lovely swirls and arcs make it such a nicely balanced piece. It has all those beautiful touches like the details on the spheres, those spires on the bottom and that water dropping off into space, very nice. The colors are very GZ and give it a great sense of otherwordly light. I think it resembles the original tower enough to be recognized as CW's (though honestly who else would live in a giant clock in the GZ?), and not a scythe or random skull in sight.
The only thing I would say concritwise is that maybe you could imply the scale better? I didn't realize how freakin' huge this thing was until my third look at it when I was searching for the entrance and noticed the double doors tucked into the bottom. Maybe using some cooler tones on the parts further away or putting mist around it to give it a sense of receding into space could help. Also it might not look as cool, but if the parts seen through the glass of the tower were more obviously stairs that could give us some indicator of size. Just a thought.
-Hj
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thanks!! i think i will make some adjustments to it, add a few more loops or make the existing ones a little bigger relative to the tower itself, just so i can believably have more rubble lying around, but i'm loving the general idea so far
honestly i don't really have much of an idea of the scale yet :\ i was mostly throwing pieces together to see what the silhouette looked like at this point, and decided to throw in one of those cool liquify tricks in the back just for kicks. expect to see a v2 once my life calms down slightly XD
i'm a little on the fence about the scale, just bc it seems a little inconsistent in the show. other than the door we have no real idea of the internal structure of the keep at the bottom there, or what goes on inside. the room behind the clockface is what we always see, and what we see in there is inconsistent - sometimes it's a room with really high stone arches, sometimes it looks almost like Clockwork is hanging out with his viewer on a tiny island 'outside' in the ghost zone, or like the floor kind of breaks away into void. based on a shot we see of Danny + co looking out the clockface i'd hazard a guess that the tower room is maybe 20 feet floor-to-ceiling but only perhaps 6 paces across. on the inside though it seems to have a lot more floorspace than that. so really i kind of want to scrap any attempt to make the scale true to canon and just stick with "really big", i think. anyway, the misty thing and the stairs things i totally agree with and will probably do in final drafts
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I have the utmost confidence in your tweaking skillz.
Hmm, looking back at the original, maybe it's a little too slender? The old design kind of bulged at the bottom and that made it look more weighty.
-Hj
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the keep/base you mean? i did make the casing wider to make the whole thing a bit more obelisky :\ i think the base might need to make up more of the height of the thing though, and i might add more construction and arches and junk.
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Yesh. Though I know practically nothing of architecture so I'm just throwing random thoughts at you...
-Hj
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Magnificent. I love the whole clock-like appearance of this, and you even included the general spookiness of the Ghost Zone.
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