Fantasy Mountains

Aside from the deviantart logon watermark on it, this image is just beautiful. The lush green environment mixed with the housing built into the mountains there is something I wish I could see in real life today. If only, if only. Believe it or not, the artist did this in a matte painting followed by an IFX tutorial. Upon looking into it, I found an IFX was actually ImagineFX. A site and magazine dedicated to scifi and fantasy and more types of art. They even have tutorials I hear. I would check it out further but I can not draw or let alone paint so I will leave it up to the readears here to go check this out.

Photomanipulation-Angel of Death

This image looks dark yet cool doesn't it. This is done in photoshop merely by using photomnaiplation. Photo-manipulation is when you use pre-existing images and/or photos to create something new while editing them to blend in with each other and not clash so it is obvious. Three images were used here and then using photoshop the desginer added effects like fire to the buolding some color and blending. All so it would match up into his title and theme. At the bottom of this post are the three images he used. I like this piece because of it's dark theme and great blended environment. It really gives off the feel of darkness and destructions of the modern day.

Images used:

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/3483/wallpaperprototype07128qj5.jpg
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/6567/stock10ds0.jpg
http://alexiuss.deviantart.com/art/Antecedent-Terminus-72614364

Smooth Transisting Animation

This is the current opening sequence to an Anime I watch. Usually the shows has some cheesy opening with some basic animation, but the opening here is like movie quality for anime. The animation is just so smooth and everything. Personally, this is the best opening in both series of the show. This is the 6th opening of the long running series. Also, the dark contrasting with minor fully, vivid, and bright colors was very interesting in the beginning. As well as the dark style of animation halfway through the video. The manga started back in 1999 and it's 10th birthday already passed. It is very popular all over the world and is still continuing to this day. Hopefully the opening's animation will be used in the show because it has been getting some choppy animation a lot recently.

Epsilon Lyrae: The Product of PSD Collaboration

This picture is aaaaaaaaammaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-zing! The great colors and contrast! The surreal and dreamy effects and lok. I love it all. The city or whatever it is on the cliff side and planes, flying machines, making the streams in the air are all just awesome. My favorite part though has to be the back of the image on the right. It looks like the sunset is on fire! The interesting par tthough is that this was a collaboration between two people on deviantart. Akajork and Pr3t3nd3r shifted a PSD between each other for about a month to get this result. Two great people put their abilities together and made something even better. I believe this would be a great thing for something like 201. Two People shifting a file back and forth, even if we are not the greatest artists, to get a better result. Two heads are better than one sometimes and this picture here shows it. You can get more out of a friend.

On the Road Again

Expect to see a few more Wen-jr pieces in the future. Like the Cold Heart Fury picture, elements in the piece here are rendered in a modeling program and some in photoshop. The motorcycle and the man here are modeled. They are VERY well done and this is why I like it. It gives the picture here the feel of him driving at great speed. The background is part photograph and part edited in photoshop. With that you can tell how real it looks because of how it just fits in. The renders and the background have little to not txture contrast level so it looks like it is in the same place and they are not fake. A very good piece.

Cold Heart Fury

There is a lot of blue but I really like this picture. I like most of this guy's work though. The contrast and color are just working with each other to make an epic picture. The swirl of water behind here is well done. She also has a huge sword so that helps make it even more epic. The female here is really well done as well. How he did this was thta he made the person in a modeling program and then used other programs such as photoshop to add the other effects. Though I do not have a quote for this, on his page you can see an example of how he does, actually multiple examples, where he has the models of some of his work posted on how he did it. I can not post them here since some of them have nudity since that is how a modeling program does it. This is one thing I hope to learn how to do in college next to making them for video games.

Abstractness

I like this design because of the tons of different colors and the shape. The bakground is pretty soothing as well. However if you look closely, you can see a bird shape to it. That is th true intention of this artist. On the artist's deviant art, he made this to enter a Large art contest on a forum he goes to. I found this piece by browsing that forum. Which it is planetrenders.net. This is an abstract piece and these can sometimes be hard to read. I would not have noticed the bird without reading the discription that is an animal. The artist name is huMAC and his deviant art has other nice images you should check out. According to him, it is apparently "a Philippine epic book."