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AC CHALLENGE Thread 18: Back to the Retrofuture [ VOTE ]
Angel_of_Bacon
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AbdulthenNewt
Thane
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Guy Bell
Man, the future used to be awesome. Flying cars, nuclear cars, flying trains, airships, moonbases- it had it all.
Your challenge is to illustrate your idea of what today should have been, if we hadn't fucked it all up somehow. Or, what you think the future would be like, if we stopped all being wannabe TV stars and started being dopey but optimistic scientists again.
Topic Links!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retro-futurism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama_%28New_York_World%27s_Fair%29
http://jalopnik.com/5414529/ford-fx+atmos-or-zis+112
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon
~ BI-WEEKLY (aka, bi-monthly) CHALLENGE THREAD ~
For those of you who frequent the conceptart.org forums this should be pretty familiar; tens of artistic combatants thrown together in to an artistic arena, each struggling for the honor of being dubbed a master of the visual arts. Those of you who succeed will be bathed in glory and the blood of their competitors, those of you who fail will be exiled to a life of shame and isolation.
The aim of this thread is to try and spice things up a bit here in the ol' Artist's Corner. This thread is for entries in to the challenge or the discussion thereof. If you'd like to suggest a topic for the weekly challenge, go right ahead, but understand that the last winner of the challenge has total control over the task (unless they have won more than two challenges in a row, see rules).
The rules are simple;
RULES:
* One entry per person, per challenge.
* A contestant cannot win more than two challenges in a row.
* Winner gets the privilege of choosing the next challenge.
* At the end of a challenge, the thread is locked and a new one is begun.
* Stick to the challenge topic; no going off on a tangent.
* All formats welcome, whether they be traditional or digital; 2D or 3D; still or animated.
If you're looking for inspiration, check out the aforementioned conceptart.org forums (specifically the creature/environment/character of the week sections).
CHALLENGE 1: Hidden World
CHALLENGE 2: Red Vs Blue
CHALLENGE 3: Satan Teapot
CHALLENGE 4: Crime Fighting Hobo
CHALLENGE 5: Universal Monsters
CHALLENGE 6: Lyric Interpretation
CHALLENGE 7: Santa vs Dinos
CHALLENGE 8: Retro Poster
CHALLENGE 9: Literal Literature
CHALLENGE 10: Choose! Choose the form of the destructor!
CHALLENGE 11: Heroes In a Half Shell
CHALLENGE 12: Fancy Hats
CHALLENGE 13: God Splicing
CHALLENGE 14: Copycats
CHALLENGE 15: Pinups
CHALLENGE 16: Trick or Treat
CHALLENGE 17: How Far We Have Come
AbdulthenNewt
Thane
the_monarch23
Guy Bell
Man, the future used to be awesome. Flying cars, nuclear cars, flying trains, airships, moonbases- it had it all.
Your challenge is to illustrate your idea of what today should have been, if we hadn't fucked it all up somehow. Or, what you think the future would be like, if we stopped all being wannabe TV stars and started being dopey but optimistic scientists again.
Topic Links!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retro-futurism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama_%28New_York_World%27s_Fair%29
http://jalopnik.com/5414529/ford-fx+atmos-or-zis+112
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11Mide2KXow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vPJkQsP20A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bBpDNRP5qQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vPJkQsP20A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bBpDNRP5qQ&feature=related
~ BI-WEEKLY (aka, bi-monthly) CHALLENGE THREAD ~
For those of you who frequent the conceptart.org forums this should be pretty familiar; tens of artistic combatants thrown together in to an artistic arena, each struggling for the honor of being dubbed a master of the visual arts. Those of you who succeed will be bathed in glory and the blood of their competitors, those of you who fail will be exiled to a life of shame and isolation.
The aim of this thread is to try and spice things up a bit here in the ol' Artist's Corner. This thread is for entries in to the challenge or the discussion thereof. If you'd like to suggest a topic for the weekly challenge, go right ahead, but understand that the last winner of the challenge has total control over the task (unless they have won more than two challenges in a row, see rules).
The rules are simple;
RULES:
* One entry per person, per challenge.
* A contestant cannot win more than two challenges in a row.
* Winner gets the privilege of choosing the next challenge.
* At the end of a challenge, the thread is locked and a new one is begun.
* Stick to the challenge topic; no going off on a tangent.
* All formats welcome, whether they be traditional or digital; 2D or 3D; still or animated.
If you're looking for inspiration, check out the aforementioned conceptart.org forums (specifically the creature/environment/character of the week sections).
CHALLENGE 1: Hidden World
CHALLENGE 2: Red Vs Blue
CHALLENGE 3: Satan Teapot
CHALLENGE 4: Crime Fighting Hobo
CHALLENGE 5: Universal Monsters
CHALLENGE 6: Lyric Interpretation
CHALLENGE 7: Santa vs Dinos
CHALLENGE 8: Retro Poster
CHALLENGE 9: Literal Literature
CHALLENGE 10: Choose! Choose the form of the destructor!
CHALLENGE 11: Heroes In a Half Shell
CHALLENGE 12: Fancy Hats
CHALLENGE 13: God Splicing
CHALLENGE 14: Copycats
CHALLENGE 15: Pinups
CHALLENGE 16: Trick or Treat
CHALLENGE 17: How Far We Have Come
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edit: Just ran across this article
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/25/high-tech-hotels-modern-r_n_369730.html
It seems a few people at least are still doe eyed optmistic scientists.
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but even more so because i knew i would like whatever challenge he came up with
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In other news, I am very excited by this topic. I am a big fan of these challenges in general and this one in particular sounds AWESOME!
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Not really, since It's basically come about because this particular vision of the future has been outdated; it would have been futurism not retro-futurism. Buuuuuut if you consider the works created nowadays which imitate the style I guess you could call it an individual movement.
It was asking for it.
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Hope this stays open till next week some time.
I may have missed in the OP...
So this one has gone on long enough that the first person to post something will most likely be the winner.
Actually, it's just running long because of the whole secret santa thing
Actually finished an entry on time.
More or less.
It just occured to me that I have no idea how this vehicle stays aloft. I think Ill ignore that small point for now.
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and you don't have to know how the thing is propelled! it's the Future! (popular mechanics sure as hell never knew)
Now i can start getting anxious over something else
Yaaay
The background seems rather floaty. You will have large areas of nothing, then a really highly detailed area with no real lead in. One of the keys to making an effective environment is that the level of detail should be the same within each respective area (Foreground, midground, background).
The design of the robot is a little TOO simplistic. He looks like a bunch of cardboard boxes strung together. I think you should look at both real robots and retro robots and work with design elements from both. Brian Despain paints great retrofuture robots as does Jon Foster.