FINAL POST

So in the end the two scenes that I have created revolve around the idea of a research team arriving on Dagobah to investigate the planets ecosystems and the natural inhabitants. From the information provided to us about Dagobah nothing that arrives on the planet that is foreign lasts very long alive. The natural inhabitants have a food chain that places most sentient races somewhere in the middle, and this team that crash lands through the dense jungle is met by some ferocious predatory alien creatures.

The exterior scene depicts the teams' ship crashed into the edge of a swamp dragged down by vines. The team is in a state of disarray as these swamp lurking creatures rush to the ship to investigate the foreign presence on their planet. The security member of the team is engaged with one of the creatures, blasting away at it is it lunges for him. one of the research team is being pulled out of the ships window by another creature, and more are looking towards the fray and bounding towards it. On top of this there is a great swamp slug weaving it's way through the murky water towards the ship to devour all that it can form the wreckage. there are also flying creatures on the way through the tops of the trees.

The interior scene plays on what could have happened after the exterior scene, where one of the scientists has escaped from the disastrous landing area and fallen through a weak jungle floor into an underground cavern. The cavern is partly lit from luminous plants and crystals that grow in the dark underground, and there are various small cave systems and tunnels running away from the main chamber. The scientist is just coming to as he realises that he is not quite away from the danger yet seeing a great swamp beast emerging form a crystallized cavern, antagonised by the disturbance in his underground lair.

MORE SPITPAINTS

This first one was simply trying to capture some degobah scenery;

And below was restless guardian for degobah with some big stone golem fellahs in the woods

PROCESS

This is a compilation of my process of creating the exterior scene from an abstract image

And this is the same but for the interior scene:

Exercises

This was a quick exercise where I did thumbnails of one of Frank Frazetta's pieces to try and understand the use of tone and colour. I also began looking at more of his works for inspirations for this assignment.

RESEARCH

This post is a collection of the resources I used for inspiration for this assignment

Along with some photo reference I scoured over Feng Zhu's design site:

http://www.fengzhudesign.com/

which is an endless pool of inspiration for digital paintings, and I also have been following the Daily Spitpaint group on facebook for more inspiration from professionals.


Oh and him too;

Abstractions 001

This last one was when I tried chucking in some tree brushes. It was naughty. It did not work. I was unhappy. I have scrapped this and continued with more abstract methods to create shapes for environments. But here it is to show you that I gone and done a thing that did nay work.

EXODUS SPIT PAINT

Spit paint 2 - Lassoo tool  - EXODUS

-I have attempted to create a mass exodus of birds flying away from one the mentioned "colossal swamp slugs", where it has launched up out of the swamp to the tree tops

Spit Paint 01

This is the first exercise for this assignment; a spit paint. My planet of choice is Dagobah, and the idea for the drawing I went with was "Lost Temple" . Here's the result: