22 September 2011

Ambush

Another little environment pic I did. In retrospect, I'm sure it was at least partly inspired by the wonderful 'Game of Thrones' series starring Sean Bean. Although I never looked to it for reference, there's a scene in there where Jamie Lannister (the Kingslayer) waits for Ned Stark outside of what might have been a brothel? I wont spoil the exchange that happens between them in case you havn't seen it yet, but it's a great scene.

I'm a big fan of the series (A Song of Ice and Fire). I began reading George R R Martin when the first book came out and I was stoked to see it realised so well. I'm pretty excited to see the next series of the show. My only complaint about the show is how fast it moves. Obviously you have to make sacrifices and changes to make compelling viewing, but I felt a little that you lost sense of the size of the world. Logistics and travel times are a big issue in medieval times and in the interest of pacing that was often ignored, though it has a big effect on the course of events. I'd be happy to watch 15 or so episodes per book to get a little more detail in there. But if all I can complain about is that it's not long enough, then you know you have a fantastic show :)

Enough fanboy geek ranting, here's the pic:



8 comments:

  1. Ohh thats nice. Good geek rant too.

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  2. Haha. Thanks Dudley. You a fan of George R R Martin, or the Game of Thrones TV show? Thanks for stopping by anywhoo :)

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  3. Only new to the show, but I am enjoying it. Five episodes down and queueing the next.

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  4. Veeeery nice man, real impressive persective. Did you draw in a horizon and vanishing points or just eyeball it? That shit musta been way off the page right? Horizon line I mean, not eyeball. Your eyeball was probably a fair way off the page too I guess

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  5. Persective is street talk for perspective btw (street talk for 'by the way')

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  7. Lol. FYI the vanishing point is probably EVEN FURTHER off the page than my eyeball. But I didn't use it.
    I use a sneaky trick where I have some custom shapes in Photoshop. One is a small grid, and I used that for the ground plane, deforming it in space so that it gave me the impression of perspective. Then I have another that is converging lines, but only a section a ways off from the point where they actually meet. I used that for the 3rd vanishing point. So it's somewhere in between calculating and eyeballing I guess. Did any of that make sense? If not I can get all James Gurney on it and do a post on my perspective construction for this one...?
    Anyways, thanks for the kind words Christian Pearce :)

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  8. Very nice color and atmosphere too!

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