Under A Dying Sun - Garry's Mod

[Quote]The news of the orbital mustering yards' total destruction in what seemed like a terrible accident reached us some twenty minutes before the XVII Legion launched their treacherous attack on our side of the planet. The Mechanicum refineries in the sector were overrun in less than an hour, their defenders' corpses violated for war trophies. What the traitors couldn't loot and turn against us, they smashed to scrap, and soon the proud manufactorums were but burning rubble and ruin casting thick smoke into what earlier was a vibrant blue sky. We dug in in a warehouse - or what was left of one anyway - some distance from the largest munitions plant in the sector. Soon enough the Word Bearers came in force. It wasn't an organized attack, but rather a frenzied mob, a pack of animals charging at their prey. They had defaced their armor with spikes, horns and fell graphics and carvings that had a reek of the occult to them, stuff of the ancient ages of religious fear and superstition. Their Dreadnoughts bore outrageous trophies and idols hastily made from the corpses of mortals and Astartes alike, and among the legionaries came horned horrors, like walking avatars of rage and slaughter that carried swords born from war itself and which would not register properly on our targeters and auto-senses. Worst of all were the malformed abominations wearing twisted and cracked Legion battle plate, clawed monsters that no sane man would ever call his brother in arms or otherwise. Thermilion, Master of the 11th Chapter, his Terminators, and Captain Lyceon of the 20th Company were at the forefront. With hate in our hearts and the Primarch's name on our lips we went to war under a dying sun.[/quote] [img]http://orig05.deviantart.net/c85d/f/2016/186/9/6/calth_by_joazzz2-da8vq9p.jpg[/img] original-ish: [t]http://files.1337upload.net/calthscene12_original-f32bcc.jpg[/t] tried a little bit different lighting again with not so obvious color contrast

Honestly. While you have great execution and have the editing and posing pretty well damn down, it's starting to feel as if you're making the same picture over and over and over again. Wouldn't hurt to see non 40k stuff from you for a change to begin with:P

well if this shit is really starting to bore people i can just keep it in the Want To Post A Pic thread from now on

I don't mind it to be honest mostly because of how superb your pics always look, even if you don't think they do.

the day i start thinking of my work as "superb" is the day i turn into an even worse egoist than i already am and that's when improvement and progress stops permanently

[QUOTE=Joazzz;50647177]well if this shit is really starting to bore people i can just keep it in the Want To Post A Pic thread from now on[/QUOTE] I don't think that's what he meant What he's trying to say is that most, if not all, of the pictures you make are 40K related. That isn't bad, per se, but it would be nice to see you try something different. Then again, maybe you're only interested in posing 40K stuff, to begin with. It's your call, and we'll respect it. But it kinda ruins the "surprise factor".

Awesome as always!

[QUOTE=Joazzz;50647177]well if this shit is really starting to bore people i can just keep it in the Want To Post A Pic thread from now on[/QUOTE] keep doing what you enjoy. And don't post it there, a thread never hurt anyone and only does good. The next thing I would like to see you get ontop of is your environment/ground (show us some ground, the world), that should be your next step IMO

I noticed when people keep doing what they like they begin to create or choose a universe they want to be with, it could be completely their own or just any other universes from video games and movies. Just recently I discovered for myself that I want to set my traditionally foliage made scenebuilds in medieval times as it seems a perfect combination for me because I don't like modern or sci-fi stuff that much, not sure if I like it in a long term but that's how it works for artists like a long journey to their inner world. I would like scenebuilders to be recognized among each other by their work, type of scenebuilds, vision and universe.

Man, this is just gorgeous.

Keep the subtle color contrast. x1000 better. Sick to fucking death of orange and blue in every fucking picture (not just yours) after whathisface posted a tutorial of his [I]first year[/I] composition lesson. Did the other three years not teach color theory and definition shading or something? [quote] wraithcat [/quote] Yeah, that's great in theory, that's really not how the screenshot mafia works as Urbanator showed in spades. Y'all paint up the abstraction theme real big, but then when someone whom isn't Knife or Cpt or the guy who posted the actual artistic scifi nudes with numbers in his name posts up a new composition, it tends to get torn to shreds unless it's the fucking Mona Lisa of photochops. So if the choice is "brave new world with tons of x's and boxes" or "a third of the time spent in composition with winner and palettes and three omg same shit complaints", I'm pretty sure I know which one would be [I]free time[/I] well spent. Kind of telling that all the people that got paid to do this shit went the SFMLab route, and all that "exploration of composition" shit went right out the window.

I didn't understand 70% of what you just said :s

What he basically meant is that if anyone tries stepping out of their comfort zone and tries out a new style/composition/theme, they'll get yelled at because they haven't mastered it or they're "copying off of Cpt, CK, etc." [editline]5th July 2016[/editline] Basically in other words, trying something new ends badly.

Oh, thanks

I should turn back to my nature stuff only then. :v:

Uh quite a discussion here. In a sense I wasn't pointing squarely at the use of 40k, rather a similar theme to a lot of the poses as well as editing used. 40k is a varied enough setting to allow for differently natured stuff. @27x - in a sense the big question is - are you making the pictures for others or for yourself. If you ask me, we should make them for ourselves. If others like them, even better, but others should not be the primary concern. As such it's sometimes good to try out a variance of different things as it allows you to grow or maybe discover stuff you couldn't get right in the past.

Joazzz don't stop doing what you're good at.

I think you should make a visual novel of sorts. Think of it as an elongated comic/storyline made out of these images. No speechbubbles or anything, just all of the screenshots you've done before and combine them all to tell a story instead of making them all as separate images with different background explanations. [editline]7th July 2016[/editline] Btw, clever use of mask's columns to make a gothic arch.

[B]holy shit[/B]