Seaside Realistic

[Axel3792]

Hey all, it's been quite a while since I've posted here, but I thought I would come out of hiding to share a new piece of art with you all:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/dasmachtsnichts/GalDeVal-Seaside-small2.jpg

I removed a lot of the crazy pillar-type things that are so prevalent towards the far end of the beach, and I made the coastline rocky as opposed to sandy and paradise-ish because I think it gives it more of a harsh feel. I am on a cross-processing kick, which adds a bit of surrealism to the image as a whole.

This is my third attempt at realistic game environments, hope you enjoy!
(the first and second were for Eve Online, but that doesn't get much attention around here :P)

EDIT:: This is a Photoshop montage of many different images :P

[FOkyasuta]

OMFG.

[NeonaPulsar]

Wow... im assuming that this image looked different to start. You did a fantastic job in it. It really looks real.

[Axel3792]

yes, i combined many different images in photoshop :)

[Sord]

Could you post the original images to compare?

[Sagasu]

Just photo splicing, or are we talking matte painting?

Really cool atmosphere, but if you tweaked the colors towards that of the in game area the resemblance would really pop.

[Axel3792]

@ Sord
Lots of images went into this one, I just used a ton of high res stock images :P most of them are >2mp so I probably shouldn't post them here hehe

@ Sagasu
yeah a lot of splicing and masking, blends, cloning etc etc etc, and as far as the colors, they can be attributed to my recent cross-processing kick :P


thanks for the comments everyone :)

[Mimo]

Oh wow, I never saw this until now! You are so good a photo manipulations. Very pretty work. :3

[FOkyasuta]

Even After A While Its Still Makes Me OMG.

[Kyrith_Ranger_Pso]

that. is. incredible. imagine if PSO2's graphics looked like that... amazing

[NegaTsukasa]

The console graphics for the year 2100. lol
(well, we have graphics close to this now anyway.)

this is very well put together. almost had me fooled as a real location the creators used for reference off some uncharted island.