[Ripelly]

No reference, except some bad photos just to see how the plating and turret goes in the tank.



Comments & critiq welcome, as always.

[Flexible Elf]

That's pretty nifty. Really dig the colors.

-Flexible Elf

[Shiro_tengu]

SWEET!!!

[Highfive]

Looks great! Guess the sunday sermon has been cancelled today.

How long did it take for you to paint this?

[daz199]

wow thats insane
good job

[Ripelly]

Elf, Shiro, daz199: thanks!

Highfive: Thank you. It took about 8 hours total... but funny how you (too) see the burning building as a church, though I meant it to be a factory or a warehouse of some sort.

[Kool]

I love the tank....it's almost real

really good work


"What the fuck"

[taff]

n1 dude!

i don't like the sun shining through the smoke of the fire. doan like the shape of it, though it is a nice idea.

[macho2k]

I thought it was a church too!! amen!!

[Ripelly]

Kool, t4fF, thanks for your comments, I'll try to do better next time (+get better reference photos).

macho2k, yeah. It must be the narrow windows and the shape of the roof. Well, I'm not fixing that. Let it burn!

[Scott Wetterschneider]

The dust pouring from the back of the tank is excellent, especially the shadow of the tank that's throw across it. The sun shining (barely) through the smoke is cool too, except I expect to see just a little bit of the shadow of the warehouse front that extends up into the smoke. The contrast between the cool half and the warm half of the image is nice too, it feels like a narration, that the scene is changing as it's viewed.

[ December 01, 2001: Message edited by: Scott Wetterschneider ]

[Quasar]

really cool man like the colors a lot!!

[bOx rOcket]

I'll comment on the sun. I like it but it does have some issues. If the sun was shining through smoke like that, the light would be very diffuse, giving a very soft edge around the sun itself and the smoke in a certain radius would have a "glow" to it depending on how dense the smoke is.

One other comment is that the building in the foreground doesn't seem to fit with the buildings in the background. Several people have commented that the foreground building looks like a church. Regardless of what it is, it has a very different feel than the ones in the back, which appear to be some type of factory or refinery.

Also, with as much distruction as there appears to be in the scene, I would expect to see a lot more debris, or rubble strewn across the ground. There would probably have been a LARGE explosion in the front building to cause that upper floor to be almost completely demolished. An explosion like that would through debris all over the place.

I'm being VERY nit-picky but just some things to think about. NICE WORK nonetheless. Nice colors.

[Ripelly]

Scott, I had an idea with "smoke screening the sun" composition and built up the rest of the elements on it. The warehouse's shadow is a good point, if I get back on working with this I'll revise that. Thanks.

Quasar, glad you like 'em!

Cruiserhead, I really didn't have much knowledge how a bright lightsource behind a smoke screen would look like so I appreciate your comment a lot! About the buildings, I guess I could've spent more detail on them but I wanted them to be like more on the background. And about the debris, should I explain that the building caught fire from some other source than explosion... nah.. more rubble, I'll write that down. Thanks!

[-Tepox-]

Great work! I also love the colors [envy ]. The dust looks superb! I like the way how you use dark colors to give nice contrast.