reference: http://www.new-dream.de/image/wallpaper/film/stargate-atlantis/stargate-atlantis-16.jpg

Cool work, comrade :)
I suggest for background some underground mountains, water surface and rays of sun (not too much of). Also i think that tiny flat blink is enought for cuple reflection.

Hello Kfuchoin,

Missed this one and PMed you an edit.
Well since you asked for C&C here, I might just want
to repeat it publicly

First of all I must say that your picture is beautifull.
The colors that you have chosen really are working!
I was investigating your color choice to learn from
it myself and I noticed a little nice effect when
I made an edit:


piece of
you  And this is what I did.

I dittered the middle plane as to have a transition
to the water. It gave a little mist effect.
Notice that I also did some AA on the bottom
of the city. Maybe it is of help to you...

It is a really small edit, but I hope you get
the picture

Like I already said you have a really nice
scene here and I am looking forward to
your completed entry!

Kind regards from


M.E.

Hello Kfuchoin,

Well done. But maybe a little bit too much?!?!
Some areas can have more emphasis. Like what
you did in the first plane. Some things sticking out.
Also the fish below the city are almost invisible
right now.
But the overall atmosphere is really breathtaking!

Great Job. Especially the glow on the building to the left is
really nice!

Best regards from

M.E.

Looks great, Kfu, and awesome edit,Hatch, you should go with that.   

Hello Kfuchoin,

Personally I found the first pallete quite allright!
But I guess that is just a manner of taste.

Progress is looking good.
Good luck with your attempt on the sunrays and
the waves on top.

You have a lot of days left till the closure so you
should have plenty of time to kick some *ss


Best regards from

M.E.

HI M.E

Light rays? where?

you mean that barely visible triangle on the side? ... why is the light ray darker than everything else?

The gradient should be visible through the glass dome, no?

If you're running out of palette, you can easily unify some colors:

• Replace that orangey color that's only used on one structure with your lightest yellow color

• Replace the outline of the dome with one of your darker sea colors (probably the purpleish one)

• Replace the main dome color with a sea color.

• One of your palette swatches is used nowhere in the piece, thus artificially increasing your color count by one. It's the saturated blue one. (it's not technically the color used for the dome, though it looks like it)

Just playing around with it I got it down to 11, freeing up 5 colors.

Maybe the straight gradient lines should be warped into a sort of curve when viewed through the shape of the dome?

he's right

both with some blurryness/distortion if poss.

Edited by jalonso - 27 July 2007 at 8:22am

The hypersaturated blues in the dome are kind of confusing to me. Shouldn't we see more or less the same colors through the clear dome as we see around it?

Tried a little color edit:

Yours, mine

there you go :D
At this stage the bits of lightwer blues under the dome makes for a jolt to the eyes. Maybe blend from the ground a little higher. The lights inside the dome itself would be better placed if the follow the curvature so that they are dim-less dim; bright- less dim- dim.

My bad. Please understand that anything said to you on any thread are ideas and suggestions to help you find your way. Never take c+c as orders, ever.

What I meant about the lights inside the dome on the buildings was to help define the curvature of the dome by dimming at the very edges and progressively brigthening them as you get to the center. This may not work out tho since this challenge has a 16 color limit. Its just an idea, k. This if very good and is by far your best ever pixel.

soemthing like this? was what you meaned?:

jejejejejeje well i'll wait for more comments to see if it's finished or i need to fix some things =)

damn jal too much new vocabulary for me :S

This is my first time doing glass and it's really really rough.  So while I can't guarantee accuracy, I think it's way more interesting to look at:




Edited by leel - 27 July 2007 at 6:47pm

well i wouldn't promise him the mundo, but ok.. :P

forgot to add the link.



Edited by Metaru - 28 July 2007 at 10:35pm