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Published: 2011-02-10 14:41:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 18635; Favourites: 406; Downloads: 0
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This is the first illustration for my serialized story The Lair of the Clockwork Book, which began its run this week at Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual ( [link] ). The story updates with a new illustrated page each Monday and Thursday, and will run for fourteen months there.It's a linear, serialized story meant to complement the branching stories like Trapped in the Tower of the Brain Thieves.
On this first page we see a view over the city of Retropolis - just so we know where we are, here in the retro future - as we consider that there are some places in every city where people just don't go, and we explore the reasons why that's true.
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Oh Sweet! I didn't know you were on DA! Awesome.Β
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How about a song to go with this picture? www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZdXIcβ¦
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I love it! And I'd definitely be living there.
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looking for ward to reading the story. Love the art work.
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I want to retire here. A small book shop, with a cat, and yellowed slide rules in a glass case beneath the register. And the sound of rockets overhead every day.
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nice, I am recruiting for a new compilation book of fantasy sci fi art. I am looking for a few hundred pieces all together. If you are interested let me know www.machinesandmagic.com
craig musselman
machinesandmagic@gmail.com
(ps. if I don't get back to you in 48 hours try again)
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amazing work, great details! a wallpaper would be nice!
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I'll do a set of desktop wallpapers eventually, like I did for "Trapped in the Tower of the Brain Thieves" - [link] - but that'll need to wait until most of the illustrations are done. (I've done 33 so far, out of about 120.)
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thanks for the tip! downloading them!
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Retropolis -- what a great name for this city. I love all the marvelous detail you've packed into this -- it really feels alive.
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LOL , I want to live in your retro future . All your pictures are great .
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Has elements very metropolis about it, I love this retropolis idea you do.
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Wow that's a lot of detail.
I love the variety in the achitecture of the buildings,
far too often when you see 3D renderings of a city the buildings are basically copies of one another with different textures and scale settings.
Not an issue here.
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There are really three different classes of building in there, depending on how close they are to the camera, to make you *think* that without slowing down the rendering. Well, slowing it down more, anyway 
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