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This is a picture i did for the current issue of the Digital Artist Magazine. Theme was to manipulate an ordinary photo to make it look a bit more special. It was a lot of fun. In the workshop i try to explain the techniques i used to achieve the look and details. Time was an issue in the making process so i concentrated mostly on the basics without to lose myself in too deep details. Surely a nice read. Check it out if you're interested!
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How can I license this image for my website?
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Is this picture free? Like could I use it for a book cover perhaps?
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This picture is beautiful and has a nice light feel to it. I teach English in Fukushima, Japan, and to teach "war" and "peace" I'd like to use a thumbnail of this image to show a peaceful city, since it looks so futuristic and, well, peaceful. Cheers!
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Very nice, but for me doesn't look like future, rather presence
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This is absolutely amazing. I love architecture and this gives me a sense of the future but in the present. If that makes sense.
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for me the blur is to heavy in use, but i like the colors and composition of your future city, I can imagine very well to live there
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very mirror's edge like colours to it! did you make the buildings in the background?
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I must admit, it's nice to see something brighter and a bit more cheerful than the usual dark and foreboding (yet still fantastically rendered) cities. Hmmm.... I'll have more to say some other time (after giving it the thought it deserves).
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I like it. Very realistic. Doesn't have the appearance of a photomanip.
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Amazing job on those buildings, really hard to tell where the 'real" city stops. You were in a good state of mine with the motion blue (for that vertical camera glare effect from light coming off the buildings) but I think the motion blur should only be around the buildings themselves to emphasize their height whilist the trees and sky should be normal
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I'll be honest, I'm not a fan of the blur effect. I think it would have been great to more clearly see how the architecture co-inhabits with the organic environment around it.
If anything, the blur could be toned down a bit... Right now I find it actually detracts from the solidity of this composition.
Just my $0.02
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Nice work!
It would be nice if you put photovoltaic cells on some rooftops, giving the idea of a near-future with some distributed power generation.
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Would you consider... no, nevermind. You're probably too busy to work on Controlled Chaos; Second Origins...
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This takes me back to the many hours I had spent playing SimCity over the years. Good times, and a great picture. You just don't see visions of the future like this very often anymore.
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While the overall impression of the piece is pretty good, I do think it's nowhere near your usual work. Allow me to elaborate.
The motion blur is obviously the first thing that jumps out. I don't really see why you added it, it just looks like a fancy visual gimmick without too much effect. It acually emphasises the vertical lines, which are already on the strong side, so I wouldn't have gone with it.
Another point which surprised me in a piece coming from you, is the lack of depth. The foreground, middleground and background are very cleanly seperated, giving it an artificial look. The two towers on the left are a nice start, but it needs some more.
As a few suggestions, one of which already mentioned by ~DragonsOfKrynn , I'd try and break up the monotony of the current composition a bit. Add horizontal elements such as skybridges, place a few buildings in the foreground to break up the trees, maybe cut a hole in a few buildings (or cut them out entirely) and add some more background elements for a better depth effect.
The color scheme and structural believability is good though, on par with your previous work. While I understand you were under a timecrunch, I really think you're capable of doing a lot more with this image. Maybe have another go on it outside of the magazine?
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yeah yeah... it was a time issue.
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Hey, fair enough. I just figured it should be said, considering the quality standard of your usual work. And nothing sees flaws like a fresh pair of eyes. ;D
Thanks for the link to the magazine, by the way, seems well worth checking out!
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schΓΆn. erkennt man einiges wieder, was ich nicht schlimm sondern eher spannend finde.
die bewegungsunschΓ€rfe im hintergrund stΓΆrt allerdings.
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that's really cool, I like it. As an idea, if you do any more of the future city ones, Try connecting all the buildings with skybridges and roads and transportation in those sky bridges, as well as the same idea being carried up and up in a pattern that's almost gridlike. Interconnected buildings...
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Nah, it's probably hidden by those tall buildings
And besides, it's glad to see something that's NOT DARK for once.
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well, I guess we're not all lovers of the darkness and gloom like me
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yep. that's a concept i always have in mind when it comes to futuristic cities. in our particular case here it just would have been too much. i could have added tons more detail without the room to explain it in the workshop. there's always only a limited amount of text you can use... and that can limit you quite a bit. so i'm quite happy with what i got here.
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Your welcome. I take it you thought of that before I did?
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This is really neat looking. It looks simple, but good nonethless.
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Ooh, very nice! I see Tokyo, Dubai...anything else?
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tons of frankfurt in there too.
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no time for flying cars 
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nice buildings! but the vertical motion blur seems to be, let's say, ...an acquired taste
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I think it worked good for the buildings (lending the futuristic feel) but didn't work out so well on the trees.
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yeah, maybe if the trees and clouds weren't blurred, it would work fine
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