New Worlds #51:: Crystal Forest
 

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New Worlds #51:: Crystal Forest
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This is an idea from Patrik_P (Thanks!) out of the suggestion thread, but it also is a crossover with the current Creature Forge which can be found at http://cghub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12892 . This environment concerns a crystal forest found on an extremely hot planet composed mostly of diamonds and graphite. (See http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ize-Earth.html ) Over in Creature Forge they are designing a tank creature that inhabits this world. Here we will be designing the kind of forest that might grow there based on graphite or diamonds.
Deadline: midnight December 1, 2012 California time
Deadline: midnight December 1, 2012 California time
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Please no tracing. Our rules concerning the use of reference images is the same as that in Drawing Jams: http://cghub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4784 though I do not mean to say the use of texture images placed onto a model by a 3D program is forbidden. That practice is more akin to the custom brushes often used in 2D that were based on some shape that arose out of a prior image. Many of the more sophisticated programs have libraries of textures included that were .jpgs originally derived from photographs.

Seems interesting, I'll try to participate despite of all of my schoolwork. I'm curious what everybody's going to make of this.

Good luck to all!

Thanks. For some inspiration I will post the public domain image I used to prepare the thumbnails (courtesy of wikimedia commons).
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As I recall, this is a scanning electron micrograph of snowflake crystals taken by somebody in the U.S. Government, Agriculture Department.

Please don't forget to vote in our New Worlds #50 Adventure Redesign Poll which has now begun at http://cghub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13133

I think that I might have to change my name as it seems everyone is typing it with ck.. :-?

Fixed. Sorry. My ancestors would have spelled it with the "c" and it takes hours to make the poll and start the next round. I didn't really have time to triple check everything. Sorry also to the winners of round 49. I don't have time to update the winner's banner right now.

By "forest", do you mean trees and such? because trees don't go well with hot environments.

The Crystal Forest
 

Here are some ideas for the crystal forest.
Keep coming back to the same perspective.

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Brainstorming
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Ahhhh! But maybe tree shaped diamond and graphite crystals can do a little better in hot environments. Hot and pressure is basically where diamonds come from. I recommend checking out fractals for some ideas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal
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This is a Julia set which is related to the famous Mandelbrot set.
The above was generated in silico ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_silico ), but below is the result of a high voltage breakdown within a 4 inch block of acrylic.
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and get a load of Brownian Trees.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_tree

Why think inside the box when the name of the activity is New Worlds?

some exploring in black and whites. I have some vague ideas floating around, mainly to work with crystals growing in vaguely tree-shaped patterns. I feel like they're a bit hard to read though, I'll try to work on that. Please do give feedback, I'm here to learn :D

http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/8...sttrysmall.jpg

this will be my first challenge ever im exited to try this out!! any critisism is encouraged please ill start jotting my ideas down tonight, good luck everyone

First WIP
 

Wip01. Throwing down some color and shapes in alchemy.
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damn its not letting me attach first WIP??

this is my first WIP brainstorm, any advice is welcome
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It's a spambot control measure to make you have a few posts before you can put up images.

The place where it tells you how to make the images big instead of as thumbnails is here http://cghub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2248

I think I like the first one better. The second one is almost fully centered which tends to make for a dull composition. It's good that you are thinking foreground, middle ground, background.