sarah.

I don't do them for free, but I do offer a Graphics/Coding Service for Other/NP/ETS

Found a nice tutorial for illustrator (here) and decided to try it out.

The presents used came from here.

I'll donate a Ghost Paint Brush, not a lot on my account atm

Starts: 28th October 2012

Entries Due: 12:00 AM NST - 2nd November 2012

Voting Ends: 12:00AM NST - 4th November 2012

Theme: Space

Thanks to Mew for the theme suggestion.

Some inspiration for the theme, here.

Prizes:

1st Place:

2nd Place:

3rd Place:

Good luck everyone, and I hope there's plenty of entries!

Please read the Rules before sending in your entry.

Complete list of rules found HERE and we encourage the reading of the full rules so as not to be caught out doing something wrong.

did you use a brush in PS to make those stroke like textures that are on the clouds/ground or did that come in terragen?

i am not sure about the strokes since they make the picture seem a little flat, especially the sky, but you did a great job with the rest

reminds me somewhat of mars

Thanks Iced is right, that's cause of topaz. I'll post up the original render from terragen soon

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think those strokes are from using topaz. This looks nice, really like the colours. Would be cool if you replaced the sky with a dark/gloomy looking one but that's just personal preference.

What is terragen 2?

I know it needs more work, just wanted to post to get some feedback so far.

I'll quote from the website:

Terragen™ 2 is a powerful solution for rendering and animating realistic natural environments. Create entire worlds from your imagination, or import real world terrain datasets and use Terragen 2 to create the most realistic visualisations possible. You control the weather, landscape, rivers, lakes and oceans, suns, moons and stars. With Terragen 2 you have complete control over the shader networks used for terrains, textures, micropolygon displacements, clouds and object distributions.

I used the first one, but never tried the second version until now and it seems so much better! I can't wait to get to know how it works better.

First time using terragen 2 & edited in PS.

Not available in the UK, either. Sigh.

There's one on BBC iplayer about him, don't think it's the same one though.

For anyone who doesn't use Neoalerts or has forgotten, this is available again.

Looking good!

I love the colouring, and how you've put it all together

The Digital Painting Basics link was removed.

Thanks for that, I've edited it out

I'll update this later on today with some more stuff

I don't know if I'm just a complete idiot but I can't figure out how to end the game after inputting the code.
I know usually you just change it back to the original code and it will work, I've tried three times so far and it won't let me die.

Any help on this would be appreciated, Just tried again today (4/25) and changing the code back still doesn't cause me to lose lives.. I can't end the game!

This post is a little late, but for anyone having this trouble you have to click the green start button on each level and type in "salamander" to skip it until you get to the end of the game.

Eh. I think people here have quite different views of what a "professional" style is.

This is the larger version of my SOTW entry. This is the original stock image I started off with. If anyone is interested in seeing the PSD, to see how it's made up, feel free to PM me and I'll send it to you.

Lol, as funny as it is I don't feel as though the joke actually makes sense since humans don't generally eat trees and if it is aimed at beavers then it is insinuating that they are in fact cannibals.

I don't think you got the joke, to be honest.

I'll donate a Pirate Lenny MP for second place Can't wait for voting to be up to see all the entries!