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[theweaselking]

Meet Damen.

This is not a photograph. This is a piece of manually created digital art.



This is a closeup.

• The image size is 40 inches by 120 inches. [Ed - 1m x 3m for those in civilised countries.]
• The flattened file weighs in at 1.7 Gigabytes.
• It took eleven months (close to 2,000 hours) to create.
• The painting is comprised of close to fifty individual Photoshop files.
• Taking a cumulative total of all the files, the overall image contains over 15,000 layers.
• Over 500 alpha channels were used for various effects.
• Over 250,000 paths make up the multitude of shapes throughout the scene.

Comments

[elffin.livejournal.com]

Damn.

DAMN.

HFH that's good.

[fearmeforiampink]

Oh em eff gee, that is great.

[norvelllouwho.livejournal.com]

It's fantastic, he should be working in LA as a compositor (??) or something else in movies.

[thormation.livejournal.com]

Hmm.

Yes, it's an impressive composition to be sure. There is no disparaging the talent it took to create this. I bow to his Photoshop mastery. The scale alone is daunting.

But...the equivalent image could have been created in about an eighth of the time in Maya or max by a reasonably competent 3D artist. (Not counting render time, of course. I'd hate to wait a couple weeks for it to render, only to find out that the program lost a texture file, and that all the trees are now solid black boxes.)

It's like looking at an exquisitely hand carved two-by-four.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

The important thing to note is that the 57/Cermak -- with the exception of never, EVER being that clean -- looks exactly like this. I mean, EXACTLY. I live here in Chicago, I see the El every single day of my life, and that's fuckin' amazing.

I do not see how a 3d renderer could reproduce with this level of exactitude.