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EDIT 12/12/2010
Changed a little more -- increased saturation and color vibrancy, scaled back the light glares a little. Now it's a happy middle-ground between the original and first revision.


EDIT 12/11/2010
I revisited the piece to bring it up to a higher level of finish. At the end of one of :iconomar-dogan:'s stream sessions, he gave his personal thoughts on what would make this piece much better, and I took most of his advice in this massive edit. Most notably, the awkward pipe has been changed to not appear as though it's pulling escher-esque perspective, and other composition-changing elements have been added. Increased ambient occlusion shading, and a push for a more exaggerated atmosphere to really get the original feeling I wanted across.

The original un-revisited version is now in the links below, listed as Step 5. Feel free to compare :)
(I realize some of you will probably still like the old one more, but, I dunno, I think these were some worthwhile changes.)

For those who read descriptions: a special sneak peak at my next perspective piece: [link] (about 40 mins work there)

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Original:

Depicts the small road in back of Maia's apartment building, (to the right,) and Aricee itself visible in the far distance behind the fences. Fun fact: the end of the street down there ends with a staircase going down. It leads here: [link]

This particular image was an exercise in background making. That is, to make a background similar in quality to what you see in animated movies. (Hence why Maia is NOT shaded here, just as you'd expect in a 2D animation.) I experimented with a new system of brushes and color swatches I created for painting convincing foliage quickly. It seems to work pretty well, so far :) The city visible in the back was created with a simple underlay of random scattered texture from another brush, then painting incredibly simple shapes of color sticking up from it. Behind the fences, there was no need to go crazy with detail back there.


PROGRESS PICS:
Initial Inspiration: [link]
1 (30 mins) - [link]
2 (3~4 hours) - [link]
3 (5~6 hours) - [link]
4 (7~8 hours) - [link]
5 (Original Finish) - [link]

Photoshop CS5, Cintiq 12WX, & my imagination.
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~retrocoiled Apr 25, 2012
hey, i liked the movie "5cm per second" very much. seeing your skill in creating atmosphere, i get really much reminded of that movie! good work, keep on going!
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*Merink Apr 22, 2012
Can you make a tutorial of the background making technique you used?

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~GXP92 Feb 5, 2012
amazing job

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~moorkasaur Jan 25, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Can you drive a car through those streets?... i wonder
And i really like your style and what and how you do it ))

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`fox-orian Feb 6, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
This street is a one-way, only one car width wide. It's a short street behind the building, something more of an alley almost.
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~moorkasaur Feb 8, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
hm it definately was true in the original photo )) but i think your piece is alot more interesting!!! id like to live.. or at least to make a visit to such a place in such wonderful weather )))

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~SpoonLord23 Jan 24, 2012
What is the word written in pink on what looks to be a store in the background?
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`fox-orian Feb 6, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
It's the fictional language used in Synthesis.
It looks like this: [link]

I'm not sure what it says either, though hahah. It's almost always arbitrary.
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!wvsntelur Jan 7, 2012
wow. i could quickly feel the coolness in that place. i love your lightings.ü
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~roboto56 Dec 21, 2011
man persistence pays off XD i was going through this guys favs (he had 364 pages btw) anyways i had reached the 330s and i saw this pictureXD and now i have a new artist whose pictures excite me indeed:3 keep up the good work plox?

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