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Submitted: September 25, 2010
Image Size: 554 KB
Resolution: 2200×3000

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The Sightingby *steve-burg

Digital Art / 3-Dimensional Art / Scenes / Futuristic & Sci-Fi

I wanted to create a cheerful and happy scene. This was the result (go figure!) Well, at least it's colorful

This image was made for the book "Concept Design II" about 5 or 6 years ago.

The huge spaceship was created in Lightwave 3D, with a very large custom texture painted in Photoshop. It was rendered against a blank background.

Everything else is painted in Photoshop. I looked at some reference images to paint the clouds and the farm. The clouds took ages to finish because I really wanted them to wrap around the ship. There were a lot of layers!

The barn and some trees were painted in a separate image, at much larger size to get the detail. They were then reduced and softened with grain and noise, and a slight Gaussian Blur.

At the time this image was created, my overriding goal was to achieve an absolutely photographic look to the painted elements. It involved a lot of painstaking effort, adding grain and noise to simulate the look of actual film. Really, not so much fun... I've discovered that simply painting is a lot more enjoyable, so I no longer pursue this "faked photo" effect in my work.

CHANGE: I adjusted the text to clarify some things

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Imagine waking up in a morning and seeing something like this... The Sighting by *steve-burg has a moody atmosphere with a colossal extra terrestrial space ship in the sky. Quality and skills of the artist speaks it self and the power of the composition is undeniable. ( Featured by `KeremGo )

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joy 7 7

wow 22 22

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fear 1 1

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*Odilicious Nov 12, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Stunning spaceship. An excellent scene.

*KellyDelRosso Nov 3, 2012

Great job...congrats on DD

~Romanoost Oct 5, 2012 Student General Artist

I made an account at devianart just to favourite this, I love it, it's wonderful! I really like the atmosphere of this picture; the massiveness of the ship in contrast to that ordinary barn..

~JohnnysDream Sep 9, 2012

you failed horribly at happiness with this.lol.i feel scared just looking at it.looks like a huge whale coming at me out of the sky!"Oh shit!What is that?Ruuun!"I cant believe the background is not a picture!This whole thing is just outrageous!You have a gift.Im on my way over to look at more of your stuf right now.

~joeltonongkh Aug 25, 2012

love the foggy effect...anyhow the invasion looks scary too..

*YTheJoshuaTreeY Aug 11, 2012 Student General Artist

That is quite an amazing scale there. Great job.

~dpny Aug 8, 2012

Love this picture.

~Rodo97 Jul 18, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

O MY GOD D; is EWESOME

~ElliotGrey Jun 21, 2012 Student Writer

The great thing is that 98% of people would never see it because no one looks up at the sky anymore. 98% of people would be completely oblivious to the ginormous ship hovering directly above them, easily massive enough to contain the whole city of St. Louis, MO.

Actually, maybe that's exactly what they stopped by to pick up.

~MisterSanitz Apr 23, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Amazing picture!!!

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