Decommissioned II

[spikey]

Freestyle GFX competition entry for the Assembly 2003 event.. No results yet.

I was kinda cynical about the whole competition at first as it was a mixed cg/photo/whatever-you-do-with-whatever -contest, i.e. cg compositions such as this battling against some real good freehand stuff. There was even one crayon entry.

No proper pics of the other contestants yet, only screengrabs at http://www.mbnet.fi/jutut/assembly2003/kuvaloota/selaa.aspx?k=256&avainsana=grafiikkakompot - just click on the lil arrows if you don't understand finnish ;)

-Ilari

[spikey]

Yarr, file upload botched itself. New try.

[lone]

really sweet, and an excellent title to boot.

[jman66]

could you tell me what kind of plane this is? the fuselage structure, horizontal stab placement, and center mounted guns seem to indicate a messerschmitt 109

... but then it looks like there are remenats of RAF markings... interesting

Nice composition perhaps it would look better if stuff was generally bent up a bit more, and perhaps some mossy type things hanging off the wing might be a nice touch.

Either way, nice work!

[pblacklock]

just a dark idea but here goes:

what if you had a skeleton pilot in full uniform, a bullet hole in his cracked visor helmet hanging from a deployed parachute from a branch from a tree nearby in the background.

later,
Paul

[riki]

Might need some colour correction. I'd also work on the colour of the orginal pix.

I'm not too keen on the skeleton idea.

[spikey]

Finished 7th in the competition. Some 65 or 66 entries total, of which 25 made it to the big screen through a jury screening, so all in all not too shabby. It was pretty much as I thought it would be, i.e. entries that had a hand-made look to them fared better than more clinical 3D-pics .. Separate freestyle 2D and freestyle 3D compos would have been a better idea.

Color correction, yup, there are lots of things that could be done with this pic but I had a "green feel" for this pic and that's it now :) .. I attempted to do some hanging moss and other gunk to emphasize the lost&forgotten -feeling but didn't have the time to get anything convincing done. So, it's finished now and it's time for a new project with lessons learned from this one. Thanks for the compliments and critics and ideas, feel free to keep them coming :)

Ah, by the way, those are Finnish Air Force markings, not RAF. Not entirely historically accurate perhaps, but too many people mistake the early FAF markings to the nazi cross so I gave myself some freedom on this.

-Ilari

[lone]

so the Finns flew Messerschmitts?

[richpr]

Very nice...!

I would have made the background forest a bit darker/less saturated to bring out the plane more... And more vines, etc. like you mentioned...