Serious [Review] Art of The Week

[Dudu Fadende]

I half got the inspiration from MaXenzie's suggestion and half from this:

 

[MaXenzie]

there needs to be more warhammer 40k and hl2 crossovers

makes for good art

 

[nash]

there needs to be more warhammer 40k and hl2 crossovers

makes for good art

you've got me thinking......

 

[Dudu Fadende]

Imagine you’re just circlejerking in Camp Alpha and one of these cunts just rips off the blast door and sprays you down with a gatling gun

NON-CITIZENS.
YOU HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH CAPITOL MALCOMPLIANCE.
DISPENSING VERDICTS.
*horrific sounds of brutal murder*

 

[Man wearing a helmet]

NON-CITIZENS.
YOU HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH CAPITOL MALCOMPLIANCE.
DISPENSING VERDICTS.
*horrific sounds of brutal murder*

Aargh! Hit in the gut!

 

[nash]

autonomous judgement, perspective from an RL
circa 2026 colourised edition

 

[MaXenzie]

OTA discussing how to pass the time

 

[Danny]

Aha, so THAT'S what happened to the II Legion.

@Dallas 2000 years after revolution
The clans come together and ascend from the caves with oil driven mechs to soon find the dreaded foe from the age of legend that was inscribed on the walls, as a new civilisation in a fight for control over their old home, now a cyber-apocalyptic wasteland. The inner shell of the sphere used as a storage and training facility for the intergalactic combine empire with industrial mechs of their own - centuries after the red letter.

 

[Dudu Fadende]

Aargh! Hit in the gut!

<::Transcript of audio recorded during the raid::>
Rebel 1: GET. THE HELL. OUT OF HERE.
*gunfire*
OTA 1: Hahaha.
OTA 2: Hahaha.
Rebel 2: AGH, MY LEG!
Rebel 3: NOOOOOO!
Rebel 4: Sometimes, I dream about chee- *audio cuts off as his head is removed*
OTA Team Leader: Pick up that can!
OTA 1: Hahaha.
OTA 2: Hahaha.
OTA Team Leader: That's it, wrap it up.
OTA 2: Hahaha.
Rebel 2 (OOCly): Dude what the fuck, they just power gamed the hell out of us.
OTA Team Leader (OOCly): P2L, scrub.

 

[Dallas]

@Dallas 2000 years after revolution
The clans come together and ascend from the caves with oil driven mechs to soon find the dreaded foe from the age of legend that was inscribed on the walls, as a new civilisation in a fight for control over their old home, now a cyber-apocalyptic wasteland. The inner shell of the sphere used as a storage and training facility for the intergalactic combine empire with industrial mechs of their own - centuries after the red letter.

kino tbh

 

[Dudu Fadende]

@Dallas 2000 years after revolution
The clans come together and ascend from the caves with oil driven mechs to soon find the dreaded foe from the age of legend that was inscribed on the walls, as a new civilisation in a fight for control over their old home, now a cyber-apocalyptic wasteland. The inner shell of the sphere used as a storage and training facility for the intergalactic combine empire with industrial mechs of their own - centuries after the red letter.

Hail the Breenperor.

 

[PilotBland]

Aha, so THAT'S what happened to the II Legion.

This is pretty kino!

 

[Stelios]

@Whilt

 

[Dudu Fadende]

@Dallas 2000 years after revolution
The clans come together and ascend from the caves with oil driven mechs to soon find the dreaded foe from the age of legend that was inscribed on the walls, as a new civilisation in a fight for control over their old home, now a cyber-apocalyptic wasteland. The inner shell of the sphere used as a storage and training facility for the intergalactic combine empire with industrial mechs of their own - centuries after the red letter.

Sheeiiiiit. This paragraph alone gives me an idea for a whole new HL2 related story. It would take place a couple centuries or even thousands of years after the uprising when humanity finally beat back the Combine, but eventually had to go into hiding because they couldn't fight the hordes of Xenian wildlife taking over the planet. After time the human civilizations start to regress into a semi-mystical tribal society that still retains some advanced technology reverse-engineered from the Combine but only a select group of people know how to use and maintain it, and these guys are revered like royalty and treated as though they have some supernatural powers. During that same period Freeman basically disappeared and no one knows what happened to him, and it's been so long that no one knows for sure whether he was a real person or not, but he's worshipped as a God by the humans. The vortigaunts would be like the scribes and record keepers of these new societies since they all share a semi-gestalt consciousness and can more or less remember what happened throughout the ages, though they're seen as kind of aloof weirdos that no one really wants anything to do with, yet they're still respected because of their near-supernatural aspects.
Eventually a few of the more advanced tribes of mankind form together and move back to the surface to take their world back from the Xen creatures that claimed it, but at the same time the Combine makes its emergence as well. When the uprising ended the Combine consolidated what resources they had left and also went into hiding, forming a semi-feudal society with the advisors at the top rung, and the more extremely loyal human collaborators below them basically functioning as lords of their own little sectors with their own armies. The technology used to create transhuman soldiers would have been lost to them over time, so what little transhuman soldiers are still left have been upgraded to become one-man killing machines that can take on entire squads by themselves. The rest of Overwatch's forces would consist of slave soldiers or a more well-trained and hardened core of loyalist troops. I can imagine that over the centuries the loyalists would've started like "houses" and began to see service to the Combine as an honor and a privilege, and so the tradition of martial service for the Union would be passed down to each generation. The human loyalists would see their administrators as kings and queens while revering the advisors as gods, and any word passed down from the administrators would be considered the word of the gods since it came straight from the advisors.
An apocalyptic struggle between two cyber/dieselpunk factions of fanatical zealots and hostile invasive life in a world that's been terraformed to the point of being unrecognizable.
I will make this happen, so help me god. Whether anyone wants to help or not.

 

[MaXenzie]

actually he's in mid air

i like the black boxes, i purposefully went for it for the a e s t h e t i c

also get nut on cause i already have another entry

aaand i just noticed a floating silencer that im too lazy to fix

This would be incredible if the posing wasn't so weird. Her knees are fucked, but everything else is perfect (save for the suppressor). Very close to matching the same kinds of artwork those WW3RP folks do.

e: just realised there's a vibrancy difference between my two monitors

Wallpaper material for no-lifers that live on nebulous, like me.

Boring subject matter on its own but wanted to try some evening lighting

I love the lighting, but the blur is excessive. It isn't quite depth of field since half of the woman in the front is in focus, so I'll assume it's manually applied.

i might as well just stick this in anyway to compete

Nut. Amazing.

Aha, so THAT'S what happened to the II Legion.

Nut. This is the kind of shit I want to see from you, not lone images of single space marines standing about. That and massive guardsman images.

@Whilt

No idea what the context is, but it's a nice image! I love the composition, but the shadows are fucked, likely due to Gmod, and not using an addon that softens them. @dee pixel or @Man Wearing a Helmet might know something to help in that regard.

Personally, I slap the commendation on @Dudu Fadende and @Nashi

And I give the encouragement award to @Piggo and @steambored for both being so close to hitting their perfect scores, and I think they could very easily move into a higher bracket if they made sure not to run into the same issues on their next piece.

 

[Man wearing a helmet]

No idea what the context is, but it's a nice image! I love the composition, but the shadows are fucked, likely due to Gmod, and not using an addon that softens them. @dee pixel or @Man Wearing a Helmet might know something to help in that regard.

Just use more than one lamp, vantablack shadows are not possible in the real world

 

[Piggo]

could very easily move into a higher bracket if they made sure not to run into the same issues on their next piece.

aye DOF isn't possible except manually in Gmod if you want to avoid the compression of the screenshot command
[doublepost=1561416451][/doublepost]Still haven't got the hang of manual dof shits gay

 

[Man wearing a helmet]

aye DOF isn't possible except manually in Gmod if you want to avoid the compression of the screenshot command
[doublepost=1561416451][/doublepost]Still haven't got the hang of manual dof shits gay

jpeg_quality 100?

 

[steambored]

WW3RP folks do.

i used to be one of the ww3rp folks

 

[Piggo]

jpeg_quality 100?

ay but stuck at 1920/1080

I'm trying to find out a way via the gmod devs who are active on Knockout as to wether SDOF could be applied to the poster command