Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Final Image Date Submitted: Monday, 19 January 2009 Title: Odysseus' Departure Notes: This illustration depicts a moment that definitely must have happened in the course of events of the Iliad and Odyssey. It shows the moment of departure of Odysseus leaving his home place of Ithaca and his wife Penelope along with his newborn son Telemachus. Penelope will not see her husband for another 20 years. Odysseus is called for duty to fight the Trojans and is very reluctant to do it. He spends 10 years at Troy (Illiad) and then another 10 years lost at sea on his way back (Odyssey), and currently is boarding his battle ship - a ship that in it?s entirety represents his personality. The designs are very important in this picture. The uniforms of Odysseus crew - experienced, well trained warriors; and the environment expressing the situation of the main characters both physically and emotionally. The main story here is the woman - Penelope and her son, who are the moment of a great loss and uncertainty. They will have to struggle over the years to retain their position in the society, ward off a number of suitors conspiring behind Odysseus back to take his throne and his woman. CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Work In Progress Date Submitted: Monday, 19 January 2009 Title: Odysseus' Departure Notes: a little spy. CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Work In Progress Date Submitted: Monday, 19 January 2009 Title: Odysseus' Departure Notes: just wanted to show you I'm pretty psyched about the warp tool. CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Work In Progress Date Submitted: Monday, 19 January 2009 Title: Odysseus' Departure Notes: hauling amo for "the big one"... CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Work In Progress Date Submitted: Monday, 19 January 2009 Title: Odysseus' Departure Notes: i have finished the gun that is visible in the foreground. i've been playing with Penelope's visibility - i hope she stands out enough. - obviously she's in the center and almost everything is pointing in her direction. the vanishing point is right at her knees. but to some people it is indeed not so obvious - especially in a small image like that. i have moved one of the small flying objects on the shaded side - still not sure if to keep them at all. CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Work In Progress Date Submitted: Sunday, 18 January 2009 Title: Odysseus' Departure Notes: This is the gun design I am going to go with. I could spend another week changing it but I will go with what I have here. I am working on a 200% copy again so I can detail freehand without having pixelated view when I zoom in. Here is also a simple trick that I just came up with. I rotated the gun vertical so most of the ellipses are horizontal - easier to draw - easier to make elliptical selections. = I wish I new how to make an ellipse selection in photoshop and have it rotated in the same time - not after it is selected. that would streamline the process of drawing precise industrial designs. maybe somebody knows how to do that? CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Work In Progress Date Submitted: Sunday, 18 January 2009 Title: Odysseus' Departure Notes: i wonder what you guys and gals think. i've added these small steampunk mini blimps - they are some kind of optical instruments observing the scene. They have a little steam engine. little houses connect small steam jets that are located on the blimp part itself - for controlling direction of flight. i think that they add to the depth of the image and richness of the presented world. my concern is visual clutter though. i have resized the ship too - made it bigger because it didnt seem correct. i still have to detail the guy in the foreground - his gun, boot, and the cart his pulling - something with amo probably. oh, man I forgot about the upper part of Odysseus ship! aah. gotta get some sleep first. CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Work In Progress Date Submitted: Sunday, 18 January 2009 Title: Odysseus' Departure Notes: here is a close up of the central area. i have rendered all the people here. eventually I got rid off one of the pilots because it was intersecting with the Penelope and I think it was weakening the composition. not go completely to waste i put him behind on top of the ship - doing something there. I am also experimenting with some small steam-powered objects flying around. all comments - bad and good are much appreciated! CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Work In Progress Date Submitted: Saturday, 17 January 2009 Title: Odysseus' Departure Notes: Here you can see I just sketched in to dudes that stand next to the platform. they are part of the ship's crew. the fly it and they bomb cities full of innocent people. for real though, they are the good guys unlike the previous 2 dudes - so I make them steampunk cool and not Victorian vanity glamor. they are quite small so this is actually 100% size. They are so small so when I work on them I copy them into a new file - work at 200% size and then when done scale it back 50% and put them back in the image. did the same thing with the ship. CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post
Click for full-sized image		Milestone: Work In Progress Date Submitted: Saturday, 17 January 2009 Title: Odysseus' Departure Notes: here you can see how I came up with the 2 characters on the right. They are the suitors - the jerks that are just waiting for Odysseus to leave and then harass Penelope. I am looking both on my poses pictures from the previous entry and reference photography of period clothing to come up with the design. Obviously these guys are all about their looks. CGTalk: CGTalk Thread | CGTalk Post

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