Is Magix-101’s Backdrop for AIR-WORLDS a Product?
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The first thumbnail image for AIR-WORLDS https://www.daz3d.com/air-worlds
shows the airships over a backdrop of cities, with the caption: "Starships over Distant Cities". Is this background part of some product I can buy here?
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the first background image is by Jae Cheol Park, he's a Korean artist also known as Paperblue.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SpecArt/comments/hhepc/future_city_by_jaecheol_park/
the second is by Frederic St-Arnaud, that one is used on the cover of Ballistic publishings matte painting book
https://www.deviantart.com/fstarno/art/Dartiste-Matte-Painting-II-98860721
they're illustrations so not available in the store.
Wow, you're sure culturally literate! Do you also happen to know what websites would sell licenses to use illustrations like these?
Thanks!
Oh, I see. I looked Frederic St-Arnaud's Deviant Art page and the illustration is a bunch of photos composted together then highly retouched. So creating something like this isn't out of my realm.
heh,I've never been accused of cultural literacy before ..Cheers!
as far as licensing them you'd probably have to contact the artists directly,I think the Paperblue one was for a video game pitch,it's been around for a while.
I have some of my images in the same matte painting book so that's why I recognized the second one
https://www.frederic-st-arnaud.com/tutorials.html
He even has a tutorial showing how he made this particular image.
Google 'photobashing'.
YouTube probably has alot of tutorials and/or techniques just by watching someone having recorded the process. I know it blows my mind.
Looking at the tutorial (on the linked page) made me think of a "how to draw" joke.
First you draw a circle.Then you draw another, smaller circle, right about where the head is. And now you draw the face, the hair, the clothes..