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Tablet giveaway!
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For all you other starving artistst out there. This guy is doing a tablet giveaway. you just have to fav his journal, watch his page and spread the word.
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Proposal: The Trojan Project
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I have an idea for a multi-artist project, something that may be turned into an art book perhaps. It was inspired by The Skillful Huntsman, a book many concept artists are familiar with.
This idea would be to create a group here on DA for concept art for The Trojan War, but set in any genre imaginable. The same characters, the same story, but everyone submits new interpretations of all of the elements, as long as it isn't the orgiinal, traditional setting.
So there would be a folder for each element of the story. Achilles, Hector, Agamennon, Ajax, Paris, Helen, the temple of Apollo, the Greek Fleet, the Oracle at Delphi, Troy, the Trojan Horse, Olympus, and the Greek gods that were involved to name just a few.
I am imagining people submitting things like the greek fleet being a fleet of starships, or Hector as a samurai taking off a mask shaped like an Oni to show his son its just him underneath, the walls of Troy as a graphical representation of a program in cyberspace, steampunk achilles, Odeyssus as an A.I. being consulted by space emperor Agamennon....you name it.
Stretch our imaginations and minds, practice concept artistry, and hey, maybe get it into a book and get some attention.
I am tentatively calling it either The Trojan War Project or Project: Achilles.
Is this something people would be interested in?
This idea would be to create a group here on DA for concept art for The Trojan War, but set in any genre imaginable. The same characters, the same story, but everyone submits new interpretations of all of the elements, as long as it isn't the orgiinal, traditional setting.
So there would be a folder for each element of the story. Achilles, Hector, Agamennon, Ajax, Paris, Helen, the temple of Apollo, the Greek Fleet, the Oracle at Delphi, Troy, the Trojan Horse, Olympus, and the Greek gods that were involved to name just a few.
I am imagining people submitting things like the greek fleet being a fleet of starships, or Hector as a samurai taking off a mask shaped like an Oni to show his son its just him underneath, the walls of Troy as a graphical representation of a program in cyberspace, steampunk achilles, Odeyssus as an A.I. being consulted by space emperor Agamennon....you name it.
Stretch our imaginations and minds, practice concept artistry, and hey, maybe get it into a book and get some attention.
I am tentatively calling it either The Trojan War Project or Project: Achilles.
Is this something people would be interested in?
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How much sci do you need in your sci-fi?
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Over the years I've seen a push and pull between actual published science fiction writers and artists and those who think more science should be involved in sci-fi story telling. There's been a hugely failed push by some to get sci-fi to really go hard science across the board.
Two of the best examples is the bad movie science websites and blogs and the never-ending "No Stealth in Space" argument.
Neither has gained any real traction. You still get gobstoppingly nutty concepts like "Red Matter" in Star Trek 2009, and Cylon angel time loop, parallel evolution in Battlestar Galactica.....and Ancient Aliens is in season, what, three? Four?
So why hasn't the push for hard science taken off? Why so few films like "Gravity" (which still had horribly bad science). www.forbes.com/sites/quora/201…
The reason is simple: People don't expect it to be spot on. All film and writing is about story. Its about people. The machines are ALWAYS backdrop. There only needs to be enough science to give the viewer or the reader permission to enjoy what they are watching. The requirement of suspension of disbelief changes from viewer to viewer, but you are safe going just a bit above the science knowledge of the average population. Aim for the disinterested college graduate and you're good.
Even the Hard Science sci-fi, like 2001 often sets you up for the patently absurd, like monoliths and LSD trips through space-time. By the time you get to the drug-laced monolith trip, you can forgive just about anything after two hours of apes, people walking in slow mo in zero G and rotating rings.
Margaret Atwood, writer of The Handmaid's Tale, once wrote that "if it is realistic or plausible, it isn't science fiction."
I wouldn't go that far. I'd say you need enough to give the viewer permission to enjoy the story. And the truth is the better the story, the better the immersion, the less need for science. By the time most people got to the floating mountains in Avatar, they didn't give a **** if that made no logical sense whatsoever. They were just like "floating rocks! Bring it! I want more alien forest flying beast 3-D!" Had they tried that in a movie with a weaker story, the response would have been far, far different.
That decision on where the line is will not be governed by science, or scientists, or fans of hard science. It will be governed by the fact that J.J. Abrahms Star Trek grossed more than $385 million in foreign and domestic sales, despite Red Matter, mighty morphing Enterprise interior scaling and transwarp beaming or whatever the heck that was.
So how much science do you need to enjoy the story? How much handwavium is too much? How much of it matters if the story and setting are engaging?
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Ascension Chronicles News on Tumblr
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"Port of Call" will be the official Ascension Chronicles tumblr site. The actual online comic will hopefully be up in a couple weeks. Port of Call will carry news, backstory, and extra, canon, information about the evolving Ascension Chronicles universe! Check it out and follow it.
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