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Published: 2010-08-01 00:48:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 4228; Favourites: 62; Downloads: 133
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Here's a project I recently completed that was pretty interesting for me, the illustrations for Ted Chiang's new novella "The Lifecycle of Software Objects". I had read a couple of Ted's stories before he had contacted me so I was pretty stoked to be involved and jumped at the chance, I think his stuff is terrific. You can listen to his Hugo Award nominated story Exhalation here! [link]This illustration was the first one I completed and became the cover image. We went through quite a lot of different illustrative styles before getting to this one and I'll show some of those and a few of the other paintings in more posts.
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After Stories of Your Life and Others this will be the next one I read. You are very talented and very lucky to have been commissioned by such a great author.
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Yeah, very lucky! Huge fan of Ted's work. Cheers!
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I saw the book, I still need to read it but the illustrations are amazing
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Thanks a lot OG! It's a good read, I think you'll like it
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Cool, I'll get it next time Im at my library.
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I just finished reading this book and all of the illustrations were really amazing.
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Thanks Oat! I felt pretty lucky to get that job, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
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Ahh so you're the criminal behind this rad piece that I saw on io9.
This was the perfect project for you as I know you know tons about robots and babies.
Will have to check out art rage one day
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I'm amazed that this is digital! Its a pretty heavy feat to be able to blur the line between digital and traditional, not to mention the lil' nibbler looks too damn cute for words! I wish I knew how you did this technique, maybe I'll just have to pull out my dream-sharing briefcase and mindheist you >
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Heh! I wish I could claim credit! Just check out Artrage, it's pretty awesome for painterly effects.
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Its a bitch to manipulate though :/ at least I hated using it at school with a mouse haha
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looks awesome man!!! is it a watercolor?
anyways, good job on this one!!
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Artrage bro! I tried to do it in real watercolour but I'm just too slooooow. Also I'm not very good with it.
Cheers!
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oh cool, i already have the demo version, but haven't used it yet... will have to give it a try!
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