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Chromattix — The Deviant System

Published: 2009-03-18 03:36:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 39724; Favourites: 903; Downloads: 1753
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Description Full View for a cinematic view of your local cosmos

OK, so when I read about a "deviantMAP contest" held by I instantly started coming up with creative and humerous ideas. Rather than limiting myself to a world-like map perhaps with different galleries taking up different landmasses, I figured deviantART is so grand, why not give it its own Solar System (Or "Lolar system" if that sounds more like dA ) and seeing how star-maps and the like were allowed, this should still be within the guidelines

Lets get to it shall we?...
The planets of deviantART

DeviantART Server: The very core of the entire system of which would not exist without it, Server lies in a local cluster of stars ranging from smaller stars like CGSociety or Renderosity, to massive Supergiants such as Myspace and Youtube. In relation to these other servers, deviantART server is rather aged but still bright. The perfect sized star!
Female Nudes: Lying closest to Server, due to it apparently being the "hottest" of the galleries and the first thing many people look for on arrival, if this gallery was any bigger, it would have formed into a gas giant like the other, bigger ones!
Male Nudes: Significantly smaller than its feminine gallery counterpart, this gallery is still hot in the eyes of the few that appreciate it, let alone the fewer again that submit into it. Its Mars-like look is well fitting to it's masculine theme!
General Photography: Sunsets, water-drops, flowers, rings casting heart-shaped shadows - you name it! whatever you can think of that was taken through the lens of every camera, ranging from the cheap disposable ones to ones that can put a Ferrari to shame in a price war - all goes onto this giant gallery, you might still have to try and find some available space though.
Traditional Art: Apparently is where the whole art journey started, you can tell as it has a well-established and earth-like form too. Though small compared to most other galleries, never undermine the value of any form of hand-made art!
3D Art: Not very large, but worth a visit if your'e bold enough to sit in front of a 3D program! One can't help but wonder why so many of those naked Poser ladies havn't been shifted by Server to the innermost planet.
Stolen Google Images: Aaahhh! these stray lumps of crap are just about everywhere! and constantly pose a threat to all the other proper galleries on here. Destroy the stolen google images by reporting them!
Anime / Manga: Makes itself a rather dominant gallery that's almost impossible to miss every time you log in to stargaze at this site. But bigger isn't always better - but having said that, across its vast surface are some beauties that are worth all that searching, sill - don't say I didn't warn ya!
Fan-Art: Don't look so shocked, you KNEW It was going to be the biggest, in fact - fan-art grew so big so fast that it converted into glowing a brown dwarf gallery - smaller than a star, too big to be a normal planet, hence why it's the second most dominant object in the whole system right after the Server itself, you can't miss it even if you tried!
Other Digital Art: Was once colossal! but ever since Manga and Fan-art seperated and coalesced into their own galleries, Digital Art in general became less than half the size after shedding those unslightly tonnes, in spite of that, it still holds a wealth of different forms of art and safe to say it's still a damn big gallery!
Worthwhile Tutorials: There's lot of tutorials on here, but half often lead to a dead-end for most that use them here, this teeny-tiny portion of the deviant System has been bombarded with every member that hoped to become pro in an afternoon, so the poor gallery sports a multitude of big craters.
Dee Dee's: Because we are losing our ability to say "Daily Deviations" in this busy place. Dee Dee's is the final fronteir, you can't get a better honour on here than that, few make it to this small but bright gallery that shines proudly with the teal glint of deviantART!
Art Memes: Like comets, they strike fear into the hearts of some, but are amusing for others. Art memes come and go like Comets do, and people enjoy it while it lasts, but couldn't care less once its gone...

Phew, long comment, remember not to take this too seriously or literally, maybe the galleries should be different sizes relative to each other and I just got the wrong impression. Maybe I could have added more galleries too! But I considered all the variables an dthis way was just the right amount to keep it humerous so no crits please

No NASA imagery was used, some planets were made from painted texture-maps that were applied to 3D spheres, others including the Sun are done using fully procedural textures. Made using Vue and Photoshop.

Download is required to see text (but its explained in the comments anyway)

All artwork in my gallery is made by me and copyrighted too. Re-distributing my art edited or not is immoral and illegal! Respect the artist - don't steal art!
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Comments: 457

Ancient--One [2009-08-07 03:53:09 +0000 UTC]

No Kidding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow!

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Chromattix In reply to Ancient--One [2009-08-07 13:49:50 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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Louis-Art In reply to ??? [2009-08-05 13:32:44 +0000 UTC]

Genius: I like and study astronomy for pleasure, but I never could think to do such a metaphore. Fanarts as a brown dwarf. Well, my planet should be the fourth, the livable (yes!) and some drawn nudes.

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Chromattix In reply to Louis-Art [2009-08-05 13:48:05 +0000 UTC]

I'm starting to think Photography maybe should be the brown dwarf yeah, since traditional art is the point where all art forms originated, I felt I'd make that the habitable one...just because its small dosn't mean its insignificant

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Louis-Art In reply to Chromattix [2009-08-05 13:57:14 +0000 UTC]

Totally in accord. There's tons of insignificant photos. Maybe a companion star?

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Chromattix In reply to Louis-Art [2009-08-05 13:58:17 +0000 UTC]

That'll do!

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Louis-Art In reply to Chromattix [2009-08-05 18:41:12 +0000 UTC]

But don't you forget the Literature planet?

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Chromattix In reply to Louis-Art [2009-08-05 23:12:23 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I forgot it - I think it got swallowed up by Fan-art since there's a lot of fan-fiction in the literature galleries

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BaileyRivers In reply to ??? [2009-07-26 21:37:57 +0000 UTC]

Damn, it's all so true. My work crash landed on fanart a year ago.

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Chromattix In reply to BaileyRivers [2009-07-27 02:09:59 +0000 UTC]

Lol, hard to miss fan-art, while common - I also have to admit its addictive

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BaileyRivers In reply to Chromattix [2009-07-27 04:19:46 +0000 UTC]

Yeah...

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SoroLogin55 [2009-07-25 20:28:22 +0000 UTC]

Truth!!!I like it

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gmsp123 In reply to ??? [2009-07-21 11:02:51 +0000 UTC]

i hate stolen google images!

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Chromattix In reply to gmsp123 [2009-07-21 12:49:35 +0000 UTC]

Organised...too bad we can't say the same about the site it's making fun of

Yeah, I'm tired of stolen Google images too, and if some of those Google images started out on dA, then it becomes an infinite loop

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gmsp123 In reply to Chromattix [2009-07-22 08:40:47 +0000 UTC]

true true.

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gmsp123 In reply to ??? [2009-07-21 11:01:44 +0000 UTC]

this is so organized

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charmainemorganphoto [2009-07-14 09:02:05 +0000 UTC]

I think this is really clever and witty!

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Chromattix In reply to charmainemorganphoto [2009-07-14 09:07:24 +0000 UTC]

Lol, glad you found it amusing

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Sap-Green In reply to ??? [2009-07-13 16:34:25 +0000 UTC]

haha, love it!

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kalinnnnn In reply to ??? [2009-07-10 10:15:44 +0000 UTC]

Extremely amusing

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Hameed In reply to ??? [2009-07-09 14:03:39 +0000 UTC]

Brilliant!

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Chromattix In reply to Hameed [2009-07-09 14:13:04 +0000 UTC]

Glad you found it amusing, thanks for faving too

Here's a little info you might find interesting too, seeing how you seemed to have recently obtained Vue - the texture an all but the anime, fan-art and digital art planets were created entirely in Vue's function editor (well, the hot spots on the female nudes were postworked )

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omg--panic [2009-07-02 12:25:55 +0000 UTC]

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LMAO...such a awesome piece and yet so true

But...

Why no one feature this for a Dee Dee yet



'x'

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Chromattix In reply to omg--panic [2009-07-02 13:48:59 +0000 UTC]

Lol, thanks for commenting and faving, hmm, while it's a funny deviation, I still don't really consider it Dee-Dee material, at least not compared to my other works...I'll let this one find its own way to fame

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AltaSilvaPuer In reply to ??? [2009-06-25 23:53:20 +0000 UTC]

Genius! Gotta love intelligent wit mixed with great space art.

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Greed-kun In reply to ??? [2009-06-16 22:32:12 +0000 UTC]

LMAO, Perfect satire! Looks like I live on Anime/Manga, it's also fitting that it's the most similar to Saturn! Saturn being my favorite planet!

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Chromattix In reply to Greed-kun [2009-06-16 23:38:55 +0000 UTC]

Lo,l that's OK - lots of people have some problem with anime/Manga, but I think it can potentially look great when done right I think it's how popular it is that bothers most, which is understandable

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Greed-kun In reply to Chromattix [2009-06-17 19:32:29 +0000 UTC]

Anime/Manga have the right to be respected and popular. The drawings themselves are spectacular to look at and the stories of Anime/Manga are some of the best of any TV shows in the world.

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MyKittenVideos In reply to ??? [2009-06-08 00:13:44 +0000 UTC]

this is awesome and right in soooo many ways w00t! Hurray for fan-art!

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Chromattix In reply to MyKittenVideos [2009-06-08 06:24:23 +0000 UTC]

Lol, thankyou, and yeah - regardless of how many people hate fan-art because of it's popularity and how common it is - there are some real gems and original takes on existing characters that makes for some awesome images too thanks for faving too

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DoctorEvil06 [2009-05-14 21:52:56 +0000 UTC]

That's so cool!

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Sillique [2009-05-11 17:14:06 +0000 UTC]

Ahah, that's awesome! XD

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GhosTagE In reply to ??? [2009-05-04 14:28:13 +0000 UTC]

Lol female nudes and stolen google images xD

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Chromattix In reply to GhosTagE [2009-05-05 01:17:29 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, they are all too common around here thanks for the recent fave too

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GhosTagE In reply to Chromattix [2009-05-05 03:57:22 +0000 UTC]

xD np! thanks for replying about the explosion thingy

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BrandonCanWin In reply to ??? [2009-04-29 04:35:04 +0000 UTC]

Fan Art Go WOOT!
Real Mature with that Nudes thing lol

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Chromattix In reply to BrandonCanWin [2009-04-29 09:26:44 +0000 UTC]

Haha, it just Had to be done thanks for your recent comments and faves too

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BrandonCanWin In reply to Chromattix [2009-04-29 22:48:29 +0000 UTC]

No Prob, Your really good!

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freakyfan3754 In reply to ??? [2009-04-27 05:21:22 +0000 UTC]

Haha, nice. Yes, sadly the anime and fanart have taken over the solar system . My first year here I didn't like anime at all and got hardly any comments/favs/pageviews, and then when my friend corrupted me into liking Final Fantasy 7, my dA life changed, lol.

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Chromattix In reply to freakyfan3754 [2009-04-27 09:41:13 +0000 UTC]

Lol, I actually did more anime and fan-art in my first year here...since I quickly learned that was how to get popular (yeah, I know - I did stuff then just to get popular, I'm lame ) But then again, I used to draw manga at school a lot, so it wasn't too much of a change. Though my early attempts were pretty bad and most have been deleted or scrapped by now

I was actually late to the whole Final Fantasy scene, never gave it any thought until I saw some Cloud fan-art here by accident and thought "who is THAT! " haha, I just had to find out all I could about it, though I still havn't played the game (that's really something you gotta play when your'e younger to look back on it fondly enough to ignore the terribly polygonal graphics ) But I've watched Advent Children plenty of times

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freakyfan3754 In reply to Chromattix [2009-04-27 18:06:19 +0000 UTC]

oh I was totally late to it, lol...my friend only got me into it like last fall when she showed me advent children. I'm a nerdy little art major so I saw the CGI and was hooked, lol. We are sooo excited for AC Complete to get here. And I'm not really a gamer either...I just do it vicariously through friends and youtube and wikipedia, lol

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Spamkiller [2009-04-23 18:34:09 +0000 UTC]

The female nudes / male nudes ones cracked me up!


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oldnewone In reply to ??? [2009-04-23 16:16:00 +0000 UTC]

stolen google images

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Eirien-R [2009-04-21 20:36:03 +0000 UTC]

Haha! Oh dear, and all this time I've been contributing mostly to the Anime & Fan Art planets!

Poor little tutorial rock.

I must help save Plut-...err the little planets! *starts sketching*

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Chromattix In reply to Eirien-R [2009-04-21 23:05:37 +0000 UTC]

Lol, well just because a gallery has a bloated size dosn't mean that eveyrthing that enters it is "bad" it just means a lot of everything goes into ther e- the good and bad though I frequently run into some really amazing anime and fan-art too (makes me jealous sometimes ) Thanks for faving too

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Eirien-R In reply to Chromattix [2009-04-22 00:31:13 +0000 UTC]

Oh! Nah I wouldn't say it's all bad either. It's like with cooking; salt is great for flavoring food but too much and it can be overwhelming.

I believe it's great to have a good balance of tastes on dA so that we can see various styles of art and not be bored by repetitiveness.^^

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FullMetalMono [2009-04-19 09:49:18 +0000 UTC]

This is brilliant! It's so true.

And it looks awesome, great job!

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HideFromThem [2009-04-10 10:11:40 +0000 UTC]

LOL, nice, marked absence of Literature- was that intentional?
as always, brilliant work.

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Chromattix In reply to HideFromThem [2009-04-10 11:32:00 +0000 UTC]

Nah, not intentional...sice I never browse literature I tend to forget about it (since I watch at least one artist who can fit into these other categories) But by the time I remembered, I already had a lot of planets already and I worried another might be overkill

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HideFromThem In reply to Chromattix [2009-04-20 10:13:35 +0000 UTC]

LOL, ok thats a good enuff explanation 4 me
i feel very special now, coz a while back u commented on one of my poems! colour me chuffed

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