Identification

[Metin_7]

Another VRendered image of mine. Hope you like it (must be my standard phrase when posting an image here )



Cheers,

M7

[Lem]

i like it

Lem

[cocolas]

me to.

a little weird, but cool. what's it for?? does it have a story/is it part of one??

PS: i like the rusty/use material of the bridge/ assembly line "they" stand on. also, what's the screen/light panel mat they go through setup??

paul.

[Dogzilla]

path to enlightenment?

very nice

[jujubee]

great looking stuff- refreshing to see a little differentiation from photorealism here.

[cocolas]

path to enlightenment?

very nice

that's funny........

[Metin_7]

Thanks for the nice comments guys! I originally created the image as an illustration to accompany an article about identification on internet in a Dutch magazine. Here's the original I created about 1.5 years ago:



But from time to time I saw back the image on my harddisk and figured that because it was a hasty tight deadline job, the picture could have had a deeper atmosphere. I still like the philosophical nature of the image, so this weekend I decided to create a VRay-rendered remix of the picture, with a darker atmosphere.

You can interpret the illustration's message in more than one way ...

The characters that still have to go through the light beam are still green and filled with burning questions (the naivety of youth). The beam could be regarded as that moment in life where you start forming an identity, realizing who you are and what you want from life. From then on you can start gaining self-confidence. But ... I've deliberately made the characters in the last stage red, because losing your innocence is not necessarily a positive development. A lot of grown-ups think in a melancholic way of their youth, because of that lost innocence and the bad habits they've developed since then.

You could also interpet the image in a quite different way. You could see it as some sort of totalitarian factory, where people's individual thoughts and questions are brainwashed away by the machine.

Cheers,

Metin

[cocolas]

cool!!
I'd go more for the "totalitarian factory / brain washing" idea ....sounds more in tone with the pic...more interiguing....
also I like the "matrix-y" atmoshpere in the first one much better....hehe (gotta love that matrix green )


nice work Metin,

paul.

[Metin_7]

Thanks again!

Green has always been my favourite colour. I also love the subtle greenish/yellowish lighting atmosphere in David Fincher's movies. It's somewhere between cold and warm and can be very moody if used the right way.

I was playing around with some filters in Photoshop for the background, got the Matrix-like digital rain effect and decided to keep it.

Cheers,

M7