SideTrip : The Flow of Life
From SideTrip.
For folks who are new SideTrip is my image series I began about 3 or 4 years ago. It follows a journey of two characters, a human boy named Azure and the God of Concealment Alex, who wander through a world of "everything and nothing" conceptualized by abandoned objects that have been forgotten in time. The image series began as an experiment, later becoming a monthly series.
The final result.
Partial details. I'm no character-drawing person.
Details.
A few of the compositing layers used for this particular image. There were a couple more that I used.
The fish were created with Modo's particle system. While its intent isn't to be animated but here it is anyway. You can see some outliers that zip out of the line... those don't really matter when it's a still.
The viewport with all of the replicator instances displayed. It's very dense, but Modo and Octane took it really well.
I'm frankly no master sketch artist, but this was the image that started it all. A 20 second rough idea of my characters sitting on the roof of machinery. This later became a concrete bunker as the ideas developed.