Juhele on February 22, 2010, 10:29:42 AM
Hi guys,
thank you for the idea using X-men names for new granular releases as this gives a lot of ideas to the artists. I already started creating of something which could be wallpaper for the new Granular 2.0  ;)

It is also inspired by the X-men, but I strictly bewared using anything which could be copyrighted.  :)

I will upload it somewhere as I will finish it.  ::)

Anurag Bhandari on February 22, 2010, 11:48:53 AM
Interesting to know that, Juhele. We would love to see your ideas. Btw, we have a dedicated forum for artwork discussions as well. Here: http://granuminati.50.forumer.com/index.php

You might want to register there and be part of discussion for Granular 2's artwork.


Juhele on February 24, 2010, 11:08:19 AM
OK,
as I am currently unable to post to the Granuminati forum, I am posting it here and later will move there.

Here is something which could be early alpha preview of my wallpaper. The basic   arrangement will not change much. I only have to find the best way to draw the claw mark on the rusty metal as this one does not look good. I am going to try something with my tablet in GIMP and then we will see.



The wallpaper was inspired by the first X-men movie, but no images from the movie were used or “copied”. As you know, Wolverine's origin is a little bit dark and is connected to secret military research program located to the Alkali Lake base. This base was later abandoned – Wolverine was there again in X2 movie.

So I tried to catch this atmosphere and so used the rusty warning sign and also one important thing - Wolverine's dog tags – here used to show that this is Granular 2.0 release and the codename too, of course.

The textures are from CGI textures website, all other was made by me in GIMP and few things also in Inkscape.

I am preparing to release the final work in all common screen ratios:

4:3 - 1920x1440
16:9 - 1920x1080   
16:10 - 1920x1200
(and maybe derived smaller ones)


PS: if you have any remarks, let me know :-)

Anurag Bhandari on February 24, 2010, 01:37:15 PM
Nice work, juhele. This actually got me into thinking we can use this image in our announcement for Granular 2, when it comes out. :)

Juhele on February 25, 2010, 12:10:28 PM
Nice work, juhele. This actually got me into thinking we can use this image in our announcement for Granular 2, when it comes out. :)

OK, why not. my pleasure  :)