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Boundaries of Heaven 2.0by ~Ultraq

Digital Art / 3-Dimensional Art / Scenes / Spacescapes

A co-worker recently introduced me to a neat little landscape generating program called Terragen, and only now have I had a chance to play around with it. Looking back on any of my older pictures, creating digital landscapes has always been a problem for me. So I thought it would be appropriate to have my first go with this program at re-creating an older picture where the landscape was a large part of it: Boundaries of Heaven (hence this one now being called version 2.0).

For the first few tries, I think the resulting landscape turned-out alright. I've also taken several liberties recreating the top half of the picture as well. Because this was only an experimentation, I didn't want to spend too much time on the picture, so I used several images from my stockpile to complete it. In combination with Terragen, it only took the space of an afternoon to complete the above. To be honest, it felt like a bit of a shortcut.

I was first thinking about how such tools might be considered cheap in that they make it easier for anybody to be a self-proclaimed artist, but isn't it true of every other tool out there? Without such tools I don't think I'd even be here; my own Paint Shop Pro X helps me to achieve what I couldn't normally do through traditional means.

So I don't think it's really about cheapening the art scene, I think it's about making expression through art more accessible, which isn't such a bad thing after all. Sure it may take less 'skill' to create something nice, but since when should self-expression be confined to the elite few?

~PlanetBloopy Jun 11, 2006

The combination of Terragen with your other art is certainly interesting, you'll have to get using it some more!

~Xecutioner379 Apr 29, 2006 Hobbyist Interface Designer

Excellent work, Love this piece

Cheers

!katie--lovesIT Apr 4, 2006

amaazzinn

i lovvee it !
ur good aha .. i wish i could do that !

aand +watch

~vcr89 Apr 3, 2006 Traditional Artist

mmm, I hope heaven looks even remotely like that
A shortcut? perhaps. I think that thought is what's kept me thusfar away from such programs. However, art was once exclusive to those who could wield a brush or mould magic with mud-like substances. Art is a form of self-expression, and no one should be denied it. It still takes talent, though different, to manipulate virtual tools, and it is my belief that people who create beautiful works (such as yours

) deserve just as much credit.
Cheers, and keep it up