Monday, June 29, 2009

A Collection of Cool Art: Part 2

Climbing Atlas: A wallpaper from the video game God of War II: The End Begins. This image depicts the sociopathical hero of the game, Kratos, scaling the titan Atlas and fighting the legions of undead blocking his ascent to the world Atlas holds up. The color is brilliant and the brutality of Kratos' character is most appearent in this picture than in any other ones that I have seen.







Death of Samus: At first, I thought I had found this one on deviant ART transfuse's collection page. This artist has a few full colorful, detailed images of Samus Aran from the Metroid video games, but it seems that I'm mistaken and this is someone else's work. Who ever they are, they have my thanks for creating it - this is my favorite image of Samus to date. It shows how tough it is to save the universe sometimes. Fancy armor doesn't save you all the time, but you live, learn and protect what you can... or you die trying.









Lighting Away: This is a wallpaper of Final Fantasy XIV's main character: Lighting. The image itself it actually a still from one of the in game graphic shots sceen in the first trailer, which you can see here at around the 47 second mark. The sense of movement is just so well captured in this image. It's just so smooth.










"Rancor?!": One of my favorite parts of Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the mission where you have to free a group of elders from a slaving outfit and one of them tells you that they should get out of here before the rancor comes. "Rancor?!" You're character exclaims and the best roams around the corner in an attempt to eat you. This image captures that moment pefectly - a lone Jedi Padawan against a huge beast native to Dathomir? Omg! I'm in trouble!






Princess Mononoke in the Moonlight: This is an official Wallpaper for Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke: my favorite film. It shows the fierce similarity between San and her adoptive wolf-brothers with a dark-light constrast that makes the scene breath-taking.











"Sorry, I falls down!" : Cutest picture of a baby dragon that I have ever seen. So small, so fragile, but protected by the snout of a loving parent as it falls. It warms the heart and tickles my artsy side with detail and color.











Man, Woman; Angel, Beast: This is a striking image of the relationship between man and woman. The woman is depicted as an angel-like figure: serene and tranquil, comforting her conterpart. The man is depicted as ugly and corrupted with wings and mind of metal than of beauty and goodness. I'm not sure if I agree with what this image makes me feel, but the concept is very intrigueging and this image is stupedious in design and lighting.








Ghost Unicorn: The eerie shape of red tattoed unicorn through mists of grey. The entire image is just amazing - it has been on my desktop for sometime now. It almost seems to enbody the myth of the unicorn in a disappearing shadow; bright to those who can see it and mearly a shadow to those who can't.








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