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saihttam posted:Those are wonderful and should be book covers. Agreed! Those are beautiful and that charity is awesome.
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My only dislike of that set is how much better I find Matter to be than any of the others. Matter is excellent, and really strikes a chord for me compared to the others, with some of the others being almost a bit too abstract (even for a Banks reference). This shouldn't be taken as too much criticism, as I like the whole series, but I just find that one much better than the rest.
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Shockeh posted:My only dislike of that set is how much better I find Matter to be than any of the others. Matter is excellent, and really strikes a chord for me compared to the others, with some of the others being almost a bit too abstract (even for a Banks reference). This shouldn't be taken as too much criticism, as I like the whole series, but I just find that one much better than the rest. That Matter picture has been the background image of my phone ever since it was posted.  Seriously considering buying a print of the Culture Drones, but I'm pretty broke right now.
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Oh now I just want the other Drone as an Avatar, curse you Gravitas Shortfall.
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May 19, 2014 16:48
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Shockeh posted:Oh now I just want the other Drone as an Avatar, curse you Gravitas Shortfall. It doesn't quite work as well.    Someone else has almost the same avatar as me, but I had it first and his isn't framed as nicely.
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May 19, 2014 17:41
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Is it the drones knife missile or just an ikle one? (great art btw)
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I'm actively looking for similar style art of a Ship or Drone now to use as an Avatar. 
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Someone else has almost the same avatar as me, but I had it first and his isn't framed as nicely. Wow, rude.
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Seaside Loafer posted:Is it the drones knife missile or just an ikle one? (great art btw) Pretty sure the one with the blue aura field is Mahwrin-Skel, and the big orange one is Chamlis Amalk-ney (spelling?) from Player of Games. saihttam posted:Those are wonderful and should be book covers. I might actually get a print of it too.
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May 19, 2014 21:50
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Circle Nine posted:Wow, rude. Hey, consider it a Frank Exchange Of Views
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May 19, 2014 22:20
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Hm. What size would these prints look best in, and what type do I want?
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May 20, 2014 02:18
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 I have these as rotating backgrounds on my phone. Use of Weapons, excession, and the drones as my favs.
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BastardySkull posted:I've posted my Banks images on Redbubble for those that are interested. The markup will all go to a charity helping survivors of sexual abuse, of which Banks was patron. I'm going to get a GSV poster, because that's amazing, but I'd also like to get a postcard set of all the pieces. However only the GSV is available as a postcard. Could you make the rest of them available as cards too? edit: Just bought the 1.2-metre-wide GSV poster  edit2: And for making an account there, I get $10 off the next purchase! Going to use it to buy Culture postcards when they're available. Hopefully the $10 comes out of Redbubble's pocket so you still get your full share to give to the charity. Hedrigall fucked around with this message at 05:59 on May 21, 2014 |
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Sure I'll set them all up for postcards later today. Also I didn't know people were sporting avatars of this stuff! That is cool. To respond to Shockeh, the reason these are so abstract is partially because that's my background as an illustrator (I'm not a concept artist nor really have that style, it's not really my thing) and partially because these were my final degree project. I got 65% (5% off of a first class) for this project and the reason given by my tutors was that the project was too safe and not experimental enough. If I'd went Full Concept Art on it I would have been marked down probably to 60% or so because they just didn't like that stuff and to be honest that Matter cover and the aliens pushed my skills to their limit anyway.
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Hey, it's still a thousand times better than anything I can do, it certainly wasn't a criticism of the quality. 
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BastardySkull posted:Sure I'll set them all up for postcards later today. Thankyou! I bought the set of 16
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fookolt posted:Now I want a sweet Culture ship name and avatar on the forums; any ideas for the name at least? Wikipedia has a pretty thorough list of the ship names mentioned in the books.
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Circle Nine posted:Wikipedia has a pretty thorough list of the ship names mentioned in the books. God I love that list, and it starts out well enough, but when it hits State of the Art it always puts a big smile on my face because that's when the names go from very good to fantastic.
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The postcards arrived today! Posters should come soon. They look awesome:  BastardySkull, I'd love to promote your art & store on my SF blog. Quick question: is Safe Space the charity you're giving proceeds to? edit: Ooh and Redbubble just emailed about your new piece: http://www.redbubble.com/people/lukejfrost/works/12024869-gsv-surface - Now I need to get this too! Hedrigall fucked around with this message at 08:56 on May 26, 2014 |
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Hedrigall posted:The postcards arrived today! Posters should come soon. Wow, those are gorgeous. I just picked up a Use of Weapons poster and set postcards, looking forwards to seeing them!
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Hedrigall posted:The postcards arrived today! Posters should come soon. Send the Matter one to a similarly geeky friend. "Greetings from Sunny Sursamen (Level 8)!"
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Hedrigall posted:The postcards arrived today! Posters should come soon. Ahhh they look good. Hard to tell but I hope the quality is good. Yeah the charity is Safe Space. At the moment there's about £16.00 since I put them up. When/if it hits £60 I'll get a cheque (avoiding paypal) and will be sending it all over to them. If it takes ages to hit £60 I'll just request a cheque earlier.
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BastardySkull posted:Ahhh they look good. Hard to tell but I hope the quality is good. Yeah, lovely phone photo but the resolution on them is excellent. I'm very happy with them! Here's a plug on my blog!
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BastardySkull posted:Sure I'll set them all up for postcards later today. Also I didn't know people were sporting avatars of this stuff! That is cool. I'm going to buy at least one nice poster, but I would absolutely love it if there was a way I could buy a set of high-res images of them for desktop backgrounds.
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Suddenly sad that we never met the GSV Necessity, which of course constructed the GCU Invention.
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Just a vast, vast majority.
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ClearAirTurbulence posted:The Culture doesn't have a monopoly on good ship names. That's just your clear Hronish bias showing through. 
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CAT's right, though - Inspiral, Coalescence, Ringdown is one of my favorite ship names, Culture or not.
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BatteredFeltFedora posted:CAT's right, though - Inspiral, Coalescence, Ringdown is one of my favorite ship names, Culture or not. I, uh... I don't get it. I mean, it sounds really pretty, but... I don't get it.
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It seems like a combination of a bunch of other SF authors' big dumb objects?
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eriktown posted:I, uh... Google says they're the three stages of a merger between two black holes.
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Circle Nine posted:Wikipedia has a pretty thorough list of the ship names mentioned in the books. Culture GCU Ultimate Ship The Second* *"Ultimate" means "last" e: oh wow this hasn't been posted in in a while
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That's okay, this is a thread that deserves some love. I actually just finished The Wasp Factory a few days ago. 
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Sorry for the low content bump, but I was just playing the Destiny beta and there's a mission in it called The Helium Cantata 
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sinking belle posted:Sorry for the low content bump, but I was just playing the Destiny beta and there's a mission in it called The Helium Cantata Knew it wouldn't go unloved. Banks fo lyfe
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