The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge CONCEPT THREAD | July - August (73)

Pinkfox

Welcome to the voting thread for our next bi-monthly environment art challenge for July and August 2021!

I want to start out by thanking @alytlebird for hosting the challenge for the past year and a half! Watching the wonderful work come out of each challenge has been a great motivator and participating has definitely helped me grow as an artist. I hope to continue that tradition into the future!

Below I've provided a concept for each category to get us started. As per the usual, this challenge will offer two environment options and two prop options - 1 hand-painted and 1 realistic / hard surface each. Please add your own concept ideas if you have any! Whatever concepts get the most reposts during the voting period will be chosen as our concepts for the next challenge cycle!

Even if you aren't planning on participating in the challenge, feel free to vote!

- CONCEPT IDEAS -

HARD SURFACE ENVIRONMENT:

AI prog by Paul Trochu
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ELo3Xe


STYLIZED ENVIRONMENT:
wagamama ‘Bowl to Soul’ backgrounds by Sylvain Sarrailh
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/dOdzG1

HARD SURFACE PROP:
Invisibility Device mark 2 by Vasiliy Ivanov
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/EL5R68


STYLIZED PROP:
Lumberyard Demo Stylized Props by Brian Yam
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/4Egq8

- GOT MORE? -

Please feel free to add your own! We are completely open to people posting their own concepts, but keep in mind that the difficulty level has to be that of which can be completed in two months' time for the environment, and one month's time for the prop!

To vote for your favorite concept(s), post a reply with the image(s) you prefer. The winning concepts will be chosen on the day of the next challenge, based on votes received. Voting will run until June 30th at 11:59pm PST, and the official challenge thread will go up July 1st, at which point you can begin posting progress.

elfennani

I don't understand, are those concept ideas going to be the next bi-monthly challenge?

Lairelosse

Yes, and if you have a different concept art that you like, you can post it here and if it gets enough votes from the community then it can be included as well.

Pinkfox

@elfennani Exactly as @Lairelosse said, these are initial concept ideas for the next bi-monthly environment art challenge which will start on July 1st. If there is some concept art out there that you think would be interesting to see in the challenge please feel free to post it and others can vote on their preference for what they'd like to see in the challenge.

elfennani

elfennani said:

I don't understand, are those concept ideas going to be the next bi-monthly challenge?

Pinkfox said:

@elfennani Exactly as @Lairelosse said, these are initial concept ideas for the next bi-monthly environment art challenge which will start on July 1st. If there is some concept art out there that you think would be interesting to see in the challenge please feel free to post it and others can vote on their preference for what they'd like to see in the challenge.

Thank you both, I now understand.
This is may be the first time to join the challenge so I just wanted to understand.

hasgan

this one is pretty nice. not sure wheter I'm gonna participating tho.
wow @Pinkfox youre hosting the challenge now! this gonna be awesome

Łukasz

I came across some nice concepts from Dead Space
Artist: Joseph Cross https://www.artstation.com/artwork/28zWba

engelmanna

I like this one.

If you are looking for other options (for now or in the future), I have these bookmarked as fun stylized environments to model: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/lVwkeO

Marshkin

I love this one, there's a great opportunity to play with lighting, while keeping a relatively small scope to the scene! 

Link in the original post to the artist is broken - here's the fixed version https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ELo3Xe 

Pinkfox

@hasgan Excited to be hosting it now! Though it also feels strange at the same time. :P

@engelmanna Some great stylized work in that link you provided! I'll definitely keep those in my back pocket if you don't plan to suggest them for this go around.

@Marshkin Whoops! Good catch on the links, I didn't realize the ending parenthesis was getting caught up in the links. I got that fixed on the original post now, too.

Astronaut

i am completely new here , can i participate in this challenge ?

Orbit

@Pinkfox to echo everyone else, I love the hard surface environment you've picked for this challenge!

I don't know if this has been posted before but this is a really solid stylized environment as well.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/68o6Rw

Pinkfox

@Astronaut Absolutely, the challenge is open to all! Just keep an eye out for the challenge thread July 1st. I'll make sure to post in here when that's up as well.

Pinkfox

Hey everyone, thank you for taking part in providing suggestions and voting for the concepts you wanted to see! I appreciate every suggestion even if it didn't ultimately make the cut voting wise, but I'll keep the ones that didn't make it in my back pocket to possibly show up for future challenges.

Without further ado though the challenge is now active! Hope to see you over there.

https://polycount.com/discussion/227132/the-bi-monthly-environment-art-challenge-july-august-73

Astronaut

Łukasz said:

I came across some nice concepts from Dead Space
Artist: Joseph Cross https://www.artstation.com/artwork/28zWba

Pinkfox

@Astronaut The voting is actually over and the challenge is live. That concept got out-voted by the initial one presented but I really like the second concept in that pair so don't be surprised if it pops up as the initial concept in the future!

Feel free to head over to the challenge thread though if you're still interested in participating!
https://polycount.com/discussion/227132/the-bi-monthly-environment-art-challenge-july-august-73