Aurora Rising by fmacmanus

Aurora Rising

I'm still here! haha...

Very inspired by Blade Runner, although not the same feel. Always wanted to do a huge sci fi city scape, and I had alot of fun with it. The image was made for an independent study for my English class.
Cinema 4D, Vue, Photoshop and Wacom Tablet.

I included a pretty large file for download, so if you want to use it as a wallpaper feel free!

EDIT- Woo! A DD, im honored! Thanks so much Cymae and Samuel Nordius!!!

Daily Deviation

Given 2012-09-18

Aurora Rising by *fmacmanus is one of those pictures that you can watch for minutes and return to regularly. ( Suggested by Samuel-Nordius and Featured by Cymae )

GabrieliusGP Featured By Owner Aug 27, 2018 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Nice

Dragonblazemecha1992 Featured By Owner Aug 26, 2018 Student Artist

wow that's a awesome artwork love sci and fantasy. So what franchises will you like to have a crossover? 😍

TheAtomicDog Featured By Owner Aug 14, 2018

The central complex tower is the new Hyatt Regency.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwXtji…

AndreeaLupsaNL Featured By Owner Jun 25, 2018 Student Digital Artist

Amazing work

DeadGhost369 Featured By Owner Apr 16, 2018

It reminds me alot of Cybertron.

bunnywithmonocle Featured By Owner Mar 13, 2018 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Nice

danparquei Featured By Owner Mar 13, 2018 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Looks like a great scenery for a futuristic detective movie. Great job

MidnightW0l1f Featured By Owner Mar 12, 2018 Hobbyist General Artist

Love the colour and it sets into a futuristic mood! Really detailed!

laborinth Featured By Owner Mar 7, 2018

I think this is excellent. It's grim and cyberpunk looking but it also has so many shades of light and color in it.

AOGRAI Featured By Owner Nov 9, 2017 Hobbyist General Artist

Noice!

radpreacher Featured By Owner Aug 8, 2017 Hobbyist General Artist

It's kinda Blade Runner pre dystopia

looks really good!

tdcooke Featured By Owner Jul 4, 2017 Hobbyist Digital Artist

very good

faroutsider Featured By Owner Jun 28, 2017 Professional Digital Artist

The lighting is exquisite! Stunning work.

DerpymuffinArtist Featured By Owner Jul 24, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist

New wallpaper.
=3

RashedArtist Featured By Owner Jul 8, 2016 Student Traditional Artist

Wow amazing bro! At what age did you start doing concept art? I wanted some advice on where to start. Thanks bro.

DigzB Featured By Owner Feb 10, 2016 Hobbyist General Artist

Geezus, this is freakin amazing.

JustinPress Featured By Owner Jan 25, 2016 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Awesome Work!

Min-Nguen Featured By Owner Jan 9, 2016 Professional

Oh wow! Haven't seen this piece before. Great job dude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

fmacmanus Featured By Owner Jan 20, 2016 Professional Digital Artist

Hey thank you Min!! Sorry I responded so late, I dont check notifications here, am sorry about that... This is a suuuper old piece, before art center, back when I only did 3D... but will be going back to a similar style soon!

Randicus Featured By Owner Jan 1, 2016

I like the detail. It is not the image I would have in my head if I wanted to make such a picture, but it is really nice.

3therSpark Featured By Owner Nov 30, 2015 Professional Digital Artist

Really awesome detailed work... love the disk thingy on the central building... thx for the download.. just put it up as wallPaper!

startrekker Featured By Owner Sep 18, 2015

awesome!!!

byzboo Featured By Owner Jun 24, 2015

This looks great !

jessicajmclain Featured By Owner Jun 18, 2015

I love your work! It rotates on my desktop background every 5 minutes!

an49 Featured By Owner Mar 1, 2015 Hobbyist General Artist

great one, I see what you meant by mentioning Blade Runner

JhaoShShin Featured By Owner Aug 30, 2014

So C4D is actually can handle all of the artistic model at all without any problem, but seems like Autodesk is still own the most of people in this time.
In my opinion I think Modo and C4D is good at render and scene setup also dust system compare to Autodesk, and Zbrush is the best sculpt tool(at least in ZB 4R7 cause some of new feature is really powerful), I start 3D in this years, so I don't know what happen and what people are thinking in the past of few year, but I think this is must be some specific reason makes Autodesk so big and famous. After a couple of showcase battle between Autodesk & Modo & C4D, I find out Maya/3ds is suck at rendering, looks terrible.

Anyway, I think this piece is a great city scene, I would like to see more!

fmacmanus Featured By Owner Aug 30, 2014 Professional Digital Artist

This actually isnt rendered in C4D- its rendered in Vue which I love for 3D environments. I would never render in C4D normally because its not as good a render for environment scenes, at least in my experience. I modeled everything in C4D and then exported it to Vue to render.

JhaoShShin Featured By Owner Aug 30, 2014

Thank you for point me out! I did not know about that! It helps a lot. So in fact Vue is actually really good at this sort of feature?! Really nice result indeed.

clara-01 Featured By Owner Aug 6, 2014 Hobbyist Writer

Amazing!! Just a beautiful shot of a sci-fi city; you deserve that mention!

fmacmanus Featured By Owner Aug 26, 2014 Professional Digital Artist

Thanks!

clara-01 Featured By Owner Aug 26, 2014 Hobbyist Writer

My pleasure!

norbyscook Featured By Owner Edited Jul 21, 2014 Professional Digital Artist

WOW man ACCD!
how is it at ACCD?
lots of pressure hey?

how are you coping with all that pressure?
man all that hard work must have turned you invincible!

fmacmanus Featured By Owner Jul 21, 2014 Professional Digital Artist

Hey man! This was actually for highschool, made several years ago. Accd is amazing, really.. great place to be. The pressure was tough first term but I am used to it by now. Having loads of fun!

norbyscook Featured By Owner Jul 21, 2014 Professional Digital Artist

This is you druing high school? Wow

EradifyerAO Featured By Owner Jul 12, 2014 Hobbyist Digital Artist

This took a LONG time.....

Uzgurugalo Featured By Owner May 9, 2014 Professional Digital Artist

Crazy good render!

1maffioso Featured By Owner Dec 24, 2013 Professional Photographer

Hi, lovely grimey picture! What different print options are available for this?

MurtazaRizvi86 Featured By Owner Nov 19, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

epic

JohnnysDream Featured By Owner May 27, 2013

hmm,i don't know about this one bro.Im thinkin you went to another planet and just took a picture of a city.

lnomsim Featured By Owner May 26, 2013

Really beautiful.

kenilguerriero Featured By Owner Apr 28, 2013

beautifull work wow!

senon Featured By Owner Mar 16, 2013 Professional

really inspiring. i always wanted to make one city like this since i saw Blade Runner also!!!
Great work man, you really inspired me.
I will try to make one of my own and ill share the link.

TheBlueNick Featured By Owner Feb 21, 2013 Professional Filmographer

"Wow" just doesn't do this justice. This is really incredible!

rg-12 Featured By Owner Feb 3, 2013

amazing!

GSJennsen Featured By Owner Jan 25, 2013 Professional Writer

Very cool! I used the central structure as inspiration for my description of a spaceport in an alien city (with credit and a linkback) in my Mass Effect-related fanfic, here: [link].