Decaying London by Tanglimara

2D • Urban/Cityscape • posted on Jul 29, 2008

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I must say a huge thanks again to everyone who favourited my last image 'Tranquil Evening' as it got me to 20th in this weeks 'Favourites Image' Art Chart ... so THANK YOU !!!! Todays upload is something new for me as everything was done in Photoshop. It is made up of parts of 14 different photographs, 38 layers and took me 3 days to complete. I did this after seeing some fantastic 2D artwork on 3dtotal.com. The idea behind this one was to take an image of the inside of the busy London Museum and to place it in the future after all human life has ceased. There are a couple of images on 3dtotal.com that used the same base image for a competition and is also where my inspiration came from. I removed all the people and displays from the museum via the 'eraser' and 'clone stamp' tools, demolished some of the walls, windows and roof, again via the 'eraser' tool as well as manually painting in the cracks to the structure and ageing the brickwork. I applied the same technique to the cathedral in the background and also added Big Ben. Next up was to take a picture of a London bus, remove the driver, passengers, roof and some of the windows as well as smashing the remaining windows and aging the paintwork. The same was done with the abandoned car which I flipped onto its roof and part buried in some rubble. The sky was created by cloning and overlaying parts of some photographs of mine and fiddling with the brightness and saturation levels. Foliage was then added by cloning plants, branches and a tree from numerous other photographs. Every layer was then transformed and skewed in order to get the overall perspective correct. Finally I rendered the lighting on everything to throw light onto the far end of the museum. Enjoy ... Tony :-)

Comments (184)

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bakapo

10:11PM | Fri, 01 August 2008

wow, this is so cool! nice work... the hard work shows in this. well done!

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cmcc

10:15PM | Fri, 01 August 2008

nicely done.

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ragouc

4:45AM | Sat, 02 August 2008

Stunning composition. Great scene. 5+++

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moonbunnie

4:55AM | Sat, 02 August 2008

Awesome work!

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Dreamingbee

4:04PM | Sat, 02 August 2008

wow.... this is amazing !!!!!!!

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Biffowitz

5:57PM | Sat, 02 August 2008

Very cool artwork, I like the "end of humanity" look. As a kid growing up in England, I seen Coventry Cathedral that was bombed during the war. This took me right back there, sweet artwork my friend!

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Mad-Mike

6:46PM | Sat, 02 August 2008

Man!!! this is wayyyyyyy fantastic!!! you really rock man!!!!

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sazzart

7:21AM | Sun, 03 August 2008

Terrific! Patience definitely was a virtue here eh?

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MUSEWORX

9:28AM | Sun, 03 August 2008

A top class composition piece you've done Tony! Splendid detail work! Muis

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STEVIEUKWONDER

2:20AM | Mon, 04 August 2008

This is exemplary work and a very well deserved placing. Congratulations! Steve :o)

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cjoe

10:33AM | Mon, 04 August 2008

Great Job Tony marvelous scene with great mood!

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orbital

11:17AM | Mon, 04 August 2008

I was racking my brains as to where I'd seen this before, then I saw the 3d total bit and the penny dropped. Must say you have done a fantastic job here, well done!

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Miska7

2:21PM | Mon, 04 August 2008

Excellent scene! Very nice work.

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furuta

9:56AM | Tue, 05 August 2008

Great image... excellent work!!

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junge1

1:47PM | Tue, 05 August 2008

Cool image Tony!

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mickuk50

2:22AM | Wed, 06 August 2008

sorry tony im so far behind again :o)..i cannt find the words to express how much this image really stands out from everything else i`ve seen .this is on another level and is truly superb :o) mick

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JazzLynn

7:50AM | Wed, 06 August 2008

Tony, this is truly magnificent artwork. Even a Masterpeice. Well worth the 3 days work. Congratulations on creating such outstanding artwork.

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watifeye

10:02PM | Wed, 06 August 2008

You done an excellent job on this Tony, could almost be a scene from those terrible days of the blitz of London. Looks very realistic. Well done mate!

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MissKajunKitty

1:23AM | Thu, 07 August 2008

Beautiful Image. I love the lighting and atmosphere. Excellent work !! :)

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charpix

1:10PM | Fri, 08 August 2008

EXCELLENT! This took a lot of work and talent, and I must say this is one impressive image you have here!! I'm ready to see the rest of your gallery now! ;c)

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