Ghost by JCD

Vue • Science Fiction • posted on Oct 29, 2009

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"The tip led me to Burrago Street and sure as shit, he was there. Peddling egg flower soup from a street cart, Mario Montejo looked like just another average Joe trying to make a buck. But he had a secret - he was a rogue unit marked for retirement. Having eluded the squad for nearly a year now, you could say he was good... that or he knew he had something to lose. Between tired passes of the windshield wipers I eyed him like a hawk as I got ever closer. He was mine. Stopping not six feet away, I lit him up as I jumped out, service weapon in hand, but he had just as quickly ducked into the crowd. I was ready to play chase, but there was no one there. Like a ghost, he was gone before my boots hit the street. Mario Montejo had once again slipped into the shadows only to continue living a life long expired." At one point in time I had experimented with doing some Blade Runner fanfic by way of an illustrated children's book type format and the little excerpt above is from some of the mediocre writing I had done on it. The story was placed just a few years after the replicant uprising and centered around a female Blade Runner. This particular image was partially inspired by that storyline and a general love for the future noir world portrayed in the film. This scene was built and rendered in Vue 6 Infinite at 6000 x 3375 and postworked in Photoshop CS4. Architecture is by Team Dystopia at DAZ, lighted signs are from my Urban Jungle collection at Cornucopia3D. Lady Blade Runner is played by GND4 and the killer Spinner model is a freebie by Treybor at Foundation3D. Incidentally I was never able to get the mapping to work right on the Spinner model, so I rendered it in solid colors and added the decals and weathering/wear in post as was most of the interior detail. That said, I've taken plenty of artistic license with the Spinner in both appearance and function, but that's the beauty of shooting from the hip... you get to make it up as you go ;) Thanks for looking!

Comments (57)

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shadownet

3:58PM | Fri, 30 October 2009

:O)

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OrphanedSoul

4:34PM | Fri, 30 October 2009

Oh WoW totally 'Blade Runner' gorgeous!

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Miska7

4:34PM | Fri, 30 October 2009

Very nice scene. Excellent lighting, atmosphere and rain effects! Really nice work.

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theprojectionist

6:32PM | Fri, 30 October 2009

Superb

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Orinoor

9:47PM | Fri, 30 October 2009

Incredible work, the details are amazing (the water effects especially), your lighting is so realistic. Fantastic image!

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deci6el

10:14PM | Fri, 30 October 2009

Once again, your urban jungle products make you the King of sign-dom. They really ground the viewer in a total environment full of commercialism. While I was admiring all of that I felt some of the screen left graffiti and 7/11 were popping forward a bit. It seems you've got some strong depth of field in your pedestrians and then the lettering beyond them is very sharp. The spinner looks gorgeous. Whatever order you did the texturing it doesn't matter as the result is quite delicious. The strong headlights seem like they should be reflecting in the ground somewhat but the lack of them doesn't really make the picture suffer. The car and the girl really dominate and make a great illustration. Although the term,"illustrated children's book format" was difficult to know what you meant in this context. I appreciate your tendency to downplay your writing so that you can strive to do better. At the risk of jeopardizing that and inflating your ego I'll say that the writing was so thankfully superior to other fiction I have recently read that it was a pleasure to imagine the story with the support of your picture. I immediately wanted more, and that's always a good sign. A really stand out post in the already great JCD gallery.

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