Shadows 1: First sighting by faroutsider
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Macali shuddered as she saw the immensity of the structure. Who were these aliens, and where had they come from? Should she transport back to her laboratory and make preparations to move her operations to another location, or should she wait, observe their movements and decide whether they were safe to approach? Would their sensors pick up traces of her translation portal, or would she be safer moving about on foot? Why had she not brought any weapons with her - and would they be of any use if she had?
Macali quickly scanned the structure with her visual, olfactory and auditory receptors, but did not receive any information she deemed useful. Not that she ever did. It sometimes mystified her that she even bothered. She engaged the smallest tip of her trans-dimensional sensors. The micro-second her trans-dimensional probe detected a presence, she began to receive a message. Damn! She had never encountered any entity but members of her own race who could do anything but dimly sense a trans-dimensional probe. The message was not Opae. These were not her people. What in the name of the Nine-fold Matrix had she opened herself up to?
Communication Received
We Are Here
Request Open Portal
Assignment Follows
Assignment follows? Macali shut down her probe immediately. It had not been her intent to communicate, only to scan. From time to time she had come across a civilization who knew something was out there, and twice she had encountered beings who went on high alert when her trans-dimensional probe was active, but she never expected anyone to become aware of her and certainly not to be able to communicate transdimensionally!
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In January Tara (auntietk) and I created a short science fiction story from a single image that grew into a six-part mini-epic, which was a wonderful experience but had to be cut short due to work constraints. It left me feeling that we had only created the barest skeleton of a story - there were too many holes and unanswered questions in the plot, too much unexplored background, not enough character development - and not enough time to really get my teeth into the story. But the fate of Macali/Maragaret/Marca continued to nag at me, as did questions of who/what the Shadows were, how the disentanglement of Marca occurred, etc. So Macali is back, Margaret is lurking in the wings and the Shadows are about to take centre stage as the back story starts to take shape...
Vue 9.5 Infinite, signature in Photoshop CS5, no post work.
Craig
You can see the original images and story by clicking the following links, or go here to read the story (so far) in Tara's gallery...
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Comments (37)
I like very much this "suspended" (in the clouds) and futuristic atmosphere....What is happening? In what planet we are? This is all well expressed by the "flou" image...
Looks great!
Nice!
Really cool... scene and lighting!
Superb fantasy scene, love it.
Fantastic scene superb work !!
Interessante SF-Szene.
You successfully conveyed the awe of the character. Well done!
great scene, fantastic model, atmo/lighting
~An excellent opening segment! And the scene is just fantastic!!!~
Wonderful atmosphere my friend, excellent render, amazing piece of art! *****
Great lighting and sense of scale and distance...can't wait to see where this goes!
Fantastic!! Love everything about it.
Great scifi!!!
cool
Awesome scene !
Wow! Fantastic image. Wonderful sense of scale and fantastic lighting. Superb work!
Pefectly crafted scene to fit the mystery!
Oh yes, my friend. I'm here! :) I've been watching for a trans-dimensional disturbance, knowing you had a break in your temporal matrix. Let's see ... .......... Macali quickly scanned the structure with her visual, olfactory and auditory receptors, but did not receive any information she deemed useful. Not that she ever did. It sometimes mystified her that she even bothered. She engaged the smallest tip of her trans-dimensional sensors. The micro-second her trans-dimensional probe detected a presence, she began to receive a message. Damn! She had never encountered any entity but members of her own race who could do anything but dimly sense a trans-dimensional probe. The message was not Opae. These were not her people. What in the name of the Nine-fold Matrix had she opened herself up to? Communication Received We Are Here Request Open Portal Assignment Follows Assignment follows? Macali shut down her probe immediately. It had not been her intent to communicate, only to scan. From time to time she had come across a civilization who knew something was out there, and twice she had encountered beings who went on high alert when her trans-dimensional probe was active, but she never expected anyone to become aware of her and certainly not to be able to communicate transdimensionally! Macali quickly set up a discreet subroutine that would trap a trans-dimensional communication. It was a simple enough thing, and one any Opae could have done just as well. Once it was done, she opened the single-input channel and allowed the message to filter through.
The setup above is sure to evoke a thrilling story line. I am all eyes and ears.
superbe image!!
Great scene and work.
Wow, fantastic done, wonderful landscape and lighting and story!
Wonderful scene!
Wonderfully grand scale to this one!
wonderful looks stares and smiles warm hugs, Linda
3 days ago at dusk, there was a ginormous 'plane?' circling the area. It was unlink anything I had ever seen. It was sort of triangular & had 10 extremely bright head lights in front & when it passed over, it had a mess of green lights on its underside. It was almost frightening to see it pass so closely & low as the lights were so blinding. I actually ducked the first time. (I was standing on my porch) Then I went & got my binoculars. It was wicked cool! So alien looking. Now, mind you, I live right next to the largest marine base in the world & get to see some amazing things, & it was pretty much circling above the base, I figured it was 'friendly' since it dodn't shoot at me. Lol! Cool render. Another story? Mine is real, btw. ;)
Excellent work!
Looks amazing.
Amazing sci-fi scene and lighting, Craig!!!