A nicely realized sci-fi city concept

[Locut0s]

http://www.jessevandijk.net/g_08_76.html

All of us have probably thought up something like this at some point or another when watching some sci-fi movie or tv show. It's quite another thing to have the talent and vision to flesh the idea out life this guy did. Really nice work on that page. Wonder if the guy works as a mat painter?

 

[pontifex]

how is this any more fleshed out than what would be seen in a sci-fi setting? isn't think pretty similar to what blade runner and the fifth element were like, minus the crater in the sea.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Man that would suck to have it hit by a hurricane/typhoon/tsunami (tsunami depends on how the island ring is formed), say goodbye to all the peons down below.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

Cool concept... but how can you have such a gaping crater/hole like that in the middle of the sea; unless the city has ultra-powerful pumps to keep the water out below.

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
Cool concept... but how can you have such a gaping crater/hole like that in the middle of the sea; unless the city has ultra-powerful pumps to keep the water out below.

Agreed... and when the sea breaks in, its game over.

 

[RESmonkey]

And if you fall...?

 

[SketchMaster]

Originally posted by: RESmonkey
And if you fall...?

Brings up a point about trash, think of how nasty the bottom area would be and how crappy it would be to live at the bottom of a giant hole? I'm betting crime would be high and so would the suicide rate since it would be so dark and the poor would live there (Let?s face it, only the rich would get to live on top).

And who the heck would want to hang out on that beach?

 

[trmiv]

Why don't all the rich people just live near the shore outside the crater?

 

[DainBramaged]

That looks really awesome.

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: pontifex
how is this any more fleshed out than what would be seen in a sci-fi setting? isn't think pretty similar to what blade runner and the fifth element were like, minus the crater in the sea.

?? That's just about exactly me point. Most people have thought of ideas like this but few except those in the movie industry itself have had the time and talent to bring them this far. This is an example of something NOT in a movie or book, just an idle idea that has been fleshed out to the same degree and with the same amount of skill as what you see in the movies, well almost.

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

Originally posted by: SketchMaster

Originally posted by: RESmonkey
And if you fall...?

Brings up a point about trash, think of how nasty the bottom area would be and how crappy it would be to live at the bottom of a giant hole? I'm betting crime would be high and so would the suicide rate since it would be so dark and the poor would live there (Let?s face it, only the rich would get to live on top).

And who the heck would want to hang out on that beach?

Hence the one picture pegged to the bottom of slums! He thought of everything.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: George P Burdell

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
Cool concept... but how can you have such a gaping crater/hole like that in the middle of the sea; unless the city has ultra-powerful pumps to keep the water out below.

Agreed... and when the sea breaks in, its game over.

you would think people would learn a lesson from making New Orleans, eh?

 

[arkcom]

Image search Diavik Mine.

 

[ChaoZ]

Misleading title.

 

[Baked]

Tsunami. Bye bye.

 

[n7]

Awesome work.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: pontifex
how is this any more fleshed out than what would be seen in a sci-fi setting? isn't think pretty similar to what blade runner and the fifth element were like, minus the crater in the sea.

?? That's just about exactly me point. Most people have thought of ideas like this but few except those in the movie industry itself have had the time and talent to bring them this far. This is an example of something NOT in a movie or book, just an idle idea that has been fleshed out to the same degree and with the same amount of skill as what you see in the movies, well almost.

but my point is that he didn't do anything new...he just copied a movie...how is that fleshed out. fuck, back in elementary school my friends and i fleshed out ideas for video games that were more detailed than that.