"All I am surrounded by is fear, and dead men!"
The vaunted Ace of Spades was an easy pick for me. The fallen Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker better known as Darth Vader needs little introduction. One of the most iconic fictional character of all time, Vader's natural power over the Force did eventually lead him to "return balance to the Galaxy" by systematically betraying and destroying everything he loved during his fall to the dark side, which was perhaps not quite what the Jedi council and Obi-Wan had intended. After the Republic was reformed into the First Galactic Empire and subsequently plunging the galaxy into a state of perpetual war, Vader did eventually redeem himself and dispatched of then Emperor Palpatine by throwing him into the one of curiously many bottomless pits that populate the Star Wars universe after his son Luke turned him back to the Light. Make no mistake, this Sith Lord was one of the most feared and powerful entities in the entire galaxy with the ability to kill a man with willpower alone.
- This is a digital collage of about 32 bitmap layers. Using my mouse and standard Photoshop brushes and layer blend modes. The cards and textures I got from FusRoDa and edited them to suit our needs along with the Imperial Logo and Tie Fighter. I also tried to preserve as many of the steps as possible for the process animation. I then made the animation in Premiere Pro CC, simplified it, sped it up, added inserts, rendered it as an mp4 video file and then converted it to an animated gif online (nifty!) with 25 fps :)
Category | #FanArt |
Medium | Photoshop |
Suit | Spades |
Character | Anakin "Darth Vader" Skywalker |
Universe | Star Wars |
Style | Digital Illustration |
Original Artists | George Lucas & Ralph McQuarrie |
First Apperance | 1975 |
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There is no escape. Donβt make me destroy you. Luke, you do not yet realize your importance. You have only begun to discover your power. Join me and I will complete your training. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy.
Lore
"Anakin, as Skywalker, as a human being, was going to be extremely powerful," he says. "But he ended up losing his legs and an arm and became partly a robot. So a lot of his ability to use the Force, a lot of his powers, are curbed at this point, because, as a living form, there's not that much of him left. So his ability to be twice as good as the Emperor disappeared, and now he's maybe 20 percent less than him. So that isn't what the Emperor had in mind. He wanted this really super guy, but that got derailed by Obi-Wan. So he finds that, with Luke, he can get a more primo version if he can turn Luke to the Dark Side. You'll see, as this goes on, Luke is faced with the same issues and practically the same scenes that Anakin is faced with. Anakin says yes and Luke says no."
Blessed with impressive reflexes that were typical of a Jedi, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn saw enormous potential in the 9-year-old Skywalker, and believed him to have been conceived by the Force itself. Indeed, when his blood was tested, Skywalker's midi-chlorian count was above 20,000, reportedly even greater than Yoda's. The total amount was, however, unknown, for the reading was off the scale.
Process
Here's the animated process for ol' Darth that I made out of the individual layers. This is a digital Illustration with some collage elements so I borrowed freely from established imagery for this one like the Tie-Fighter and Imperial Icon. I'm also trying to make a unique transition at the end of each card. Hope you dig it.
The ninth face card went to one of my favorite characters. If I keep this up I can make a whole deck for us :)
- I also encourage you to come by our Steem Artists Discord Channel. There is a pretty sweet community emerging here with talent worth supporting methinks.
give yourself to the dark side,
ZeroOoC
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If you're feeling generous you can visit my Tip Jar
Or draw a card:
- π« Leonardo - "Jack of Spades" - Digital Painting & Process
- π± Optimus Prime - "Ace of Hearts"
- πΎ Vol'Jin - "King of Hearts"
- π» Duck Avenger/Phantomias - "Jack of Hearts"
- π Batgirl - "Queen of Spades"
- π Iron Man - "King of Diamonds"
- π’ Goomba - Foil - "Two of Spades"
- π Renji Abarai "Jack of Diamonds"
I love that. But I guess, I loved your attitude for sharing and teaching much more.
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I'm glad :)
We're all in this together now so we may as well share and the blockchain makes it easy. I think we'd all be better off then. ^^
Thanks!
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Excellent choice for the ace of spades :D
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I especially like the animation at the bottom. It really shows how much Vader's helmet fits the shape of the spade.
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Thanks! The animations are getting quite fun, figuring out a good flow for them after the tenth try. The shape of the spade also immediately made me think of Vader for this one :)
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I love this. I really like the card idea. Keep em coming!
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woah that was fast!
Thank you so much @donnadavisart!
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nicely done
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cheers boss!
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Animation is very cool and I like the design of a card. Can you do something of Grindelwald?
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I'm glad you like it! Do you mean Gellert Grindelwald from the Potterverse?
Shoutout to #diehardsteemit, tis' a good group!
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GroΓartig! Bloss meine VP hat sich halbiert und ich muss grade pausieren.
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Merci liebe @martinamartini :)
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Doof ist das, aber wird schon wieder! :)
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Perfect choice for the ace of spades!
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Thanks <3
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Wow π³ this is awesome! I need to study you so I can learn some photoshop skills lol
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Oh hai Carmen!
That's very kind ^^ I Plan on publishing some more guides and tutorial based stuff as well. I hope I'll be able to teach you guys some tricks :)
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Amazing design! As a huge Star Wars fan, I would LOVE to see the whole deck :)
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Thank Ya!
At the moment the deck is very much mixed when it comes to fictional universes. Who knows, perhaps a full Star Wars deck could be in the cards in the future?
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I wish I can make awesome gif like yours..
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You can try making a gif it's not too complex! Get the Adobe Premiere trial version and then stack up your exported photoshop layers in the timeline and give each layer a video transition. You can set the blend modes exactly the same way as in photoshop (if you are using that). Your timeline could look something like this:
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Thanks dude for teaching me.. I should learn this more..hehe :)
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:)
Gather all the tools you need!
Btw, for video editing it's good to have more than 8gb RAM and a decent graphics card. But this kind of work using bitmap layers also works well on older models.
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Fantastic design! Very nice one, Nikki.
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Thanks Klaudia :)
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Again, this is epic!
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Thank you bro :)
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makes lightsaber sounds with mouth
XD
i love this, zero <3 he's one of my all time favourite villains <3 you captured him so well <3 <3 <3
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"No Disintegrations!"
It's super fun to draw such an established dude!
Thanks Spidey <3
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Sneaky Ninja Attack! You have been defended with a 1.44% vote... I was summoned by @zeroooc! I have done their bidding and now I will vanish...Whoosh
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This post has received a 2.27 % upvote from @aksdwi thanks to: @zeroooc.
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