As before, as well as giving examples of classics and masters, they want to showcase the latest contemporary talent in the genre and so are calling out for anyone who may have relevant works (in digital media – or traditional media, but it must be supplied digitally) that they would like to send in to consider showing in the book – you would of course be fully credited.

They will also pay a small fee of £30 for the use of each artwork, and each artist will of course get a copy of the book.

All submissions must be send by the middle of February.

For any questions on submissions please contact Catherine Taylor cat@flametreepublishing.com. Any big files are better off sent to the following address: cat@foundry.co.uk, or she can provide the details of their FTP site where images can be uploaded.

Good luck everyone!

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To succeed you’ve to analyze the market and do your best to ride it’s trends overwise you’ll paint for years and get nothing in return.

Working in a such team where everyone is in sync is an amazing experience and it’s a great joy to see other guys came up with stunning ideas. DC already fleshed out water dancers and now furiously working on one of the characters.

Now, back to Aquapolis. Located at the west ocean Aquapolis is a huge city mixing various cultures and styles like a fantasy Babylon. It’s a hot spot or hub for commercial traffic from east to west and to many other countries. Officially the city is ruled by the group of citizens, representatives of noble families and guilds.

In Aquapolis you could find pretty much everything, from grand massive guild towers:

…to tiny streets and narrow passages with many shops and stores:

These districts are very chaotic by it’s nature… there is very little formal planning, the streets are just like veins with twists and turns.

The technology in Rainbow Dreams allows for building skyships thus there are various machinery could be seen in the city. Refill stations you see below are used by the skyships before and after the long flights:

To be continued…

Another thing that sparks my attention was a debut trailer for Settlers: Paths to a Kingdom. The legendary Settlers returns to PC in 2010. I remember playing it many years ago and enjoying the green hills and medieval music motifs playing at background. The debut trailer is very and very interesting in terms of creativity. Who knows, maybe somewhere in the future classic table top based games (like Warhammer) would be played like that?

Make sure to check the developer diary with Fumito Ueda, creator of The Last Guardian and experience new bits of footage from his epic adventure.

And if you’re in the creative mood, there are some nice threads goin’ on at ConceptArt.Org. First, check the massive art dump by Marko Djurdjevic with tons of artwork from Marvel universe. This dude is insane you know. But Guild Wars 2 guys are still goin’ crazy with loads and loads of conceptual art. If you’re a fan or prefer hard copies don’t miss their new artbook featuring all that stuff!

Wakkawa a.k.a. Jace Wallace got some nice chicks in his thread. There are some nudies so be warned!

Ooops! Almost forgot! Sergey Kondratovich throw a ton of stuff from Magesty 2 and other projects. Your mouse would suffer, I promise!

ps. In conclusion, you could experience JFBuckner’s MEMORIES SANCTUS Chapt.1 online manga and get some sleep. Cheers guys!