BattleMedic
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I think you could be onto something here.edit: and the lights are on in (currently disused)Battersea power station, and someone is obviously there using it for power. Now thats intruiging.
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Naughty Dog artists The-Last-Of-Us-ified a bunch of locations. Amazing.
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Would have looked better if they kept the vibrancy of the original pictures instead of going for the "post apocalyptic = somber colors".
And the way some building are partially destroyed makes no sense, but that's par for the course for anything featuring civilization's collapse.
Edit: And obviously it's still impressive works being done, don't get me wrong. ND has some amazing artists.
And the way some building are partially destroyed makes no sense, but that's par for the course for anything featuring civilization's collapse.
Edit: And obviously it's still impressive works being done, don't get me wrong. ND has some amazing artists.
De-mon
Member
A mix of both.
DidntKnowJack
Member
Those are so cool. I love it.
Berlin (tough one!)
Amsterdam
Avila (Spain)
Warsaw
London
London
Rome
Paris
Copenhagen
Berlin
Oslo
Moskow
Lisbon
London
Paris
Rome
Lisbon
Stockholm
Madrid (thanks Ichigo)
Versailles
No idea
It's interesting that they're european locations only.
I cheated for the bolded ones
De-mon
Member
It seems that this was a marketing campaign for TLOU (PS3) http://thelastofus.eu.playstation.com/en_GB/destroyed-cities done by Bowshot Studio (a collective of freelance computer graphics artists) and not Naughty Dog.
TatteredHat
Member
Pretty cool result, but it's all a bit too brown for my liking.
Ploid 3.0
Member
Buildings get destroyed when there's no people around to maintain them. People destroy things when they aren't worrying about keeping it neat and if they want to kill whoever is inside. Nature takes over cities easily, they turn them into land titanics.
ichigo kurosaki
Member
The 4 towers picture is Madrid:
Dragon1893
Member
Damn, that is crazy good.
CouchMaster
Member
Those are amazing, but like someone said above some of them don't make sense. The Coliseum and Saint Angelo especially have stood the the test of time, a couple of decades of human virus infestation and near extinction isn't going to break them.
nelsonroyale
Member
Many of the places look much better with a bit of greenery. Love these.
Yeah, looks so much more beautiful than the rather tedious by comparison original
I love this one:
Yeah, looks so much more beautiful than the rather tedious by comparison original
Always-honest
Banned
Looks like he did a reverse one on that. The canals basicly look like the TLOU image.
BlackBuzzard
Banned
Nah. Not enough bikes in the canals.
I thought their rendition of San Francisco looked straight out of Last of Us, but then again, I suppose any overgrown city does.
Good stuff, some look really really good. However most stuff doesn't look all that amazing (at least I am not really 'wow'ed, but maybe I've just seen too much of this already).
Basically reminds me of this tutorial: http://www.digitaltutors.com/tutorial/916-Creating-an-Abandoned-City-Scene-in-Photoshop
Basically reminds me of this tutorial: http://www.digitaltutors.com/tutorial/916-Creating-an-Abandoned-City-Scene-in-Photoshop
It's generally known as a "paintover".
They usually use the original photo, composite in elements from other photos (like groups of plants, trees, the floating cars, piles of garbage, applying a completely new sky), paint in extra details in Photoshop or Painter, then use a bunch of filters and colour grading to "set" the picture and combine all the elements together to fit.
One of the reasons why the lighting is changed so heavily (aside from implementing an artistic mood to a piece) is that when you change the colour grading/hue/contrast/etc of a bunch of combined elements simultaneously, it helps mask that they were compiled from separate sources.
This is some stellar work.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Thanks for the detailed response!
fluffydelusions
Member
Well shit. I live close to this one (Frederiksberg Slot)
Reminds of 28 days later where they were held up at the end there.
fluffydelusions
Member
Buildings get destroyed when there's no people around to maintain them. People destroy things when they aren't worrying about keeping it neat and if they want to kill whoever is inside. Nature takes over cities easily, they turn them into land titanics.
Is that the abandoned Japanese island?
http://www.weather.com/travel/gunkanjima-japans-abandoned-ghost-island-photos-20130903
Jimmyfenix
Member
With 7 million sold i think it is already a flag ship IP.
What if these are already screenshots of TLOU 2? :-o
aygomyownroad
Member
That Kremlin one... Wow Could be a great sequel
To add to this, in the game we learn that the military resorted to bombing the areas around safe zones.Buildings get destroyed when there's no people around to maintain them. People destroy things when they aren't worrying about keeping it neat and if they want to kill whoever is inside. Nature takes over cities easily, they turn them into land titanics.
To be fair, the murky canals didn't need a lot of work. You can pretty much walk over them anyway.
Khalifa Jayy
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Cornbread78
Member
Oh $hit, these are amazing. TLOU2 to be set in EU confirmed. Could be epic to follow a new story line in a new setting, but the same world. So much possibility with the same outbreak that collapsed the world..
All we want from Insomniac is for them to build a Resistance set in the Chimera world wit Humans jumping onto teh shipd ant bringing the fight there... Is that so much to ask?
Sony needs to hand that IP off to Sony Bend or something since Insomniac doesn't want to make that series anymore...
All we want from Insomniac is for them to build a Resistance set in the Chimera world wit Humans jumping onto teh shipd ant bringing the fight there... Is that so much to ask?
Sony needs to hand that IP off to Sony Bend or something since Insomniac doesn't want to make that series anymore...
How old is your nephew? It might just stem from minimal consumption of post-apocalyptic urban settings and media. I don't think there's anything unique that TLoU does in regards to world building or setting that separates it from other post-apocalyptic fiction.
BibiMaghoo
Member
ITT I learned that several people actually remember what Amsterdam looks like 
They are cool, needs some Liverpool.
Oh, wait. That would be the same anyway.
They are cool, needs some Liverpool.
Oh, wait. That would be the same anyway.
It's generally known as "photobashing".
One of Naughty dog's concept artists has a couple of cheap tutorials on it...if anyone is interested to learn.
ElectricKaibutsu
Member
These are amazing. They kind of remind me of some wallpapers I used to use. They're of a post apocalyptic Tokyo:
Fushichou187
Member
Is that the abandoned Japanese island?
http://www.weather.com/travel/gunkanjima-japans-abandoned-ghost-island-photos-20130903
Nah, Gunkanjima doesn't have nearly that lush of vegetation. This is Keelung (not Keelung City) in Taiwan.
When I worked as a photographer in Japan, one of the things I'd shoot a lot of was haikyo, or 'ruins'. Lots of abandoned structures of the creepiest magnitude; think shrines, elementary schools, hospitals, love hotels, etc...
Anyways Keelung was one of those places, like Pripyat or Gunkanjima (it was still closed when I lived in JPN), that a number of people that shot this stuff knew about but never quite made the trip to cover. If there's any TaiwanGAF here, you should definitely check it out!
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
You fool! Don't you know the post-apocalypse is always overcast?!
fallen_dawn
Member
And the Kremlin, fully fortified, manned and powered. Another Battle of Moscow situation being considered?
They seem to have their stuff together. At first I thought someone was walking their dog out the front...
I'ld love TLoU 2 in Europe though. I never really considered it before seeing these shots, but damn, so many possibilities.