15,000 layer image file
Fri Apr 14, 2006 7:36 pm
http://www.bertmonroy.com/fineart/text/fineart_damen.htm
Damen
This is my latest and most ambitious digital painting of a Chicago scene unveiled at Photoshop World in Miami on March 22, 2006.
It is a panorama of the Damen Station on the Blue Line of the Chicago Transit Authority.
Adobe Illustrator was used for generating the majority of the basic shapes as well as all the buildings in the Chicago skyline.
The rest was created in Photoshop.
• The image size is 40 inches by 120 inches.
• The flattened file weighs in at 1.7 Gigabytes.
• It took eleven months (close to 2,000 hours) to create.
• The painting is comprised of close to fifty individual Photoshop files.
• Taking a cumulative total of all the files, the overall image contains over 15,000 layers.
• Over 500 alpha channels were used for various effects.
• Over 250,000 paths make up the multitude of shapes throughout the scene.
Damen
This is my latest and most ambitious digital painting of a Chicago scene unveiled at Photoshop World in Miami on March 22, 2006.
It is a panorama of the Damen Station on the Blue Line of the Chicago Transit Authority.
Adobe Illustrator was used for generating the majority of the basic shapes as well as all the buildings in the Chicago skyline.
The rest was created in Photoshop.
• The image size is 40 inches by 120 inches.
• The flattened file weighs in at 1.7 Gigabytes.
• It took eleven months (close to 2,000 hours) to create.
• The painting is comprised of close to fifty individual Photoshop files.
• Taking a cumulative total of all the files, the overall image contains over 15,000 layers.
• Over 500 alpha channels were used for various effects.
• Over 250,000 paths make up the multitude of shapes throughout the scene.
Fri Apr 14, 2006 7:54 pm
That must take a hell of a time to load in Photoshop.
Fri Apr 14, 2006 10:11 pm
still spam, but cool pic, CHITOWN!!!!
Fri Apr 14, 2006 10:13 pm
whoa awesome 
Fri Apr 14, 2006 10:21 pm
This guy should be able to make some decent money on the side doing a little work for video game developers. Those guys employ a lot of artists, and this guy certainly is a digital artist.
Fri Apr 14, 2006 10:21 pm
gowhitesox, are you going to ride me until i hit 10,000 posts? 
Fri Apr 14, 2006 11:31 pm
Yeah I think he is, after all everytime he calls you out on spamming he adds another to his post count. The question is which one of you wants to be the Kettle?
Sat Apr 15, 2006 7:50 am
2324 vs 8896 .... no way am I the pot, wait, I mean Im not the kettle, wait he's the kettle and I'm the spatula.. yeah yeah that's it......
Sat Apr 15, 2006 8:58 am
Unbelievable detail! That is so cool how he showed zoomed in images of the front of the train and the pay phone, without losing any detail!
Sat Apr 15, 2006 9:27 am
Yeah very cool. If he did work for a developer imagine the rigs you would need to keep real time graphics in game of that scale. Amazing textures and depth, very impressive stuff, sure beats paint and canvas.
Sat Apr 15, 2006 10:48 am
Just think with that knowledge you could make a game that would run really slowly on every computer...
Sat Apr 15, 2006 12:25 pm
Sorry, but I'm not impressed. Don't mean to be a jerk or anything, but why go to all that trouble? What's the purpose? To prove it could be done? To be the biggest, baddest, largest Photoshop drawing?
I'm not sure why I'm not impressed... maybe it's the subject matter. I don't know. Who (in their right mind) would spend 2000 hours/11 months) on this drawing? (I hope he was well paid for his efforts.)
Call me a jerk, but who cares if you can see the rust, on the nuts, holding the wheels to the axle of the carriage on the 15th car of the train? Who cares if you can see the reflections from the glass of the objects outside the train?
I don't see the point.
I'm not sure why I'm not impressed... maybe it's the subject matter. I don't know. Who (in their right mind) would spend 2000 hours/11 months) on this drawing? (I hope he was well paid for his efforts.)
Call me a jerk, but who cares if you can see the rust, on the nuts, holding the wheels to the axle of the carriage on the 15th car of the train? Who cares if you can see the reflections from the glass of the objects outside the train?
I don't see the point.
Sat Apr 15, 2006 12:53 pm
Graphic artists have portfolios to demonstrate what they're capable of, skill and creativity. So, this is something that will help him 'self himself' in his business. Graphic artist can earn a decent living, it's a great way to go as opposed to the classic starving artist route. I had a friend in college who was an arts major, big with sculpture and metalwork. The kid made decent money designing logos and signs for businesses in the area.
Sun Apr 16, 2006 12:49 pm
Man thats sweet. I know how hard it is to edit objects in photoshop, but the stuff i did is no where near the quality of that stuff.
Sun Apr 16, 2006 1:49 pm
Originally posted by Major SONAR
Sorry, but I'm not impressed. Don't mean to be a jerk or anything, but why go to all that trouble? What's the purpose? To prove it could be done? To be the biggest, baddest, largest Photoshop drawing?
I'm not sure why I'm not impressed... maybe it's the subject matter. I don't know. Who (in their right mind) would spend 2000 hours/11 months) on this drawing? (I hope he was well paid for his efforts.)
Call me a jerk, but who cares if you can see the rust, on the nuts, holding the wheels to the axle of the carriage on the 15th car of the train? Who cares if you can see the reflections from the glass of the objects outside the train?
I don't see the point.
I don't see what the problem is, what bothers me is some one takes a urinal, flips it upside down, & writes their name on it and all of a sudden it's art.
