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Art Attack Friday: Maxpower
Hamza CTZ Aziz06.09.2007 :36 (455 day(s) ago) 19 comments

Now this is what I really love to do for Art Attack Friday. You! I want to see your stuff. Sure, it's great seeing other peoples work, but I'd really like to be able to feature you all as well.

This week, a masterpiece from Dtoider Gerald, also known as Maxpower. Last month, Maxpower was looking for some help in a painting he was trying to create. Thanks to some help from the community, Maxpower came up with some ideas and created this awesome mural.

As far as what went into the piece and how long it took:

Well there were a lot of sleepless nights. From conception to completion, I'd say it took 200 hours or so, over the course of a month. Majority of it is acrylic paint. Heavy body gel was used on the clouds and the Mario brick path. Many individual pieces were cut out to create depth. The face, tongue, arm, and PS3 were cut from another hardboard panel and glued on the painting surface. There are also smaller pieces made that are detachable. The Mario blocks, the giant black DS stylus, the NES controller, the Mario pipe filled with handhelds, the music notes and the car (it's actually based on the Camaro used in the Transformer movie for Bumblebee) are all detachable (velcroed). I'll give you a list of all references used later. I kinda want the viewers to find out as much detail as they can on their own.

Hit the gallery for tons of pictures of the piece, early concept work, and how big the piece is! Also, HI-RES!

Simply amazing. My favorite part has to be the reflection of the PS2 in the PS3. What say you readers? 

 

 

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Wolfbeta at 06/09/2007 00:38

Congratulations, Gerald. You are Winrar.
Now you sell to me!

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imbeta at 06/09/2007 00:57

@Hamsa: Oh dude... really? Are you serious... Friday IS Art day? *sigh* I lose awesomeness by the second, and here I thought I was starting something sweet.
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Mxyzptlk at 06/09/2007 01:14

As I've said before, this is excellent work!
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boxhound at 06/09/2007 02:21

That's absolutely beyond awesome.

Good work!
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Rainbowblack at 06/09/2007 07:27

this needs to be on my desktop. no excuses
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infinity at 06/09/2007 08:30

artistic genius. i particularly like how the birds are ds lites.
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TheStripe at 06/09/2007 10:27

I wants. How much?
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diversionmary at 06/09/2007 11:28

does the art on art attack fridays have to be video game related? cause i dont have much game related. :(
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ChrisFurniss at 06/09/2007 11:42

whoa
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s0lesurviv0r at 06/09/2007 12:03

Absolutely amazing!
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TheStripe at 06/09/2007 13:48

Somebody tell this guy to sell prints. I would absolutely pay out the nose for a nice framed, matted, perhaps individually numbered print.
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Maxpower at 06/09/2007 14:40

Interesting idea, Stripe. I will consider that. The Painting itself is up for grabs. If there are any inquiries about it, shoot me an email maxpowder (at) gmail.com. Thanks for the kind words everyone.
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Reeper at 06/09/2007 14:49

i really want. really badly. i'd say my favorite details are the smash bros. emblem, the excite bike on teh halo, the guitar hero guitar controller neck, the contra cheat. the list goes on. awesome work, please do another :D
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TheStripe at 06/09/2007 16:28

It's got everything. I hope we can convince him to make prints, so we can all get one, instead of having to bid away our PS3 funds for the original. ;)

J
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Hamza CTZ Aziz at 06/09/2007 20:04

diversionmary: Well yeah. This is a video game site after all :P
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diversionmary at 06/09/2007 21:27

Samus!
Android!
Tingle!
Tamagotchis'

All my video game stuff is so old, back when it was ok to draw whatever. Cursed high-art :(
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Maxpower at 06/09/2007 21:50

Your stuff is funky, I like.
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TheStripe at 06/10/2007 20:04

So what's the word on those prints? ;)
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Maxpower at 06/11/2007 12:09

You seem to be only one interested, so I'll talk to you about it on email.

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