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The ruins of LOST

The TV show LOST is all about ruins.  The island itself is a living museum, a place where the relics of millennia-old statues rest side by side with downed aircraft and underground research stations, all of them abandoned fossils of our cultural evolution.

A huge part of the show`s appeal has been the Indiana Jones-esque exploration of these ruins. It`s one of the reasons I`m such a big LOST fan. Click through to relive the adventure.

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Gorgeous digital paintings by Pixel Distillery

Lucas Zoltowski is a professional graphic designer who has created some really fantastic images of the apocalypse. Here’s a few, go to his site to see other great work.

Apocalypse city

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NYC aged and empty

This is my first effort at destructing a city through Photoshop. I followed a tutorial online here, and if you go to check that out you’ll see I did exactly as the tutorial guy did, with the same images, in the same order. It was chiefly a chance for me to learn how to do it all, learn various Photoshop tools and techniques I didn’t know. The next image will be original, I promise.

It took something like 4 hours to make this one. I spent a lot of time on small details, the windows, the grass, learning how to add textures with perspective, cloning people out, and so forth, plus in just figuring out the new tools.

And you can spot some basic errors. My cutting out of the sky (to replace with moody clouds), especially around the Chrysler Tower, is imperfect.  The ruined road only goes up to the start of the cars.

The biggest impact tool is layering textures. That’s what ages all the buildings, and the road. Replacing the sky is probably next. Those steps don’t take all that long. The longer steps are all the fine details that you may glance over at first, that your eye will more explicitly notice if you look at the image for any time. Things that would only stand out if they were not destructed- like killing all the traffic lights, shredding all the flags, adding intricate cracks to the windows in the top left.

Alright. I’ll see if I can prep an original image for next week.

If anyone else fancies following the tutorial and posting their image/image link here, I’d love to see what they come up with.

Take the jump to see the original photo, and the end-result the tutorial had.

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After the Apocalypse: Tokyo Genso

Tokyo Genso is the site of an odd bleach-blonde bob wearing J-guy, passionate about stag beatles, moddish scooters, and apocalypse art. His site is a straight-up blog occasionally featuring his often excellent art, occasionally describing his destructing technique, and show-casing his work in magazines like ‘Liberal Time’ and at otaku conventions. He takes photos of around Tokyo and via Photoshop kills all the people and ages the city through various natural disasters.

Shibuya, the Center-Gai Sakuraya

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