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Abandoned Amusement Park

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I did this for the conceptart.org "Environment of the Week" challenge, whose theme is, of course, an abandoned amusement park. The piece was painted entirely in Painter and Photoshop but I painted over a screenshotted wireframe to get the coaster (I wanted the perspective to be right but I still think it looks kind of wonky).

Originally, the backstory was the following:
This takes place in the near future. A new kind of thrill park came about in which rides boarded and started precisely, everything being controlled by a computer (so long, carnies). Different roller cars criss-crossed in front of each other, nearly missing one another. They were programmed to, and it really was exciting! Many of the rides were of similar design to those today, but with an added "illusion" of danger. Imagine the thrill of speeding down a hill in your car to be narrowly missed by another car from a different coaster track! If a problem happened with the syncronization system (or a ride was recorded to have started too early/late) the entire system was designed to shut off (through the carefully calculated slowing down of the rides)-- which it should've done on July 4th, 2016. Eighteen people died in the resulting collision before action could be taken to shut off the system. The serendipitous date made many people suspect anti-American terrorists, but the investigation brought no evidence for this. The park officials appealed to re-open, proposing several more backup safety precautions, but the courts turned down the rebuilding of any such parks. These owners, bankrupt from lawsuits, deemed it too costly to remove the park equipment, and instead inclosed it in an easily-scalable fence.
It is now 2031. The park's once finely-trimmed trees have now become an eveloping forest; the virginia creeper and poison ivy vines are now encapsulating its frames. It's been the site for hundreds of poison ivy outbreaks, many serious injuries, and even a couple deaths of brave children who love playing on the equipment.

Anyway, the actually piece turned out a little more peaceful than I'd previously intended, more muted. A little creepy, yes, but not haunted looking. I'm afraid I didn't show enough of how the rides "nearly missed" each other in the park's timed rhythm, but I think the image came out OK anyway without it.
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