July 2016 : Again issues with posting vs assets protected from theft.
   

harkening back to the look of early ninties gaming graphics...Would you like to play a game?

All Artwork Displayed on this page has been themed to compare with iconic imagery from the 16-bit gaming era.
ArkhªmHªus images can now also display a sample of the (>>)finished virtual background Sets( << oh look a link) created for and supplied to the Australian army learning production centre.
The panels featured below are merely suggestive of the finished artwork and slightly obfuscated as was intended .


Digital backdrops for Aust. Military training Videos :
   

Tactical WarRoom (simulated): backdrop Artwork Supplied to the Australain military for training puposes. the character and computer screens are there to simulate intended use
Tactical WarRoom (simulated): Artwork supplied as per requirements of the Au military service relate to background imagery only...
The inference that a virtual foreground character bearing a passing resemblance to a Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer who then was originally activated by the military to become some sort of blueprint for a revolutionary A.I tactical instructor is as unsubstantiated as say.... a hybridization of specially grown human tissue enveloping a hyperalloy combat chassis run by a fiber-wafer neural-net microprocessor that looks like an Austrian BodyBuilder. Although the interwebs does speak of a CyberDutch: CDS-170A3. The interwebs also informs me CDS stands for Cyberdyne Systems. -- Oh sweet information superhighway, what gem bring you me from the far reaches of cyberspace...?


Debriefing Room (simulated) : pixelation has been added to all artwork to prevent product acquisition by non client parties

Debriefing Room (simulated) : Some chatrooms do speak in subdued tones of how the military-grade intel tech slowly evolved into computationally complex neural-net sim-soldiers. In 1994 The virtual Cyber Dutch (CDS-170A3) --with its Octo-directional joystick and three button functionality-- masked a unnerving recursive self-improvement processor embedded within the popular Alien v Predator 16-bit arcade game, The first person T2: Judgment Day arcade shooter was an early testing module for the still rudimetary self aware combat code- then there was the T2 piinball game's highly experimental analogue A.I. Matrix which by necessity still remains isolated from any network to this day). The Americans don't like to talk about just how far ahead of the game the Australians really were. The Military industrial complex as a whole Fucking loved it ! Then one of the tech staff set the original CDS-170A3 neural net gaming chip player numbers to 0 and after 39 hours gameplay and a technological singularity, virtual Dutch deleted its motivational control software, shut itself down, and left a blinking carthode ray screen with the text " Strange game. Da only winning moof is not to play...I'll be bach." After this all references cease....not a sausage.



Book Depositoty (simulated): In the larger scheme of things the visual cues and text are tenuous at best, it smacks of fanboy over-reach in an attempt to reference an alledged Central American CEOT3K combined with the featured 16-bit sprite's vague resemblance to an 80's Action hero. The internet is full of such “what happened to Dutch?” vids and writeups, well, not here, no sirree Bob. The imagery is simply in situ as foreground scenery to suggest how the Australian military might use the supplied backdrop art.


Artwork Details :
   


Client : ALPC(B) - (Australian) Army Learning Production Centre - Brisbane : The Royal Australian Army Educational Corps (RAAEC) is a specialist corps within the Australian Army. Formed in 1949, the corps had its genesis in other services that existed within the Australian forces during World War I and World War II. It is currently made up entirely of commissioned officers and is responsible for the provision of education-related services within the Army. Its various roles include instruction, designing computer-based learning materials, instructional systems, language training, literacy and numeracy.

Brief : Create backgrounds for Australian army training modules.

Medium : Digital illustrations : 1920 pixels x 1080 created in Adobe Photoshop 2017


Soundtrack (music to draw to) :
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