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February 8, 2008
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Our first 4 week project at school, I used about about 5-6 weeks though, extra time both before and after the deadline. You can just keep adding so many details :P

When I was brain storming, I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to create something that required more texturing than modeling, since I was pretty inexperienced with that, so I had to incorporate that somehow. I found a picture done by Escher called "Relativity stairs" and since I was also playing Portal at the time I thought the project would be perfect to test my skills on.

Everything you see in the picture was made by me, I took loads of reference pictures from within the game, but ultimately I recreated everything myself to get the style that you find within the game.

This is the result, picture took approx 9 hours to render.

Note: Added a picture that shows some of the different stages how I created this picture [link]

Edit: I made a very large version of the image available for download (22mb). So people will be able to get their own print made. Just don't begin selling prints without my permission, or Valves for that matter.

Edit: Wow, daily deviation. Thanks a lot :D
And thanks for all the kind responses, always nice to see something you put this much time into get appreciated.
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An inspiring remake of Escher's 'Relativity Stairs', Relatively Portal by *linkitch is sure to impress ! ( Suggested by `Pyritie and Featured by `baKIN )
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~RA-SE-N May 7, 2012
I'd actually really like to see this concept in future games. You could have chambers that you have to rearrange like a Rubik's Cube or a slider-puzzle to get doors, buttons, stairs, and other parts of the lab where you want them. So instead of the challenge always being "Goddamnit! How am I gonna get over to that button with this cube?!" it can be "Goddamnit! How am I gonna bring that button over here to this cube?!"

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~RA-SE-N May 6, 2012
YES!

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~strongjim5 Apr 23, 2012
Normally, portals make the impossible simple. Here? Portals make the impossible... Impossible...

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~EmmetEarwax Apr 23, 2012
I can think of 2 (two) places in my own sci-fi fantasies that look like this.
(1) Loplop's skycastle where he greatly boosted a building's potential, by allowing the floor,the ceiling and all 4 walls to be used as floors. Doors, furniture....
(2) Domdaniel school, my answer to Hogwarts. Experiments in time-skewing.

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~cool-cookie Apr 22, 2012
fantastic bit of artwork ... even if it does make my brain hurt haha
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~RushAndRuleIt Apr 17, 2012
One of my favorite games and one of my favorite paintings, combined. Too awesome for words.

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~MikeJensen Apr 10, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
Great work! It's very generous of you to release such a high resolution image for people to print! I'd definitely hang this on my wall.
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Mood: Joy ~elendraug Apr 10, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
I saw this on imgur, then reverse-google-image-search'd it until I found this. I have three portal posters in my hallway and want to hang this up to go with them. <333 This is absolutely INCREDIBLE. I love Escher so much, and I love this. The amount of detail you put into it is just phenomenal.

Well done.

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~TacoTruckOfArt Apr 5, 2012  New member Hobbyist General Artist
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~Benguy12 Mar 28, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
now tHATScool!

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