incandescence

in·can·des·cence
(nkn-dsns)
n.
1. The emission of visible light by a hot object.
2. The light emitted by an incandescent object.
3. A high degree of emotion, intensity, or brilliance.

Incandescence is a music side project by Paul Priest. "I really like the word [incandescence] itself, it seems to fit a variety of mood, whether the music is dark and solitary or bright and lively. Flames are intriguing and hopefully this project may prove to be over the years." - Paul

Paul asked me if I would produce a website for this project and in response I created this graphic as a start point. Everything here was created within Photoshop, no external media was added. The housing for the glass viewport was built up using layer effects and manipulating edges for shadow or contrast. I also used drop shadows to interact with each layer and give a greater feeling of reality and depth whilst still giving a super-realistic look and feel akin to airbrush work.

I am very pleased with how the glass in the viewport looks. I have really managed to capture the feel of thick glass refracting the light and therefore the image beneath. The light reflections were built up using many layers of white. Each with an increasing opacity and a decreasing area.

I wanted the grill to give the appearance of something behind the viewport and to add more of an industrial look and feel to the image.

"Incandescence is an electro project that has no pigeonholing, over the course of xx amount of releases in the future, there will be everything from doom ambience to more upbeat, odd, twisted, jazzy noise and beats. - Paul"

The green of the image is mainly a place holder while I got the design finished. Here is a version of the viewport which has been coloured. This is by no means the finished colours but illustrates the differences that colouring the image will make.