Selector Art Challenge - Fallout Inspired art work.
- joe Thinks
- Dec 22, 2019
- 5 min read
Selector Tool Challenge; a challenge where you use the selector tool as the primary tool for your piece of art. I’ve chosen the video game franchise Fallout as the subject of the piece and explain the setting and story leading up to the game series. We discuss the events before the great war that bathed the world in nuclear fire in the series.
Features on my YouTube Channel: JoeThinks Art
Fallout Story Overview:
An alternate world where after world war 2, the transistor was never invented.
Modern electrical switches and circuit boards wouldn’t exist, everything would rely on vacuum tups and eldrich technology.
This is an atompunk world where robots nuclear powered everything energy weapons and robotic power armor came from this timeline with no transistor.
Everything has an odd what the future will be like mentality from 1950
The lifestyle of 1950 continued on in this alternate history well into the 21st century.
Resource wars began around 2052 due to the end of petroleum reserves caused another world war 3 like an event.
The UN was disbanded, US annexed Canda, and China (communists in this 1950’s red scare atmosphere, invited Alaska.
The Alaskan invaders also managed to infiltrate down to lower west of the united states and released a biological weapons the US was working on resulting in a New Plague that devastated the area.
Vault-tech becomes the most powerful company in the US in 2054 with government contracts to build huge underground vaults to protect the population in the case of nuclear warfare; which was seen as inevitable at this point.
October 23, 2077 tensions between China and the Us escalate to nuclear war. The war lasted only two hours, and resulted in such calamity both countries along with most others were destroyed. This resulted in the post-apocalyptic settings the fallout world takes place in.
The US government would survive in a faction in post-apocalyptic America called the enclave. Asolutis who believe everyone who has been touched by radiation is no longer human and doesn’t have any basic rights.
Mutants, ghouls, and monsters abound as the true nature of vault tech would remain hidden for years. FEV virus engineered by the US government and Vault Tech to make super soldiers.
Although some vaults were built to house people legitimately, most were built as unrestricted social experiments of often the most gruesome types.
Some Specific Examples include:
Vault 106 - pumped psychoactive drugs into the vaults of more than 100 inhabitants to see the results of isolation with this hallucinogen.
Some fell into a relaxed state, as planned.
Others fell into a violent frenzy that ultimately overcame the vault with disastrous effect.
Anyone who would wander into the vault later would also succumb to the gas and either wander the halls believing them to be original vault dwellers or also fall into a psychotic rage.
Possibly one of the many places that resulted in original raiders in the wasteland.
Vault 92 - particularly nasty, this was to preserve the best musicians. In reality, it was a subliminal attempt to control people though white noise; which also didn’t work out resulting in rage and aggression and the collapse of the vault.
Vault 11 - Elections would be held every year to sacrifice a dweller or all of them would die was this experiment. They were unaware that the test was actually to resist and the experiment would be over. Because the vault residents didn’t know about the election at all until being sealed in, they elected the first overseer to be the sacrifice and this would follow suit afterward. The winner became the overseer and at the end of their term, they would be sacrificed. Social order arose around this election concept until one overseer, ordered that the elections would now be held by the computers and not the dwellers themselves. Fear of social collapse resulted in a civil war within the vault that ultimately claimed all but one life. Whoever voice 1 was in the audio log.
Many more gruesome and diabolical experiments like there were carried out in most of the over 100 vaults built in the around 20-year span between the resource wars and the final war.
My favorite FAllout Youtuber; Oxhorn has a ton of great videos detailing vault, and everything Fallout and was officially recognized by Bethesda during the launch of Fallout 76. He got to go to the white springs hotel (a prominent location in fallout 76) in real life to preview the game with the press and even got to release footage with an NDA about some material.
Master Source Material for Fallout Cannon
Fallout Wiki - Series Overview
Oxhorn - Channel
Oxhorn - Vault-Tech Experiments
Game Release and research Notes:
Fallout 1 came out in 1997
Southern California
Vaults and Vault tech and Pip boys
Retrieve a water chip for your vault
I wouldn’t play this game until after Fallout 3 was released by Bethesda
Developed and released by black isle studios
Fallout 2 came out in 1998 but I wouldn’t play it until 2003 at my buddies house who first showed me the game.
Tons of pop culture, references: Monty python and Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
Fourth wall breaking self-parody dialogue in some places
Play as a tribal person who is a descendant of the dweller from the first game.
Was the first fallout game i played, but was before the restoration pack came out.
Fallout 3 came out in 2008 <- In college at the time; working at a tech bench.
Washington DC area, including capital building and the white house crater.
Featured Hollywood actors for voice actors include Liam Neeson.
Completely an Action-Adventure RPG and no longer a top-down RPG game.
Developed by the new franchise owners Bethesda Game Studios using the same game engine as Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion.
Fallout New Vegas <- 2010 <- in college and teaching classes; working at a tech bench and self-employed
Developed and written by Black isle Studios with permission and help using their design tools by Bethesda Game Studios.
Return to the lower western portion of the United States Wasteland.
Dark and twisted compared to the story of Fallout 3, some consider this the true Follow up to Fallout 2.
Fallout 4 came out end of 2015 <- Teaching college at the time; working at and running a tech warehouse.
Has many improvements over Fallout 3 and an improved combat system. In addition to a highly customizable power armor system.
Developed by Bethesda Game Studios.
Featured moral bending expansions such as Nuka World; which aims to turn your character into the leader of a larger band of wasteland raiders.
Fallout Shelter <- 2015, released the same day news of Fallout 4 Broke.
A mobile game where the player builds their own vault with the intent of successfully keeping dwellers alive. Vault Overseer Simulator.
Initially released on iOS and as time went on expansions dramatically improved the game incorporating visits to the wasteland for vault dwellers, quests, and the ability to create weapons and armor.
Is still a free to play app online.
Fallout 76 <- 2018; First multiplayer Fallout game
Originally developed during the development of Fallout 4, the project ballooned outside of Bethesda's abilities and required assistance from other companies.
Had a disastrous launch that has gone down in history as one of the worst game launches to date.
Features massive flying bat creatures similar to dragons in Skyrim.
Non-cannon games:
Fallout Tactics and Fallout Brotherhood of Steel
Multiple canceled games before Bethesda purchased the rights to the franchise
#Oxhorn #Fallout lore #fallout #fallout 2 #fallout 3 #fallout 4 #fallout new vegas #Digital Drawing #Art Commentary Channels #Commentary #Digital Coloring #speedpaint #Digital Art #joethinks #joe #thinks #art #clip studio paint #joethiks art #alternate future of the usa #alternate future of the world #Alternate reality #video games #davinci resolve 16 #drawing #Entertainment
Comments