{"id":85,"date":"2009-03-02T13:11:46","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T18:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2009-08-03T18:20:54","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T23:20:54","slug":"the-desert-ruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/concept-art\/the-desert-ruins","title":{"rendered":"The Desert Ruins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two new paintings have just been added to the <a href=\"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/art\/env_ruins.php\">Environment Designs<\/a> section of the gallery. They depict the eroding Carthaginian ruins on the outskirts of town. <\/p>\n<p>Rather than conveying a majestic, towering lost civilization, I asked the artist to create the opposite: a forsaken graveyard of relics, half-buried under the shifting sands. The scenes that take place here are among the bleakest in the film, and I&#8217;ve tried to convey an atmosphere of despair.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_84\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/desertruins_master.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/desertruins_master-580x241.jpg\" alt=\"Artwork by Vincent Morin\" title=\"desertruins_master\" width=\"580\" height=\"241\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/desertruins_master-580x241.jpg 580w, https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/desertruins_master.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artwork by Vincent Morin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new paintings have just been added to the Environment Designs section of the gallery. They depict the eroding Carthaginian ruins on the outskirts of town. Rather than conveying a majestic, towering lost civilization, I asked the artist to create the opposite: a forsaken graveyard of relics, half-buried under the shifting sands. The scenes that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concept-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-ottoman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}