Watch This Time Lapse of a Seven Hour Super-Composition of a Fantasy Airship Battle

Not too long ago we featured a tutorial that showed you how to make a fantasy desert kingdom out of tourist images, and thought I would share with you another amazing project by a talented artist. Alexander Koshelkov has quite an impressive resume of outrageous Photoshop compositions that excellently use real world items to create fantastical scenes. He just released this time lapse where you can watch his latest composition which took him just over 7 hours and uses 284 Photoshop CC layers.

Though some of your aviation enthusiasts might cringe at some of the nature of what he has constructed, your appreciation for what has been made here should overrule that. Alex's patience is nothing short of legendary. If you were impressed with his work, you should consider subscribing to his YouTube channel, which is full of these kinds of time lapses. You can download the full resolution final image here.

composition of airship battle

Keep up the great work Alexander!

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Jaron Schneider is an Fstoppers Contributor and an internationally published writer and cinematographer from San Francisco, California. His clients include Maurice Lacroix, HD Supply, SmugMug, the USAF Thunderbirds and a host of industry professionals.

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This is just so awesome!!! I so admire the vision and technical skills of the artist!
Thank you for sharing, Jaron!

Yeah, thank YOU for sharing, JARON.

con que plugin haces eso? jaja es broma, asombroso nivel de detalle y vision, se agradece que compartas el proceso. :)

...ooh wow!!!...this job...is fantastic!!!

Welcome back FSTOPPERS!

That is just ridiculous! Patience? Patience is waiting 2 hours at the doctor's office. This guy deserves a gold medal. Unbelievable work and what a vision to begin with! Outstanding, thank you for posting this!

Haha you're welcome!

I'm not impressed so much by the patience of the artist, because I find myself working on an image for 4-12 hours. I'm impressed by the ideas in the picture and those little details that are skillfully and carefully executed. Good job.

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Freaking incredible! Always love seeing these time lapse creations in Photoshop. Great find Jaron!

He's Alexander Koshelkov, not a big surprise... Watch his other videos and you will be blown away. So much details, so creative ideas. He's beyond amazing, he's unbelievable!!

Stunning work, just stunning. I know its fantasy (i'm not into fantasy stuff) but why don't they just shoot at each others balloons.........easy win

Magic!!

The Good news: I know every tool that was used.
The Bad news: How to effectively apply those tools.

He's probably an alien, because this is just too good to be true! What an awesome piece of work!

Did he get all his images for this from Google image search?

Awesome! I kept noticing the file size getting bigger as the picture progressed. over 4GB file size. Lol

Sheesh. I would have been happy to have just gotten that background & new sky done right. :P

That is fantastic. You could never appreciate the detail of a piece like this without the timelapse. Either that or it'd need to be printed out to at least 4ft by 6ft to really appreciate the scale and detail

Great work! Does somene of you know how to record a timelapse while working in photoshop? Is there a free application able to shoot every number of seconds? Thanks!

Not to put down good work, but Isn't this already common practice for concept artists in addition actual brush and drawing work as opposed to using existing pictures?

someone call MIB!!!!