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Published: 2014-10-03 18:36:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 24078; Favourites: 765; Downloads: 0
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This picture took me out of my comfort zone, is always nice to try something different. Im not sure if i have the skills to do scary stuff, but was a lot of fun doing it.Middara is a 1-4 player cooperative story telling miniatures board game. The game takes place in an ultra-modern fantasy setting that exists alongside our very own earth.
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Comments: 24
First thought: the Zombies from Last of Us, only infected by the flowers from Jumanji...looks like a great project, though! Gonna check it out.
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Very nice mutation idea and color-light work!
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Not sure why but this reminds me of something out of Pans Labyrinth, which i think is a big compliment. Comfort zone or not i think you nailed it 
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Wow, really nice! Out of the comfort zone but with style! xD.
I like how you made him look like a zombie and a plant at the same time, and the "mushroom" like thingies looks like pulsating organs as well!
Mixing two elements brilliantly! Well Done!
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WOW! While it's out of your comfort zone, it has really turned out to be win. The monster really falls into that uncanny valley of human like creatures, which I think really gives it a scary edge! Badass work!
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Had to throw this in three folders, one being for your personal works. Loves the scary and creepy factor of this.
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Going out of your comfort zone is a surefire route to improvement after all
Somehow despite being a pretty darn creepy design, it doesn't really look neither creepy or scary. I think I know why though, I think it's mostly because of the lighting scheme you chose, it's too bright and lively. For scary you need to have more dark than light, usually. The most common trick in the book to achieve it would be the vignette special effect. Quite literally, you darken all the borders of your image, like this or like that . It's very effective for creating a dark atmosphere, but also very obvious to anyone who is familiar with it.
There's not enough dark in this image for it to look scary 
For a very basic technique to increase contrast I tried saving the image and opening in an image editor (Krita in my case, but I'm pretty sure photoshop and painter can do this too) I then duplicated the layer and set it to overlay mode, then lowered the opacity of the overlay layer a lot (like down to 30% in this case, but it's really just a matter of how much you want it to do) but in the end after doing it, the light reflection of the wall behind the character is still a bit too bright, and also the leaves on the top of the image are too bright. (Again, looks like you didn't quite finish them, they should be in shade so they shouldn't be lighting up like that) so, I tried a multiply layer instead (this darkens the image rather than increasing contrast) and set it to about 20% opacity, this darkened the darks without increasing the brights so less information is lost.
The atmosphere is half of what makes something look scary after all.Β
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I dunno . . . I think youβd still be freaked out if that thing came running at you, even if it was in the middle of Disneyland.
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Certainly, that's how it's creepy by design, but for illustrations one would normally want to enforce that creepiness by setting it in it's natural atmosphere, which would probably be low light conditions. We all have a little bit of built-in fear of the dark, it's a by-product of the fear of the unknown. Low visibility conditions can easily be frightening too. Low visibility invokes a sense of claustraphobia since you can see but not very well (so if that thing were running at you under low light conditions you wouldn't have an easy time outrunning it if you can't see the floor all too well.
But well, low lighting conditions are the oldest trick in the book for horror
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I was actually kidding.
I agree mostly, though I do think that things can be spooky without resorting to near-blackness. In fact, thatβs what I find kinda annoying about most scary scenes in video games and TV/film; it becomes predictable as to when a scare is coming based on how many lights there are, and often a lot of beautiful designs and shots are obscured by blackness. I think youβre right that this would be scarier in a darker atmosphere, but since we wouldnβt see as much of the gorgeous creature itself if it was, Iβm glad itβs so bright and illuminated.
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I think it was the right choice to get out of your comfy zone
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its not a cute girl?...are you sure? i still see a cute girl... gotta take my sevilla glasses off. lol
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lol get3pic. i always wonder if they hurt themselves as well as their enemies, when they swing around their weapons.
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Wow. Β My first thought of seeing the pic before reading how it took you out of your comfort zone was how different it seemed from what we usually see. Β Love the green goop effect you have going on in the pic.
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