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Yrkoon:
Quote: "Great artful work, as usual, Wolf"
Thank you!!
Quote: "While we're at it, again, for my personal taste, all these spikey-spikey thingies are utterly un-cthulhian"
I agree. Its quite simplistic, isn't it? And yet the easiest way to get something alien / demonic across.
When I was a young teenager around 13 years of age I always thought that movie directors or artists where somewhat short sighted. I thought to be able to have far greater ideas in my head and once I'd be able to bring them to canvas/reel I'd show them!! As I grew older I noticed how stark the contrast between what a human being can imagine and what he can create is and that these famous painters and directors where indeed geniousses beyond me
.... especially if said being uses ms3d.
You see, the assets I make here are certainly not the R'lyeh I saw in my minds eye when I red "Call of Cthulhu". That R'lyeh was far more monolithical and in itself abstract. It did in no way have any spikes whatsoever. However, this is not the R'lyeh I imagined, its the one I can do in Milkshape
Quote: " a kind of disfigured "star map", hewn into (partly effaced) stone, indicating the "right constellation", but viewed from an impossible (i.e. extradimensional) Point of view. I wouldn't know how to even try to depict it, but I wouldn't be surprised if you come up with something convincing in this respect."
Will do! I can reuse stuff like that in Spyra, so its a great idea.
I have some ideas on how to depict that. The only somewhat challenging aspect will be bringing across that it IS a starmap yet at the same time making it "unreadable"
Quote: "Likewise, a few five-pointed star thingies would come in handy, since they are one of the very few things somehow suited to offend cthulhu's Entourage."
I planned that already
Quote: "psychoanalytically speaking, Lovecraft's personal horrors had not at all been of the "male" kinds ... Cthulhu doesn't threat to impale, he will rather engulf his victims."
How Freudian of you
Perhaps that says more about you than about Lovecraft?
Just kidding, you are correct of course. Altough that might also be related to the fact that a lot of his horror is based on the otherworldy look of sealife and how these creatures feed, the extradimensional-snatch symbolism can't be denied. Nor the fact that in all his stories the male protagonists end up insane... and that interpretation says something about me doesn't it?
After all, I'm already working on some Giger ' esque giant ...holes.
Quote: "So, congrats to what you achieved so far, and sorry that I don't like it Sincerely no offence intended!"
Not at all! Thanks for the criticism! I appreciate that alot
Quote: "So, when the last such constellation dissolved, he became immobilized at R'lyeh."
That kind of implies that he is simply there by accident?
..or that R'lyeh has been built by a pre-human civilisation to worship the uncomrehensible being present there...sort of errected around him. They eventually perished, probably because a civilisation based around worshipping or maybe just studying cthulhu could not end well for any civilisation.
Perhaps they simply died out with the dinosaurs. Perhaps I should stop this train of thought now.
However, Wikipedia states that cthulhu and his minions built the city and led a battle against some other beings that Ertlov mentioned.
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Ertlov:
Quote: " it is mentioned that even father Dagon and mother Hydra are dwarfed by its architecture"
Yes! Sadly I can't do that in FPSC =/
Quote: " and sometimes the very flat surfaces, like polished, are specifically mentioned"
Some extraterrestrial mineral comes to mind. I will see if I can do something wierd with specular mapping
Quote: "Yes, the general architecture speaks of spiked towers, but that refers to their shape, not to their surface."
I see to adding some
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Starmind: Thank you!!
Quote: "Now if we could get Smallfish to come back and maybe do a remake of his 3 games."
The principality of mars was cthulhu related?
Thanks for the feedback guys! I really appreciate it.
I don't have an update this morning, so here is a semi-related artwork I found in my research for this:
-Wolf