Friday, October 29, 2010

Swamp Template No. 2, part 1

The first template taught me a few things. This one's gonna be pretty drastically different -- I want to learn other things.

You can see that this one has a different feel already -- that swirling green mass reflects that this swamp is going to be non-idyllic. The idea on this one is to have dead and rotting matter, like logs and twisted vines, and something big and unidentifiable will be slithering about in the depths. The water's coming in two layers on this one -- first will be a green-yellow layer that's got flock floating in it; the second will be a lighter layer that's relatively clear of debris.

Here's the stuff in progress -- what's going to be a floating log, a wilted and disgusting plant, and the something that'll be swimming in the muck. If you can't tell, it's a scaled beast of some kind; its back is just breaking the water. (Think of those old pictures and drawings of Nessie -- how it's supposed to break the surface like a snake undulating up and down, rather than left to right.)

These will be trees; they'll get green stuff bark and thinner, crooked green stuff branches.

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