Shadows (s12) by Flak

Bryce • Fantasy • posted on Dec 01, 2004

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"With the shattering of the crown, the skeletal army scattered. Through field and town, thicket and forest, the Legion hunted down the undead and peace was restored to Northsea... though the shadows of Zrie's presence would remain for some while longer." Well, thats it, 12/12, the end of the planned series. This image is a bit different in style to what's gone before, but hey, what's the point of doing the same thing over and over again ;) The idea for the image came from the horror movies when, at the end, everything appears good, and then something happens, a hand comes up through the ground, or a slight breeze gives away the hint that all is not quite over. It's also an experiment with "Drawbridgep" lighting... note to self - don't use semi-transparent leaves with multiple soft shadow lights... huge render times result, though you do get some impressive control over the lighting. For those that like statistics, here is the abridged cast and credit list for the series. ------------- Cast List -------------- poser skeletons 10160 (give or take a few) dorks 346 posettes 10 poser horses 273 lo-res Poser males 1383 poser kids 3 DAZ Eagles 4 DAZ Eagles (pretending to be crows) 180 The cast would also like to thank the following fine people and establishments for their contributions to Flak's current mental state - Moebius87's Dystopian Bar and Chill Jadedjane's house of hairy gorillas and assless pants JenniSjoberg's Lollipop of Darkness The Swiss Miss House of Milo Stonemason's Frieght Company Pty. Ltd. (and thats rendered in poser!!) Wood "Lost in LOTR" hurst Andi3D, for putting the boners back into poser Honest Drac, Advanced Robotics Engineer Caleb and "The Dark Faction" Rochr, maker of fine Lighting and Tentacles Metonicus's dog Svenart's Guide to Classy Accomodation roobol, master of 5000 beers (7-4) JVRenderer, master of (semi-)nekkid chicks Major Django (recently promoted I notice) Dragonsbld and everyone in the Dragon's Lair Ang25 for numerous chats about things neither one of us will remember for a whole variety of reasons Fillingim, Lightwave Monster and everyone else I've talked to via IM or chat. And, if you've actually read this far, thanks for viewing and thanks to those who've hung around for the last 22 months to see where this went. Hope it was worth the journey. As always, comments and thoughts more than welcome.

Comments (87)

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cedarwolf

10:15AM | Fri, 03 December 2004

Holy Mother of Chrome! You continually blow me away with your work...have you considered creating an online graphic novel to go with these?

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lahavana

3:13PM | Fri, 03 December 2004

A monumental ending - couldn't be otherwise for such an incredibly hard-worked series. applauds so, considering making another one? you've got yourself quite a hungry audience here! :D we want more! Excellent!

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drawbridgep

4:24PM | Fri, 03 December 2004

:-) An experiment in DrawbridgeP lighting. I'm honoured. Not sure what it is though. No sun I'm guessing. Anyway, it is a fantastic piece, well worthy of all the votes it's getting. Time to start a new series then? Good luck.

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Rochr

5:37AM | Sun, 05 December 2004

Oyeah, this is a great ending of an excellent series. Its going to be hard to beat with the next one. :)

redinard

2:06PM | Sun, 05 December 2004

Yes !!!

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Yoro

6:40PM | Sun, 05 December 2004

There's everything said already, I just want to add my 'WOW'!

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jasonmit

6:03PM | Mon, 06 December 2004

Excellent work!

GROINGRINDER

11:38PM | Mon, 06 December 2004

Damn fine. You can almost smell the humus, leaves, dirt, and water. For God's sake put some rust on the helmet and tomahawk. Stainless steel wasn't invented until the 20th century. Reminds me of a time in when I thought I heard a cat while gold panning. Turns out is was some woman yelling for help as she was about to be swept away.

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Flak

12:12AM | Tue, 07 December 2004

GG - you're spot on, but here the stainless steel look was "artistic" license to get a bit of "shine/glow" off the helmet. The axe kept going invisble next to the leaf litter when rusty, which was mildy annoying, so it was left clean as well. LOL at the goldpanning in an apparent raging torrent :)

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bs58

5:30PM | Tue, 07 December 2004

What an end to a fantastic series Flak!!! I like how the boy is looking.....as if he feels a presence, or some evil lurking in the woods. When does the next series start? :-) Brian

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Daz1971

1:18AM | Sat, 18 December 2004

MAN that looks so awesome. Well done!

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tempest967

8:58PM | Sun, 16 January 2005

Fantastic ending to a brilliant series. Great work throughout. You are the envy of Brycer's everywhere. Bravo.

templargfx

9:56PM | Fri, 21 January 2005

it's all been said already, so I'll just say AWESOME, AMAZING, BRILLIANT, MASTERPIECE of ART!!1

Ethesis

7:04PM | Sun, 27 February 2005

Nicely done series, I'm sorry to see it end. Another one planned?

valleyprincess92583

12:30PM | Thu, 21 April 2005

AWESOME! I am a still by many respects a beginner but even I can tell when something really ROCKS!! Keep it up man! Awesome!

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shadow_dancer

10:50PM | Sun, 24 April 2005

bravo my friend fantastic render :)

Imager

9:42PM | Fri, 22 July 2005

I love when an image tells a hidden story. And your technical execution is a marvel. Well done.

reapersaurus

5:03PM | Sat, 23 July 2005

I've followed this series since Siege, and love the entire series. I come back every few months and hope to see a new entry in the series. It's sad that it's over, but I really enjoyed the last piece. What a great ending to the best themed series of digital art I've seen yet. ____ I just looked at it close after reading the stainless steel comment, and noticed the mushroom are the same bone color as the skeleton. I thought it might have been a mistake, but then I remembered your reference to horror movies' villains coming back in the end : is this a suggestion of that? I'm sorry if this has already been mentioned, but it's key to the intent of the piece, I think : since when I originally viewed the piece, I thought it was a reflective scene, suggeting that life goes on even after many heroic people fought and died for the future (represented by the boy and unspolied nature). But after reading your horror movie reference, it makes all the difference if those mushrooms are being tainted by the skeleton. But I can't see any other hints of the evil coming back other than that (I may be blind, of course, and the boy's look could be one of foreboding, but it's ambiguous). Thanks again for the entire story!

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morin3000

10:24AM | Tue, 22 November 2005

Excellent and very beautiful picture.....!!!! (( V ))

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Dall400

9:43AM | Wed, 22 February 2006

Yes, I read the whole thing! Although I haven't commented on every image in the series, you know that I HAVE commented on many in chat, and watched pretty much the whole series progress through that one little padded room we call Rosity Chat! An excellent close to a long project, although I am a bit sad to see it ended! And by the way, there's nothing wrong with your mental state! You're not crazy, its all the rest of the voices that are! Thanks for taking us on an amazing ride of fine images, and hope to see more of their like! Cheers, Jesse!

XoxoTree

10:42PM | Wed, 15 March 2006

Your work is beautiful. Congratulations on artist of the month.~Lotta

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