Silhouet to zombie - a progress wip
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Printed Date: 07 September 2025 at 12:39pm
Topic: Silhouet to zombie - a progress wip
Posted By: Equinoxx
Subject: Silhouet to zombie - a progress wip
Date Posted: 04 November 2006 at 11:22am
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so, recently I decided to make a file containing a sh*tload of silhouetes.a sort of doodle collection with quick 1 to 2 minute doodles. one of them was the black silhouet below that I am now going to transform into a zombie (or at least have a good time trying to) C+C are very much welcome as that's the point of posting a wip 
Will make this post a sort of update diary this was getting a ridiculasly long post (actual pagelength, not wordcount), so I enveloped the wip images into an animated gif: 
see individual frames along this thread with the last frame always near the end of the thread (obvious) ------------- http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3306 - Zombies  |
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Posted By: Souly
Date Posted: 04 November 2006 at 11:28am
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Doesn't look too zombie like. He looks more like a guy with a bad back problem. More dead, less alive. ------------- 
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Posted By: Equinoxx
Date Posted: 04 November 2006 at 11:32am
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agreed ... just wanted to get the basic form definitive before moving on to zombiefying him. how would you go about doing that though ... more greenish skintones perhaps ? ------------- http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3306 - Zombies |
Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 04 November 2006 at 12:45pm
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Show tears in the clothing, dead, gray-green skin, dark red flesh and rotting organs where the skin has fallen off, the like. Also, his left arm looks a bit off. Maybe add more bend at the elbow? ------------- http://pixelmonkey.ensellitis.com"> 
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 04 November 2006 at 1:27pm
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hmmm, Don't quite understand where you're going. If you are thinking of a scene where many bodies make a scene, I would think ironing out the layout first and adding the 'zombifications' later would be a wise time saving way to get there.
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Posted By: Equinoxx
Date Posted: 04 November 2006 at 1:42pm
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good points, MoD, tried that but it appears it was a dislocated shoulder. see if it looks better now.
good ideas about zombiefication Jal, not sure where I'm going with this either, might do an entire piece but it's going for single Z right now so in that light I ignored my own comment and went ahead  ------------- http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3306 - Zombies |
Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 04 November 2006 at 1:46pm
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The arm is improved a lot, but I'm having some trouble telling what the black line sticking out of him is. Good zombification here, but I'd suggest using selout or inner aa on the outlines. ------------- http://pixelmonkey.ensellitis.com">
RPG is numberwang. |
Posted By: Equinoxx
Date Posted: 04 November 2006 at 1:48pm
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the black thing sticking out of his shoulder is something that's gonna be worked on.
will look into selout in general, if it's black it's temp ------------- http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3306 - Zombies |
Posted By: Saboteur
Date Posted: 04 November 2006 at 1:55pm
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Mouth open. Always mouth open. And drooling. ------------- "I was minding my own business and walking across a pebbled path, and a Duck started giving me the business." |
Posted By: Equinoxx
Date Posted: 07 November 2006 at 2:27pm
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you have wisdom master Saboteur
so, mouth open and drooling. and, in the meanwhile I decided to do a scene, so here's a start at zombie nr 2 as well :)  ------------- http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3306 - Zombies |
Posted By: EyeCraft
Date Posted: 07 November 2006 at 5:49pm
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Oh sweet! That second one is looking excellent! Except what's happening around his jaw? Neck is also too thin, his head feels like it would be snapping off from its own weight. The first zombie's waist is too thin, imo. And the shading on his shirt needs work, it's bordering on pillow. I say introduce a shadow tone for it and really work the colours. Also I would change it from that clean white to dirtier bone/yellow/brown colours. I'm looking forward to seeing this scene flesh out. |
Posted By: Equinoxx
Date Posted: 08 November 2006 at 12:49am
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see, what's going on with the jaw is that there is none ... his jaw and front of the throat are ripped out there are danglybits of flesh/skin now where his jaw used to be. might look into thickening the neck a bit at least make sure it wouldn't snap of, that'd look bizaro good points about the shading on the 1st one. after making the 2nd and failing at a quick shading for it I decided that I need to rethink the shadingscheme in it's entire therefor yes more then likely I will touch this and redo it. ------------- http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3306 - Zombies |
Posted By: EyeCraft
Date Posted: 08 November 2006 at 1:56am
| I might do an edit (I think I'm getting addicted to them) |
Posted By: Equinoxx
Date Posted: 08 November 2006 at 2:09am
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edits are welcome (and imo always fun) so go right ahead
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Posted By: EyeCraft
Date Posted: 08 November 2006 at 2:41am
 Not my greatest, but take a squiz if you want  |
Posted By: Equinoxx
Date Posted: 08 November 2006 at 2:56am
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uhuh ya nice one. dig his fatter proportions will def incorporate that. Not sure about his arm-edit though, as mine is showing his elbow whereas yours is doing something impossible (try it, you can't turn your bicep outwards while having your hand backwards ... apart from that, great edit. thx ------------- http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3306 - Zombies |
Posted By: EyeCraft
Date Posted: 08 November 2006 at 3:09am
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wtf?! I just made a post and it's not here? Fine I'll write it again... You can if you're a zombie  . But yeah, true. Oh well, if I helped you then I'm happy, even if its by highlighting what you shouldn't do, hehe. EDIT: Actually now that I look at it I remember, i interperated his hand as its fingers retreating from the viewer towards the horizon, which would put it in correct orientation with how I did the bicep...sort of... |
Posted By: Equinoxx
Date Posted: 08 November 2006 at 4:42am
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well, you did interpret it right (almost, since it's halfway between to the right and to the horizon or something to that extend), it's just the the inside of his hand (the palm) is facing upwards, therefor, the elbow points outwards. But yeah you're edit definitely helped in multiple places. ------------- http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3306 - Zombies |
Posted By: Fugitive
Date Posted: 08 November 2006 at 3:42pm
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Could you make a mock up of Zombie Apocalypse II ------------- Fugitve is playing on his XBox 360 |
Posted By: Equinoxx
Date Posted: 09 November 2006 at 2:09pm
So, I incorporated some of Eyecrafts edit and did some editing of my own, also added YET another zombie into the mix, might gonna do an entire horde in the end.
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Posted By: Aleiav
Date Posted: 09 November 2006 at 5:09pm
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I like the look of the skin. :) Nice decrepit green/blue look. Let's see the other one's colored! How about a girl zombie, eh? ------------- |
Posted By: scottfro
Date Posted: 09 November 2006 at 6:03pm
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can't wait to see the one on the ground animated (if you plan to)
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Posted By: Equinoxx
Date Posted: 10 November 2006 at 12:11am
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@ aleiav - thx kinda satisfied how the colors worked for me :) and good one of the girl, TOTALLY didn't even cross my mind and will most definitely now add female zombies as well. thx. @ scottfro - I don't think I'll be animating them but if plans change, that'll be the 1st one on the move ------------- http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3306 - Zombies |
Posted By: scottfro
Date Posted: 10 November 2006 at 8:00am
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oh no animation :( i was hoping for some zombie limp action! ------------- http://www.scottfro.net - http://www.scottfro.net |
Posted By: Equinoxx
Date Posted: 18 November 2006 at 4:41pm
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update time. been a couple but I'm not willing to let this one slip.
cleaned up the 1st one a lot, gonna try and setup a rather clean image before I gore it up more then it is allready. I like what's going on with the pants of the middle one, stylewise ... opinions ? crits ? edits ?  ------------- http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3306 - Zombies |
Posted By: EyeCraft
Date Posted: 19 November 2006 at 2:52am
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Haha, carrying his arm, thats brilliant. Looking somewhat tidy, but considerably jaggy on all of them, perhaps some AA? I love the pose of the second zombie's foot, too. The third zombie's head needs to be bigger, imo, and maybe have some intestine trailing out, that's just what I would do. His hand needs to be bigger, too. |
Posted By: ceddo
Date Posted: 19 November 2006 at 3:55am
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Mmh. Intestine trailing out would be... delicious.
The zombie who's doing the matrix's right leg needs work: high thigh's muscle seems to curve in, when it should be doing the contrary. |
Posted By: EyeCraft
Date Posted: 19 November 2006 at 4:53am
Haha, doing the matrix. 
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Posted By: Equinoxx
Date Posted: 19 November 2006 at 1:20pm
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small update:
biged up the crawling zombies head added intestines somewhat fixed matrixZ's leg some other small edit  ------------- http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3306 - Zombies |
Posted By: Equinoxx
Date Posted: 21 November 2006 at 12:46am
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was talking to Cure and remember he had a zombie piece as well which I really liked. So I decided to add in the fat zombie from his piece. Be warned, HEAVY wippage and the bloodspray from his head comes from the hero's bat I have yet to make  ------------- http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3306 - Zombies |
Posted By: scottfro
Date Posted: 21 November 2006 at 7:11am
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hahahh new one is looking great so far!
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Posted By: Equinoxx
Date Posted: 21 November 2006 at 2:34pm
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yeah he's becoming my favourite FAST ------------- http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3306 - Zombies |
Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 21 November 2006 at 3:58pm
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Posted By: scottfro
Date Posted: 21 November 2006 at 5:07pm
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woah wicked edit....particularly like the texture on the fat dude.
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Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 21 November 2006 at 5:19pm
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I would have worked on it a little longer, but I have a short attention span. Pay no heed to my palette, it means nothing. I took out the darkest blue as the jump from it to the next closest color was rather small. I might tinker on the edit a little more, who know. Fatty's knees are now highter, Crawler has more cranium, I tried to make better use of highlights, etc etc. ------------- |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 21 November 2006 at 5:50pm
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You are such a violent person. These virtual folk have done nothing to yo yet you insist that they be tortured!
For shame..
Great work really classy palette and motion! ------------- http://www.shmup-dev.com/forum/"> 
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 21 November 2006 at 6:45pm
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wow, the highlights have all of a sudden brought these way up in style.
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Posted By: Equinoxx
Date Posted: 22 November 2006 at 12:50am
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yeah that's a way excellent edit Cure ... been having trouble with the highlights. so this is a good reference for me. good point on the darkest blue, although you didn't take it out entirely, as it is still in the hair of the right 2 z's. thx mucho so far man. ------------- http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3306 - Zombies |
Posted By: Equinoxx
Date Posted: 23 November 2006 at 12:53pm
paying close attention without doing a 1-1 copy to Cures edit, I tried applying the highlights and shading.
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Posted By: Pieface
Date Posted: 23 November 2006 at 12:56pm
| Im loving this piece, just would of liked to see a variation in clothing colours, looks like zombies have there own uniform |
Posted By: Equinoxx
Date Posted: 23 November 2006 at 1:10pm
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yeah good point, might do that. Don't know why (since there's no real good reason) but I'm kinda trying to limit the number of colors used.
But with the shading applied, it shouldn't be to hard to introduce a new colorcurve and apply that to either shirt or pants. ------------- http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3306 - Zombies |
Posted By: Equinoxx
Date Posted: 26 November 2006 at 1:48pm
so, Introducing our hero, Ben Oakenshield
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Posted By: Pieface
Date Posted: 26 November 2006 at 2:34pm
| Wow really great pose on Ben, i still would like to see differen colours on the Zombies, eg you can use a Green from there skin, a peach from bens skin, Red From Blood |
Posted By: Swiifty
Date Posted: 26 November 2006 at 2:42pm
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Shouldn't the fat Zombies head move to the other side when struck? It looks quite unaturally that he turns the side he was hit... I really like the clubbers pose. Very nice! |
Posted By: scottfro
Date Posted: 26 November 2006 at 2:48pm
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i agree about the direction of the fat zombies head but none the less this is really shaping up to be awesome...are you going to turn this into a game? and if so, need any help please don't hesitate to get at me...i love zombie games!
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Posted By: Equinoxx
Date Posted: 26 November 2006 at 3:02pm
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good point about the head ... I made the zombie first but REALLY wanted to do the hero in that pose. I'll see about changing the zombies head towards the back angling with the direction of the hit :)
will incorporate more color into the cloths, but will wait with that till I start building the environment, so I'll have more choise for that Not going to make a game out of this though, for one I wouldn't know where to start, 2nd it would be lots and lots of work. This is just for fun. ------------- http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3306 - Zombies |
Posted By: scottfro
Date Posted: 26 November 2006 at 3:13pm
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is anyone aware of any 2d side scrolling zombie games...maybe like final fight style or something. i want one now!! :P
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Posted By: Swiifty
Date Posted: 27 November 2006 at 3:29pm
| I would suggest checking for old nes games. You know, like super nintendo and so on..... |
Posted By: Equinoxx
Date Posted: 27 November 2006 at 11:01pm
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update*
in light of the antidirection head I turned it the other side and it's indeed for the better. added some environement references to zombie movies just for kicks
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Posted By: Aleiav
Date Posted: 28 November 2006 at 11:26am
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aww yes. :) Shaun of the Dead. :D You should make a dog looking up... a zombie dog. ------------- |
Posted By: leel
Date Posted: 28 November 2006 at 11:51am
| I think the fat guy still looks a little odd because even though his head is in the right direction, his body is still leaning to the opposite side.. But, I guess if you don't want to do major editing, the awesomeness of Ben will overshadow that :P |
Posted By: Equinoxx
Date Posted: 28 November 2006 at 2:03pm
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@ Aleiav ... cool, you noticed.
Great idea about the dog as an extra reference, that'd be fun to make I'm sure
@leel I know what you mean, it's a slight issue, but look at it this way: Ben *is* still in midswing so the head is going but the body still needs to follow. Thanx for the nice comment about the slugger. ------------- http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3306 - Zombies |
Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 28 November 2006 at 7:58pm
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Something that's bothering me is the end of the second-to-left zombie's arm. It goes straight down and the bone looks too unnatural. Maybe angle it or just rework the bone to take off some of the sharp edges?
EDIT: Exhaustion + forums = typos. ------------- http://pixelmonkey.ensellitis.com">
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Posted By: Equinoxx
Date Posted: 29 November 2006 at 12:28am
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hm yeah I see what you mean, his broken arm does look unnaturaly straight ...
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Posted By: Equinoxx
Date Posted: 03 December 2006 at 10:43am
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so, time for another update. I positioned them in the correct order (about time)
I also started the environment which is still VERY rough mind you, but it gives an idea about the direction I'm thinking of heading.  ------------- http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3306 - Zombies |
Posted By: Pieface
Date Posted: 03 December 2006 at 10:52am
I <3 this piece. But just a minor thing  The pavement they are on looks like its from America (This is just if your trying to keep with the british them of Shaun of the Dead)
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Posted By: Toonses
Date Posted: 03 December 2006 at 10:58am
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Wow, that looks super snazzy.
One question though, is the guy leaning back with the metal thingy through his chest wearing a skin-coloured shoe? It looks really strange, imo :p I'd like to see some trails of blood on the street/sidewalk, it would make more sense and look loads better :) But then again, you might be planning that already. If so, sorry :] ------------- "I'm not that kind of orc!" -- random disgruntled peon |
Posted By: scottfro
Date Posted: 04 December 2006 at 12:07am
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lookin sweet!
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Posted By: Equinoxx
Date Posted: 03 January 2007 at 2:01pm
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it's been a while but I'm still working on this one
most notable updates are an added fire hydrant and the worked up tree on the left  ------------- http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3306 - Zombies |
Posted By: Swiifty
Date Posted: 03 January 2007 at 2:30pm
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I know you hear this a lot... Dude, your work is awesome! This would work superb as a Arcade game. |
Posted By: NMEwithin
Date Posted: 03 January 2007 at 3:24pm
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Looking pretty cool man.....
One thing though...."I Am Legend" was Vampires....not Zombies.
Sorry but I am a Horror snob....
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Posted By: Equinoxx
Date Posted: 04 January 2007 at 12:24am
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I know, but since this is a survival horror piece besides just being a zombie piece I thought it fitting.
It also often gets named in one breath with zombie movies. ------------- http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3306 - Zombies |