Iwazaru wrote: ↑Tue Aug 01, 2023 6:47 pm
woah! zis is golden! /swoon
I told you I'd get around to it eventually. /hug
Anyway, I remembered some more shit I could post:
(I was studying Nightow, Kenneth Scott (DOOM 3), Josh Nizzi, and James Hawkins (Gears of War) right around the time the Fury Road trailer came out.)
Back around 2015 I was working on a project called "bleedingcrying" but my hicklib friend fucked it up so I quit. /murder This character "Jacob Slaughter" (which I named after
Jessi Slaughter~HaHA) was the only illustration I worked out (at least that I could find) for this ~world~ idea, that was based heavily on the original Twisted Metal (particularly the live action shit that was cut because the Mormon programmers bitched about it):
I really liked the idea of Calypso as this post-apocalyptic flayed "genie" like Kun Lan, and I wanted to expand on that and mix him with Zorndyke from Blue Submarine No. 6:
Twisted Metal: Black:
..and even moreso the cancelled Harbor City:
This mumbling retard gives and okay condensed interview, but look into the source shit yourself (since he's a faggot):
https://www.unseen64.net/2009/01/19/twi ... cancelled/
In general I was looking into similar shit to what I think TD was for his game, the really extreme(ly RETARDED) western horror games like The Suffering:
The Creeper from Ties That Bind is one of the best videogame character designs ever, held back by the complete retardation of American censorship where these CORPSE WHORES FUSED TO HIS BODY need to have
BIKINIS on because them having their arms and legs severed is apparently less offensive than nipples HaHA!
I think The Suffering is fucking retarded (it's basically a stupid cartoon like all American games), but there's specific things I did like a lot. "The Creature" transformation in the original is much cooler than in the sequel, because it merges Torque's inmate clothing with his skin, and the shiv with the arm, turning it into Manhunt X Bloody Roar— which if expanded would actually be really, really cool, because my issue with Bloody Roar was I thought turning into animals was fucking boring:
https://bloodyroar.fandom.com/wiki/The_Unborn
"The Unborn" is how I'd want it to be, where everything is like Tekkaman Blade: Twin Blood:
Mixed with Splatterhouse or similar:
I had a loose idea once for something like that based on how the Proxies in Ergo Proxy worked, where they transformed when they got near each other:
An adventure-fighter (a lot like Spawn: The Eternal, if it wasn't complete dogshit) where both players start untransformed in a city and have to close in on each other to force transformation that starts the fight and have the map and the chaos from NPCs/police when you transform be something you have to use against your opponent. But it's a really high concept idea so nobody would fucking care since fighting games are masturbation tools for South Americans. /ugay
I experimented with my thoughts on the general idea of a de/reconstructed "Twisted Metal" (and at the time was studying the idea of virtual archaeology and therefore the existence of virtual found object art/assemblage) in IMVU as a shortcut too:
So I didn't "make" anything in these images— it's all shit I e-bought (by doing these retarded ass spam questionnaires to get IMVUbux, I forget what they were called) and arranged. My primary goal was to reconstruct a lot of Gen X clichés, particularly ones seen in music videos, such as subversion of American Christian iconography like Marilyn Manson:
Then to go from there into creating images which look like images from cancelled PS2 games, I was thinking about reading gaming magazines and the feeling of seeing extremely incomplete imagery about emerging technology and how captivating that was.
The idea for the actual content or design of the images was supposed to be something like the Golden Gate Bridge if it was hundreds of miles up in the sky and the world was completely ruined. Kind of like shit from
Ergo Proxy, but less sci-fi.
These ones were "planned" but unfinished, because I got fucking sick of filling out retarded quizzes for arthritis n' shit, which is why they're lower resolution— because they were screenshotted with Print Screen from the preview menu, not actually purchased like the other ones, which are screenshots from within IMVU using their screenshot system:
For these ones I was experimenting with the details on the "place", that parts are unfinished, and I used a white tree to again specifically avoid green while adding in plant life ('00s contrarianism) as conceptual contrast without color contrast— funny enough that 'Soulsclone CODE VEIN did the
exact same thing I did but after me.
Well, I take that as a good sign that I was correctly imitating Japanese aesthetic logic.
These two I was trying to next-stage contrarian and go against Gen X subversion of Christianity into subversion-of-Gen-X-subversion-of-Chrsitianity, and I found a bodybag item which made for a more "Metal Gear" "pig".
The last one (with the Ephesians image) and these two were meant to be theoretical interiors to the "place", imagining it being something like the Hoover Dam or a clocktower with a large industrial interior to operate whatever shit.
Then this last one was an attempt to kind of invert what I'd been doing, where white is the primary and red is the highlight— but still going in the direction of Nomura/horror movies like when I mentioned in my animation post about Newgrounds school shooter people.
