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Post by Cyan Wisp on Aug 22, 2014 12:36:43 GMT
Hi, crafters! Finally I am done taking the photos for the Sunless Citadel. It seemed as much a Herculean task as making the stuff! The journey starts in the Fortress Level, which I have detailed in another thread. The Grove level is a weird underground garden complex. Lots of mud, compost and sickly plants and healthy fungi. Some creatures in here are alterations to the module (needlefolk, lurking strangler) and some humanoid minis are supposed to be other things (like dolgrims and dolgaunts) - I just haven't got the right minis yet. Yet. Some areas also have coloured lighting - it is not a camera malfunction! As mentioned in the Fortress thread, there is great risk of spoilers here. If you are going to play this and like surprises, then stay away! As a favour, and if you have time, could I please ask a few viewers to provide some minor feedback on the tree at the end - I have taken four shots right at the end of the album showing variations on the "face" (mouth, no mouth, extra gashes, no gashes or mouth). I have hummed and hahed about the face for ages and have changed the mouth umpteen times already - I am fine with the rest of it. Otherwise... enjoy! Sunless Citadel - Grove Level |
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Post by ashrothedm on Aug 22, 2014 12:58:20 GMT
The lighting in the images greatly help set the mood. This looks like it's going to be really immersive game sessions. Nice work!
Personally, I'm a fan of the mouth. I would go that route. The others are good too, but the face in the tree is just more eerie.
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Post by justsix on Aug 22, 2014 13:29:10 GMT
I love the lighting effects, they really add to the "alien" feel of the pieces. Is that something you're able to replicate during game play?
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Post by Cyan Wisp on Aug 22, 2014 14:01:00 GMT
I love the lighting effects, they really add to the "alien" feel of the pieces. Is that something you're able to replicate during game play? I just used two desk lamps with normal coloured paper blocking the white light. The red tint (Shrine of Khyber) was very intense on the camera, so I had to move the lamp further away. To my eyes, it looked good and didn't have that intense effect. Same with the green tint in the Twilight Grove - I had to keep it far away from the tile for the camera, but it just looked nice to my eyes. With the purple tint I was able to get quite close as there was a lot less light getting through the paper. In game play, you could easily have the desk lamps burning (or even just one) - I had normal house lights on as well, but you still got the alien effect from the lamp. The green tint especially made the white-washed shrubs glow and added eerie highlights to the Gulthias Tree. One more thing on the table, I guess, but make the most of your tiles, I say! |
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Post by daveb on Aug 22, 2014 16:21:30 GMT
Fantastic work as always, Cyan Wisp. I love that tree and agree that it looks best with the mouth. Truly creepy! |
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Post by Jason on Aug 22, 2014 18:15:32 GMT
That is some terrific stuff! As Always...
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Post by tauster on Aug 22, 2014 18:55:37 GMT
wow... just wow!
the amount of work that went into these tilesets, the mood, the lighting, the ideas... great stuff!
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Post by beetlewing on Aug 23, 2014 4:38:22 GMT
Holy cow - you've been a busy little beaver. Everything looks phenomenal!
I agree with everyone - keep the mouth. To me it adds a lot to the feeling of the set.
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Post by wildagreenbough on Aug 23, 2014 5:31:22 GMT
Oh my word your dungeon tilesets are such beautiful works of art Cyan Wisp. Let me tell you quite honestly that the tree at the end is a magnificent piece of crafting that anyone would love to have as a terrain piece.
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Post by whytespirit on Aug 23, 2014 8:12:31 GMT
I DM'ed the SC adventure, that totally took me back. Brilliant...
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Post by skunkape on Aug 29, 2014 15:12:11 GMT
More great looking terrain!
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Post by curufin on Sept 1, 2014 2:49:53 GMT
Somehow, I totally missed this. Great job! I would have loved to run though it with tiles. The weeping tree looks amazing! I am very very impressed.
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Post by justicechest on Sept 5, 2014 2:18:59 GMT
So all of the pieces in this are far friggin' out, but the Gultjias Tree thing is amazing. That is the most sinister tree monster I've ever seen.
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Post by Erasmas on Sept 26, 2014 17:44:00 GMT
These are really cool!
My favorite bits are the dismembered eyeballs, the bleeding tree, the thuqqua (at least I think that's what that's called), the chess pawns (I think I have those same exact ones, actually), and your use of marbles on the arcane pedestal things - brilliant.
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Post by DnDPaladin on Oct 13, 2014 2:54:03 GMT
can't believe this... i was thinking of giving my player that very adventure.
and what i find, a perfect exemple of what to show my players once they get in there...
great work, really wish i had the passion to do this though.
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Post by DMScotty on Oct 13, 2014 4:47:58 GMT
Great stuff.
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Post by dmzook on Oct 13, 2014 5:36:55 GMT
That weeping tree is really, really eerie. Especially love the thorn ended limbs, the unabashed white to pop the red and the blue-purple tones elsewhere.
It's gonna be hard to fall asleep now...
Thanks for the pics- Z
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Post by DnDPaladin on Oct 13, 2014 6:15:50 GMT
for those who wonders... the sunless citadel is a DND adventure written by wizard. its for levels 1-3 and is quite the long adventure compared to the others they made.
the thing is, the weeping tree makes a fruit once per year and actually spreads evil thru his seeds. and the tree itself can take 24 hours to engulf a character that was attached to its trunks. then he will simply release the characters 24 hours later as slaves to spread the seeds even more. quite a nice story if you can find it. its a 3.5 or 3.0, dont remember. definitely worth playing it !
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