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joseph-sweet — Wendigo Battle - Final

Published: 2011-02-06 19:31:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 4336; Favourites: 37; Downloads: 174
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Description Alright, I believe this is the final. i didn't like the way the previous ones looked too much like werewolves. They were also supposed to have white fur. I described them differently in the story and I wanted them to look like what I had described, at least to my own liking. So this time, I started over and edited the Sixus werewolf models to look closer to what I wanted. they were supposed to have a more humanoid - almost emaciated ape - look. hope you enjoy it.
Also this one is higher resolution, so they could be made into desktops with a small amount of editing. And they'll work better as prints.
You can read the story here where, as you can see, I also updated the image there with this one in the background.

And now to please the groups.
As previously stated, the creatures started out as the male and female werewolf from sixus, with much editing to make them fit Native American Wendigo lore and the story I had written. The background was just a white backdrop with virtual gel filters from poser. I believe that was from a light works collections of lights. Overall it is a mixture of different lighting on the wendigos and the white fur was created by simply painting a white layer over them and using a translucency effect. the ground, grass and rocks are from a limited edition Aery Soul product. It's not available anymore, I don't think. Oh yah, and mustn't forget Deviney's fog brushes for photoshop.
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Comments: 30

JCMaziu [2011-02-17 09:30:44 +0000 UTC]

Cool!!

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joseph-sweet In reply to JCMaziu [2011-02-17 15:04:17 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.

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alzartz [2011-02-16 22:52:55 +0000 UTC]

Great action image!!

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joseph-sweet In reply to alzartz [2011-02-17 00:47:16 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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ToshirotheKnightWolf [2011-02-16 20:04:30 +0000 UTC]

impressive

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joseph-sweet In reply to ToshirotheKnightWolf [2011-02-17 00:47:45 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.

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ToshirotheKnightWolf In reply to joseph-sweet [2011-02-17 01:36:10 +0000 UTC]

yousa welcome

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LotG [2011-02-13 15:09:01 +0000 UTC]

Now this pic is better! I think of Wendigoes as humanoids with a moose-like head and large antlers, but thats just me

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joseph-sweet In reply to LotG [2011-02-13 20:47:19 +0000 UTC]

As with Reeses, I guess, there's no wrong way. There are more than a few different ideas of what the Wendigo looks like. From a giant ice skeleton, to a thing made up of bones, to various different hairy beast-like creatures. It has been described as spirit-like in form, to an emaciated human-like thing cursed by a hunger that could never be sated. (which is at the heart of the Wendigo curse - the whole anti-cannibalism teaching) I like to think I did a good enough job in the story. The antler thing, I think I've seen depictions of before. I think some believed it also to be a protector of nature, although it might have been mixed with other myths. It's hard to say. I did a ton of research before I wrote that story at the age of seventeen, but I have to go with the image in my head or it just doesn't feel right. Glad you liked it.

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Caffeinated-Creator [2011-02-06 20:02:15 +0000 UTC]

Much better actually ^^ thought the effects are stylized, I think they work well and add motion to the picture

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ToshirotheKnightWolf In reply to Caffeinated-Creator [2011-02-16 20:04:54 +0000 UTC]

boo!

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Caffeinated-Creator In reply to ToshirotheKnightWolf [2011-02-16 21:33:38 +0000 UTC]

SQUEAK

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ToshirotheKnightWolf In reply to Caffeinated-Creator [2011-02-17 01:40:35 +0000 UTC]

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joseph-sweet In reply to Caffeinated-Creator [2011-02-06 20:08:40 +0000 UTC]

Glad you like it man. I'm more pleased with it. You're actually the reason I edited the models. You said something about editing the models must have been difficult and a little bit later, I thought to myself, "Why didn't I try that?"

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Caffeinated-Creator In reply to joseph-sweet [2011-02-06 20:18:03 +0000 UTC]

ah sorry sorry hope I wasn't nagging, sometimes I'm way too blunt, but really there's no excuse for being lazy -not that you were, just merely overlooked it maybe- bet it feels really rewarding now huh????

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joseph-sweet In reply to Caffeinated-Creator [2011-02-06 22:39:57 +0000 UTC]

Didn't think you were nagging. I like feedback. And it was kind of lazy of me to just use a werewolf model for a wendigo, when the two are different myths. Some say the modern werewolf which stems from the french garou version is basically half wendigo in appearance, but hey. Mainly, I just wanted it to look more like what I described in the story, and I think it does now. To answer your question, yes, it does feel more rewarding.

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Caffeinated-Creator In reply to joseph-sweet [2011-02-07 19:31:01 +0000 UTC]

I'm usually afraid of being nagging
Phew, all's well then ^^ good, good

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joseph-sweet In reply to Caffeinated-Creator [2011-02-07 19:36:22 +0000 UTC]

lol. All feedback and suggestions help me grow in some way.
Woohoo.. I gots high speed internet for an hour or so. Wicked slow dial up at home, but I had to see a doctor in cooperstown and the hospital has free wifi. Too bad I didn't bring any stuff with me to upload with the laptop. But oh well.

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Caffeinated-Creator In reply to joseph-sweet [2011-02-07 21:28:32 +0000 UTC]

awww glad I could give you some then.

Damn.. oh well, what'd the doctor tell you? you doing any better?

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joseph-sweet In reply to Caffeinated-Creator [2011-02-08 10:48:08 +0000 UTC]

Still just as clueless as ever. 3 hour drive there, an hour and a half of waiting around, three hour drive back, to find out nothing. Sucks, but, oh well. I'm starting to get used to it just now after most of my life. It's like a nightmare episode of house, where instead of curing the patient after an entire episode of guessing and being wrong, he throws his hands in the air and says, "No f*&@ing clue, pal." only instead of a day or two the episode spans like twenty five to thirty years. lol

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Caffeinated-Creator In reply to joseph-sweet [2011-02-08 20:18:12 +0000 UTC]

Damn it, its all guesswork apparently :/ I'm sorry man.

Your life needs to be a series ^^ I'm still sorry though, damn that some people have to live through stuff like this.

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joseph-sweet In reply to Caffeinated-Creator [2011-02-09 00:09:38 +0000 UTC]

Meh... I'll live. I died when I was 8, almost died about nine or ten times throughout my life. Nothing had taken me down permanently yet. I figure something is keeping me around for something.

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Caffeinated-Creator In reply to joseph-sweet [2011-02-09 19:58:14 +0000 UTC]

to make awesome stories that'll revolutionize the world most likely :3

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joseph-sweet In reply to Caffeinated-Creator [2011-02-09 20:32:01 +0000 UTC]

I don't know about all of that. But if I write stuff that people like, that's good enough for me.

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Caffeinated-Creator In reply to joseph-sweet [2011-02-09 20:34:11 +0000 UTC]

^^ well it is good, yes and with every story completed, you learn and hone your skills

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joseph-sweet In reply to Caffeinated-Creator [2011-02-10 00:20:38 +0000 UTC]

True. And I'm enjoying the feedback that I'm getting on here. It's helping. I also get blind to things I should notice, like typos and grammatical errors, so it helps to hear the stuff I've been hearing over the last week.

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Caffeinated-Creator In reply to joseph-sweet [2011-02-10 19:13:41 +0000 UTC]

wish I could help you more, but my time is severely limited nowadays :/

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joseph-sweet In reply to Caffeinated-Creator [2011-02-11 01:03:17 +0000 UTC]

Any help, big or small, is always appreciated. Besides, it's not like anyone on here is on payroll as an editor, so I don't expect anything. I take what I can get and enjoy the feedback.

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Caffeinated-Creator In reply to joseph-sweet [2011-02-11 19:04:10 +0000 UTC]

you're right I guess.
Glad that I'm not letting you down :3

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joseph-sweet In reply to Caffeinated-Creator [2011-02-12 00:55:53 +0000 UTC]

Course not.

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