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Published: 2012-01-14 06:53:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 2069; Favourites: 59; Downloads: 48
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While exploring the fascinating world of the future, Templar knight Jael is awestruck by a centuries-old abandoned mass burial complex that she had discovered by accident.The complex had been used for common citizens of all races, species and sizes. It was run by a giant, until the giant himself died and became the last tenant in the complex.
A random concept painting to explore and expand the rich world of the Templars , a comic by me and
Painted in Photoshop CS5, in roughly 20 hours.
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Whyvdoes this remind me of resident evil when the russain zombies with guns and the mutants attack just why
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Is the big guy supposed to look that lonely or was it a happy accident...I'm going to guess it was your intention
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To be honest, I don't know myself - he's just a dusty old corpse with an expression that is hard to read in a dark, dank tomb. 
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Well that's why your Templar is there and not me...dark dank, tomb full of dead bodies from who knows how many species...Not me Bucky!!!! I'll wait for the Discovery Channel special.
Great thing about a pic, especially a good one..( which I happen to think yours is)two people can look at it and get different impressions. A general theme yeah, but small details and impressions kind of depend on the viewer
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Thanks
Yeah I like to do subtle details. I like to leave certain things up to the viewer for interactivity.
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A lot of artists have trouble doing that.
Lucky for me I am only doing technical stuff...since it can be fairly sterile...It may be years before I can manage anything with subtlety to it...as long as I have great examples to go from and pay attention to how other artists are doing things.
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This is so weird - yet epic! WOW Love the distorted view too - makes it look errie galore!
What an interesting story too - makes the piece work!
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Thanks for the compliment on the artwork. Glad you enjoyed it!
The thing that drove this piece is my recollection of the times in my childhood when I attended several of my relatives' funerals, in which the family - myself including - had to sit through and watch (live) the body being cremated, the ashes collected and finally stored in an urn, before being placed in the temple alongside the ashes of many others, indefinitely. I never liked those funerals; it is traumatic and made me very uneasy for weeks after.
I tried my best to portray those doom and gloom feelings of being surrounded by the ashes of countless long-dead people here in this artwork.
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Ouch! Yew.
My sympathies mate.
I see why this works so utterly well - the sense of despair is immence and intence here. There is a lot of passion in this piece.
Well done sir.
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Thank you again.
Yes, sense of despair - that's the precise expression for it
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Well you got it spot on man.
Well done
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My room look like this too!
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Oh my, I'd be rather awestruck, too. At first I thought the giant skeletal remains might have been a sculpture by the designers of the ossuary, but your explanation makes sense.
Have you ever seen some of the photos of the ossuaries in the Parisian Underground? Amazing stuff. Its kind of interesting that here in the US, this sort of careful storage of mortal remains isn't allowed. Rather too bad, since it takes up less room and still permits relatives to pay their respects.
And you do the best stuff with lighting!! The light filtering in from above makes everything look like the interior of a church.
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Fascinating stuff!! I never knew there was such a thing! I stared at images of those dead cities for a very long time. Apparently not only Paris, but also in the Czech Republic, Rome and Portugal, too. I'm kind of shocked that necropolises like that existed beneath such sprawling cities. So many corpses. I was dumbfounded and my mouth went dry. Here in Malaysia there are Buddhist temples with burial chambers too, but none whatsoever quite like the Parisian necropolises!
Thanks for the info you shared. That is definitely some cool stuff, I appreciate it.
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Pretty awesome stuff! I love the atmosphere to this piece, especially all the subtle touches. You just get a sense that this is a place with a history, and you can't help but wonder what that could be. No doubt Jael is having similar thoughts.
Nicely done. I hope you make more stuff as awesome as this!
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Thanks
I'll keep painting as long as the inspiration keeps coming in
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You are most welcome my Friend!
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It reminds me a bit of the cryostatis complex at the end of Mass Effect
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W-O-W!!! Now that is a catacomb in all its spooky glory
You need to show more comic
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Sorry, typo -
I meant *'My heart isn't very much'
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Thanks very much
Yeah. Sorry, I know. 
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And is that "The Death of the Rats"?
Why sorry? Go at your pace man, that's what an artist do to create perfection
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Haha, Little Death was very much inspired by Terry Pratchett, actually. And I love the Death of Rats.
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That's a very good and encouraging advice.
You mean the little guy at the mid left hand side? That's Little Death, aimee's character from her Minions comic, making a cameo appearance
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