Peaceful Evening

Finally another update! I'm not really sure what I was thinking when I made this; it was late and I was tired, so I've forgotten what was on my mind at the time.

Most of the furniture in the picture was already there. I just added the characters, replaced the TV with another one, changed the skin of the painting on the right and added that "pillow" (actually a garbage bag) the girl is resting her head on.

I initially had another image on the TV monitor, but I replaced it in pixlr with a picture I've already posted on this blog.

I made some minor color adjustments, both in-game and with pixlr, and I also experimented with bloom effects.

ADDONS USED:
Map: gm_highriseapartmentiguess
Stuff on screen: See this post.

Barricade

Right, so I'm back again with another picture. First of all, I would like to say that I intended to have Male_1 standing somewhere in the picture holding a Molotov cocktail. However, I couldn't find anywhere to put him that fit. Second, I wanted to have a bloom effect in it, but attempting to apply one made the picture look overexposed.

Anyway, I wanted it to seem like the guy near the barrels had, along with a group of other people, constructed a makeshift barricade out of objects they could find at the train station in order to keep the raptors (that are there for some reason) away. It didn't turn out as good as I'd hoped, but that's pretty much how most of these pictures are.

As for post-processing I used colour modification to give it a colour tone reminiscent of A Rainy Day Near the Beach, my so far most successful picture in my opinion. (Goddamn you Google Spellcheck! Spelling colour with a "u" is not incorrect! It's just as valid as "color".) Then I used Super Depth of Field to make the focus blur.

Addons used:
Dinosaur Ragdolls

Duel

I started making this picture with a much bigger project in mind, but got tired of working on it and decided to keep it simple. I originally planned to have that ME3 phantom fighting alongside Chell (from Portal) against a whole wave of xenomorphs. Still, this looks pretty ok anyway in my opinion.

It's been a while since I played Mass Effect 3, but as far as I can remember, phantoms were the most annoying enemies in the whole trilogy. They were so fast that you couldn't outrun them, they moved back and forth with various types of acrobatics, so they were hard to shoot, and I remember there was one point in the game where I kept dying over and over again because of them.

It might be a bit hard to see, but the xenomorph is actually a re-used dupe from Siege. It's the one you can see right next to the muzzle flash.

Due to the angle, it might also be hard to see the phantom's sword. Luckily, I took pictures from several different angles. However, I haven't done any post-processing in them, so the colours might look a bit weird. (The post-processing in the main picture of this post was made in pixlr.)

Addons used:
ME3 Cerberus Soldiers
AvP Corporate Megapack

The Door Won't Close!

Man, it's been a long time since I posted anything on this blog. Anyway, here's a new picture at last. I haven't been playing Garry's Mod at all in a very long while, and like I've said before the update frequency of this blog depends on how much I play Gmod. Anyway, I recommend watching the full-size version of this one, because otherwise it might be hard to see what's going on by the door.

I wanted the story behind the picture to be as follows: The guy under the desk was sitting on the chair on the left keeping guard for [something] when all of a sudden the man at the door bursts into the room with a xenomorph queen right behind him. As the man at the door attempts to close it, but can't because the xenomorph is blocking it, the man at the desk throws the chair aside and hides beneath the desk, forgetting in the heat of the moment to take his shotgun with him, leading to the situation shown. The matress on the floor was put there to imply that the guy at the desk has been staying there for a long while. My explanation might sound a bit fuzzy, but that's because I'm tired and can't think properly. Also, it's been quite some time since I wrote about anything this way so I haven't got back into how to do it yet.

Addons used:
Enhanced Citizen Redux
avp3 queen

Recorded Sniper

I couldn't come up with a good name for the picture. Anyway, I'm finally updating this blog again after my longest period of inactivity so far. It might be a bit hard to see in the picture due to the low resolution, but there are two people standing beside the building the sniper is aiming at. I strongly advise viewing the full-size version of the picture.

Addons used:
Suits and Robbers
Mass Effect: Weapons
gm_Valley

Good News

I found instructions for how to make it work, so I will probably start updating this blog again some time soon.

Current Status

Just in case anyone is wondering - this blog is not "dead". It's just that for some reason Garry's Mod won't start when I try to open it, and thus I'm unable to make any pictures at all. That's why this blog hasn't been updated in a while. Once I'm able to use Gmod again, I'll start updating this blog again.