A different perspective

This is supposed to be a picture of a zombie getting attacked by Gordon Freeman, seen from the zombie's perspective. I'm a little bit unsatisfied with the posing and lighting (I know I can do better), but it turned out pretty much the way I wanted it. I tried to make it look like the zombie was trying to defend itself, and I tried to make Gordon look "evil".

Those things burning behind Gordon are actually four radiators that I set on fire.

When it comes to colour modification, I lowered the brightness and increased the contrast. I intended to increase the amount of red in the picture, but I forgot to do so. Of course, I could have imported it into an image editor afterwards and increased the redness there, but since the picture is a JPEG, the quality would have been decreased when I re-saved it. Of course, I do extra editing outside the game on some of the pictures I make (Window, for example), but this time it didn't feel important to do so.

Just for the sake of fun, I'll also include a production photo, showing what this looks like seen from a different angle and without colour modification:

I deflated the zombie's head so it wouldn't get in the way. I had a lamp shining down on the zombie, otherwise its arms would have been too dark. I originally intended Gordon to be lit from below by a lamp, but the angle made the shadow of his glasses look really weird. Therefore I decided to use an orange light bulb instead, since they glow with a softer light and thus don't make such sharp shadows.

Since Gordon's feet weren't visible from the angle I chose, I didn't do any work on them at all, I just let them hang. Even though I decided a while back that I will do most of my posing so it looks good from almost every angle, I've decided to not always do so. This picture is one example of a picture that was posed exclusively for one specific angle.

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Gordon Freeman fixed