Campfire

Yes! Finally something new! Now maybe I'll be able to come up with more ideas, so I can update this blog more often again. At least I hope so.

This picture was taken near the end of the Water Hazard chapter. There's a hidden cave there where you can find a vortigaunt. There's also an achievement for finding him (in Half-Life 2, not in Gmod). The vortigaunt on the right is that specific NPC. Garry's Mod messes up the faces of every single vortigaunt in the game, so I had to use the face poser on him.

I originally intended the leftmost vortigaunt to be sitting down with his legs crossed, instead of lying down. However, the ragdoll was not flexible enough, so I let him lie down instead. Actually, it even looks better with him lying down than it would have if my original idea had worked, because by making him lie down I was able to include the subtle detail of him resting his head on that little extra-arm that vortigaunts have.

The vortigaunt in the middle, standing behind the fire and holding a spear, uses a model that is slightly different from the other two. In the beginning of the Point Insertion chapter, you see a vortigaunt that's wearing restraints, implying that he's a slave. The vortigaunt here is a ragdoll of that model. You can see the restraints if you view the full-size version of the picture (by clicking it).

I did some colour modification on this picture. I made it a bit darker and increased the contrast, so I could get darker shadows. However, when I did so the picture got very red. Sure, I wanted red to be the most prominent colour, but it got too red, so I made sure to add some blue and green to neutralize a little of the redness.

In this picture, I didn't use any addons.