Mourning

This picture did not turn out the way I wanted it to. Let me make a list of what went wrong:

• Alyx's family portrait got too bright.
• Due to a collision box that is larger than her head, Alyx's hands could not be posed properly.
• Gordon's upper body is twisted in a strange way. I knew about it but forgot to fix it.
• Gordon's feet are hovering an inch above the ground. Damn you, collision boxes! I knew about this but couldn't fix it.
• The decision to make Gordon's left hand a fist (was that gramatically correct?) makes it look like he's about to punch Alyx, when I actually intended to make it look like he was comforting her.
• I decided to place Gordon's head outside the frame, figuring the picture would look more dramatic if I did so. It did not.
• There's a freaking pine tree between Gordon's legs! And its placement looks vaguely suggestive! I swear that it was not intentional, and I didn't notice it until I was messing around with the picture in pixlr.

Anyway, if we pretend it turned out the way I wanted it to, I guess I better write something about it other than just complaints.

This is supposed to take place after the events of Half-Life 2: Episode 2. A few days after [SPOILER ALERT] the Combine Advisors show up and kill Eli Vance [END OF SPOILER]. In order to make Alyx's jacket black instead of purple, I had to set my player character as her, choose black as character colour (the colour is only altered in some areas, different for each character), and then find the player character ragdoll in Browse\Games\Garry's Mod\player. I wanted Gordon's suit to really stand out, so I gave it a higher saturation than the rest of the picture. (That's what I needed pixlr for.) Also, I've realized that I seem to use high contrast and low saturation in almost every picture I make. I should break out of the loop and try something different.

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Gordon Freeman fixed