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Been waiting for ever to get through my commissions, have a bit of a break and get to the game concept art I'm suppose to be working on. As Call of Cthulhu is now under free domain, the designer/programmer I'm working with on this project wanted to do a quirky, competetive game based after a Polish board game (also under free domain). I've already done most of 3D work for it, but the 2D icons and character concepts I've yet to complete. To keep it simple, I was given a list of mythos characters to choose from, and told to go nuts any way I felt, just don't make them really freaky. More or less what I did was dA search against their names, and figured out who was popular enough to use. Of the Great Old Ones I picked: Cthulhu (duh!), Hastur, Zoth-Ommog, Ithaqua, Eihort, Yig, Atlach-Nacha, and Tsathoggua. This one is Ithaqua.
Ithaqua is based after the whole yeti/wendigo myths. The description for this one varies from man, to goblin to werewolf, with distinctive red eyes. Like almost all the things in the Call of Cthulhu Mythos, this one is big, but sort of wanders about, rejected and alone. Went with that theme in the environment, red eyes because I had to, and otherwise I don't know really what I did, but sort of just did it this way since well, I was kind of going for creepy fuzzy goblin thing.
The designer hates this thing. Absolutely hates it. "Why does it have to have 'red eyes." "Sorry, but that is the only thing that 'is' defined in the description. Ithaqua comes with red eyes, so bite me!" I kept having to add fog, and more fog, and kind of disapointed with that. (Weird is fine, creepy is not for the game.) Boreal forest going on, and the approach for getting snow on the trees involves a bubble texture. Fun to use really weird shortcuts. Always wondered what that thing was for in Photoshop, and who actually used it.
Photoshop CS4.
Ithaqua is based after the whole yeti/wendigo myths. The description for this one varies from man, to goblin to werewolf, with distinctive red eyes. Like almost all the things in the Call of Cthulhu Mythos, this one is big, but sort of wanders about, rejected and alone. Went with that theme in the environment, red eyes because I had to, and otherwise I don't know really what I did, but sort of just did it this way since well, I was kind of going for creepy fuzzy goblin thing.
The designer hates this thing. Absolutely hates it. "Why does it have to have 'red eyes." "Sorry, but that is the only thing that 'is' defined in the description. Ithaqua comes with red eyes, so bite me!" I kept having to add fog, and more fog, and kind of disapointed with that. (Weird is fine, creepy is not for the game.) Boreal forest going on, and the approach for getting snow on the trees involves a bubble texture. Fun to use really weird shortcuts. Always wondered what that thing was for in Photoshop, and who actually used it.
Photoshop CS4.
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I think it is very creepy and quite cool. One of Its better depictions. BTW, the Game devs might want to double check the copyright angle. H.P. Loveraft's _own_ works are pretty much public domain because those who held the right to extend the copyright did not do so. But not all stuff in the expanded Cthulhu Mythos is out of copyright. Creatures made by other authors may still be under legal protections. Since Credit for Ithaqua is Derleth's, Arkham House _could_ claim IP on Ithaqua the Wind Walker.