so, recently I decided to make a file containing a sh*tload of silhouetes.a sort of doodle collection with quick 1 to 2 minute doodles.

one of them was the black silhouet below that I am
now going to transform into a zombie (or at least have a good time trying to)

C+C are very much welcome as that's the point of posting a wip

Will make this post a sort of update diary
this was getting a ridiculasly long post (actual pagelength, not wordcount),
so I enveloped the wip images into an animated gif:



see individual frames along this thread with the last frame always near the end of the thread (obvious)

Edited by Equinoxx - 26 November 2006 at 1:48pm

agreed ... just wanted to get the basic form definitive before moving on to zombiefying him.

how would you go about doing that though ... more greenish skintones perhaps ?

hmmm, Don't quite understand where you're going. If you are thinking of a scene where many bodies make a scene, I would think ironing out the layout first and adding the 'zombifications' later would be a wise time saving way to get there.

The arm is improved a lot, but I'm having some trouble telling what the black line sticking out of him is. Good zombification here, but I'd suggest using selout or inner aa on the outlines.

Mouth open. Always mouth open. And drooling.

Oh sweet! That second one is looking excellent! Except what's happening around his jaw? Neck is also too thin, his head feels like it would be snapping off from its own weight.

The first zombie's waist is too thin, imo. And the shading on his shirt needs work, it's bordering on pillow. I say introduce a shadow tone for it and really work the colours. Also I would change it from that clean white to dirtier bone/yellow/brown colours.

I'm looking forward to seeing this scene flesh out.


Edited by EyeCraft - 07 November 2006 at 5:49pm

I might do an edit (I think I'm getting addicted to them)

Not my greatest, but take a squiz if you want


Edited by EyeCraft - 08 November 2006 at 2:42am

wtf?! I just made a post and it's not here? Fine I'll write it again...

You can if you're a zombie . But yeah, true. Oh well, if I helped you then I'm happy, even if its by highlighting what you shouldn't do, hehe.

EDIT: Actually now that I look at it I remember, i interperated his hand as its fingers retreating from the viewer towards the horizon, which would put it in correct orientation with how I did the bicep...sort of...


Edited by EyeCraft - 08 November 2006 at 3:11am

Could you make a mock up of Zombie Apocalypse II

I like the look of the skin. :) Nice decrepit green/blue look. Let's see the other one's colored!

How about a girl zombie, eh? 

@ aleiav - thx kinda satisfied how the colors worked for me :)
and good one of the girl, TOTALLY didn't even cross my mind and will most definitely now add female zombies as well. thx.

@ scottfro - I don't think I'll be animating them but if plans change, that'll be the 1st one on the move

update time. been a couple but I'm not willing to let this one slip.

cleaned up the 1st one a lot, gonna try and setup a rather clean image before I gore it up more then it is allready.

I like what's going on with the pants of the middle one, stylewise ...

opinions ? crits ? edits ?

Mmh. Intestine trailing out would be... delicious.

The zombie who's doing the matrix's right leg needs work: high thigh's muscle seems to curve in, when it should be doing the contrary.

small update:

biged up the crawling zombies head
added intestines somewhat
fixed matrixZ's leg
some other small edit

hahahh new one is looking great so far!

I would have worked on it a little longer, but I have a short attention span.  Pay no heed to my palette, it means nothing.  I took out the darkest blue as the jump from it to the next closest color was rather small.  I might tinker on the edit a little more, who know.  Fatty's knees are now highter, Crawler has more cranium, I tried to make better use of highlights, etc etc.

wow, the highlights have all of a sudden brought these way up in style.

paying close attention without doing a 1-1 copy to Cures edit, I tried applying the highlights and shading.

yeah good point, might do that. Don't know why (since there's no real good reason) but I'm kinda trying to limit the number of colors used.

But with the shading applied, it shouldn't be to hard to introduce a new colorcurve and apply that to either shirt or pants.

Wow really great pose on Ben, i still would like to see differen colours on the Zombies, eg you can use a Green from there skin, a peach from bens skin, Red From Blood

i agree about the direction of the fat zombies head but none the less this is really shaping up to be awesome...are you going to turn this into a game? and if so, need any help please don't hesitate to get at me...i love zombie games!

is anyone aware of any 2d side scrolling zombie games...maybe like final fight style or something.  i want one now!! :P

update*

in light of the antidirection head I turned it the other side and it's indeed for the better.

added some environement references to zombie movies just for kicks