Re: Creative Works Thread: DRAW THROUGH THE PAIN!!

[Lux]

[robbi86]

Pretty good, aside that the feet look a little small compared to the rest of her body.

[Lux]

Pretty good, aside that the feet look a little small compared to the rest of her body.

I did that part in a car. I suppose I should have fixed it...

[Lux]

[-Mazer]

such an angry lil creature O.o

[Lux]

such an angry lil creature O.o

You wouldn't be too happy either being a slave to a fatcat in the walls of a kingdom who is a pompous asshole who would have a man killed for stealing a single gold or two from him.

[robbi86]

Some environment drawings i did when i was bored, sorry for the lack of quality for some reason my hand was shaking uncontrollably.




A gun that i drew

[Lux]

I remade that angry looking girl in a style that is less dynamic, but I'm more comfortable with.

[-Mazer]

LUXY IS BACK!

[Lux]

NSFW sketch:

[Lux]

Snakeysnakesnakegirl.

[Lux]

Have a before and after. Gap between these two: Four years.

[Lux]

[Lux]

Am I seriously the only one who draws anymore?

[LegendX48]

Am I seriously the only one who draws anymore?

No, I had two new images I did on Colors! 3D

I guess I should post them here....

[LegendX48]

Watch it be drawn



Watch it be drawn

[-Mazer]

History

When I was but a wee lad, I would peruse the local BlockBuster’s horror section. I would never rent one of these movies but look at the covers and the pictures on the back. Seeing some of the carnage that the distributors showcased upon the backs of these old VHS tapes was enough to give me nightmares. I remember vividly seeing some of the mutilated corpses and reanimated bodies on the back of the Hellraiser series. Those images were burned into my young mind and haunted me when the lights turned off.

There was on movie whose cover always bothered me. It was for a movie called HOUSE and it showed a floating severed hand ringing a doorbell. The tagline was “Ding Dong You’re Dead,” and the hand was given a really ghastly appearance. It was all rotted out with its veins and arteries poking out from its open wound. HOUSE would be forever one of those movies I would always see on the shelf but never on television.

Finally, two years ago (and twenty plus years later), I found HOUSE on Netflix. Eager to finally watch this movie, I pushed Play. What I was given was a low-budget horror movie that was more comedy than it was horror. The special effects were atrocious (albeit the monster in the closet was awesome), the story nonsensical, the characters complete parodies of themselves, and to sum it all up; the main character climbs through a mirror and ends up in Vietnam. What the hell?

I won’t lie when I say that I wasn’t a bit disappointed that the movie wasn’t scary. For my entire childhood I had this film pictured in the back of my mind as some kind of horror masterpiece. The cover art just sold it for me. Only to find out that it is not really a horror movie at all but a horror comedy. As the movie progressed, my disappointment turned into child-like joy. It was hilarious. It reminded me a lot of Evil Dead 2 with its nonsense and while it was corny, it was that special kind of corn that just melts in your mouth. I fell in love with HOUSE and it became one of my favorite films in the horror comedy genre.

So last week I sat down to watch HOUSE II. Does the sequel live up to the awesome standards of the first movie or does it try too hard and forget the horror aspect of being a horror comedy?

Story

The story of HOUSE II revolves around a man named Jesse who has inherited a house that has been in his family for generations. Soon after he and his girlfriend Kate move in, they are joined by his crazy drunkard of a friend named Charlie and Charlie’s “rising star” girlfriend, Lana. While in the House, Jesse discovers that he is related to a cowboy felon who stole a sacred crystal skull from Central America. Determined to discover the whereabouts of the skull, Jesse and Charlie dig up Jesse’s great-great-grandfather’s grave.

What happens next is a zany adventure between Charlie, Jessie, and Jessie’s undead grandfather, “Gramps”. They must work together to protect the skull as Jessie’s House becomes a gateway to other time periods and alternate universes. What’s worse is the fact that Gramps is being hunted down by the zombified remains of his deceased cowboy partner named Razor.

Can they keep the sacred skull safe or will the House become a gateway for all Hell to break loose?

Review

Good lord, how do you review this movie? Well, first of all let me say that I could not believe that this film was made. Unlike the first movie (which at the time I had thought it to being just a so-bad-its-good horror film), this one has not one iota of tension or attempts at fear. In fact, it wasn’t until halfway through the film when I realized that this movie wasn’t trying to be serious at all. It was only then that I began to appreciate it.

However, just because I enjoyed the tongue-in-cheek humor of the movie doesn’t mean it is without flaws. The pacing was a bit awkward in the beginning. At first I had no idea who Charlie was. I kept thinking that Charlie was Jessie’s brother or Kat’s brother, or their cousin, or something. I don’t really know when I realized that Charlie was Jesse’s best friend because they never spend time on showcasing their actual relationship. Charlie literally just shows up and the movie continues on.

The girls were useless characters as well. Lana didn’t serve any purpose in the movie except to look good in a tight white shirt minus a bra (me-ow!). I guess one could argue that because of Lana, we are introduced to Kat’s meddling partner (played by Bill Maher of all people) but that is a stretch.

I guess the biggest issue is the fact that there is no proper pacing within the movie. We see some blond woman hitting on Jesse during a Halloween party but never really learn who she is. Was she a friend, ex girlfriend, a fling he had once? She literally seems to show up just to cause a rift between Jesse and Kat. After the party, we never see her again.

Other than the pacing and the lack of any real character relationship (other than that between Jesse and Gramps, and later Charlie once he begins to be utilized properly), the movie was rather entertaining. It’s one of those parody-style movies where nothing is supposed to really make sense and sometimes the characters are even self-aware of the situations they are in.

We get some pretty decent stop-motion animation during one part of the movie there are plenty of WTF and OMG moments in terms of what exactly we are witnessing.

HOUSE II is not as charming as the first one nor is it as entertaining but it is something that can be enjoyed if you don’t take your movies too seriously. It has funny moments and you’ll be shocked at who else makes an appearance (Hint: One is in Pixar movies and the other voices the Cave of Wonders in Aladdin). All in all, it was entertaining and was a good waste of an hour an a half. While I will recommend HOUSE 1 over this one any day, I do not regret seeing HOUSE II whatsoever.

[Lux]

[-Mazer]

Lookin good, Luxy

[LegendX48]

Good lord this came out HORRIBLE

[LegendX48]

TERA corp. logo from Dead_Legend



Dead_Legend OST Album Art WIP



random sketch from June that I can't recall if I posted



edit.

[LegendX48]

I don't remember doing this but w/e

[Lux]

[Lux]

[Cybersix]

Raven all day, every day

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