Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Silhouettes X

Two more classics for the original encounter tables:
Roc
Pixie
And here are two on the house:
Peryton
Flying Monkey
And more herd animals:
So, three of those I cobbled together myself from different source materials.  And working in the abstracted silhouette form illustrates well why most mythic creatures are made up of "parts" from other animals.  When I think of an animal it pops into my head in an abstracted form, so it's easy to tap into that and say: "The monster is a snake with a woman's head on the end." 

The flying monkey may look too similar to the roc when shrunk to map size, but I just had to make it.

Here have another fighter too:
Some of these came from a book with silhouettes in it, so it was easier for me to churn them out.

7 comments:

  1. Wait a minute...isn't the silhouette of a peryton supposed to look like a man? ;-)

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  2. Nice work, and thanks - you know where I'll be using some of these.

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  3. Your flying monkey silhouette gladdens my heart.

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  4. Have these already been added to the download, or will they be added at some future update?

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  5. @zeB: Thanks, looking forward to it.

    @Theodric: Should all be in the bundle. I incremented to 1.1. Let me know if I missed any.

    I was actually thinking of the human shadow thing. Wouldn't work in a small hex, but I might still try to do it for fun.

    @Paul: Awesome. Keep in mind talented artists made the pictures these are based on. I just had to wait a 100 years, find them, and arrange them.

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  6. Howdy! I was bouncing around Google looking for images of flying monkeys and found your silhouette. I'm designing the gfx for a custom guitar pedal, the Smiletone (wait for it) Flying Monkey. Would you mind if we used the silhouette? This isn't a money thing for me (although my friend making them will be selling them in very small quantities) - it's just cool to see my designs on a real effects pedal. Please let me know if it would make you happy or annoy you to have your silhouette used on our pedal. Peace -Trey trey@porch.org

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  7. Awesome. All the silhouettes in the zip file are public domain.You can do whatever you want with them. Good Luck with the pedals!

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