WIP: bog with burial

Greebo

I am working on a battlemap of a blanket or raised bog with a recent burial. But I am having difficulties depicting the vegetation in a way that is accurate and visually interesting/pleasing enough. Any hints would be highly welcome.



Btw: Even though I might reuse it at a later date, the map is not intended for usage in a rpg. It is supposed to the starting point for a design team to develop a small display cabinet diorama on bog bodies.

pdj

There's a couple of nice textures in the Vintyri Project Fills & Textures v4 set you might find useful as
background, you can get them from http://www.vintyri.org

I'm thinking particularly of the two "moss" textures in the overland section.

p

Greebo

Thanks for the tipp. Experimented a while with those textures and added a group of trees in the lower left corner. Here is the result:

Vintyri

You might want to try a bit of blur on the skeleton. I'm assuming it's underwater. If so, I think the contours are a bit too sharp.

Greebo

You are absolutely right, the skeleton (I could not find a classical bog body) is supposed to be underwater and therefore appears too sharp. Tried to improve it:

Vintyri

Posted By: GreeboI could not find a classical bog body

I don't have a classical bog body either, but the following might (or might not) get what you want better than the skeleton.

http://www.vintyri.org/downloads/swampdead.zip (53 KB)

Vintyri

After taking a second look at your map, I think the following might be more down your line:

http://www.vintyri.org/downloads/swampdead02.zip (62 KB)

Greebo

Thanks for the swampddead pngs, but both individuals look like they died running away and not like a more or less intentional burial. Showing bones instead of a "classical" bog body is an acceptable flaw, especially since it depends on the chemical milieu within the bog wether the soft tissue, the bones or a combination of both remain.

Btw: Bog bodies make interesting mummies / zombies due to their (potential) lack of bones. Had them "crawl" through the crack under a door once...

Vintyri

I really don't know what kind of monster a bog body is, but based on what you've written, this modification of a downed zombie by Digger moght be an alternative. Then again, I might be whistling in the wind, but I thought I'd give it a shot. With the bones gone, this one could get under a door, I think. It's lightly blurred and translucent, which should help with the underwater effect.

http://www.vintyri.org/downloads/zombiedown.zip (55 KB)

Greebo

Thanks alot, Ill give it a try.

A bog body is the result of natural mummification of a corpse due to the special chemical milieu in a bog (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_body / http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorleiche), like the Tollund man.
So, monsterwise it is a certain type of mummy.

Vintyri

Hmmm. Now that I have your description, I have another idea. Try:

http://www.vintyri.org/downloads/decomposed.zip (59 KB)

If it doesn't fit, maybe it'll do for something for you in the future.

For other readers of this thread, you can of course grab these graphics from the computer screen, but you're better off with the Zip files, which are in CC3 format in all four resolutions.

JimP

Some bog burials in England, and Denmark, still have hair and clothes. Their body tattoos also show in some cases.