[JudgeKyle]

Wonderful! I really like this one!

Best part is the Hero, because he has something better to do than fighting or helping (the Razor riding) Diego.

Edit: Do you know the game "Drakan - Order of the Flame"? A little bit like Tomb Raider but with a Dragon to ride and Orcs to slaughter.

The arrows stuck in the Troll let me remind that game, which was one of the first PC Games ever for me. If I remember right it was the second one after "Driver" and just one before "Gothic".

It was the year 1999 and I was really excited about the combat in that game (and of course the Dragon riding). You could dismember everything and even the arrows could get stuck in the body of the Orcs *. What a fantastic game, I still love it very much (last time I played was just a few years ago, I can really recommend it!).

Just a few weeks ago I had the luck to find the old Comic #1 from the game. It's the same as with the Gothic Comic, there was only one be released in 1999. Got it in brand new condition for only 5 Euro.

* I remember that it wasn't possible in the German version of the game, so I wrote a letter (yes, a real letter!) to the Game Developers to tell them how sad / disappointed I am, because it was possible in the Demo version, which I played before. I asked them if and how I can activate it again.

They really answered my letter with another letter and told me how to change an entry in the "Settings.cfg", so I could bring the violence back.
On top they also gave me a list with many cheat codes and told me how to use the console in the game.

Man, what a time and great memories.

[Tentarr]

Wonderful Picture like it very much

Similar like Kyle I like it a lot that the hero is doing something better than Fighting

[JudgeKyle]

It became too silent in this thread and I really hope our friend Davide is alright.

Would be great to see you again here, many greetings to Italy!

[DavideMiragliaPH]

Hi guys! Don't worry: I'm good. I just lost some interest in the project. I think I will come back in some months.

I did say I would create a Gothic movie...unfortunately, I abandoned the project because it was way much time consuming. I could still upload the pre-alpha results and I think you will find it interesting in any case, because you can see things like guards saluting you while saying "For Gomez" (custom animations)...or custom dialogues with original voices (a voice mix)

Today, I created for the Gothic community a Gothic Evolution Enhanced Edition special content. It's not the usual artwork with Kai's music.
Do you remember about the unlit castle fireplaces?
In November, I did record the fireplace in Bartholo's room for the movie's Velaya scene (the Hero would sleep with her), but today I transformed that fireplace sequence into an ambient video for relaxing or sleeping. No, Velaya isn't there, only the fireplace LOL
Of course, I did lit on the fireplace and decorate its surroundings with my special Marvin Mode hacks. You can read a tutorial about them in the video description! And there's a thunderstorm outside: the atmosphere is dark...Gothic style!

LINK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coHs-hOenH0

[JudgeKyle]

Hi Davide!

Good to hear from you, welcome back.

Too bad you lost interest in your project but maybe after some more time you will like to continue.

Besides of that I can imagine that the movie, as you thought it should be, is really time consuming. Maybe just focus on creating more of the pictures, that was already really interesting and I always like to see new pictures.

Of course I would still like to take a look at the material of the movie you already created, I'm definitely curious.

Hope to see more of your work soon!

[Don-Esteban]

Do your video in a 10 hour loop and we have our special Gothic version of the usual YouTube ingle videos.

[JudgeKyle]

ingle

Ich musste doch gerade tatsächlich nachschauen, was "ingle" eigentlich bedeutet (Kaminfeuer). Man lernt wohl wirklich nie aus, danke!

[DavideMiragliaPH]

If someone would really like a 4/5 hours version of the fireplace, let me know. However, Youtube has an integrated Loop feature for pc users (right click on video player --> loop )...that's why I thought a 3 minutes video would be enough.

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Gothic: Rise of an Hero - a short alpha footage from my aborted movie

Featured content: Exclusive NPC animations (you can see one of them in the video thumbnail), custom dialogues with original voices and a sort of DVD menu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa1eoTCA4AA

Time taken: tons of hours of work for the intro/menu part, tons of hours of work for the in-game footage.

Personally, I did really enjoy creating the Old Camp military salute. That's my favourite custom animation. In the original game, it was used by NPCs when they were idling with a beer on their hand...and it was some seconds longer...I had to freeze it up at some point.
The military salute is featured in some of my artworks.

[JudgeKyle]

Interesting to see the beginning of your (aborted) movie. I can imagine it was a lot of work, but to be honest: I'm not too sad that you aborted it, since I think your real strenght are the pictures itselves and I hope we can see more of them in the future.

[DavideMiragliaPH]

I still do have some pictures, but yesterday I created a new one. It's something special though, because I recorded the creation process with my recording software, I added some notes in my video editor and I finally uploaded the content to Youtube. It's a tutorial where I show how to create an artwork.

I feel like I'm ready to share my full knowledge with people. Soon, I will upload other tutorials and my large custom animation katalog. Everybody will be able to create artworks. The only thing is that I didn't study that much the animations of the monsters...I'm an almost complete noob in that matter. Someone else will have to complete this research for the Gothic community.

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Here's the simple but effective artwork from the last video. It only took me 15 minutes of work.
Before people can look at it, I must tell you I don't really know the name or the role of the three persons portraied in the picture LOL they are random characters not related with the Gothic storyline.
At least one of them (the Royal Guard) has something to do with the King.
And...my idea was to create a teen boy (the Guard would be the father, the young woman the mother), but the small guy still has a "mature" face. Let's suppose he's a man sitting in a chair.

So...who are these guys? Where are they located? What's their role in Myrtana?
Share your theory in the comments below, and be creative, because there isn't a correct answer. It's all up to your immagination.

LINK TO VIDEO TUTORIAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLn2Q-UkKEM

MYSTERIOUS PORTRAIT
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[JudgeKyle]

A Three-Way? That looks so wrong.

That was a short theory, I know.

[DavideMiragliaPH]

A Three-Way? That looks so wrong.

That was a short theory, I know.

An unexpected but very funny theory. LOL
I didn't know what was the meaning of "three way" (I know it with another English word), so, I had to look for it on the internet.
A similar thing happened to you (and to me) when Don Esteban wrote "ingle". LOL I thought it was an error and I immediately thought "maybe he was going to write jingle?! But...how would jingle be related to a fireplace?!"

[JudgeKyle]

An unexpected but very funny theory. LOL
I didn't know what was the meaning of "three way" (I know it with another English word), so, I had to look for it on the internet.
A similar thing happened to you (and to me) when Don Esteban wrote "ingle". LOL I thought it was an error and I immediately thought "maybe he was going to write jingle?! But...how would jingle be related to a fireplace?!"

Nobody can say, we don't learn new things here in the forum.

But in the end we can still communicate very well, so everything is fine.

[DavideMiragliaPH]

HUNT AND PREY

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I still had some artworks to show, but I created this one just some minutes ago. It took me 1,24 hours.
An uncut footage about the artwork creation will be uploaded very soon and it will be linked to this post.

Well...here you can see Drax and Ratford in the forest at dawn. Some hours ago, they did kill a molerat and they extracted his fat (the "molerat fat" item from the Rice Lord inventory now makes more sense to exist). The scenery suggests us that they did also manage to kill a lurker, two shadowbeasts and a wolf (tooth might also come from other beasts than wolves, though).
If you wonder about the meaning of those seeds on the bottom...well...it's a forest and seeds are moved away by the wind. That's why they are there.
Last thing...the campfire is my last creation.

[JudgeKyle]

Welcome back, friend!

Very nice to see a new artwork after some time. Not spectacular, but I like it.

[Don-Esteban]

For me one of the best in this thread. Very atmospheric and with a glimpse of melancholia. But this lies in the eye of the beholder of course.

[DavideMiragliaPH]

Thank you guys! I guess it's one of my favourite artworks too because of the atmosphere. Of course, nothing spectacular is going on...just two hunters and their meal. There are no Gorns smashing a barbarian's axe on the skull of a dinosaur LOL

I am proud to announce you that I've found another upside-down pose and I will create another upside-down experimental artwork. It will be much better, if compared to the Okyl's one.

Now it's time for the next picture. I did take the Hunt and Prey artwork in the Swamp Camp forest. So, let's visit the Brotherhood this time!!!

[DavideMiragliaPH]

LESTER THE NOVICE
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1,50 hours of work.
I did use my special rendering tecnique to let you see people on temple stairs.
Lester is NOT floating in mid-air. He is standing on a giant tree branch. You cannot reach that branch without console commands because of the height.
Originally, the pipe hold by Lester's hand was an useless misc item that was supposed to be found near the black goblins cave (small beach with lizards...near the bridge). I guess smoking joints looked way more cool...am I right Piranha Bytes?! xD

EDIT: pff picture needs a reupload because of the white line at the bottom
EDIT 2: REUPLOADED

[JudgeKyle]

I guess smoking joints looked way more cool...am I right Piranha Bytes?! xD

Haha, yes!

EDIT: pff picture needs a reupload because of the white line at the bottom

Yes, I can see the white line too. A reupload would be nice, since I'm still saving all of your pictures in my digital Gothic Collection.

[DavideMiragliaPH]

JOURNEY TO THE BROTHERHOOD
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2 hours of work. Baal Parvez is escorting the Nameless Hero to the Brotherhood. On the early part of the journey, a couple of templars (Gor Na Drak and an unnamed Gor Na) joins them. The spiritual warriors are bringing some mine crawler mandibles to Kalom because - in order to get in touch with the Sleeper - the alchemist needs much of them.
Bingo! Dexter will be very happy about these encounters with THESE Sect members, and you already know why.

Quick notes:
Did you know that you can force Baal Parvez to follow a different path? Four months ago, I was able to lure him in a completely different part of the forest (the small part of forest BEFORE the wooden bridges...Old Camp side if we cosider the river as a faction border), but he eventually died because there were many wolves in that place.
How to lure him? Just bait enemies near him and he will eventually lose track of the original route.