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Back Story:
No one really noticed when the first victims started disappearing from the darkened streets fifteen years ago: the first ones were just street people, drifters that blew in and out of town. Except for maybe the cops or the railroad bulls, no one knew they had been there in the first place. After all, this was a good and prosperous city.

But then the upstanding citizens--the law-abiders and the taxpayers--turned up missing. Alone or in pairs for years, sometimes entire families, just vanished into the night. Alarms went up. Good neighbors formed roving bands and patrolled the streets, ready to administer violent justice.

Someone pointed to the crumbling tower looming on the hill at the edge of town. It was an old place, where the city once treated its weak and wounded. Long ago replaced by a newer facility in the center of town, the tower had been abandoned for decades. Now, briefly, there were flickers of light in the windows, and the sounds of heavy mechanisms hissed from the broken windows.

The beloved Mayor was called from his home to lead the mob to the tower. As one, they mounted the hill to attack, to retrieve their lost friends, neighbors, and families.

When the furious crowd reached the massive doors of the tower, a man appeared at one of the high windows and called out to them. His voice cut through the angry shouts. The crowd stopped and fell silent. It was a man they knew but hadn’t seen for many years; a man they despised for his cruelty and had thrown out of office when his brother, the current mayor, ran to take his place.

The man in the window told them quietly that he had something to show them. Something they hadn’t understood before. That the only true way to lead is through absolute fear and total domination. He had taken people from the city in the dark and gathered them here for years so he could teach this lesson. He had developed new techniques for persuasion, and new machines as teaching aids. Tonight they would finally understand what he meant. What just one man could accomplish wielding the power of fear.

“Let us in, and let those innocent people go,” cried the Mayor to his brother.

“Oh, I’m going to,” replied the man, and the enormous doors swung open.

A shambling horde of deformed things surged through the doorway into the astonished, then horrified crowd. The things in the horde had once been the good citizens of the city, but were now bent, twisted, entirely insane from the man’s tutelage, and from his horrible cruel machines.

“Tear them apart. All of them. ” The man almost whispered from his window, and the monstrous army, driven by sheer terror, obeyed blindly. Then it moved down into the city to continue its master’s bidding.

Six days later, the authorities from nearby cities converged to investigate the fires and offer help to their neighbors. They didn’t find anyone left.

Team:
Artem "X-Convict" Volchik
Ian "sciAnce" Olsen
Ryan "Mangled Poly" Monday

We're doin this!

z0mg

nice choice!!!

Nice team, lookin to see what you guys come up with.

*** The back story has now been added!! ***

Swanktastical

I really like your narrative style, gives the imagination something to look forward to.

You guys are going to win. I called it!

we're gonna kick ur asses. Don't worry I'll buy the tissues 4 you to clean up your tears.

Thanks guys for all the nice comments so far! We have such a garble of cool thoughts that we plan to have the amazing Ian sketch out for us. Our goal is to have a final image that leaves you with an in-dept visual story. Also a good portion of our props and thoughts will be described in detail visually, and
textually as we are building them.



oobersli bring it on! Which "terminites" have you decided to team with?

Originally Posted by oobersli

we're gonna kick ur asses. Don't worry I'll buy the tissues 4 you to clean up your tears.

Those are fightin' words! ;)

Thanks guys for the comments so far, can't wait to get started on some modeling!

Update, hi prop for the scene while sketches are being sketched!

So not a ton of visible progress this weekend. We have spend most of it gathering ref and doing a very very simple blockout to share with the outstanding Ian so he can sketch some composition ideas. We want everything to be planned out in the early stages so we run into little logistical problems or production changes later.

One thing that is important to us is to detail the hell out of everything to the best of our abilities. We find a lot of time at work we rush through things cause its part of a production pipeline. So Artem and I have been detailing props or small things that we know we can use regardless of what the magnificent Ian concepts.

hey guys awesome chair, this is a cool concept to go with, the whole post apocalyptic feeling in it makes it cool. Cant wait to see some more stuff.

noice!

Lovely detail! This scene is going to be insane!

Excellent opening props, this is going to be a fun one to watch. Good luck guys

oh yea? Im the reason my group is gonna lose?? huh!? HUH?!


well, thats probably true, but you dont have to point it out so blatantly...





P.S.- uhh... your mom

Kickass chair dude!

Nice, maybe a dent in the side of the chair will make it more creepy?

Thanks guys! Here's texture stuff..

da pimp chair..

Evil!

I love that beat up chair. Nice. Now who wants to go to the dentist.....