Duck and Cover

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:40 am**

An old, old pic I did of SHODAN from System Shock.

Teh clickage.

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2005 2:31 am**

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2005 2:33 am**

Isn't Shodan somehow more blue than this?

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:14 am**

I think more grey...And more "technological" or something..And less crappy, too.

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:54 am**

More gray and green.
This one looks like it's been shot in the eye.

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:09 am**

It's just freaking out a bit, it's ok.

How did you make the splatter / whatever it is? I don't think it's too bad.

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:58 am**

She doesn't have to be grey. I was going for something more surreal and sinister-looking.

The wavy-splatter stuff was an effect in Corel PhotoPaint. It randomly made a bunch of squiggles, and that one fit perfectly with the picture. Add a few touchups, some color tinting, a lens flare, and voila.

Posted: **Fri Jan 21, 2005 9:18 am**

I don't see the problem(s) really. It's an interesting piece in my opinion. That it deviates from the more traditional interpretations of SHODAN is something to be encouraged, not vilified. SHODAN's arguably one of the best and most memorable computer game villains of all time.

To summarise - Huzzah.

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2005 6:52 am**

I always thought SHODAN was an asshole. Subhuman drew him/her/it pretty well.

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2005 4:50 pm**

Blargh wrote:SHODAN's arguably one of the best and most memorable computer game villains of all time.

No, she is inarguably the best and most memorable computer game villain of all time. Anyone who disagrees is....well, Spazmo probably.

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2005 4:56 pm**

Perhaps, yet even then exceptions will appear. Nice bit of art, regardless.

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2005 5:09 pm**

Indeed, and it's in the Off-topc fan art gallery <a href="http://www.duckandcover.cx/gallery/thum ... 9">here</a>.

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2005 5:23 pm**

Subhuman wrote:Anyone who disagrees is....well, Spazmo probably.

Ho ho ho. No, you are, in this case, quite right (the law of averages suggests that you'd have to be eventually, really). I don't know about the best (but then I never like to say anything is the best ever because there's probably something I've forgotten), but, as Blargh says, SHODAN is up there.

Though the Many were creepier, at least in SS2.

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2005 5:27 pm**

I still think Master is the top-numbah-one of all time arch villains.

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2005 5:28 pm**

Sephiroth is the best villain of all time

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2005 6:28 pm**

The Master was lame. Yeah, I said it.

Spazmo wrote:Though the Many were creepier, at least in SS2.

Agreed. Could this be the start of a trend?

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2005 6:42 pm**

Probably not. I'll announce that I've never played System Shock 1, to your great dismay, and you'll say something horrific about music (maybe announce your hate of, say, Deep Purple? Who knows!) and we'll be back to normal.

Posted: **Sat Jan 22, 2005 7:10 pm**

Well, I've only ever heard "Smoke on the Water", so no bashing of Deep Purple just yet. At least until I hear "Highway Star" and make my verdict.

And I don't blame you for not playing SS1. It's damn near impossible to find, and actually getting it up and running once you procure a copy is a Herculean effort involving copper wire and jellybeans. You've never played SS1, I've never played Monkey Island - we'll call it a draw.