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Here's my second entry, i'm much better doing small scenes like this.

Here's the inspiration.

Short in-game scene of this WTE.

@Knallertton: Go

Hahahahahaha

@P0TAT0HANDGUN: Go

Wow. You might be new to the WTEs, but you are not new to terraining for sure. This scene is quite interesting and has alot of story telling at first sight which is awesome and very good. You might not like the camera angle, well, I like it because in general in cinematic, screenshots, and everything, you rarely see ground perspective of a scene. Here it's like if the camera view was in fact someone like the other civilans dead nearby, but that someone from whom you look is still alive and looking at the far scene hoping that they just think he is dead to be able to get away. In this shot there is so much story telling...!

From a terraining quality perspective, you did well too. The scale of things works. The use of metal walls blured by the camera makes a great background. The flag well positionned to situate where we are. The point of view is limited to the point where even I, can't recognize every doodads you used. This is good because it forces the mind to focus on what you see and not what you know about what you see. An example is the thing in the middle of the screen that does "nnnnnnnnn" visually. I like the mix of garbage on the left. On the right though, it's hard to see it as a garbage bag, if you want it to be garbage, maybe put a few things on this side as well so it's not just doing a straight line as well with the floor. I like the position of the death symbol on the garbage can on the right. It evokes death, and you see dead in front of you and you see eventually dead people in the back. The whole scene is all about death.

I just opened the map to see how it's made. I don't understand why the civilan in front of the spectre is "in" the garbages, like if it was running away from something but, there are no places from where he would be coming? I see as well that there is much more garbage in the map than in the screenshot. So it's just a question about slight arrangement. I was wondering what was the white thing on the right and I only recognized it when loading the map. Maybe if it was slightly angled on the trash to see a little bit more of it would help understanding what it is. You could put other stuff in the trash like lights, chairs, tables, and any other doodads that could fit in. To make them look broken just put them angled mixed with other stuff on and under it.

The "Cable Light" doodad you use for lighting to me feels a little bit un-natural. It adds some effects to the screenshot, but to the terrain when looking at it, it feels weird. What if the lightsource was something else? Like lights on buildings or maybe even more related to the scene, what if the civilan were actually burning the trash in the metal thing and it was creating an orange-ish light through the blue-ish terrain?

Little point here about the camera depth of field, you got it nice, but the characters in front are too much blurred to the point where you can follow the line the editor creates for blurred stuff. Personnaly, I put the depth of field amount to 100% then I try to set it up and if I need I lower it at the end. I tried getting a better DoF keeping the same focus, check the attachment.

All in all this is a great scene, well done, and welcome!

Alright, I recorded me working on this WTE for a timelapse video, but my vegas extension to play a video in x10 just ended its trial. So I can't do much about it, and it's not fault of trying whatever I could.

Anyway, here is the result in pictures. I wanted a double stairs design with something very gory. I think it's not so bad.

My starting inspiration was based on this image: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/9f/89/ba/9f89ba9775ec2b32ad8dbeea6d8ad4ce.jpg

@P0TAT0HANDGUN: Go

The context is only a little glimpse that you must catch in order to understand... Who said it was a murder done by "terran"? If you look close enough, "something" did this... all those claws everywhere, something happened there and specefically attacked all those people... why? No one will ever know. Who did this? No one will ever know. But one thing sure, it's not terran.

The whole terrain took 2h15 min. The stairs are the first thing I did in the terrain because it was the core of my idea and I needed to know if it would work. When I saw how it turned out, I added the barriers and started expanding around. I did not complete the whole interior as this is just a specefic scene and not a playable map or a cutscene.

@Knallertton: Go

You are on a killing spree, very good terrain.

@P0TAT0HANDGUN: Go

Lovely contribution and welcome to WTE.

@Scbroodsc2: Go

As always very impressive and lots of blood!

@LucidIguana: Go

That is beautiful work.

@wargirlwargirl: Go

The theme is "Murder" not (yet) "Merry christmas" haha. I think it's one of the most gory terrain I ever did. I'm quite proud of the stairs though, they look great. I really have to find a video editing program to do the x10 speed for timelapse. You would see the whole creation from nothing to that. It's always interesting to see a terrain evolve into something greater.

Well done DOOMEDEARTH, I like the 2nd image alot, it's the one that speaks the most just in a single sight.

Without the new forum, I would not have seen this post. Thanks to the new search "https://www.sc2mapster.com/new-content"