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"Who's Lila?" (movie poster mockup)

Digital collage for the videogame 'Who's Lila?' by Garage Heathen (available on steam) made with stock images from pexels.com.

Additional thoughts/info below the cut:

When I found out that there is an actual dithering tool/option in GIMP, I immediately remembered a little videogame called "Who's Lila?" and decided to try and make a mockup poster for it. It was really cool to see that I could (sort of) emulate the ditherpunk look of the game.

I like that the dithering effect makes it difficult to make out (at first) where the two pictures used overlap and which part belongs to which picture.

I have made a few other pieces in this style that I will hopefully post soon.

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"Out Of Place"

Two digital collages made in GIMP with screenshots from "The Oldest View" by Kane Pixels on Youtube, which includes use of the Julien Reverchon Giant made by Kevin Obregon.

Additional thoughts below the cut:

These are the variations of the movie poster practice pics I posted earlier. This style takes a bit of inspiration from surrealist artist René Magritte actually, what with taking a human(oid) silhouette and replacing the inside of it. These also serve as mirror images to each other with how I replaced Wyatt and the Giant, in a way showing how they are both 'out of place' in different points in the story.

These were really the 'prototypes' for the movie poster(s) I then did. It was a nice challenge to try and find pictures that would not just be great mirrors for each other, but also had distinct silhouettes *and* fit into each other.

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"(Ivan Beck and) The Backrooms"

Digital collage made in GIMP with stock photos from pexels.com. Inspired by Kane Pixels' iteration of the backrooms (on youtube), the character of Ivan Beck, as well as the OST/music and its cover art for the series (also on youtube).

Some thoughts beneath the cut:

The mystery of who Ivan Beck is, what happened to him and his motivations are fun to dig into. There is a lot of symbolism in the Backrooms series and its supplemental material that I just really enjoy exploring visually; eyes, the sun and the sea for example. So making this while further trying out GIMP was a lot of fun.

I am particularly proud of how I turned the iris/pupil of the eye into a sun and made it look good.

As an aside, I find it is a good challenge to try and make art only using screenshots of a series or only stock images, hence why I have made some other art in this way as well that I will hopefully post soon.

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"Annihilation" - aesthetic/moodboard (based on a mix of movie and book version)

An aesthetic/moodboard made in GIMP based on the Southern Reach books and movie by Jeff Vandermeer. Made with free stock images from pexels.com.

Further thoughts below the cut:

One of the earliest aesthetics/moodboards I made when I got back into GIMP, and before I even really got back into 'Annihilation' again, going purely off of memory to make this one. Not the best I have made imo, but still part of my art journey, so I am posting it.

Also, I kinda like simplicity, how 'ordinary' everything looks, while the book and movie themselves contain weird and uncanny imagery.

Either way, I liked making this, which is the most important thing. And it sparked my attempts to make creature collages later on, like the dolphin with the human eye.

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"The Oldest View" (Grey/Green) (Aesthetic/Moodboard)

An aesthetic/moodboard made in GIMP with stock images from pexels.com. Based on "The Oldest View" by Kane Pixels on Youtube.

Additional thoughts beneath the cut:

Gah, seems like the compression is flattening the colors in this a bit - if you open the moodboard in a different tab and zoom in, you might be able to see it better; this one is not just pure grey, but meant to have a greenish tint/shadows, referencing the shots in the series that are black-white-and-green.

This one was a bit challenging to make (because the center of the series are a distinct location and a distinct entity), but overall also very fun. Again, I tried to make this with just stock images and I wanted to use the dithering option again. I think it turned out pretty well!

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"You Do Not Belong Here"

Two digital color alterations made in GIMP of screenshots from "The Oldest View" by Kane Pixels on Youtube, which includes the Julien Reverchon Giant artpiece made by Kevin Obregon.

Additional thoughts below the cut:

Similar in style to the movie poster mockup I did, these ones actually came first and were the practice works for the final poster(s). I have a collage variation of these two in particular that I might eventually post as well.

They work well to emulate a style that the video series itself uses, that is, showing monochromatic humans in a green-ish, natural (forest) environment. So I simply used a similar concept for both Wyatt and the Giant, but added a contour around them to further make them stand out.

I really enjoyed making these, they were among the first things I made when I got back into GIMP.