Jon H
10-09-2008, 06:06 AM
From another thread springs this thread in a death defying leap of idiocy/brilliance!
Ok here is the original generator, which was created on the fly and has much room for improvement! Get a 6 sided dice and roll on each table and it will give you inspiration for a painting you might otherwise have been incapable of thinking up!:
An:
1: elf
2: Dwarf
3: Doughty human grisled adventurer
4: Human boy
5: Terrified noob adventurer
6: Wolf person
is
1: fighting
2: appearing to be talking to
3: trying to make peace with
4: lying in wait for
5: being ambushed by
a:
1: orc
2: demon
3: giant snake
4: leopard
5: giant insect
6: giant squid
in
1: A dungeon
2: A cave
3: A small boat
4: A dessert (or even a desert!)
5: A ruined roman villa close to hadrian's wall
6: A crashed spaceship
the weather is:
1: raining
2: misty dawn
3: night
4: boiling noon
5: snowy
6: balmy evening with creeping lavender shadows and orangey slanting light
a special feature of the image is:
1: a magical item which must be stolen
2: lighting effects
3: a really strong viewpoint (flip a coin: up/down0
4: really strongly painted emotional faces
5: incredible creature/armour design unlike anything you've done before
6: Frazetta pastiche (or some other great artist)
You're going to make an additional feature of:
1: Atmospheric perspective
2: rocks
3: water
4: light
5: graphic elements
6: amazing action
and
1: historical research
2: architecture
3: ruins
4: incredible natural features yanked from the National Geographic
5: photo ref
6: a really focused palette
Now the truly amazing part is that anyone can add additional or substitute tables. I think the format of six entries per table is a good one to stick with. I certainly can't always lay hands on my "funny dice", but there's always a standard 6 sider lying about.
It'd be cool to see some themed collections of tables for modern images, high or low fantasy, horror, or just plain ole variations on the current middle of the road fantasy. Also additional technical tables with view points, palette options, stylistic approaches and stuff could rock. But I'm not doing any more work on it - you are!
Rock on my crazy rpgnet friends!
Ok here is the original generator, which was created on the fly and has much room for improvement! Get a 6 sided dice and roll on each table and it will give you inspiration for a painting you might otherwise have been incapable of thinking up!:
An:
1: elf
2: Dwarf
3: Doughty human grisled adventurer
4: Human boy
5: Terrified noob adventurer
6: Wolf person
is
1: fighting
2: appearing to be talking to
3: trying to make peace with
4: lying in wait for
5: being ambushed by
a:
1: orc
2: demon
3: giant snake
4: leopard
5: giant insect
6: giant squid
in
1: A dungeon
2: A cave
3: A small boat
4: A dessert (or even a desert!)
5: A ruined roman villa close to hadrian's wall
6: A crashed spaceship
the weather is:
1: raining
2: misty dawn
3: night
4: boiling noon
5: snowy
6: balmy evening with creeping lavender shadows and orangey slanting light
a special feature of the image is:
1: a magical item which must be stolen
2: lighting effects
3: a really strong viewpoint (flip a coin: up/down0
4: really strongly painted emotional faces
5: incredible creature/armour design unlike anything you've done before
6: Frazetta pastiche (or some other great artist)
You're going to make an additional feature of:
1: Atmospheric perspective
2: rocks
3: water
4: light
5: graphic elements
6: amazing action
and
1: historical research
2: architecture
3: ruins
4: incredible natural features yanked from the National Geographic
5: photo ref
6: a really focused palette
Now the truly amazing part is that anyone can add additional or substitute tables. I think the format of six entries per table is a good one to stick with. I certainly can't always lay hands on my "funny dice", but there's always a standard 6 sider lying about.
It'd be cool to see some themed collections of tables for modern images, high or low fantasy, horror, or just plain ole variations on the current middle of the road fantasy. Also additional technical tables with view points, palette options, stylistic approaches and stuff could rock. But I'm not doing any more work on it - you are!
Rock on my crazy rpgnet friends!