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Creative => Photography & Graphics => Topic started by: Rhalius on January 09, 2015, 15:53:05
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As I mentioned this last summer when taking the pictures of the last three chapters of my medieval story: I lost the first batch. Accidentally deleted all pictures instead of just one. With recovery I did manage to recover a portion of it, but I had to reshoot everything.. it wasnt useable anymore.
Since it took me about two months to take all the pictures and it included a very difficult siege battle that took up most time, I changed the story around and made it quite different so that I did not have to repeat the exact same thing and did not have to put myself through shooting that siege battle again.
In the end I must admit that while the field battle may not have been as grand as the siege battle, all other parts did fit in better and I got to improve on quite a few other things outside the battle.
So without further ado, I present to you all the lost chapter. The story that could have been.
I didn't edit them down to a smaller size since its not for an actual story and it takes quite some time. It's just the unedited pictures. I'll skip the first two pictures since they where the only stuff I could still use, they where the first two pictures of Shadows and Kings.
In this version, Henry went to retrieve the Krinflower and Roderick and Frederick went to the tower to watch him leave.
(http://i.imgur.com/H4SMlKm.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/Ro08yem.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/I4JU6Ee.jpg)
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Henry finds it with help of a little girl with a red hood, who he saved from a wolf. (the intention was to let the girl say something about this always happening to her when she wears her red hood.) He then gets into a fight with a highlander.
(http://i.imgur.com/tRzsGT6.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/5oCUpqW.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/wRW0Arj.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/iPO1E4T.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/wvbjCLT.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/IB9MT38.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/wh554rT.jpg)
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In the meanwhile Frederick and Roderick where preparing the defences of the castle, and Baron Blacktower got kidnapped during a hunting trip. As in the second version, the Blue Shadow is forced to drink the cure he proposed to his own poison first.
(http://i.imgur.com/B0mPZW0.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/wfgzqKr.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/QAOzbkN.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/gjgIb7c.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/qu90l3X.jpg)
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In this version, the Lion castle belonged to Prince Edward from the start. He had his armies gathered here and the Baron and Jory where put in prison here before they march out to attack.
(http://i.imgur.com/Xd4axpU.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/vEYWcxy.jpg)
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(http://i.imgur.com/ApyT9Po.jpg)
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Roderick is send to see where Baron Blacktower went, sees the approaching Lion army and returns to report, so that preperations are made.
(http://i.imgur.com/uyT8b8T.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/6G8e2zL.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/FXt6lVd.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/hLEfH1a.jpg)
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(http://i.imgur.com/ZnwItRU.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/oO2Q4tS.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/sJBHrb2.jpg)
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And then the siege begins.
(http://i.imgur.com/fmma2SY.jpg)
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(http://i.imgur.com/3dPs5Kg.jpg)
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(http://i.imgur.com/ZCBbEz7.jpg)
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(http://i.imgur.com/IZZlHJ8.jpg)
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(http://i.imgur.com/20X1SVU.jpg)
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The Dread Baron was defeated in this version basicly by all knights ganging up on him when King Richard returns.
(http://i.imgur.com/1NzxRE4.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/1nv9Z6Q.jpg)
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(http://i.imgur.com/kpkkf1r.jpg)
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It's also Heinrich and not Siegfried who escapes in the first version. When the Romans take the castle, they keep only Heinrich prisoner and let the Lion soldiers return to their king.
(http://i.imgur.com/2bErWly.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/wmu3Jyi.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/fCSynIV.jpg)
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(http://i.imgur.com/zcWpSzB.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/XUkxzRs.jpg)
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Baron Blacktower and Jory are also released, and arrive later. The meeting of kings is held soon afterwards, but I never finished making all pictures of it since the accident happened during it. King Phillip hosts it, and here its the conclusion of the story.
(http://i.imgur.com/pDcBryv.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/lkC6GKX.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/F1Q3SmB.jpg)
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(http://i.imgur.com/PE8giWX.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/UqKkPY7.jpg)
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And in this version, Siegfried's wife Mary comes along with her uncle King Miguel to demand his release. Sadly the picture where he begs to be kept in prison is also lost.
(http://i.imgur.com/jLWtpL6.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/ShBM3Pw.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/KfWqrjQ.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/PKMZEts.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/39XkNdF.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/5K9Y2rd.jpg)
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And that's all the pictures that remain of the first version of these three chapters. A lot is missing as you can see, theres many gaps. And it would have been impossible to reshoot the missing pictures, especially everything considering the siege. Repositioning all soldiers, stones and such to lay in the right place for the missing shots would be more work than shooting the whole story again.
I do plan to have a proper siege battle again sometimes, but that time it will be with a castle specifically designed for it. With my limited tools to dress up the enviroment and the design of my 3666 setup it simply was near impossible to work the angles properly to not get unwanted stuff in the shots.
While storywise I'm quite pleased with the eventual result of the story, I will be first to admit that the visuals where a step back from the Chivalry and Dread Chapter that came before.
I'll see about making something quite different for the next story, to really put myself to the test.
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That siege battle was really something, thanks for sharing the photos with us. It's too bad you lost it, but the change in plot I think worked really well and made for an especially interesting story.
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Thanks for sharing these lost pics - the siege has some really great shots (as usual)... And the knight mounting the horse...
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Thanks, I'm quite happy some good pictures survived though some really good ones got lost.
But I did learn a lot from all of it, so when I do come around to having a story with a siege battle, it will be all the better. :)