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Vanilla Expanded Art Competition 2022 - Choose a winner! (Patreon)

Published:
2022-08-02 12:41:12
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2022-08

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Hey folks and welcome!

We decided it would be a cool idea to host a little RimWorld art competition on our discord, seeing that we have many talented artists. We thought that drawing a real, existing thing is not really a test or a challenge. Instead, we used MidJourney AI image generator to generate various 'animals' using different, random descriptions. We then put all of them in a bag and each interested person got a random animal reference image to draw in a RimWorld artstyle.

Now, it fall onto you to choose a winner! What does the winner get, you probably wonder? Absolutely nothing other than the bragging rights! They get to call themselves a winner of the 2022 Vanilla Expanded Art Competition.

All entries are of course anonymous, so you can't vote on your favourite guy. Only vote on the best illustration.

The criteria is simple: Illustration was only meant to serve as an inspiration for the creature. The RimWorld art was not meant to represent the reference image 1:1.

Vote for the coolest looking creature!

Voting ends on Sunday, 7th of August!


As the competition was for 1 animal view only, it's unlikely they will become a mod, but never say never, we have some plans.

Comments

Zachery Gaskins

Alpha Animals: *Homer Simpson saying "KEEP GOING" meme*

Jack Whitby

Anima Wendigo all the way

Anonymous

A, J, K, L and N really got some tough ones considering the focus of the creatures is on their limbs, which as we know are a bit no-no in Rimworld artstyle.

Anonymous

I'd love to see all of these packed into a VE Animals mod. Definitely the G and O ones.

Anonymous

These are all so cool… perhaps… if these do get used for a mod… vanilla horrors expanded?

Anonymous
>>88814221

Wendigo - like Skinwalkers - are important to Algonquin religion, and regularly misrepresented from their actual role in the culture. Suffice to say: definitely not a name to be thrown around on something a bunch of colonists are going to kill and eat, like hunting Christian Saints for their loot or depicting the prophet Muhammad.

Jack Whitby
>>88814221

To be fair if there was a Christian saint or the prophet Muhammad in Rimworld, just being hunted, killed, eaten would be on the tamer side of things.

oskarpotocki
>>88814221

For meat? Definitely not. But as long as they are respectfully presented, I don't mind. After all, there are already mods out there that add demons, devils or otherwise horned red beings, despite their importance to Christian faith. Wendigos were present in a lot of popular culture: I remember I think the second episode of Supernatural has them facing wendigos. The new fallout game, the one taking place in West Virginia, also has wendigos. Wendigo is also present in Until Dawn, Borderlands 3, Outriders and many, many more. As long as they are not added to make fun of the religion they come from, I'm sure we would be fine to add them. After all, the entire Witcher game series is all about slaying creatures and beings of the pagan lore.

Jack Whitby
>>88814221

Submission A would make a cool anima psycast, turns your pawn into one of them for a short duration then coma them for a few days.

Anonymous
>>88814221

The issue with "respectful presentation" is that they're not supposed to be presented, full-stop. Saying their name invites evil, and Wendigos are traditionally represented as a dead human frozen in some ice. They're less of a monster to be slain like a werewolf, and more of a cautionary tale and dark influence. The deer skull heads and distended limbs are - to be perfectly frank - white people finding a culturally-loaded term and make it scarier for recognition. This is why it's in Fallout 76 which doesn't represent any of the historically-oppressed and marginalized culture of the Indian people, but does have some Americans turning into Wendigos so you can shoot and loot them alongside the Flatwoods monster and other non-religiously significant cryptids. Therefore, some different term for Submission A like an "Anima Druid", "Vengeful Dryad", or "Psychic Bramble" would not only be more culturally sensitive, but more accurate to their depiction as Leshy-like and free of lore necessitating witches and cannibalism and ice.

oskarpotocki
>>88814221

You could go on and say that calling it Anima Druid would be disrespectful to celtic culture as it suggests that such inhuman creature serves the highest religious ranking of a legal authority, adjudicator and lore keeper. You could also say that calling it a Vengeful Dryad is disrespectful to Greek Mythology, as Dryads were meant to be represented as beautiful women. If games can portray demons inspired by Chrisitian mythology (and even called demons) without being called disrespectful and oppressive, I'm sure wendigos, angels, dryads, leshen, dragons and everything else if also fair game.

Jack Whitby
>>88814221

Come on dude, just from mentioning Wendigo it’s escalated to this. No matter what I say you’ll just play it off as just another ignorant white guy but it’s literally art for a game. Someone has put in some real effort and created something really cool that I happened to have thought looks like how ‘pop culture’ perceives a wendigo. I can see this culture is very close to you but it shouldn’t surmount to this from comparison off depiction. Plus Oscar doesn’t need this on his Patreon.

Anonymous
>>88814221

Artemis don't like don't use it, ignore move on simple. Or make your own version that fits those ridiculous strick views of what a wendigo is or should look like, or out it should be represented.

oskarpotocki
>>88814221

I know that Helixien is working on a wendigo mod for which I've created art way back, tutorials are even on my youtube channel!

oskarpotocki
>>88814221

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWxRpQJ6BeE&t=1249s&ab_channel=OskarPotocki

Anonymous
>>88814221

I feel that someone who had spent a great deal of time worshiping the Anima tree enough to become a sort of authority on it, in addition to druids historically believing that the human soul could transfer between vessels and some rituals like human sacrifice via the wicker man depicting a great big wooden person would work excellently for druids. I think that a Vengeful Dryad - a type of spirit who strikes-out at those who harm their trees - would be accurate, especially as a distinctly human form has no impact on the retelling or interpretation of their myths. Like I mentioned for Fallout 76, grouping 'Wendigo' - a religious figure - in with the Grafton/Flatwoods monsters, and Mothman, is that we're equating it to some sensationalized sightings that by their nature as cryptids people can try and disprove. Likewise, mixing Wendigo in with dragons - which exist across cultures and are often meant to be fought, many lacking religious significance - or angels - with Christians being a third of all religion on the planet who worked to erase Indian and Pagan mythology in favor of their own, they won't be disadvantaged by putting wings on something and calling it an 'angel' - is showing a fundamental misunderstanding of the issue, like saying 'All Lives Matter' when someone specifies a wrong done against a certain group of people. The Wendigos in Until Dawn were the result of miners exploiting Cree Tribe territory for resources, before experiencing a cave-in and performing cannibalism. This is accurate to the folk tales of greed, cannibalism, an accurate-enough depiction of how they would look, and isn't separated from the people that the culture is borrowed from. I don't think that anybody who uses a culturally-loaded word is inherently evil or using it for malicious reasons, and I also don't think that there is NEVER an opportunity to respectfully and effectively use aspects of a culture. I simply think that it is good practice to ask what you are trying to accomplish with using that concept or idea.

Anonymous

Lots of great entries, but Submission L won my heart. They remind me of some of the ooey-gooey ocular creatures from Alpha Biomes, Submission I too! I just don't want to think about how long it would take to clean if one of those died indoors . . .

Anonymous

J makes my skin crawl

Anonymous

I like each hahaha

Anonymous

A is fantastic and feels right at home as a sort of Anima Golem, maybe for the Animat psycasting path?

Anonymous

Will we know the name of the artist once the competition ends?

Anonymous
>>88874533

My thoughts exactly. Definitely fitting for the "anima" / psycast theme.

Anonymous
>>88928979

Some of the arts are exceptionally good. I would be interested in talking to and commissioning these talented artists for some art.