Emerging from the swamp, Tristan discovers that the castle is not completely abandoned...WIP
Here's a small WIPThe iron gate used was from some royalty free stuff on a ImagineFX DVD.
View Full PleaseUnder the fullness of the moon, those of the street sleep. It is then that the Gatekeeper comes forth to protect the meek and ward off the evil that seeks to harm them as they slumber. :)Sources
Don't know what it is, or what it's guarding, or protecting!!? But it looks mad!
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According to Joseph Campbell (an interesting bloke who knew a thing or two about fantasy) the gateway to paradise/enlightenment/inner peace etc. lies beyond the peril of a pair of deadly opposites; that which we crave and that which we do not..."You will find at the gate two guardians... who are they? Fear and Desire... If you're approaching a garden like that, and those two figures are real to you and threaten you, if you have fear for your life, you are outside the garden. But if you are no longer attached to your ego existence, but see the ego as a function of a larger, eternal totality... you won't be afraid of those two figures, and you will go on through. We're kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life." Want more?So, erm - that's Fear on the left, Desire to the right. Good Luck to all! main sources
A different take on this contest - the sea is the protector/gatekeeper of the island!Open to interpritation I guess.
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I wanted to create a gate keeper that also is the gate. enjoy...