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Cirdamir Shadowed
"Cirdamir Shadowed"
This is a picture of Cirdamir and Lothoniel at an Imladris guest house visiting for the Vanimar Ball in November 2016
This was a screenshot heavily edited in Photoshop. The goal was tell a story in a single screenshot. Another goal was to clean up the original shot of all the MMO graphic oddities as well as give it the look of a high resolution shot from the game without making it look over-edited. Much was changed from the original in the end. Characters in LOTRO do not look this well defined. Many things were repainted entirely to replace blocky graphics, or something that just didn't render right. Both faces were heavily edited as well and given more expression. The background was completely switched out. Much of this work is a story told in lighting and facial expressions, but the over-all piece represents about 2 months of role-playing wrapped up in one moment.
Here's an amusing 3min video about the work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd-BXP_lW6c
