Jan / Feb 2016 Lite Challenge: Alien Crypt from Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull

[Bogie]

Alien Crypt from "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"

I was looking at timallen's January challenge entry, a poster map of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and my first thought was "I'm glad he chose this movie and not that awful Crystal Skull movie." But then as I thought about it I realized that while the story in Crystal Skull was not good, some of the sets were fantastic, especially the final room with all the alien skeletons sitting on thrones in a circle, a dozen skeletons is a crypt so it is perfect for this challenge. I decided to recreate a top down battlemap of that room.

Here is a screenshot from the movie:

Crystal_skull_Room.jpg

[Bogie]

First draft of the Alien Crypt

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Crystal-Skull-Crypt1_bg.jpg

[Diamond]

Horrible movie.

Great work so far on this! Love the Meso-American motifs.

[timallen]

Looking good.

I quite liked the movie, until the whole alien thing at the end. Aliens? Really? That was the best they could come up with??

[waldronate]

Yes, it was that bad. The South Park opinion was accurate in the eyes of many fans.

[arsheesh]

Ooh, I'm liking this chamber!

Cheers,
-Arsheesh

[Bogie]

Thanks for the encouragement everyone.

Update: I added all the little pyramidy steps around the skeletons.

### Latest WIP ###
Crystal-Skull-Crypt2_bg.jpg

[Warlin]

I've never done a battle map, and yours are pretty much illustrative and precise. For this one the round shape and the reagularity of the tiles you use for the ground make me feel like watching a ball in a well, not appropriate. Do you consider to put artificial lights in some "corner" ?

[ChickPea]

That's a handsome chap in the middle of the floor!!

Looking good. I like the skeletons around the edge of the chamber.

[Bogie]

I've never done a battle map, and yours are pretty much illustrative and precise. For this one the round shape and the reagularity of the tiles you use for the ground make me feel like watching a ball in a well, not appropriate. Do you consider to put artificial lights in some "corner" ?

Thanks Warlin. Yeah, I'm still working on a better floor, I like the circular tile pattern, but it gives the illusion of being spherical not flat. In the movie screenshot it looks like there is a light behind each skeleton that projects onto the central floor. that's what I will tackle next.

Thanks ChickPea.