Hello, all horror and The Sims 2 lovers! A few weeks ago, I shared one of the newest episodes of my machinima series, Esoteric Relation.
It’s something I started doing as a kid 14 years ago, and now I’m continuing it, having finally realized how much this game means to me. Throughout all these years, my love for horror and monsters has never faded. I’ve always enjoyed designing new creatures, sketching ideas, and filling my notebooks with designs. But this series has given me a chance to bring some of them to life.
It always started with my clumsy sketches. The idea for the Photo Monster came from the picture frames hanging on the wall in a previous episode. I knew something dangerous had to appear and attack the main character, but I wasn’t sure what.
Then it hit me—the photograph showed the main character’s current partner, so why not create an evil, alternative version of him? Using the original mesh, I designed a twisted counterpart, suspended on a metal accordion arm, as if controlled by dark forces, forcing him into battle with the ex-partner.
I really liked that idea. The final touch for this sequence was the lighting. Red, of course, symbolizes something evil, but on the other hand, it’s also the color of darkrooms where photographs were developed. In this way, the sinister version of this character was quite literally developed from the photo hanging on the wall.
