Cordyceps - Blog Posts
found an image i made forever ago
Tumblr, what are you advertising to me? Because all I can hear is screams and distant clicking.
You can eat the fungi/mushrooms in the last of us!! eat them bitches back!!!
Irl these mushrooms are edible!! Its called cordeyceps, completely edible, but if you think about it you could totally eat them straight off an infected person, well maybe not straight off
at the beginning of the show they said that the fungi couldnt infect humans because they couldnt survive the internal body temp of humans, and an average humans body temp is around 90° F, so a higher temp could in theory kill the virus in the fungi, so techically you could possibly eat the mushrooms back.
edit: it has been brought to my attention that the spores were in bread which is baked BUT those arent fully formed mushrooms, they can grow, basically justs seeds, so in theory you could wear a gas mask and clean ur shrooms, sautè them up and bam tasty tasty mushrooms
Did a drawing at school, featuring the clickers and zombies in the game/series. The Last Of Us. Very proud of myself!
Weathered it down a bit.
Now I'm trying to remember if there were a lot of dead leaves inside the buildings of The Last of Us. Would clickers get drawn to other clickers stepping on the leaves? Imagine stealth elements that incorporate the environment for TLOS. I guess you might as well have Joel say "metal gear" over and over.
"clickerrr.." (in raspy metal gear voice)
Anyway, I like this. I am trying to take more time with my concepts nowadays. My past industry jobs usually had me crank out pieces within a day or two, and it's a hard habit to break.
This infected is similar to the previous one where it starts to melt towards the end of its cycle (melted infected). Since he was a particularly rotund host, you can see it's taking a while and other colonies have started to sprout on his head, like the clickers. Most of his internal organs, useless to the fungus, have been turned to liquid, slushing around in his neck and belly as he walks.
Shoot the legs to make it explode, collapsing the abomination on itself.
It looks like it can float on water... probably paddle too. Hehe.
If they make a level where you have to evade these things while swimming/assisting Ellie through spore-filled water, through a dark tunnel, I would probably drop-kick my PS3(PS4?) from my balcony.
**update: touched up: http://boxyheadbry.tumblr.com/post/63306041902/rotund-infected-2
Color treat of the previous post.
This particular type of infected starts disintegrating and coalesces into a slime pool after its cycle. Kind of like the inky cap mushrooms. They get bloated though and are apt to explode when punctured.
Maybe there will be a half dripping version that walks. That'd be great to see I think.
One of the guy's interchangeable drill bit hands were taken off since it looked like forearm bones. I still think it was cool that he chopped off his own hand for fear of infection.
I am having too much fun making infected. o_o
Took the earlier Infected concept (http://boxyheadbry.tumblr.com/post/62144282387/i-had-to-how-can-i-love-the-last-of-us-and-not) and placed it in a more realistic setting.
I had to. How can I love The Last of Us and not do an Infected? I call this one granny.
The other guy wasn't supposed to be Joel actually, but I guess it turned out looking like him. It was just a piece inspired by another game that dealt with a similar zombie apocalyptic theme. Maybe he's opening a jar of jam?