What does your mental image got summoned/conjured creatures look like?
Are they indistinguishable from natural creatures, or are they obviously (distressingly?) unnatural?
Maybe they look drawn or painted into reality, juxtaposed with “natural” textures? What if the odd, jerky movements of Harryhausen creatures are not “early SFX” but “the unnatural is also squarely in the Uncanny Valley”?
Could also be a cool justification for seeing through a Disguise Self spell or other illusions.
— Harbinger of Doom (@BrandesStoddard) August 21, 2020
That’s exactly the sort of thing the Intelligence (Investigation) check to see through illusions is modeling; finding details that don’t match and give the game away.
The disguise self video is slightly out of sync with your audio 😂
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) August 21, 2020
Maybe the visual texture of the skin is a little too shiny, too matte, too plastic-y… basically everything makeup did to Brent Spiner to make him look less like his birth species (?) and more like an android. The lighting showing on the form doesn’t match the lighting in the area. Shadows fall against the light, highlights are on the wrong angle.
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) August 21, 2020
Ooh yeah, illusionists forgetting to have their illusions cast shadows is freaking great There’s a scene in the Bulgaria’s where two wizards face off with bound demons, but the binding is keeping the demon spirit trapped in an illusory/quasi-real form. As long as you maintain the form, it stays bound to your will.
One wizard loses when…
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) August 21, 2020