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Romero Zombies Reskin

Hello again everyone!

For my latest zed retexture mod, I wanted to capture the classic Romero zombie look from Dawn and Day of the Dead. There was something very appealing about the old style of zombies in Romero's classic films, perhaps how simplistic or minimalist they seem compared to some of today's zombie effects which often involve CGI or contacts for those creepy eyes and such. I tried my best to stay true to the movies, keeping the zombies in the range of mouldy yellows, sickly greens and that Dawn style grey. The default skins always came across to me more like the Solanum virus zombies from WWZ, with their infected veins and blank, white eyes.

Interestingly, whilst watching the two films for references I noticed the zombies actually maintain their human-like eyes, contrary to most other zombie fiction. This is reflected in this mod, where I tried to keep a certain aspect of humanity to the zombies - rather than soulless eyes, they have sunken slightly into the skull and the bones have become slightly more pronounced around the face as decay begins to occur. In the movies, zombies were honestly quite clean compared to zombies in other types of fiction, and so I mostly left the base skins untouched in regards to dirt and blood - asides from their wounds.

I hope you'll find using this as interesting as I did re-watching the classics and making the mod, thanks again.

- CreaosisSquared

Workshop ID: 2377357838
Mod ID: Romero Zombies Reskin