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Post by CrawlingKaos on Aug 2, 2004 20:08:56 GMT -5
I got a corpse I'm working on that basically melts down. He's going to have gray wrinkled skin but I was wondering ... what would the inside of an old corpse look like? Would intestines be a red or pink color still? What would the blood look like, if there was any left.
any thoughts on this? Appreciate any feedback, thanks.
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SeanHope
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Post by SeanHope on Aug 3, 2004 1:44:50 GMT -5
depends on how old. within 5 hours of death the blood turns brown, within 24 hours the blood turns black. it also tends to pool downward. Don't forget rigermortus sets in and the only way to reposition the body is if it broken. If the corpse is left outside for a week or burried without a coffin. it will first dry out. after a few weeks the rot smell will disappear as will most of the non skeletal parts of the body. after a month, the body will start becoming part of the ground and basically turn into dirt. After a year the skeletal parts of the body will begin to break down as well. This also depends on the environment to where animals, birds, and insects will take part in speeding up the decay process. after 10 years depending on the tempertures, ground, and carions there wont be much left of the corpse, except possibly teeth, bits of the skull and pelvis. If your corpse was someplace cold or frozen in ice, it probably wouldn't decay at all and frozen blood crystalizes and turns a pink color.
to give you an accurate answer to your questions. How long has the corpse been dead. what seasonal changes or enviroment was the body placed in? What the body moved from the place of death to it's current location? Was the body embalmed and "cleaned up" for burrial by a mortican?
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Post by goriddle on Aug 3, 2004 12:13:01 GMT -5
Is the corpse melting down because it is rotting rapidly or is there another reason like acid or a nuclear bomb or something? I would say ignore the actual physics and just make it as gross as possible. Real life corpses don't look nearly as interesting as those in horror movies.
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Post by CrawlingKaos on Aug 3, 2004 15:37:50 GMT -5
well, the corpse has been buried for a year or more,in spring and may have been buried alive. It decompses due to .. um ... magic actually. So it's not that we are looking to be realistic here but I thought it might be odd to have fresh looking organs and fluids coming from something with grey, wrinkled flesh.
I knew if I posted something in here I'd get an answer ... and then some. thanks alot guys!
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Post by goriddle on Aug 4, 2004 16:37:43 GMT -5
Well there you go. I knew there was a missing element. I think the fresh organs coming from the wrinkled leathery skin would be cool. Did you ever see that part in fire in the sky where the abductee breaks right through another severely atrophied abductee? I guess that was kinda the opposite. The atrophied guy looked normal, but his insides where all rotted and black. Yuck!
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