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This was created a year ago for a card game I helped to make while at SCAD called "Shift". Although the work I did was severly underappreciated, I still made a few illustrations that I was pretty proud of. I forget what name this guy had- he's a standard type of alien though, the cannon fodder as it were. Everyone thought the aliens looked like dragons, and that kinda annoyed me because in my experience most aliens are designed to have bug-like traits, and you don't hear people screaming that they look like bugs. But because the aliens I designed didn't follow the bug-like stereotype, everyone claimed they were too much like dragons. Sheesh -_- I just wanted to break the mould a little. Seems like extra limbs is a must-have for alien species. Oh well, I revamped the design a little bit (only sketches) so maybe the next run would have been more sucessful, if the progress with the game continued.

I created this whole crazy idea that the aliens of this planet (the name of which I do not recall) ate solidified lava (rocks/ore hurr hurr) of which contained some kind of bacteria or life-form that could survive in lava and both in rock in a dormant state. This bacteria of sorts is a vital part of the alien's life cycle as it builds up within the alien over time (resulting in the glowing lava-like areas), and these bacteria cells start to shape and form a new creature within the alien itself, and when ready, the new being will burst through the alien shell, thus killing the original creature but allowing for a stronger, more adaptable being to emerge. Which is like a crazier version of the alien it emerged from, parasitic-esque, more vicious, with more appendages and whatnot. That's the idea I had been throwing around, anyways. I thought it was cool. And then if humans were attacked by these aliens, and infected with a wound that contained the bacteria, it would multiply and would form within the human host as well, eventually breaking through and releasing a human-esque alien crazy thing and all that fun stuff. Not exactly like being turned into an alien, or infested, but more like the host is a shell, a mould, and the new creature kind of forms inside, "stealing" the organs of the host for itself, like a parasite, then completely eradicating the host when it reaches maturity (???). Something like that. I thought it would be cool. >_>

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This was created a year ago for a card game I helped to make while at SCAD called "Shift". Although the work I did was severly underappreciated, I still made a few illustrations that I was pretty proud of. I forget what name this guy had- he's a standard type of alien though, the cannon fodder as it were. Everyone thought the aliens looked like dragons, and that kinda annoyed me because in my experience most aliens are designed to have bug-like traits, and you don't hear people screaming that they look like bugs. But because the aliens I designed didn't follow the bug-like stereotype, everyone claimed they were too much like dragons. Sheesh -_- I just wanted to break the mould a little. Seems like extra limbs is a must-have for alien species. Oh well, I revamped the design a little bit (only sketches) so maybe the next run would have been more sucessful, if the progress with the game continued.

I created this whole crazy idea that the aliens of this planet (the name of which I do not recall) ate solidified lava (rocks/ore hurr hurr) of which contained some kind of bacteria or life-form that could survive in lava and both in rock in a dormant state. This bacteria of sorts is a vital part of the alien's life cycle as it builds up within the alien over time (resulting in the glowing lava-like areas), and these bacteria cells start to shape and form a new creature within the alien itself, and when ready, the new being will burst through the alien shell, thus killing the original creature but allowing for a stronger, more adaptable being to emerge. Which is like a crazier version of the alien it emerged from, parasitic-esque, more vicious, with more appendages and whatnot. That's the idea I had been throwing around, anyways. I thought it was cool. And then if humans were attacked by these aliens, and infected with a wound that contained the bacteria, it would multiply and would form within the human host as well, eventually breaking through and releasing a human-esque alien crazy thing and all that fun stuff. Not exactly like being turned into an alien, or infested, but more like the host is a shell, a mould, and the new creature kind of forms inside, "stealing" the organs of the host for itself, like a parasite, then completely eradicating the host when it reaches maturity (???). Something like that. I thought it would be cool. >_>