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Published: 2013-12-20 21:14:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 12162; Favourites: 361; Downloads: 14
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The Nakika inhabit are in the infancy of sentience inhibiting a world with a lower gravity. Here a nakika mother is instructing her brood in cleaning. Adding some play makes it a fun experience for both.
work in progress (still working on the vegetation and overall environment so will update as it progresses) from creature design workshop at phoenix atelier; so big thanks to Alex Ries for all his guidance, suggestions, and critical eye in this piece.
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My, but that is a cute bug(?). The way the smaller one resembles a baby chick playing in water helps a lot for me. The colors and the mother using fragile, plant-looking manipulators instead of those crawling legs to handle him (her?it?) as well.
I can't get a grip on their size relative to earth fauna though. The nearby flora suggests, but doesn't tells. Or is that intentional?
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Thanks much; I imagine the mother being about the scale of a large dog but I wanted to keep the reference a little vague that way.
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Before I clicked the thumbnail, it looked like it was attacking it.
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haha, hopefully zooming in shows its not quite so horrifying as that
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hey thanks very much :-D
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thank you! primitive but certainly intelligent
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My goodness!Β
This is absolutely incredible, amazing, adorable, beautiful and playful scene!
Oh no, I can't stand it!Β
Absolutely great work on behalf of you and Alex! Β
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hey there , thanks very much!
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thanks Kari! hope you are doing well!
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An amazing alien will you do more oft his creature?
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i think I might; i have worked out the design so wold be fun to do more; possibly 3d as well
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Hope you do not many people come up with such interesting aliens, what process did you go through to come up with them?
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I cant speak for everyone but in this case: come up with an idea first and then a lot of refinement and iteration to get a design that works, relying on references to see how nature has perhaps solved some of the design issues.
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Interesting so what animals did you look at for inspiration?
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quite a few, crustaceans,Β cephalopods like squids and nautilus, phyllidae, and a few others
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I'm curious what the basic idea you started from was.
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just a few rough sketches; i think it ended up being a refinement of two of them merged together; the basic idea is something that lives under a large canopy of foliage so has camouflaged elements so it blends in a bit with the environment.
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I've never seen anyone attempt to turn an insectoid creature into a nurturing parent. I absolutely love it.
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thanks much; it was a fun to design and paint them
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thanks much! it was fun, lots of revisions :-D
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You're welcome. ^^
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