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A few years ago I read China Mieville's "Perdido Street Station", in which the characters, among a whole lot of other things, encounter the avatar of the so-called Machine Council. The description of this avatar, which is basically a corpse with the top of its head removed, and its brain scooped out, and replaced with a bunch of cables, has really stuck with me. So finally I made an avatar of my own, though mine is a lot more "science fictioney", if that's a word. I picture mine as the avatar of some vast AI, who has made this avatar in an effort to understand more about humans, but also to intimidate and scare any visitors to its domain. I imagine that encountering something like this, what looks like a very sexy woman, yet is controlled by a vast and alien intellect, would be profoundly disturbing, to say the least. Might even be a story in it some day!

Time taken: Something like 15-16 hours in all

Tools used: Poser 6, Bruce 6, Photoshop CS, Wacom Volito 2

Oh, and after I made this, I came across this: [link] which is a direct depiction of the Machine Council Avatar described in Mieville's book. (Read it now!)

Description
A few years ago I read China Mieville's "Perdido Street Station", in which the characters, among a whole lot of other things, encounter the avatar of the so-called Machine Council. The description of this avatar, which is basically a corpse with the top of its head removed, and its brain scooped out, and replaced with a bunch of cables, has really stuck with me. So finally I made an avatar of my own, though mine is a lot more "science fictioney", if that's a word. I picture mine as the avatar of some vast AI, who has made this avatar in an effort to understand more about humans, but also to intimidate and scare any visitors to its domain. I imagine that encountering something like this, what looks like a very sexy woman, yet is controlled by a vast and alien intellect, would be profoundly disturbing, to say the least. Might even be a story in it some day!

Time taken: Something like 15-16 hours in all

Tools used: Poser 6, Bruce 6, Photoshop CS, Wacom Volito 2

Oh, and after I made this, I came across this: [link] which is a direct depiction of the Machine Council Avatar described in Mieville's book. (Read it now!)