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nemo-ramjet β Drii Concept for Orbyss
Published: 2005-10-25 16:14:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 45072; Favourites: 515; Downloads: 647
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Done for Orbyss' alien concept design contest. The toughest part was to come up with an "alien" bauplan, make it work, have it convey emotion all the while keeping its natural history in mind.Related content
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This is one weird bloke, but he' awesome
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This makes me want to dig up the sketches I did in grade school inspired by Arthur C. Clarke's 2010 and 2061. There seem to be eerie similarities between your work and the shark-like sea predators and sapient creatures I imagined evolving on Europa.
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The Europan biosphere in those books had light and heat coming from the bottom, (vents,) and ice and darkness above... It's highly probable that animals in such a setting would look like upside-down fish, with eyes on their bottom halves.
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Wait, so it's entire arm is a finger? Does it also have difficulty walking or running, since it lacks a pelvis?
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A new pelvis has been forged from the bones of their thighbones. The arm is based on cartillagenous fingers, the "fingers" are muscular extensions.
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AAaahhh, I like your way of thinking on designing the alien, and also putting it's common ancestor in. It's a good idea in my opinion, but say, how did you come up with the scientific name? I wonder...
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Cool idea!
the concept is just awesome, and descending from aquatic creatures makes it even more interesting
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somewhat like this concept would be a believable shape for the sentient aliens on the hyped movie Avatar.....(although spoiling the teen-love factor....)
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I love this piece, especially their aquatic ancestor ! Do you have any tips and advice to an avid fan (I'm trying to develop the hypothetical life of the actual ocean-planet Gliese 581-d) ! ^_^
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I was SURE that I had already Favourited this one.
Anyway... I've done it now.
As allways, I Loves It! 
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hehe 90larΔ±n Dinozorlar dergisinin arka sayfasΔ±ndaki o bΓΆlΓΌmΓΌ Γ§ok gΓΌzel tiye almΔ±ΕΔ±n. nostaljik.
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I find your creatures to be some of the most realistic and fascinating on this website. I am quite awestruck by all of your depictions.
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A great concept! May I ask how did the cartilaginous 'fingers' evolved?
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This is a funky beast! And, I mean that in the most, scientifically inspired way, of course. Hey. Anyone else tried to make this one on Spore, yet. Then? lol. :].
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I don't think so, but you can be the first!
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By the way, I've been to your web site. The alien creatures you draw are among the most realistic I have ever seen! Just plain amazing!
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Thank you so much once again!
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Just out of curiosity, just how intelligent are these aliens? Are they like us intellectually, capable of language, religion, and technology? Or are they more like apes, with little more than simple tool-makng skills?
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I don't know, honestly... You should ask Orbyss, because it is her creation.
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Two words: Thank you!
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Thanks again my friend!
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Yet another great design, I love the way you thought out it's evolutionary background. It also looks an awful lot like it was painted in watercolors. How did you acheive that effect digitally?
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It is in watercolors but in black and white... the digital part is for texturing and colorizing.
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Ah, gotcha. I saw your tutorial piece, what a great idea! Violent sneeze.
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Dammnit, I'm addicted to your aliens - they're just so freaking believable!
Multi-spectral eyes and a flip-top head? That's pure inventive creation, I love it.
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Wow! You really know your stuff!
I always criticize other exobiology projects for being too unrealistic with the aliens and matching them poorly with the planetary characteristics, such as putting animals with a very slim build on a high gravity planet. I noticed you had large animals on a high gravity planet but also noticed thier hydrolic muscle system.
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Very unique. I especially enjoy the fact that the upper mandible articulates to chew like an alligator and the optical sense organs are on the bottom. Four eyes, two for one range of the spectrum and two for the other range. Wouldn't that make color mixing problematic? The frontal eyes seeing a slightly different perspective than the rear, making green red seem slightly off set from blue green. Or do the front eyes see red green blue and the rear eyes see different wavelengths of infra red? Or do the movement sensetive neurons exist primarily in the rear eyes while the detail sensetive neurons exist primarily in the front eyes? Or are the upper eyes adapted for being more sensitive to high light conditions and the lower eyes adapted for lower light conditions? I guess pupils would make more sense. And if vision were such an important sensation, why aren't they eyes more prominent like a chamelion's or on stalks like a crab?
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Most impressive. We need more realistic, well thought out critters and this is up there with Barlowe, if i do say so
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The same goes to you dude, your works are flawless. Let's hope we both get to see our creatures walk, crawl and stalk the silver screen in the future
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Interesting... The eyes on the lower jaw can be seen in other SF/Fantasy creatures like the Alzabo (can't remember the story's name that its from) and others (check Barlow's guides for others). Even my own personal 'universe' has creatures called ArmΓ²dens (giant, sapphire blue lizards with a sinical view of humans) with two large, crocodilian eyes protruding out from either side of their lower jaws. Eyes are the window to the soul and Ithink changing either the eyes or where the are can denature or alter our immediate perseption of something before we actually know what it's really like.
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you are right, the old "eye trick" is a very good formula to create things that look alien. when can we hope to see some Armodent art in your gallery?
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the "funky dancing" human comparison really cought me by surprise :I
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they're very friendly, they love to sing and dance...just ask Orbss
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new details, amazing creature, just imagined in motion// wwwwwwow
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Is walking/balance actually comfortable with such tiny feet?
I love the overall design and the scientific appeal. But the dancing human, with his description, totally cracks me up.
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thanks...this one is standing, and thus its feet are locked upright...when walking they drop down on the soles of their feet.
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