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Published: 2011-04-04 08:27:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 3721; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 27
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Description Here are some of my more recent sketches of my more alien beings from this year. All those aliens are still sketches but they will eventually get more development than they now have.

Alien Number 1 is a little flying predator with its head located on its chest and has multiple eyes on its back, head, neck and even on its "fingers". It communicates through bioluminescent patterns located on its head and lower parts of its torso. When it is not flying, the being moves by jumping with its powerful spring-like foot. The thing on the creatures back is its reproduction organ and this species reproduce through external fertilization. The male is ejecting its airborne sperm and then the females catch the sperms with their leaf-like “vaginas”. After that process the females are waiting to spawn their next generation.

Alien N.2 is a radially symmetrical "mollusc"-alien. Its mouth is located in its slug-like foot and it’s a harmless grazer feeding on things like algae or microbial mats. The flexible and retractable antennas in its arms are used to taste the air (like a snake does with its tongue) and they also function as sexual organs. The purpose of the small orange organs on the creatures shell is unknown, but they could be some kind of sensory organs.

Alien N.3 is a big, flat and worm-like vertebrate with a skeleton made of cartilage. Its eye is located on its tail.

Alien N.4 is a colony of cell-like organisms.

Alien N.5 is a Magmamorph, an exotic species of thermophiles based on molten silicon compounds. Because of their molten composition and extremely hot habitat, it is unlikely that the magmamorphs could evolve complex morphologies beyond the simple, blob-like lava/magma bags they are.
* I don’t know if this form of thermophilic life is plausible, but I drew it because lava/magma-creatures are so badass.

Alien Number N.6 is a species of cybernetic sophonts. Judging from their cybernetic biology, it is hypothesized that these aliens had an artificial origin. Each individual is a green, tentacled, brain-like entity which can connect themselves to different cyborg-bodies designed for different tasks. This individual use an "ordinary vessel"-body with rocket wings and the green biological wings can change their stiffness when they are going to be folded out or retracted.

The aliens with N.7 belong to a group of eukaryotes which are very different from Earth’s eukaryotes. These macroscopic, single-celled entities have evolved from slime mold-like organisms composed of multinucleate cells (each cell has multiple cell nuclei).
The purple blob is 4 feet high omnivore feeding on "fruits" and other animals. It is vaguely amorphous and can form so many tentacles it need and it walks by pulling itself over the ground with its root-like tentacles.
The yellow one is a smaller predator which builds itself into a shell of sand, gravel and other available materials. It spends most of its time on the same place but occasionally it migrates to areas with better conditions for it.

Alien N.8 is a big dreaded predator which dwell in heights where no other creatures lives because of the thin air. It seems to be evolved from symbionts as the head apparently is detachable and reveal itself as a wormlike being. This dangerous being does only descend from its thin air environment when it gets hungry or when it is going to spawn its offsprings which has to grow up in a thick air environment.
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Comments: 11

Xhodocto385 [2016-03-05 02:37:25 +0000 UTC]

i like the spring foot of the first alien, through i don't like it's wings, they look bat-like and not alien enough.

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Tektalox In reply to Xhodocto385 [2016-03-08 19:10:15 +0000 UTC]

I respect your opinions, but I want to say why I personally likes my choice with the design.
Not only was it fun to draw the lines and angles of the wings, I also think that these more "familiar"-looking wings serves as a nice contrast to how alien the rest of the body is, like some kind of aesthetic balance where one "normal" detail is there to emphasize the surrealness of the whole picture.

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SpacialDraco [2012-07-07 19:43:49 +0000 UTC]

kewl! I like aliens!

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Tapejara [2012-02-10 02:15:37 +0000 UTC]

Interesting

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GeneralZadrek [2011-04-20 16:08:14 +0000 UTC]

6. and 8. are my personal favourites.

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Transapient [2011-04-05 01:16:28 +0000 UTC]

Once again, You Score in alien design! I really like the magmamorphs, I thought they could be based on silicones under specilized or artificial conditions. They would make good slve labor to a species interested in havesting resourses from such a hostile planet. The springer-foot thig is cool because I like ideas of moveing across land without legs (I wonder how they would have sex). I would be interesting to see a line of vertebrates desended from N.3. I would say all of them are well designed for use somewhere in the universe, but my favorites must be 6 and 7.

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Tektalox In reply to Transapient [2011-04-08 20:23:52 +0000 UTC]

I like your idea about the idea of the magmamorphs but I wonder how the enslavers can control something that’s made of magma and what kinds of resources they want.

Regarding your question about Alien N.1, I’m adding the answer into the text.

And I am working on possible descendants of the Alien N.3. Recently I have imagined “grasshopper” and “cobra” versions and even a big animal with animalocaris-esque mandibles and peacock-like tail.

You said I scored in alien design. Well, on a paper I sketch down FAR more weirder alien morphologies. So weird and bizarre I don’t know exactly how they evolved and function, they look equally weird as your igua´s and dk'dk´s.

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Transapient In reply to Tektalox [2011-04-08 22:09:05 +0000 UTC]

Nanotechnology? For a galactic or universal civilization, anthing may become a resource with neutronium alchemy.

COOL!

Sounds interesting, especialy since I am a fan of animalocaris.

Now that sounds really cool! Interesting in your sketching down then figuring out the funtion's latter, I've done that before and it could lead to some good alien designs, if you stick tight to physics.

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"Well excuse me for having enormous flaws that I don't work on!"--Homer Simpson

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Tektalox In reply to Transapient [2011-04-10 13:50:00 +0000 UTC]

Speaking about "stick tight to physics", how were you thinking when you designed the 101011000 and the Sen-614 races which have hydrogen as genome?
I like your aliens but I question those imaginative ideas because hydrogen is so simple it could never support a living system on its own, so how did get that idea in your head anyway?

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Transapient In reply to Tektalox [2011-04-17 01:33:09 +0000 UTC]

I got the idea of the 101011000 in a lab expirament at school. I know that silicon life would require a very hot and oxygenless enviornment. This may also come to play with magnetic life on thermojovian worlds. So I basically combined the two into the 101011000.

The sen 1-614 races are based on hydrogen spin configurations of o-hydrogen and p-hydrogen with a helium interior. With the helium in place to store energy, the inner o-hydrogen layer would absorb it and release energy when they transform into the p-hydrogen state. It would have to be very cold (a few degrees above absolute zero) for this life, so it may be common on pyloids. I thought I first read of this in one of your links...


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Tektalox In reply to Transapient [2011-04-17 07:46:18 +0000 UTC]

Ah, now it make more sense to me now.

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