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AedenSolus — Design Comparison

Published: 2017-06-04 20:51:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 100; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 0
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Description I've been doing a lot of redesigning of my aliens recently. And because I felt like airing my shame, I dug back through my older stuff to make a comparison. Some of the designs are functionally unchanged, like the sunifee and erda. I've been tweaking those to make more sense and to be less "Earthy", but otherwise not much has changed. The sri and nn'ka'a'dzo have had the biggest changes, and both are *vastly* better now (though the latter almost never show up in-universe). Most of these, the art is just better :b

Shout out to Ribbontail and :devashtarasilunar: for enabling all this and for helping me out over the years.

(The adrasta aren't on here because they've only been drawn like twice and both were awhile ago but satisfactory)

All this crap is mine.
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Comments: 3

Ribbontail [2017-09-06 19:56:54 +0000 UTC]

(kisses the erda and sunifee. my babes <33)

Aaahh dude, grade-A job on this! It's satisfying to see how shapes, ideas, everything develops over time, and sometimes we don't even notice until we look back. Looking at my races, the two things I must focus on are details and textures, so push the "feel" of each individual race. And history, always history. This past decade you've added a lot and fine-tuned a lot, both with the Federation and other projects, and I'm sorry I haven't always been able to comment as much as I'd like. But I love where the Federation and its races are going, so keep on going, dude!

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AedenSolus In reply to Ribbontail [2017-09-06 23:01:57 +0000 UTC]

(This was mostly a lot of cringing at that oooooold art >_>)

I think I've mostly been focusing more on the silhouette lately. A lot of them are humanoid, but not hominid, and I want to make sure it's immediately obvious at a glance exactly who is who. You've been a lot of help on that too! Hell, that sri design is almost all yours! I really need to work more on cultures; that's definitely my greatest failing. But hey, biologist. Different priorities! But I do have a big new thing about the chaedan'kai and umishi, which I'll spam at you later...

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Ribbontail In reply to AedenSolus [2017-09-09 00:22:23 +0000 UTC]

(Sssshhh it's wonderful. EMBRACE THE CRINGE.)

Funny how each worldbuilder has their own field! Some are best at creature design, some with maps, some with biology, etc. The trick is to branch out (and team up) to make sure all our bases are covered. Overall I think you've done a great job, and it's so inspiring to develop stuff with you. I'd love to see these new concepts you've got-- send 'em to me whenever you'd like!

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