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Description Due to the fact that schoolwork has snowballed into a mass of epic proportions, this guy doesn't get the full color shaded treatment. (I WILL update with some basic shading soon.)

The spring dragon, designed for the purpose of my second junior project, that is, until they decided not to allow quadrupeds. So, he'll be featured in a production bible with a character model sheet, storyboard, and environment.

Technically he does have dragonfly-type wings, but I cut them out in anticipation of having to animate him. I'll probably add in the wings when I update with the shading.

A few notes on his anatomy:
- Horns have limited mobility, kinda like ears, shows emotion.
- Hair on legs is very hard and bristle-like (kinda like a bee, it collects pollen when he goes around flowers).
- No teeth. He drinks nectar like a hummingbird (he's a rather tiny little thing).
- Tail never uncurls. Limited squash and stretch, also uses it as a counterbalance when he rears up on two legs.
- Inside of mouth and tongue are the same bright blue that's on his face.
- MAYBE blue areas are bioluminscent. Still tossing that idea around.
- Color scheme taken from that of a hoatzin bird. I'd love to do other color schemes from other birds, but that requires time I rarely have now.

UPDATED::Now dubbed the fall dragon. I decided to split the little dudes up. The spring dragons are smaller, with dragonfly wings, and are colored more vibrantly. Fall dragons have no wings and a slightly more limited color schemes.
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Comments: 12

Monturrock [2013-04-25 22:12:29 +0000 UTC]

He's so pretty and soooo cute! You're a great artist alienfirst, keep using your God given talents to lighten up this dark world with so much life and color and many joyful times will be yours! :"D

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Sophi-Ann--Maji [2010-06-28 01:13:30 +0000 UTC]

Love the colors and bio-luminescence would be so cool. He's soo cute! X)

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IrvingBrew [2010-06-08 21:10:54 +0000 UTC]

that's really nifty. I like your style. So is the junior year homework really as crazy as I've been hearing?

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alienfirst In reply to IrvingBrew [2010-06-10 23:12:31 +0000 UTC]

Yes. I think the instructors learned a little from the calamity that was junior projects last year. I hope it's not as insane for the next juniors. 0_o

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Jupiter52987 [2009-12-05 18:01:00 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad you went with the black tail even though the green did work well.

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CPatten [2009-12-05 08:11:27 +0000 UTC]

I want to hug him. T_T

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zelink14 [2009-12-04 21:25:25 +0000 UTC]

Oh, you're going to cut him out of your junior project completely? I'm sorry about the flack the teachers are giving.. heard about that on facebook. :\

Could you not just make him walk upright? (the tail would come in handy ) Or did you already plan out a new animation?

I think he's super cute!

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alienfirst In reply to zelink14 [2009-12-04 22:14:58 +0000 UTC]

What's really funny is that my biped for the first semesters project is crawling. Whoo, doing quadruped already! XD

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zelink14 In reply to alienfirst [2009-12-04 22:39:47 +0000 UTC]

lol Nice. Guess the teachers will just have to deal. XD

And yeah they honestly can't stop you if you move ahead regardless with what they recommend. They can only fail you if it's not complete, etc.

Good luck.

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alienfirst In reply to zelink14 [2009-12-04 22:14:13 +0000 UTC]

I kinda planned out what he was doing already and have thumbnailed it out in key poses. I'm gonna present him, and see what happens. They SAY no quadrupeds, but I know they can be lenient if shown appropriate skill. If I can't use him, I'm just gonna reuse my character from this semesters project, clean her up and put her in another scene. We'll see what happens. I'm good either way!

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toktobis [2009-12-04 20:18:36 +0000 UTC]

Oh man, great job! He looks so awesome!

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jeturcotte [2009-12-04 13:46:38 +0000 UTC]

That's really cool;

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