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First of all I must state that this is official Mass Effect concept art and that I take no credit for it. This is copyrighted material. All I've really done is photoshop the male Turian to what I believe a female Turian would look like.Now that that's out of the way, I'll explain my thought process. First thing I tried to do is make her a bit daintier than the male Turian, for this I basically just barely shrunk her and slimmed down some of her features. Then I rounded out some of the spikier bits, which I thought was too much of a male trait. I also figured that the larger mandibles and carapace might both be distinctive male features used to impress females, therefor they would be downplayed in females. I also took the opportunity to give her a smaller jaw.
Also, based on Garrus's line in ME2 "If you were a Turian I'd be complementing your fringe or your hips", so these two features should be the characteristic features in females I suppose, therefore a curved down the fringe a bit to make it appear more like hair. Then I slightly widened and thickened the hips and thighs, a clearly distinctive female feature in most animals.
And finally, I added another make-up square to show her all prettied up. I think that really helps bring it all together and really make her look girly.
And that's it, this should be my last ME gender switch submission, though I am considering designing some clothes and armor for the females in order to help accentuate their womanhood, especially in those that need it like the Krogan.
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I can see how they would have made that choice over a matter of censorship, I dont really expect that this concept art is genuinely supposed to represent their genitalia. And if it works on Femshep then I expect it should be pretty similar to human anatomy.
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Dunno if they linked or asked you, but my friend pointed it out earlier the similarities.
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Well he started from the same asset as I did I think, so it shouldn't be difficult to reach a similar result. His is still a bit different and too similar to the official female Turian, so I think he must have made this after it was announced. Thanks for the share though 
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They may be based on birds, but that doesn't mean they ARE birds in the franchise. They are aliens. So we need to stop basing them on Earth mechanics.
Still, i'm not complaining what the females look like, they look great.
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Very well, it seems appropriate, except females doesn't have those spikes on their head c: (and boobs I think?) But overall I like this concept :3
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urm... good idea, but no.... for some reason turian females have tits... which is strange considering that there birdlike in nature.. or reptilian/bird.... it s a strange mash-up....
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This shows up in the Omega DLC? If so, then it would indeed be very weird =/
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Hahaha, I know, I posted a comment on that on my page. She looks awesome.
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Much better than Bioware. Things like this proves their corporate laziness/carelessness.
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Thank you, but I respectfully disagree 
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Well, to say the design has been canonically revised I am not one to discredit them. Though I tend to gripe with a lot of Bioware designs in Mass Effect, to say the very *least of my concerns. It's good to see another supporter of female turian lore!
Here's to your enthusiasm!
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Well, Garrus wouldn't be attracted to that female Turian then. Afterall, Garrus mentioned that the fringe is one thing that he found attractive on female Turians, so the female Turian from that dlc would likely not be his first choice for "love at first sight" So I'd take it as canon that the fringe is variable and that some female Turians have it, and other's don't.
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I don't understand. Are you saying this design will likely appeal more to turians (Garrus) than Nyreen? Or vice versa? And that's merely one turian's opinion on what he likes in his girls. Humans have their preferences in the opposite sex too.
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I was commenting on how Garrus preferences would lean more toward this type of design than Nyreen's design, meaning both designs would make sense.
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So much freakin' better than what the ME artists came up with - Jeez!! I love it! I can totally imagine Garrus' sister looking like that! Not like... what THEY came up with.
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Haha, glad you approve.
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Sooo their necks are actually like that? I thought that was just armor design.
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Official ME Artwork, so I guess they do look like that under their armour. The fluff explains they have such tough skin and carapace in order to protect themselves from intense UV exposure in their home planet.
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true. well, there goes my curious.
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Wouldn't they have more softer underbellies? I know this is just an altered picture but I keep thinking that, since they bear live young, they would also have to be able to hold a baby. But they look so stiff and metallic... Oh so many questions. >_<
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I thought about this, and figured that the harder parts would be on a softer skin that would expand and reveal between the "cracks" in her belly shell. I'm not sure if they live birth, but even if they didn't, their bellies would need some room for expansion. I figured it might be the same case for the Krogans.
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I think I heard somewhere that they do give live birth.
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I'm not sure you know this, but bioware really did make a female turian, her name is Abrudas [link]
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I do know, that's why I made an updated "fringeless" version: [link]
I still don't like what the comic showed anyway, it looks too ugly, although maybe that's just the problem with the comic medium. I prefer the slightly more slender version I made, it has more "reach and flexibility" xD
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she'll kick your ass either way
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As they are rather reptilian/birdlike in design, I think it's safe to say that they have cloaca, like Salarians. Real species of Earth, including birds, reptiles, amphibians and some invertebrates (and some mammals, actually) have them. Look it up, it's interesting
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The good'ole fashioned way (gigitty)
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This is really good- like the reference.
Though i tend to make my female turian characters look exactly the same. Because since we dont exacly know what one looks like- and since the ME3 ending sucked... i feel as though we'll never officially know what a female turian looks like. But i think turians are like humans in some way- there is no complete way to tell genders TO much. Like some woman are bigger and more muscular then men. I find it easier to just make them all indepedantly different.
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I like it! You've kept the Turian essence to it, while giving her a few slight twists that make it clear she's a girl. I like how it turned out.
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one last note on the Turians. in birds of prey (which turians are sorta based on) females are often larger than males. I like the back crest and spikiness being bigger on male turians, as they are displays, but I think the female should be thicker bodied than males... but still curvier hips and stuff. regardless of all my critique and science jargon on all of these photos, excellent work, you did a wonderful job as is.
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Cool, thanks
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Im liking that idea as well. I've pretty much gone with that design for Kyra (Turian version) already, haha!
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Also, while the accentuation of womanhood is definitely interesting, I personally feel like (thinking on Earth Avian Psychology) there should be very little psychological difference between male and female Turian, and thus little accentuation. in fact if anyone gets accentuation, it should be males, as in most avian species the males are the brightly coloured ones. The female Turians should be very plain, rarely wearing facial markings. This actually somewhat explains why Turians in game sometimes have such bright facial paint / tattoo / whatever that is.
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I actually don't like the association to birds people make for Turians, despite that being the official fluff. But I agree about males being the ones with brighter colours and stuff, but sicne they have no colours at all basically it was difficult to have the female have even less coloration
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The tattoos have been proven to be a clan thing, and far as I remember no females have them. The thing about about them being avian is that being from a completely different ecology, no they aren't bird people at all, but they are aesthetically similar so one should probably keep with the theme. Good comments.
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I use the information I get, i.e. only that of the games. I don't know anything about the comics and books. So I don't know where you would have heard about the clan tattoos, though it makes sense, but I'm not sure why females wouldn't use the markings. And I get the whole Avian thing, I've just never been able to see them that way, at most I think I can see their mouths as being sort of beaks with mandibles. But thank you
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technically theres a quasi-canon female Turian in the comic Mass Effect: Evolution, but they are displayed as bald, which doesn't fit the Fringe comment at all. I'm hoping that ME3 will have more OFFICIAL differences. the only reason they haven't had any female versions of the aliens is because they didn't have the development time to design a whole other set of alien sprites.
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I've heard about that, and I saw the "female turian", but didnt like it and decided to disregard it
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So THAT'S what a female turian looks like. It'll certainly be easier to tell them apart in ME3 after seeing this. Also, the inset with pink facepaint is frickin' hilarious.
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I personally would have removed the shell covering on the abdomen completely and put plating instead as females need room for growing fetuses. As well as a more curvy waste and thicker thighs.
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Well considering they're aliens and we have hardly any understanding besides our own human perspective, are we really ones to judge?
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I'm sorry, but the changes I mentioned are actually typical in many animals. And it would alow for an easier way for the females to carry their fetus, at Turian's give live birth. The carapace would hinder the expansion of the belly.
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Yea I understand, but I mean, they're aliens, not of this world. Things could be a lot different on the Turian home planet, things beyond our human understanding
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I'm basing my facts on actual anatomy. It is very likely that aliens that live on a planet like ours would be bipedal and have two eyes. The Hannar are not bipedal because they live on a planet almost entirely covered in water, and Elcor are not Bipedal as four legs are better then two on such a high gravity world. As such, Turian's would have a similar body structure as a human. And they do.
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Don't mean to beat a long dead horse, but shadowfox1112 is right on this, doesn't matter what Earth animals are like, there is no reason for Turians to share any human traits. You could create an exact copy of earth somewhere out in the galaxy with bacteria identical to the ones that developed into humans, wait the millions of years and still get Eight legged, scaled, carnivorous, 6 forward eyed/2 rear eyed, seven nostril, live birthing apes than grow the fetus on the back not the front, who also cant see the colour orange and are culturally afraid of their own shadows.
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You are a fucking idiot. I am right. The most likely scenario is that something sapient from a planet like ours will be bipedal. Extra eyes are useless and take up to much brain power, as do extra legs unless the planet has a difference to it that would make extra eyes or legs useful. Learn scientific theory you moron.
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