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Published: 2009-03-09 19:31:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 9150; Favourites: 149; Downloads: 0
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Pigment liner pen drawings of some possible alien life forms. Extremophiles, "Silicone based Life" which is said to be the most possible form of life to perhaps exist on other planets in our solar system, or their moons. Europa for example.These would basically be like a crystal and or mechanically organic life form. Living machines if you will, which as far out as it seems is quite plausible to an extent.
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it's like a giant biomechanical turtle with a silicon mountain as a shell, awesome work on this!.
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I hate how people say there is a low chance of this happening even if the environment support its. Well they said there was a chance and heck life is something that will try to spread whether carbon or silicon based for that matter.
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Europa would actually be able to support carbon-based lifeforms in it's salty ocean. I think it is unlikely that we'd get silicon based ones. (Even if Europa had them, they wouldn't be large, terrestial creatures.
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I like the bottom one. Very unearthly.
I think you mean "silicon" though. Silicon is an element, silicone is a polymer.
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Lol sorry about this but my comment is going to be very simplistic, don't mind me but..
ZOMG SO COOL
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Cool. Very reminiscent of some the beasties from Wayne Douglass Barlowe's TV and book "Alien Planet -Expedition". Nice work.
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I love your creature designs, they're always so imaginative, but they seem plausible at the same time, which is a hard balance to strike sometimes. This whole series was a lot of fun to look at, I'd love to see some of these in color.
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Thanks,
not sure when I'll have time to color any of this. These were all exploratory sketches being done before I found the right path. Unfortunately when things were getting there, the project kinda dropped so I never really went back to it. I still have a few more sketches from the project.
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Cool!! Reminds me of the Ohmu from Naussica of the Vally of the Wind.
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Thanks
Was done before I saw Nausicca, since I only saw the film a few days ago/maybe a week. I'll have to look up the Ohmu, since I don't know the name offhand.
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"Ohmu" was pronounced "ohm" in the movie. They were the giant silverfish like monsters.
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Yea, I googled it and was like "ohhh" cuz someone elese pronounced it Omes, so I was confused.
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Ah yeah. Translations can do that sometimes
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Your imagination is apparently a bottomless pit. I just don't see how you keep coming up with such interesting things.
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thanks
I hope to be well in my 80's and still producing designs that are original from one to the next.
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Well, heh, so far, so good. That's undeniable
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You're having a lot of fun with these aren't you?
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Yea,
They were quite random even though I did the research before hand. Using the pigment liners without any prior penciling helped make it care free and fun.
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Interesting idea. When you look into semiconductors, which are usually silicon they almost always are capable of holding a small charge. Under the right conditions that charge emits light. Have you considered making any of these creatures bio-luminescent and or charged like an electric eel?
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That's largely what a lot of those little fiber-hair elements on a lot of these designs would be meant for. They all have variations of how or what they're used for, but yea.. Bio luminescence was kept in mind for certain species.
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Okay, kinda like the angler fish' lure. I was thinking after I posted that's what those might be. lol It would be curious to see if life forms like this could take on extreme shapes that we just cant imagine. Like that giant six legged thing at the end of The Myst.
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A creature like that may be possible on an Extreme low gravity planet.. but the creature at the end of the Mist would collapse under its own weight. Even with all the legs, the size of the organs, weight of the muscle, flesh etc etc. would basically tear itself to pieces. I love the film though, I have the director's special edition, with the b&w version included.
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I was just thinking that, given silicon's more durable qualities and electrostatic nature(meaning it can hold itself together with more ways than just membranes), perhaps it could support itself to immense sizes that carbon based life forms couldn't achieve in similar gravity. Maybe not THAT huge, but big.
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Yea,
That's something that a lot of sci-fi movies kind of leave out. There are a "few" but a lot of the sci-fi movies out there still produce alien creatures as flesh and bone. Even if it's not flesh and bone it still has the appearance of thus.
I mean, if you take a look at "Alien" it's awesome for its time, but the design is kind of your average run of the mill "claws, teeth, scorpion-like tail etc.." It's like a humanoid insect but with a more original look. I love Giger and think he is beyond awesome when it comes to design and rendering.
I'd just like to see some movies push the capabilities of what is an alie life form..not intellectual beings, but more like our fauna. The biological design of a real alien life form would be so far beyond what we could imagine considering the living conditions of space and wherever the "planet" may be.. that we'd never understand what would really be possible.
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