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Published: 2010-05-27 02:57:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 11179; Favourites: 224; Downloads: 99
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Some nasty predator from another planet. It has wings filled with airpockets to keep their shape and two rigid propellers on either side of its body to create thrust.Other than that, not very well thought out, but they can't all have a novel sized backstory can they?
Short speedpaint. Two Hours.
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Looks like something based on an Wayne Barlowe desing, but superb!
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Wow! Super design, absolutely amazing. I love the concept of the natural propellers and the design of the mouth.
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I love the coloring, such a pretty color pallet here.Is it sitting on top of rocks with plants growing on them? or is that a tree?
That head just game me a very neat idea though...
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Rocks with plants, or at least a black blob where I flailed color at it without bothering to think
Thanks!
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Awesome
This is what the head gave me an idea for. I do hope you do not mind. [link]
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Great lighting, the creature looks awesome, you're always so unique!
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Thanks, though this one wasn't really thought out, I may have better later
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I would so love to see this guy with his jaws wide-open...
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Like a terrifying Georgia O'Keeffe painting methinks
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An alien that looks ... alien (no cute fluffy stuff here or some other "I want to hug it" thing). Good work!
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Yow, that is one deadly-looking critter, and a novel way of constructing a flight-capable animal.
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No problem, I love your style and Imagination!
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Oh man, you just shattered my entire paradigm of flighted organisms in a brief two-hour speedpaint...So do those "rigid" (inflated?) propellers rotate in the breeze, aerodyne-styleee...? If they are simply inflated gas-bags, this could resolve the paradox of propeller- or turbine-driven flying creatures in one fell swoop by eliminating the need for complex detached moving parts. OR by making them dead tissue elements that can move independently of the living body, as per rattlesnake rattles.
Really nice work, it gave me flashbacks to good ol' Darwin IV...I could almost see this as an evolved Daggerwrist offshoot!
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'Fraid this one uses the dead tissue element approach. I couldn't figure out how to keep the airfoil oriented properly without twisting.
Anyways, to get around that if I do another one I'm going to get rid of the rotating propellers. It's not necessary that they rotate, as long as they are moving through the air at the correct orientation. I'll replace them with "propellers" that move in figure eights, kind of like a hovering bird but used for thrust. It won't be quite as efficient as pure rotation, but it can be a living structure
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Something else I was thinking (following from the dead-tissue/rattlesnake approach) was of the airfoil more helical and freely rotating but supported at both ends by some sort of armature, almost an eggbeater-like arrangement, if ya see what I mean. Certainly you're the one who's qualified to judge if that would be at all practical, but I thought it might look interesting at least.
Anyway, brilliant work as always.
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That certainly would be doable, the parts of the helix behind other thrust producing parts would need different angles to account for the pre-swirled air, but if both ends were powered it may be effective.
Thanks
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In theory, you can have bio-propellers without the need for complex, detached parts. Imagine a propeller-shaped "hand" with blade-like fingers that can reverse their pitch by twisting around. So, the hand twists and twists for some rotations, until its muscles have reached the end of their tether. Then the "fingers" reverse their pitch, and the muscles unwind again. Both motions produce thrust due to the pitch-shifting ability of the fingers.
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