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1 year
Contact.
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Weird that, due to contractual weirdness, there is basically no way to watch Godzilla Minus One at this point.
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The original piece, titled Contact, free of meme templates for ya'll.
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A lot of animals fail the 'mirror test' which is used for self awareness. But not all animals use vision as a primarily sense. Would a human pass a 'scent' mirror test? Would we recognize our own chemical reflection?
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The Shrike meets Colonel Kassad in combat in the sands of Hyperion. A fan work before I found out Dan Simmons sort of sucked.
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The Titan Holefish and concepts for its protective symbiotes.
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Without time AND location co-ordinates time travel is a death sentence, since all elements in the universe are in motion lol The TARDIS avoids this since it takes account of location.
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Some neat concept art from Avatar 1
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The Birth of Fire, a piece inspired by the style of Australian first nation's storytelling and the Dreamtime.
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6 months
Make no mistake: this technology is designed to ultimately entirely replace humans in the production of games and animation.
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Pretty compelling Text-to-3D. Prompt was "modern purple sofa". Generated in 14 secs (with 3 others) and the GLB imports into Blender in another 5 seconds. Try by joining the Discord:
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The Lattice Toucan was the first image produced for Imaginary Ornithology. It was a publicly funded art project; members of the public provided the briefs, I created the art, and sound engineer Peter Mcilwain generated their calls.
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These were my very first attempts at a Subnautica Precursor.
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@RedLightning420 This is my artwork BTW Better version here; its called 'Contact' Follow me if you want more arts!
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Baby birrin and the anatomy of their eggs. Their eggs have protein caps which are exchanged several times during development. Color changes let attending birrin know the status of the embryo and when a new cap is needed.
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How a birrin egg works, and some birrin chicks doing kung-fu.
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Pretty weird that I got to work on this. Keep an eye out for my critters ;)
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The guardians of nature. The protectors of humanity. The rise of a new empire. #GodzillaXKong - Only in Theaters March 29.
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Homeworld/Kharak concept art. Still gold standard vehicle design in my mind.
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Time again for my Realistic Tamatoa edit.
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From a deleted scene in Avatar 2: a birrin cousin perhaps? Rather adorable :) Called the Pandoran Otter.
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The crystaline cloakmouth, a predatory quadrilaterian of the deep oceans of Chriirah. Its biology /thread/
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Birrin climbers on First Mountain, their world's highest point and smack-bang the middle of the Kiln desert.
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The Reclamation: To stand after the Fall.
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Ceramic birrin figure, recovered from the valley of Two Sky River.
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Its every scifi threat in the last 10 years :P
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Spectacular mass of juvenile striped eel catfish appearing like one giant animal, A daunting sight for predators, in this undulating dense entity,the vulnerable protect each other until each is mature and independent
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I wish you all an excellent holiday, however you celebrate :)
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Birrin smoking house, with two males winding down with the sun.
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2 years
Sea Urchin Anatomy: did these a few years back, and adapted the original to a different species for a client's paper.
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Big up to the war machines in the Animatrix with humans strapped to them for power and psych warfare.
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@DVATW Flying a flag while your mate beats someone half their size into the pavement isn't patriotism.
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Artist, show me the most cutest art you have
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@arvalis @FunnySupply I know but some humans are OK.
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From the archives. Taking a photo of the locals.
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Fanart of #Amphibia . I recently revisited the show and adored it even more the second time. Anne and Sprig out for a Frobo ride :)
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I remember character design how-tos say that you should be able to read a characters' intent, villainy or heroism at first glance. I can't see any negative consequences from this sort of thinking at all.
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#PortfolioDay Me draw the space things.
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My (rather self indulgent :P) commission is complete, by the lovely @LegendofScar18 . The Calamity Box is a portal to many worlds...
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AI could have been a great tool for artists. I have used it for idea brainstorming and it was amazing. But they built it all on theft. It didn't have to be that way.
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A space suit. But for a squid alien.
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Our little nod to Shai-Hulud for Subnautica: Below Zero, the Ice Worm. Its rostrum is biochemically heated, shattering the ice it moves through.
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You could write papers on the multiple levels of exploitation and appropriation going on with these Facebook click-farms. There are hundreds of them.
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2 years
Sacred Chattertails, and some of the crop pests they help control on birrin farms. Their usefulness has made harming them taboo in the valley of Two Sky River.
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@Iron_Spike Working on that angle for my Birrin project :) Here are some Bluestick farmers and their mill.
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Explorations of large aquatic quadrilaterians
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Triops Days.
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I am asking people on AI discords why AI is needed. Interestingly, one response seems to be jealously or even anger that artists earned a skill others don't have:
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The Avatar universe DID actually give us a non humanoid fully sapient alien people, which is cool. Also, the idea of a planet with more than one intercommunicating sapient species is interesting to me (obviously).
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@CheeseChase_
꒳Star✡ COMMS CLOSED (temp) (2/2)
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Im bored so let's do something artists, What is a drawing you think you're iconic for? and let people reply to you what drawing they think you are iconic for
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Hello.
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Unused 'sea monkey' concepts for Below Zero. They were gonna steal all your things.
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Realistic Tamatoa repost time.
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Concepts for the Titan Holefish symbiotes, who guard their host viciously.
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Is this the best squid?
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Advertise your account in one image:
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The pseudoraptor: a predator standing 4 foot tall at the shoulder. Distantly related to the birrin, 4 of its 6 limbs have evolved into clawed weapons, and it can run bipedally at great speed. Small flyers follow them and help locate prey for for a share of the kill.
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Unused hostile parasites for Subnautica: Below Zero
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@PicturesFoIder This is my artwork called Contact: feel free to follow me if you like :) The original:
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Klingons!
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We killed about 90+% of them for the oil industry thats a fun fact.
@Rainmaker1973
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The blue whale, at up to 29.9 metres (98 ft) in length and with a maximum recorded weight of 173 tons, it is the largest animal known to have ever existed. This picture, part of a footage captured in California, gives the scale of a blue whale
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A small stone birrin figure found in the ashes of a sacked mining camp, along with some other... curiosities. For the book project Two Sky River.
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I mean I love this work of Barlowe's so much I did an homage.
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Swamp_Ape_Science
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A jet propulsed ariel predator was absolutely peak spec evo creature design, and we don't talk enough about it.
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Time for some Giants! They have an intelligence somewhere between a corvid and a human. They have a long and complicated history with the birrin, though along Two-Sky River they tend to offer their massive strength in exchange for medicine and spices.
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So they are selling Evangelion model lobsters in Japan.
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Many of the little colorful creatures designed for Subnautica: BZ
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all my apes gone.
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An unused critter for Below Zero: a worm with a garden in its mouth!
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That Pink Floyd gave an AI video a win in their competition is a good chance to remind people that unpaid art contests suck anyway.
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A never completed idea for a male birrin dancing with a traditional puppet, entertaining children at a town celebration.
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A portrait of a birrin named Set. Spent a lot of time Upriver; rough years.
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I re-inflict upon you Realistic Tamatoa
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A mother guides her child through the drifting seeds of late summer on a distant world.
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First Contact Day I hear?
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This tech is going to be used to produce political propaganda and disinformation. So, well done?
@Flawlessai
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Our software harnesses the power of generative AI to change filmed dialogue. TrueSync opens a new world of possibilities from fast and efficient AI reshoots to the creation of immersive, visual translations, for any language around the world. #GenerativeAI #Hollywood
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Taking a photo of the locals. (Posting at a decent resolution)
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Development art of the Ventgarden for Subnautica: BZ. I have always loved worlds within worlds: rockpools and internally complex things. A closed natural biosphere was something I was eagre to explore.
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Birrin climbing First Mountain, the tallest peak on the planet and one of the few that still has snow. It is located on the equator above the searing Kiln desert. #illustration #scifi #mountaineering #aliens
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Some classic @nbsparth starships. His balance of detail and breathing space always captured me.
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Untitled
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A critter I designed while back in college, almost two decades ago...
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@chheplo Alternatively you could deal with grief and loss in a healthy way, and allow yourself to feel.
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Portrait of Set, an old man from the far reaches of Two Sky River. He's seen a lot of summers. For the Birrin book.
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Some of the best space art ever, in my view, is being made by @VitkusJustinas His DA:
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The anatomy of a sea urchin, from my archives. I did this for fun, believe it or not...
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The Expanse New York Seawall. I appreciate scifi that doesn't ignore what is happening to the climate.
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The perfect weevil. Via
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An extra-terrestrial predator conceived for an instructional class... which you can find for free here!
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The basketworm, an ancient fossil species that offers clues as the origin of the birrin.
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A sketch from long ago.
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@BranArtworks
Jaime Bran|| Illustration🐳🐬🦭🎨
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QRT something circular from your gallery
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My Klingon reimagining. Big boys.
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Early art of the birrin at war, created as I was coming up with the final body form.
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My older model Galaxy phone took this night pic at Bastion Point in Mallacoota and turned out a surprisingly artistic result.
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Repost of my Ferengi fan design. Wondering if doing a Na'vi might be fun...
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A concept for Subnautica: Below Zero; an arctic species of Reaper with Orca like intelligence and the ability to work in pods.
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Some charming Wayne Barlowe concept art for the first Avatar.
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They were built as tombs for members of the royal family, developed through many years of experimentation with funerary mounds and stepped pyramids, perfected at Cheops, than largely abandoned for more modern tomb designs.
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