Neeshka has been having a little Disir trouble...
3E Disir Characteristics:- as applied by PHoD...
Disgusting Mammalian/Arthropod Appearance - check
Loathsome Dirty Protruding Tusks - check
Unhygienic Filthy Blade Claws - check
Nauseating Chitinous Armour Plates - check
Sickeningly Vile Rubbery Tegument - check
Appallingly Chundersome Whip-like Tongue - check
Putrescently Nasty Skin Conditions - check
Execrably Horrid Bulbous Comedy Eyes - er... not as such...
The one deliberate divergence I made from the 3E painting - as distinct from my rubbish abilities just getting stuff wrong - was the eyes. Be fair, those bulging eyes are a bit comedic in the 3E Manual artwork on the inspiration thread. And they looked REALLY silly in-game on the model.
So I arbitrarily changed the look. I retained the freakish bulbous eyes, since I'd already nailed them on, but I altered the texture so they're strange, insectly-weird swirls of nebulous colour now, instead of having blatant, socking great pupils staring rancidly about like a fetid pervert ogling a girls' topless volleyball match.
I think they look much more murky and sinister now.
They still need some fine-tuning and I have yet to add the Queen and Tyin variants, but since Neeshka was kicking the stuffing out of some for combat and shadow testing, I thought I'd post these examples just to assure you I am actually doing them...
(I did try putting emitters on them for dripping, toxic slime, but it just didn't work. The only halfway decent result made them laggy as hell in-game if there were more than three of them in a group and it still didn't really look right. So I gave up on that idea.)
However, I'm fixating upon working on
AvD now to the almost total exclusion of everything else, including eating and sleeping and irrelevant nonsense like that. It's therefore unlikely I'll be doing any other Creatures for this month.
I've wanted to do
AvD for about eight years, essentially ever since I got NWN, figured out what the Toolset was and instantly attempted to put my
Demoness Tales comics on the screen.
I've made several abortive attempts over the years to make the piles of CC for
AvD and failed. Miserably. A lot.
Now I've finally cracked it and the results are exciting me like nothing else I've done in NWN before; even all the endless
Doctor Who stuff I did wasn't anything like as good, as complex, as ambitious or as detailed as this. Naturally, this rabid enthusiasm is hard to contain.
I
will do the Tyin and Disir Queen though.
Promise. I'll try to get a Skybox done too. Maybe toward the end of the month I
might do something else if I need a break from
AvD.
(DAMN shame about Solace - Very sad that so much work went into something that so many of us would love to have fun with and it just ends up malingering in a dusty box somewhere because of Baboon-shaped Spleen lawyers to whom passion, art and enthusiasm are entirely unknown and unknowable concepts.
Still, at least now we know. Thanks for enlightening us, Bannor.)
Modifié par PLUSH HYENA of DOOM, 07 janvier 2014 - 11:46 .
