Hi everyone!
I\'m on holiday and staying at my friend\'s for a little bit, which is the reason why i haven\'t posted any new 3D models for a while. Imagination, however, doesn\'t take holidays, so it was time to pick up my good old pencil...
I\'m no expert, but results follow.
Sketches of new butterfly skins. I haven\'t decided on the colours yet, but i was thinking red for the second one.
Strange 6-winged creature. I thought it could be something like a dragonfly or common fly. A harmless little thing, just buzzing around and looking for open fruit or meat.
A nasty little scavenger. About the size of a chicken, this lizard eats insects, bird eggs, small animals, or anything it can find. Usually they tend to live in small groups. When starving or agitated, they have been known to attack larger creatures, such as humans, but they usually lose the fight and flee.
An arrogant hog portrait. The body is still missing, but it resembles a fat human with pigtail added. I imagined the creature to be about the same size as grown man.
A dumb and rugged gorilla creature. Mellow though. With its intelligence, it\'s hard to say what it thinks, but it does have the brain to use simple rags as clothes. They live in small tribes in the wilderness and are known to construct simple settlements. Some single creatures may understand the principles of trade and simple language.
Worm of a kind. I imagined it to be about the size of a snake. It\'s slimy body leaves a trail, just like a snail does. I imagined it would be a night creature. At night the eye would give it better vision and enable it to hunt efficiently. It\'s not poisonous, but its tail sting may hurt an unprepared traveller. Both the eye and sting are wanted witchdoctor ingredients. The creature is not easy to find in the dark, but if you follow the slime trail...
This is the Pebblecrusher. A dwarf whose arms wielded such a strength, he could crush pebbles with bare hands. Initially he ended up doing mining business.
A barbarian of almost gigantic size. You might face one of these in the gladiator ring. Its weakest link is its poor equipment, as it tends to use all its earnings to food and beer.
A golem. Or a statue. Or both. This lawful and obedient entity is big, strong, and hard as iron ...literally! Standing as tall as two grown men, these huge creatures are feared inhabitants of the stone labyrinths. Some people belive they were created by magical means, while others think that they have arrived through the portals. No one has been able to communicate with them either, as they have no visible mouths.
(rest of the pics are larger, so i\'ll post the links)
http://www.hut.fi/~vrantapu/PlaneShift/VR_Creatures01.JPG A strange couple. Fat golem with a slime. The two creatures have no deeper bond, they just happened to be in same place at the crucial moment. The fat thing is pretty slow moving omnivore. It likes to take long mud-baths and enjoys its privacy. If approached, it usually defends its current dinner, by charging in a reckless frenzy. The slime is carnivorous. It eats its prey by engulfing it inside the liquid slime body. Slimes mostly eat insects and small creatures, but they will try to digest anything that they come across. Two or more slimes can combine into one larger clump, and divide back to separate ones, as they will. In the deep wilderness, is rumored to live a gigantic slime colony, with over 100 slimes joined together.
http://www.hut.fi/~vrantapu/PlaneShift/VR_Mushrooms.jpg Close peek to some mushroom research of mine.
http://www.hut.fi/~vrantapu/PlaneShift/VR_Signs01.JPG I was browsing through the other sections of the forum and found out that the PS team was looking for some symbols. Don\'t mind the names.
http://www.hut.fi/~vrantapu/PlaneShift/VR_Signs02.JPG ...i got carried away
http://www.hut.fi/~vrantapu/PlaneShift/VR_Alphabet.jpg The alphabet were some of my earlier designs. (Actually the idea is from Ultima) I thought that a different alphabet would bring the game more depth. Maybe the main alphabet would still be the common latin one, but some specific sub-group could have their own set of characters. For example some magical scrolls could be written in different alphabet. This would make the game harder for new mages, but after a while you begin to remember the new alphabet. An experienced wizard would read this encrypted scroll without any trouble.
I added some more pictures and background information.
Any comments welcome! See you later!
