I'm just curious, but have there ever been any "officially accepted" pictures of the races?
The tiny, fuzzy comms-window pictures only show the races from shoulders up, and are cartoony. And a brief glance through the English and German creative forums didn't highlight anything.
The Argonopedia gives pretty good descriptions but it'd still be nice to have some reference pictures to use, things like the boron are a mystery - it gives good descriptions but seeing how the parts of the description fit together would be helpful.
I'm mostly wondering this to help design the cockpits of the ships (Going from the Boron description, I doubt their ships would have a seat as we know them but how they'd design them I'm unsure because I can't picture how the boron's "back" articulates), and also in case I wanted to dick around at drawing any of them.
Some of the points that've most come up:
- Borons, can their back articulate to give them a sitting posture, or would it be more likely they'd have some kind of command couch they could sit on face foward.
- Boron tentacles can form off rudimentry finger protrusions, but I can't visualise how this'd look (Boron ships would need controls that take that into consideration.)
- Teladi, they're like bipedal lizards. Does this mean they'd have retrograde ankle/shins? (This'd effect the pedal locations, and the inset foot rests under the ejector seat)
- Paranid arms are meant to be heavily jointed, and have insect claw-like ends. That'd mean they'd need specialised user-interface like buttons and control sticks.
Race Artwork?
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Ryuujin
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Oooh, nice piccy. (I'm on DA too)
Looking again at the boron description, there's a strong discrepency between the description and actual in game graphics. the boron in game have a single "brow" with both eyes, which is mounted up ona stalk so to speak. But the description indicates their eyes are on seperate stalks (Since they are used in showing emotion, lacking complex facial muscles)
See what i mean there's too many ways to assemble a boron (I've only drawn the 6 main limbs, I know boron have additional tentacles)
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http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b11/R ... /boron.jpg
A) Do borons have a pelvis/torso configuration, with muscles and the limbs shared out logically
B) or squidlike rubbery body with all the tentacles spreading from the same spot.
1) Are the tentacles tentacles?
2) More finlike?
3) Or pad-ended?
Or are they completly different again? - Meh, I know enough I think to make the cockpit components, but I'm still curious how they SHOULD look.
(Starting to approach more of a creative universe topic now)
Looking again at the boron description, there's a strong discrepency between the description and actual in game graphics. the boron in game have a single "brow" with both eyes, which is mounted up ona stalk so to speak. But the description indicates their eyes are on seperate stalks (Since they are used in showing emotion, lacking complex facial muscles)
See what i mean there's too many ways to assemble a boron (I've only drawn the 6 main limbs, I know boron have additional tentacles)
.http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b11/R ... /boron.jpg
A) Do borons have a pelvis/torso configuration, with muscles and the limbs shared out logically
B) or squidlike rubbery body with all the tentacles spreading from the same spot.
1) Are the tentacles tentacles?
2) More finlike?
3) Or pad-ended?
Or are they completly different again? - Meh, I know enough I think to make the cockpit components, but I'm still curious how they SHOULD look.
(Starting to approach more of a creative universe topic now)
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Avis
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The Paranid Warrior (by Rustiswordz) was a concept piece for the X-Graphic Novel a few years back 'Pirates Gambit'.
for the graphic novel we bugged Ego-pps no end for info and concepts for the races, Helge provided a good portion of the goods and we drafted some concepts and worked 'some' into the graphic novel (we being Myself and Grimm art, Acid the writer and Rustiswordz artistic support and concepts).
the 1st 2 chapters are available somwhere still (I'll have to search unless somone else has links ? )
last I heard there is a new graphic novel in the works 'Pirates Gambit 2' which isn't based in X universe and doesn't involve myself or Rustiswordz sorry I can't provide links to the lata (link forbiden I belive
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for the graphic novel we bugged Ego-pps no end for info and concepts for the races, Helge provided a good portion of the goods and we drafted some concepts and worked 'some' into the graphic novel (we being Myself and Grimm art, Acid the writer and Rustiswordz artistic support and concepts).
the 1st 2 chapters are available somwhere still (I'll have to search unless somone else has links ? )
last I heard there is a new graphic novel in the works 'Pirates Gambit 2' which isn't based in X universe and doesn't involve myself or Rustiswordz sorry I can't provide links to the lata (link forbiden I belive
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