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by the way, if you like this version, i've got it available on
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hmmmm found this on the hard drive just now while looking for something else. forgot all about it! at the time, this wasn't anything like what i was 'sposed to be doing so i put it aside for later, and later apparently never happened.
in any event, now that its rested for almost a year (!) and i see it again with somewhat fresher eyes -- hey, i kinda like it! maybe we'll finish it up after all :-)
here i was trying to come up with something for Phil Brucato's Deliria project,
i think we were looking for something for next book after Deliria, the Aelder Fae....
anyway i was hunting around for some type of ethereal being semi fairy-ish but
with the look of something also alien to human thought.
sadly, the follow up to Deliria, a book about the Aelder Fae,
never came into being because Smoke, Mirror
and Muse couldn't hold it together - infighting is the ruin of so many promising enterprises!
--- fortunately, i am happy with what i've done, and as a result of
working with Phil on Deliria, i have some of my favorite pieces because of it!
here we're playing with the concept of creating a russian religious icon type portrait
of one of the Aelder Fae.
get ready now as there is a plethora of renders here with me exploring this and that - goblins,
fae, creatures and such all related -- but not LOL.
right, an here is another attempt. she's funky and a bit creepy but i also find her quite appealing
somehow. the golden skin she's got could almost be seen as some type of insectoid carapace skin
covering like she's not really mammalian but perhaps highly evolved from bug genetics spliced in
there somewhere in her family tree!
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here i was just playing around with some alternate coloring. not sure which i prefer so i decided
to show both the blue variant and the original. :-)
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and here is the bug aelder fae showing off with her fractal fan. :-) she's such a happy girl.
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this image uses the base 'elven' figure as the starting point. then with some funky 3d
texturing with a different fractal to act as the base of the bump map, we got this
very cool effect! i'm all for reusing assets, so you will find bits and pieces of
familiar things scattered all over the place here!
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