Alien fauna bundle

Tanis Volta

many alien plants in bundles but what about alternative alien versions of  most common earth animals? They are not enough atractive to be sold alone but would make a great bundle to fill alien world renders.

My wish alien fauna list would be: mammalian-elephant/head-like on little bird-like body, a medium turtle or seashell bear panda-like on glittered purple and black  skin colors,  a silk worm-monkey like, a medium tapir-rhino with a fox tail, and an ostrich featherless with reptilian skin and hyena like head.

Do you like it? What alien little animals would you like to see on this Alien fauna bundle? It could be split in volumes, Alien fauna Volume I fliers, Alien fauna volume II roamers, Alien fauna volume III herbivores, Alien fauna volume IV predators Alien fauna volume V domestic

Oso3D

You do realize you're saying you want people to produce stuff that they then sell for much less than the work that went in?

 

Lissa_xyz

timmins.william said:

You do realize you're saying you want people to produce stuff that they then sell for much less than the work that went in?

 

I didn't see any mention of pricing in his post.

Tanis Volta

timmins.william said:

You do realize you're saying you want people to produce stuff that they then sell for much less than the work that went in?

 

The stuff alone would be mostly ignored, and together could create a trademark or an important franchise title to captivate the masses, this is the selling point. About pricing it could be similar to a daz dragon 3 bundle or even more, depending on content being split by rigging/mesh volumes, like Terradome 3 franchise, etc. Also we aren't talking of HD real creatures or badasse bosses, they are more ornamental and a filler for backgrounds of scifi worlds, 

Oso3D

For what it's worth, this is something I've been hoping to do... someday.

I think I might have something along these lines in a year or so.

 

Tanis Volta

timmins.william said:

For what it's worth, this is something I've been hoping to do... someday.

I think I might have something along these lines in a year or so.

 

Just to clarify my pont of view, I wouldn't count any fantasy dinosaur like alien fauna, dragons and dinosaurs belong to making cheap uncreative designs.

Alien fauna is more about showing alternative animal evolutions with a shocking cutesy that makes this alien worth to decorate alien landscapes without being videogame bosses..

Some examples of good alien fauna designs:

kaotkbliss

I picked up one (https://www.daz3d.com/space-bugs-drone) not that long ago, but it's lonely and the only one. Definately need more when visiting alien planets.

Oso3D

Kaotkbliss: I was debating that and the centurion. How well does it pose/work in Daz?

 

Josh Crockett

Cool ideas and reference

Oso3D

I'm a huge fan of Wayne Barlow, particularly Darwin Expedition.

He stated that he found it interesting to render eyeless creatures because removes the easy terrestrial element.

Oso3D

Some examples of Darwin Expedition:

http://infinispace.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/wayne_barlowe_04.jpg

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/aliens/images/8/88/Beach_Loper.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080908060532

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-I0sKEjCjdBI/UbESFwbpx_I/AAAAAAAAAnI/x-KLU9CshJQ/s1600/am-Wayne_Barlowe_Prismalope_and_Butchertree.jpg

 

Tanis Volta

your examples, just my opinion, are ok for abstract art gallery or a sketching robotronics,  but are very raw, cold, and bad designs of life and dont enhance an alien world to be credible, shocking or amazing.

I am not a fan of eyeless creatures, I like the opposite, the more features and feelings mixed of things we know, the more realistic and shocking it is. But I didnt like Wayne Barlowe, I felt like watching a Dalí attempt. Just the first skeletal creature was passable, but it doesn't look to be alive.

 

Oso3D

Yeah, I wasn't trying to appeal to you but continuing the general discussion.

 

Tanis Volta

timmins.william said:

Yeah, I wasn't trying to appeal to you but continuing the general discussion.

 

I am not totally against eyeless animal aliens, it just I see them a tricky cheap way to design meaningless aliens faster, like fantasy dinosaurs.

Meaningful aliens are harder to be made, and above meaningful aliens, are even much harder to create good ones.

Eyes bring meaning to us. You can't bypass human fascination by eyes, at the end, humans are your future customers, if you dont do eyed aliens you are not enticing or luring them well to your alien proposal. If you insist, the trick for an eyeless alien could work one or two times, but at the long run itt's a very bad design choice. 

Oso3D

I will not be conversing with you further, thank you.

 

kaotkbliss

timmins.william said:

Kaotkbliss: I was debating that and the centurion. How well does it pose/work in Daz?

 

I haven't used it yet (nearly forgot I had it) so I just loaded it up and messed with a few joints. Works pretty well except that the antenae are a single bone each so can't curve without a d-former or morph. The eyes won't close without creating a morph but the pinchers are 2 bones each. The limbs are 3 bones each and the body is 5 bones, then the neck (1 bone) and the head (1 bone)

Zylox

There are some less well known Earth animals that would make great alien creatures. A tardigrade expanded to the size of a pig or elephant and given eyes would look at home in most sci-fi worlds. There are probably quite a few other microscopic or marine animals that could be adapted to be aliens as well.