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kyliegirl

<div class="IPBDescription">first finished piece this yr and more to come</div>i had this creature in the works the last yr or so, i had alot of trouble getting it to have a body which would work for its head. after a while i thought it would make a kick ###### new alien for ns2 , like an elite type alien which does alot of damage but lacks alot in armour.

heres the final design of the thing..

<img src="http://www.opticpower.com/kylie/2006art/concept/chakra.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />

i will get to more art soon enough... still have two gorges asking for some more love.. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/pudgy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::gorge::" border="0" alt="pudgy.gif" />

Darkns

It looks like a cross between a gorge, a bullsquid, and a stegosaurus.
I like it.

And now, the questions:
It looks like it has two 'heads', but is one the 'up' head and the other the 'right' head, or is it supposed to be balanced, like a 'v'?
Do both heads see?

NEX9

love the tail coili

great work as usual keep it up

Comprox

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It looks like a cross between a gorge, a bullsquid, and a stegosaurus.
I like it.

And now, the questions:
It looks like it has two 'heads', but is one the 'up' head and the other the 'right' head, or is it supposed to be balanced, like a 'v'?
Do both heads see?
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It might even have 4 heads, we just can't tell from this angle. Quite impressive work. The saliva and teeth look esecially well done!

kyliegirl

it has 4 jaws not 4 heads.

heres an old concept

<img src="http://www.opticpower.com/kylie/2006art/concept/chakra1.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />

its mouth when open is like a + sign, the tentacles grasp its prey and pull it in its mouth, the jaws each have sensors (the holes) on the sides of each jaw as it is blind but uses a beaconing method like the bat to hone its prey, its very sensitive to movement and is very accurate in finding its prey even through walls or hard to see areas. night or day doesnt bother it because its blind.

another concept sheet

<img src="http://www.opticpower.com/kylie/2006art/concept/chakra2.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />

as i said, i put alot of designing into this thing.. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

Kouji_San

Damn that one reminds me of a graboid head. Well it has 3 jaws, but still looks similar. Especially the tongue in the first picture. It looks fantastic btw...

For those of you not familiar with the graboid, go watch the movie Tremors (and sequels) NOW!

Oh and Burt Gummer FTW!! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

Soul_Rider

It's a great concept, although i think a blind alien might be a bit difficult to play as in NS!!

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Well, on engines like source the devs can create all kinds of screen overlay effects to mimic different types of vision effect, im sure something could be made to act like a bat sensor, which could be pretty damn cool <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />

Looks great kylie

Kouji_San

Even aliens vs predator could do that (pred/alien vision) and from what I've seen with this new dynamic infestation. I'd say it's probably just withing their skills j/k Anyway this alien could be a cool design for a sonar/heatvision alien, with an ability to use it's tongue in the way the graboid does --> latch onto it's prey and pull it towards/into it's mouth

Damn that dyninfest looked awesome didn't it? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />

coil

Kylie I misses you!!!

Max

Nice concept. Having a blind creature in a game would certainly be interesting.

Max

Solitario

great work! I would like to see more of you =)

Porcupine_Floyd

Bullsquid!!! I want bullsquid! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />

It reminds me of it btw ;p