[WIP] Alit - by Nandi

Wow, that looks great!

Yeah anatomically its probably the hardest creature I've seen that if you were to apply real physics it would collapse under its own shape.

Even though the smaller jaw you've given him is more stabilizing to the shape of the body, it look a bit too bird like in overall appearance.

Could you try and give him a huge set of teeth to widen the overall look of the jaw and get away from looking like a beak?

Holy shit that thing looks freaky.

Keep it up :P.

that is one freaky lookin thing. O.o i love it. lol

Looks cool, agree about the teeth though. They could do with being a bit bigger.

I love it. And the unnatural look is very good for the game. But it does need some type of balance so it doesn't die from falling over.

For a little fun here is some things to think about. 

1: The beak mouth is a great idea. With a body as short as that it will need it to be able to reach the ground for food. Maybe a little longer or a very long and strong tongue to help with food manipulation. 

2: The tail. Balance with the creature will be very clumsy and slow in its current form. Without a tail to be a counter balance, it would fall over and die. Seeing that it has no other limbs to help it get back to it's feet. What about a double tail about 2 to 3 feet long for balance and you could also add some type of natural weapon to them for defense and also to help with manipulation of food and what not. 

These are just idea's and something to help with the design if possible.

Keep up the great work.

I love the style and detail, u just have to match the scale and more shape to file I sent u now.

Apart from what shape change the morph needs, I think only a slightly longer body and tail for balance is needed.

Also when you're ready to colour it, if u wanna try a version in zbrush, i have some cool methods to show u :)

Well the model itself looks very promising. So yeah! I think its great - i never like the original alit model :) Go go go!

I love everything about this - but his posture.  I suppose that could be fixed at the animation stage, though?  Still looks like he's about to fall over with his feet under him at that angle.  Still, amazing look overall!

The idea is to make it somewhat biologically/physically plausible. :P

I think this in between looks great! I cant wait to see it textured[External image]

I love it. I love those feet, and that gnarly fangorious jaw. It's perfect and awesome. I say slap a coat of paint on that baby and set him loose.

It's hard to please everyone, just keep yourself at the top of the list. At the end of the day, you have to stand behind your artistic integrity.

I think it looks perfect, the design stays true to the original while also giving it a realistic anatomical structure and design (something the original didn't have).

Its perfect, as Ashking Wulfharth says just needs that paint :)

Denevir, can we call you "Denevir - The Art of Morrowind guy"? I can change your username if you want? Thanks for the posts, but we get it, we have Michael Kirbrides art sketched into our brains and we love it, don't need to remind us anymore.

OMG! this looks great! My only comment, maybe move the eyes back a bit, also there is a strange (dent?) under the nose above the teeth on the upper lip, it makes the upper lip all the more beak-like.  Also Denevir, definately go with the nickname :P.

Speak for yourself happy, I like the art he posts >.>

We have a thread for MK's art in the concept art section. :P

But that's *so* out of the way :(

...And I get marked down. Can't you kids take a joke?

ZeroSbr

Speak for yourself happy, I like the art he posts >.>

What I don't get is we've had this art in some of the earliest modeling threads, but he's keeps on posting like we haven't done our homework. Why don't doesn't denvir atleast check in chat before making all these posts? I wouldn't mind so much but he's been dumping them in abunch of inactive threads.

Well a lot of the early pictures that were posted in threads are 'poofed'.  

By the way, I wasn't saying I wanted the Alit more anatomical - just the posture is slightly off.  Nothing at all to do with the model, just if she had a bit more bend to her legs she'd look like she could stand and run and eat your face off.  Looks perfect, otherwise.

I hereby formally petition that everyone stop hating on Denevir. He is trying to be helpful in the only way he feels that he is capable of. He has a genuine passion for the source material, and his heart is in the right place. It behooves us to have members that care about the original game and it's artwork. He has been reprimanded for bumping dead threads, but this thread is still active and recently updated.

That being said: Denevir, we've seen the original concept art. You don't need to justify your opinions. The universe changes with every game so no concept is canon. Just say, "I would like a bigger head," and leave it at that. When you throw a piece of art up like it's scripture, it makes people become defensive. That rarely brings out their better attributes.

Rant over. This thread belongs to the Alit.

I wish I had one in real life. It looks so diabolically evil, I would feed it kittens. Mwa ha ha!

More screenshots please - it looks so cool! Are textures being done yet?

You can never have enough nipples. Also Nandi: [External image]

plasmax

You can never have enough nipples.

And by extension, you can never have enough nipple rings!

Model looks great. Morrowind is getting more and more realistic.

But may be it need more manipulator-like limbs?
If this creature cannot use it head/mouth as bird uses beak - it needs at least some legs with fingers.

alysander

it needs at least some legs with fingers.

Im confused you want the alit to have finger legs [External image]

:( i cannot into linguistics, but actually it already have TOES, so i only want legs with DIGITS/FALANGAS as on my sketch here - with long fingers. Q: in english norms: do avians/birds have fingers or toes on legs?

Birds have talons I.E [External image]

For all that girth it would need something rather stout. Perhaps something like an ostrich or an emu foot (if we go for talons, that is).

Seeing as the model is done, and hopefully getting textured as we speak. I seriously doubt Nandi would even entertain the notion of adding arm toes, finger legs, or those weird butt feathers. It's well past the concept stage, so that ship has sailed.

The Alit doesn't need to manipulate anything, it obviously eats it's prey whole and it's favorite meal is dead topic necromancers that blast 20 threads in a night and make unreasonable requests, so you should probably run.

@Nandi- any chance of a sketchfab link? I would love to get a closer look at this beastie.

> modding
> that ship has sailed

You are right, of course, but i hope that upgrading will never stops.

I see what is going on here, we are trying to be punked into producing a Chocobo

I'm going to keep an eye on the Guar to make sure "My Little Pony" suggestions don't make there way in.

Denevir, there is a thread on Michael Kirbrides art http://tesrenewal.com/forums/skyrim/skywind-development-forums/concept-art/7571 We are really familiar with all the work and use it for inspiration all the time. Lets just say your posts are like a person at church, handing out flyers that say "Jesus saves". Kind of redundant.

But George Nelson withdraws! (Sorry, I had to.)

happychappy

Denevir, there is a thread on Michael Kirbrides art http://tesrenewal.com/forums/skyrim/skywind-development-forums/concept-art/7571 We are really familiar with all the work and use it for inspiration all the time. Lets just say your posts are like a person at church, handing out flyers that say "Jesus saves". Kind of redundant.

To be fair hap, I think he did say he would stop posting the art and I'll give him the benefit of the doubt [External image]

> Chocobo
Actually that creature looks very soft, earthly, innoxious, harmless.
All that attracted me in morrowind's fauna was it's "creepiness" and un-earthly, unnatural limb-body design.

There is no creatures in Skyrim that looks so awesome. Skyrim fauna consist of natural fauna of earth (cenozoic or modern) and just oversized arthropods - so in this aspect skyrim is just deer_hunter_sim. So I'm very worried about fate of creatures of this mod. It have chance to be realistic and unnatural in one time.

alysander

 So I'm very worried about fate of creatures of this mod. It have chance to be realistic and unnatural in one time.

If you're so worried why don't you make us some more realistic models [External image]

At this time i have'nt required knowledges/skills and unpredictable small amount of time to arts (due to main work and my own projects). But of course i'll try it sometime.

alysander

At this time i have'nt required knowledges/skills and unpredictable small amount of time to arts (due to main work and my own projects). But of course i'll try it sometime.

So not too worried ehh [External image]

Shushine, I've noticed you seem to have an addiction to double post lately, I'm getting worried...[External image]

mspeed101

Shushine, I've noticed you seem to have an addiction to double post lately, I'm getting worried...[External image]

I always double click the button by accident.[External image]

I know you've been working hard on this guy, and we all appreciate it, my self included. I like a lot of what you've done with it.

But I have to say, that jaw muscle doesn't make any sense.

I know that it isnt exactly the most logicical jaw but I think there can be a compromise on that being that it looks so ravaging... or ravenous, not sure[External image]

Exactly, I for one love every aspect about the design and I'm just waiting to see it all fancied up in color! (hopefully sometime soon)[External image]

> fingers
= That's just touches to make it perfect (more believable) in my opinion, model is excellent anyway. It would be notably if kagouti will be made as modification of this model.

> jaw muscles
= actually, in this aspect model is fully right and believable. For example, crocodile's jaw occlude muscles are arranged inside his jaws, so player can see them only from inside :)

@Nandi- enjoyable and eloquent venting of your frustration. I'm a little surprised you didn't swear. Please don't lose faith in the project on account of all the feculent idea sharing. Some people would rather just try to assert their artistic vision than do any actual work.

@You know who you are- Here is a list of free software for 3D- Blender, for 2D- Gimp, for 3D sculpting- Sketchup. If only there were a place that was universally accessible that contained the sum of human knowledge, including various tutorials on how to use said software... Oh yeah! The internet. You're on it. Now go do some work and stop pissing off the talent.