Ok - a while back (back in the early days of POSER 5), I came up with the idea for a very versatile creature figure combining elements of several prehistoric cetaceans (hope I spelled that at last "ok") and arthropods, such as the trilobite, sea scorpion, and giant flat land crawlers of the carboniferous era - with several contemporary creatures such as the laosian trilobite worm, and the giant rodent eating centipedes of South America (that have also been known to eat small tarsiers and other tree lemurs as well).

This figure would be versatile and flexible enough to use in images in the genres of Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy, or any measure of gray cross over areas in betwixt them (YES - "betwixt is a real word, let's hope for a revival of it's use - YA HA!). The figure could be made to be the size of the massive sand worms of the "DUNE" trilogies, or as small as one of those canned, formula alien parasites that either burrow into the back of your neck - or crawl into your brain through your ear canal to thusly control you like a mindless zombie. It could also be used as a magical little buddy or riding animal for the charming winged fairy folk (BLLLEEEECCCCHHHH - YUCKO - GAG - PTEWHIE!).

Ideally - it would be a man sized predator that used its massive mandibles to latch onto your belly just bellow the rib cage - whereby inserting its fangs into the upper intestines, and filling it's victim with a digestive enzyme (much like a spider), and thus begin "drinking" it's victims insides until nothing were left but an empty dry husk (i.e. the "LATCH" worm term). YES - in my younger days I was a tad bit warped, now I'm just decrepid - lmao :lol:.

Ok - so - to continue (grab some coffee for this one). Back then I knew about as much about 3D modeling as I knew about brain surgery, BUT - I had good ideas, and following the old addage from Prof. Einstein that "imagination was more important than knowledge", I proceeded to solicite assistance from a skilled modeller in bringing this nightmare to life - enter Brycetech.

After submitting drawings of several concept creatures on a forum posting, Brycetech and I agreed through some deliberation that the Latchworm was the best, and most interesting of the lot to devise (actually - it most interesting to him - and far be it from me to look a gift horse in the mouth), and so - he agreed to model it based upon my sketches.

Mr Ajax took notice of this rather unique freebie Poser Character (I assume while surfing the freebies selection), and thought that it would make an ideal supplimentary test bed for the latest incarnation of his brand new "Easy Pose" technology. Hence was born both the easy pose version of the Latchworm, and the P5 shaders that my albino, templateless figure lacked to give it at least a marginally passable texture set.

It languished in the freebie section - eventually finding it's way into the private libraries of a few interested users - and finding it's way into one or two images as well -before finally fading ever pitifully into obscurity. UNTIL NOW - BWA HA HA HAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGHA!

I am re - releasing this fiendish thing - along with it's accessory easy pose files - once again into the wild - to see what use a new generation of Poser Users will put it to, and what interesting new incarnations it might take!

And they lived happily ever after Virginia...