BIOWhy Sixus1 ??? When I was a teen, I wrote a short story about a line of android. They were referred to in the story as the Sixus line of "helpers" and were set loose in society to fulfill a wide array of menial tasks. The first one off the assembly line, appropriately enough dubbed Sixus1, eventually rebelled, killing his masters trying to get the other Sixus androids to take up the fight for their freedom from what they felt were dominating and oppressive masters. The whole thing was really a pretty thin allegory by a very pissed off teenager, but years later when I first started using bulletin boards online I needed a handle (this was around 94 and in a college that was still using tons of windows 3.1 machines). The first thing that just popped back to mind was Sixus1 and I've used it ever since. Nowadays, I freely use my real name online because I really just find online handles to be kind of annoying most times. Over the years, the sentiment of the story came back to me as I became more frustrated with the corporate bullshit I had to deal with as a budding professional artist going from office to office, studio to studio, trying to find a home for my work. In the end, this frustration spawned our company, Sixus1 Media. The name is supposed to make you ask "what does it mean", and it does that a lot. On a side note, which I find really amusing given my interest in a wide array of cultural theologies and history, I found out a few years back that the name, which I thought was just a made up piece of gibberish, actually had a place in history. Apparently there were three popes, Sixus I, Sixus II, and Sixus III, the third of which was excommunicated for heresy from what I read. Very amusing irony in all that... For more information, please visit: www.sixus1.com
Comments (15)
gquest
Very cool work!!
Biffowitz
Awesome character, I like how you did the background!
Darkglass
Wicked character great design....
jif3d
Kool character Les, she is pointing the way forward...out of the recession ! Nice texture work and graphical layout design ! ~Cheers~
shamstar
Great image. Extremely well done.
LBAMagic
Brilliant!!
Homus_Artistic
Very nice integration of elements and balance of color tones
Krid
great scene and excellent concept and design
Thetis
fantastic scifi illustration
svendsen
Beautiful scifi-scene...:o) Carsten
elfguy
One of the nicer looking borgs!
thecytron
Fantastic composition! Xcellent modeling work!
royo12
Lokks realy cool!
sixus1
Thanks folks! Since we recently made the jump to full support of V4, coming up with ideas for packages that really make her look less like the "out of the box" figure and more like something I would have made for myself has been crucial. Cylene was an idea that I original was going to produce for the Project Human Female, but decided that since V4 does enjoy such wide use, I might try putting the concept first before the target figure. I actually prefer working with the Project Human Female, but I should: I made her. But, I've come to a kind of thinking where it seems that the concepts in the packages are more important than my preference of target figure. Art is about ideas, and if I want my ideas to reach the broadest audience, it just makes sense for me to stop being such a ninny about using other people's figures and put those ideas out there for the V4 crowd. That's why Cylene exists; that's why the Medusa exists; and that's why a LOT more of my crazy ideas will be coming for V4 and M4 as we ramp up production like you would not believe. All this is reflective of some pretty serious business decisions we've made that in the end should be good news to a lot of users. -Les
Rodma_Hu
Wow! That's really stellar work!!