The History Book by lwperkins
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Description
(The Bug Comic)
I'm jumping ahead very slightly to show you a page from a book that Mrs. Lindholm loaned Dragonfly. It's one of those Osprey Military History series books. (You'll see Blade looking at it in a bit, when Shadow is going through Dragonfly's stuff) Unfortunately, in that image the book page is a little hard to see, and it's important to the story.
The book is about the Azali Empire, and is a bit inaccurate, since the records are so scarce. For example, the power pack on the plasma rifle held by the Aer doesn't go with that gun, and of course no Aer would hold it so that it pointed anywhere near his foot. The numbers on his collar are his battalion number and his own number, so that's his name (22-301). The lit lines are part of the Aer's force field armor, rather like Claudia's light armor in "Orientation"
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1976051&user_id=354046&np&np
The Mer's uniform (on the left) does come with sleeves, but they attach by the snaps at the top of the sleeve cap (which you can see if you look closely) so that the Mer's veins are accessible when needed for patching up the Aer. The artist apparently didn't feel like showing the Mer's damaged fingers, since he would have been declawed. The detail of the attached medical/surgical box is correct, and the Azali cyborg "Minder" is accurate as far as I know, since it's copied from one in the Ellesburg War Museum.
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The Azali Minder is played by a really awesome model by Mestophales, the BEO2k10. I fiddled with it to make it more insectoid, added the antenna, extended the X scale and the feet to make it more obvious it wasn't a human exoskeleton. I also changed out some of the materials, adding a plainer hematite mat to some of the ambient maps.
The Mer's texture is from MaskEdit,a set of M4 maps-- and that set has the most amazing Maori texture just put in with no fanfare. I have to think of something to do with it just to show it off;) The hair is Daz's Beach Hair, the outfit is painted with some inspiration from the old Techno Maelstrom for V3. The Med kit is a pgmeri01 freebie from Rosity, retextured, and the chain is from TrekkieGrrl, also freestuff.
Comments (45)
Faemike55
Wonderful work! great setting and information
mapps
Awesome! I have been looking at the Beo2k10 very serious like, I think I will be adding him soon to my runtime :-) hugs
zil2008
Great work.
wrpspeed
excellent pic
shadownet
Always a real treat when you post! Great render!
fabiana
I wish you all the available luck and success... and lots of love for the New year, dear Lynn!
RGUS
HEY!!!!... where the fracken hell did ya get that center roboty thing from, I've seen a glimpse on DA... but never found out where it's from... oh.. and happy a purely alcoholic one as well!
gypsyangel
This is so cool looking!!! How fun to get a peek into their book world... :)I'd say HAPPY NEW YEAR! But I know I'll be talkin' to you before then. :) Hugz!!
Shari123
Good golly you would need a huge flyswatter for that bug!! Just kidding, he seems like a really nice bug. That outfit does remind me of the Techno Maelstrom. It has that almost pearlescent appearance. That one fantastic texture you created!!!
eekdog
that is one cool robotic character lynn, great jon on all and like your story. lol and happy new year my friend. lol
Richardphotos
excellent characters and lighting
magnus073
Great job Lynn and you always manage to give your characters a personality of their own and really breathe life into them.
tstray1
Beautiful work, love the lighting!!!
anitalee
Excellent
722
awesome work
ObsidianOz
Great trio of characters.
sim3344
Beautiful scene and work, excellent done!!!
fireangel Online Now!
Has the look of a posed formal portrait, and still is very convincing. Nice that you're customising things too, makes them your own versions which is better than just using the stick items. The usual LWP quality!
gerberc
As always superb characters and fun story!
artistheat
Excellent Image and Work
njb2000
Thats some model!
Tracesl
excellent!
Mavrosh
Oh, that thing in betwee them looks bad ass... Everyone here is great but as I have a smething for machines like this.... drool... Yes, I am strange! lol
SIGMAWORLD
Excellent characters!
DarkStormCrow
Very cool, well done....
J5ive
Awesome scene and characters! Have a happy Healthy and Creative New year!
B_PEACOCK
Excellent work all around Lynn. Happy New years my friend
ragouc
Great model/robot.
delbeke
I don't know what that 'thing' is in the middle, but I don't think I'd like to meet it in a dark alley, probably not even in broad daylight. lol Excellent scene and textures fantastic. We done Lynn! Wishing you and yours a Wonderful and safe New Year!
Seaview123
Great looking characters, Lynn! very nice work. Happy New Year to you!