Alien Species Concepts

Still not pictures from today, but much more recent! And all these descriptions will be modern! Exciting!

I just really like drawing aliens. These guys are a part of that! From left to right, top to bottom, we have Alriah, Exe, Sammy, Koteroi, and Tylingo! The crew of a small space ship from a sci-fi story that I've sorta been wanting to write since I was a kid. Haven't gotten to it yet, but maybe I will someday!

A fun fact -- everyone on the bottom row is actually based on creatures I made in Spore when I was young! Anyone remember Spore? I remember Spore. I've read in modern times that most people didn't like it very much, but my gosh, I loved that game. That game was a massive part of my life for several years, and got me into both video games and aliens, and I'm sure it also helped instill a desire to get better at character design, 3D work, and biology. As for the top row, Alriah is from a short story (which was basically just a skin for an exposition dump on the fundamental physics of pulsars) that I wrote in middle-school science. Exe, on the other hand, is just a big photosynthetic dinosaur that I came up with one day. 

"Lowpoly Koteroi"

"IT’S DONE! My first 3D model. It took so long. I wish I could get an awesome-looking, high-quality render of it, but… I can’t seem to do that, since I’d want to render it without shadow at all, but I have no idea how to do with that. So have a cruddy screenshot! (Seriously, though, if anyone knows how to make a blender render without shadows, I’d highly appreciate any advice!)

If anybody’s curious, the handsome devil I chose to model here is Koteroi, a character of mine."

 - 2018 Brennan


I have a nice PLA print of them sitting on my desk as I write this. : )

And even though the little plot I've been working on that they're a part of has been in the works for multiple years, I still haven't figured out a definitive name for it.