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Offline Aeolius

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Re: Aquaria fanart [spoilers]
« Reply #510 on: August 19, 2010, 10:25:05 pm »
3D landscaping/modeling/animating tool Bryce was recently updated to Bryce 7 ($15 for the regular edition, $50 for the Pro edition). There is also a free Personal Learning Edition available for download. I wanted to test a scene that always made the prior version crash, then I added a bit more:



She is one of ten mermaids whose lower torsos resemble a single tentacle. Each was a merfolk slave to a kraken and was mortally wounded, before being “saved” by a sea hag who grafted each of the kraken’s tentacles onto the unwilling mermaids, after the beast was slain. Now the mermaids have begun to exhibit the kraken’s powers and share its memories.

As the DM of an online undersea D&D game, I have found programs like Bryce to be invaluable tools to help get images out of my head and into the imaginations of my players.

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Re: Aquaria fanart [spoilers]
« Reply #511 on: August 20, 2010, 03:49:39 pm »
Wow, nicely done!
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Re: Aquaria fanart [spoilers]
« Reply #512 on: September 22, 2010, 03:02:01 am »
Haven't seen new fan-arts for months. And people have already received their OSTs, which should inspire to draw more  ;D

Well, I'm finding some problems and number one is TOO MUCH ideas  :'(. Hence, I'm asking if someone could suggest a theme? Archeus suggested one some time ago and it was a success for my part, at least. Not boasting or anything like that, I'm only looking for new inspiration.
well, lots of people draw the nautilus, why not a blaster pet??? or a phirana??? PET THEME, SEA TURTLES????

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Re: Aquaria fanart [spoilers]
« Reply #513 on: September 22, 2010, 03:02:56 am »
3D landscaping/modeling/animating tool Bryce was recently updated to Bryce 7 ($15 for the regular edition, $50 for the Pro edition). There is also a free Personal Learning Edition available for download. I wanted to test a scene that always made the prior version crash, then I added a bit more:



She is one of ten mermaids whose lower torsos resemble a single tentacle. Each was a merfolk slave to a kraken and was mortally wounded, before being “saved” by a sea hag who grafted each of the kraken’s tentacles onto the unwilling mermaids, after the beast was slain. Now the mermaids have begun to exhibit the kraken’s powers and share its memories.

As the DM of an online undersea D&D game, I have found programs like Bryce to be invaluable tools to help get images out of my head and into the imaginations of my players.
cool!!!! what enspired that

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Re: Aquaria fanart [spoilers]
« Reply #514 on: October 02, 2010, 06:17:56 pm »
cool!!!! what enspired that

Because when you say "octopus mermaid" everyone thinks of Ursula, so I wanted something different. Plus an actual kraken would be way too powerful for the adventuring party, so I got creative. Granted, I did start out seeing what Bryce/Poser would do with a mermaid with 8 tentacles:

But the other image is far creepier, so I used that.

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Re: Aquaria fanart [spoilers]
« Reply #515 on: October 21, 2010, 09:35:34 am »
Hi again!! I'm the guy from the Aquaria Mini-Cómic a few months ago. Someone asked for a coloured version of my comic... well, here it is. My girlfriend did the colouring. I hope you guys like it :)

Page 1: http://mercurio2539.deviantart.com/art/Colour-Aquaria-mini-comic-01-182179576
Page 2: http://mercurio2539.deviantart.com/art/Colour-Aquaria-mini-comic-02-182180475
Page 3: http://mercurio2539.deviantart.com/art/Colour-Aquaria-mini-comic-03-182181065
Page 4: http://mercurio2539.deviantart.com/art/Colour-Aquaria-mini-comic-04-183186859
« Last Edit: October 21, 2010, 09:37:51 am by QnanG5284 »

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Re: Aquaria fanart [spoilers]
« Reply #516 on: October 21, 2010, 03:39:45 pm »
Nearly as awesome as a new comic strip from you. So still pretty awesome! Thanks to both of you. :)
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Re: Aquaria fanart [spoilers]
« Reply #517 on: October 21, 2010, 07:54:44 pm »
Sweet :)

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Re: Aquaria fanart [spoilers]
« Reply #518 on: October 21, 2010, 09:11:04 pm »
Looks like a superhero comic!

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Re: Aquaria fanart [spoilers]
« Reply #519 on: October 21, 2010, 10:58:51 pm »
That comic is seriously well done, both in the normal art and the coloring. The guy who said it looked like a superhero comic wasn't kidding, it really does look professional.

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Re: Aquaria fanart [spoilers]
« Reply #520 on: October 22, 2010, 01:56:47 am »
I've read quite some comics, especially from DC and Marvel and the way that comic is drawn and colored it actually rivals them both, really amazing.
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Re: Aquaria fanart [spoilers]
« Reply #521 on: October 22, 2010, 07:35:15 am »
Hi everyone.  I’ve been lurking on this forum for a bit and finally decided to join.  I’ve never really created fanart before, but after playing through Aquaria I felt an inescapable desire to create some for the first time.   So here you go.  I normally work in colored pencil, but for these I wanted to try out some watercolor.  I’m still getting the hang of it, though, so please forgive some of the sloppiness.
  Anyway, about these pieces:

One of my favorite elements of the game is all the ambient wildlife you can interact with.  I particularly love Ekkrit because he's just so dang happy to see Naija when she runs into him.  He seems like he could follow her around all day doing loop-de-loops around her.  As you can see, I’m also a big fan of those purple, buggy-eyed fish that cluster around Naija in the Open Waters.  As a SCUBA diver, I know what a great feeling it is to have a little school of fish following you around (usually they’re looking for you to scare up something they can eat).


For some reason I get a huge kick out of watching the Grouper gobble up whatever Naija drops.  Then when I found out he can accidentally swallow HER if she gets in the way… well, I must’ve spent a good ten minutes just making him gulp down our poor mer-woman and spit her across the screen (incidentally, what exactly do you call Naija’s species?  Is she a mermaid?  A fishwoman?  I assumed for a while that she was supposed to be a Mithalan, but I think there are a couple of hints that she’s not quite the same as them.  Maybe a Mithalan 2.0?  Or, seeing as how she seems to be unique, is she just called a Naija?)

I’m working on a few more pieces right now that I’ll hopefully be able to post in the near future. 

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Re: Aquaria fanart [spoilers]
« Reply #522 on: October 22, 2010, 07:39:22 am »
I always just called Naija a fishwoman, though I think she is a mithalan. She's not quite a traditional mermaid so I don't use that term.

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Re: Aquaria fanart [spoilers]
« Reply #523 on: October 22, 2010, 11:49:01 am »
The first piece is hilarious and the second piece just looks amazing, totally awesome work there.
Can't believe you did that with watercolor, I find that method one of the hardest ways to put art on paper.

I'd love to see more of that soon.

Also I'm not sure myself, I think the best way to summarize Naija is either calling her a Mithalan or an Aquarian.
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Re: Aquaria fanart [spoilers]
« Reply #524 on: October 24, 2010, 06:04:49 pm »
Hoho, well that comic QnanG5284 made was great in b&w, but colours really add the last piece to it's look! Kinda reminds me of Marvels comics in a good way. Really professional looking job indeed...

Very good use of colours in Senorctenophores art as well, and boy, Naija and sea creatures looks awesome. Watercolouring, huh... I first thought of copic markers or crayons when I saw this. Great job to bring some humour to fan art :)