Environment Profile: Jungle Planet

Environment Profile: Jungle Planet

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Description:

A thick and dense jungle encapsulates this planet. The jungle canopy lies miles above the surface, and virtually zero direct sunlight gets through. Under the canopy is extremely humid. Plants on the surface are generally parasitic or carnivorous as they cannot get to sunlight for their energy. There are frequent torrential rains however the forest canopy usually absorbs most of the downpour, and 'sweats' it out, creating the high humidity. There are frequent lightning storms also but fires don't last long because of the high water content of the trees.

Environment Profile: Gas Giant

Environment Profile: Gas Giant

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Description:

The gas giant planet is composed completely of gases. At the higher levels there is very low gravity and a moderate temperature. Deeper in the gas giant are much higher pressures and temperatures. There is a intense electrical activity in the upper atmosphere in the form of static storms.

Environment Profile: Tropical Island Planet

Environment Profile: Tropical Island Planet

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Concept: 

Description:

This Planet is made up mainly of thousands of small islands, with few large landmasses. The core is still very active resulting in many volcanoes. Due to lower gravity than Earth, the fallout from volcanoes spreads over huge distances. The planet iself is warm and humid, and has frequent tsunamis, earthquakes and hurricanes. There is a vast array of vegetation on the planets and under the sea.

Environment: Volcanic Planet

Environmental Profile: Volcanic Planet

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Initial Concept art:

Description:

The Planets surface is very hot, allowing lava to remain molten for a long time after it has come out of the ground. The atmosphere is very thick due to higher gravity than earth, and there are frequent smog storms in which visibility drops to a very low level. Minerals grow speedily around areas in which there is molten lava due to a chemical reaction with compounds in the earth. The planet is also has large hollows and cave structures around most of its mass. There is water collected in large super heated pools deep in the earth. This water turns to steam and shoots up through various vents around the planet. This creates very damp humid conditions in the caves under the surface which allows a large range of fungus-like flora to flourish.

colour scheme 2

Colour inspiration

3D creature test stuff

Creature 3D stuff

 Retopologising the High res model

 Retopo Progress

 The high res model in Maya (approx 330,000 polys)

 The normal mapped retopo'd model (approx 1500 polys)

Normal mapped retopo'd (phong shader)

Creature WIP cont.

I feel that the design has improved drastically since the previous post. Raising the back has given a much more muscular feel to the creature which is what I was trying to portray. Also, using reference images such as photos of komodo dragons has given me a much better idea of how to create the skin folds. I am still a while off finishing the model (I plan to have it fully detailed and coloured by thursday.)

3D WIP

Reptile Concept Colour Schemes

THESE BOOKS

Extraterrestrials: A Field Guide for Earthlings

Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials

Various things to look at

The Science of Aliens (Basic Books, 1999).

http://io9.com/325109/four-theories-about-creatures-from-high+gravity-worlds

http://www.umassmed.edu/shriver/Research/Biomedical/Projects/gravity.aspx

http://www.astro.rug.nl/~onderwys/sterIIproject97/kleefman/index.html

http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/question/?id=53

http://www.molvray.com/sf/exobio/astron.htm <---- This

Astro/Exobiology

Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. (from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrobiology#Biology)

The term exobiology is similar but more specific — it covers the search for life beyond Earth, and the effects of extraterrestrial environments on living things.

http://alienlifeblog.blogspot.com/

Documentary: Alien Planet: Darwin IV

Tide Pool creature concept

This is a creature concept designed for the tide pool challenge on CGhub - Creature Planets 2D

"Tide pools are all about change. With each surge of water, this tiny world can change completely, showcasing different lifeforms adapted to handle low tide or high tide. This is a great place to explore creature design and really think about how a creature would need to adapt to survive in this ever changing environment."

Creature Design Analysis: Elesquid

Firstly, this design needs some narrative/environmental context against which it can be evaluated. The planet on which the design is based on is similar to the earth in most aspects, apart from the water/land ratio. There is far less dry land on the planet, however, it can be speculated that there was once more that has been covered by floods due to global warming. Gravity and all other forces of physics are the same as we experience here on earth.