WIP, For A Design For Robots, For My My Setting Union Station. There's A Human Civilization Which Is
WIP, for a design for robots, for my my setting Union Station. There's a human civilization which is ruled over by a network of AI and other intelligent machines, The Central Service Grid (CSG) and I wanted to make some high tech looking robots that were not android, as for one I don't really like overly human-like robots and two most robots are made by the CSG which generally values function over form most of the time.
I'm not entirely happy with the design, but i think its pointing in the right direction.
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I usually don't reblog stuff to this blog but this feels relevant to my project and I'd like to share. The link is broken but if found a good website with excerpt from it : https://www.urticator.net/essay/0/19.html
look, I know I've talked about this essay (?) before but like,
If you ever needed a good demonstration of the quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", have I got an exercise for you.
Somebody made a small article explaining the basics of atomic theory but it's written in Anglish. Anglish is basically a made-up version of English where they remove any elements (words, prefixes, etc) that were originally borrowed from romance languages like french and latin, as well as greek and other foreign loanwords, keeping only those of germanic origin.
What happens is an english which is for the most part intelligible, but since a lot everyday english, and especially the scientific vocabulary, has has heavy latin and greek influence, they have to make up new words from the existing germanic-english vocabulary. For me it kind of reads super viking-ey.
Anyway when you read this article on atomic theory, in Anglish called Uncleftish Beholding, you get this text which kind of reads like a fantasy novel. Like in my mind it feels like it recontextualizes advanced scientific concepts to explain it to a viking audience from ancient times.
Even though you're familiar with the scientific ideas, because it bypasses the normal language we use for these concepts, you get a chance to examine these ideas as if you were a visitor from another civilization - and guess what, it does feel like it's about magic. It has a mythical quality to it, like it feels like a book about magic written during viking times. For me this has the same vibe as reading deep magic lore from a Robert Jordan book.
Art practice, I've been working on cleaning up my anatomy, there are some parts which are still very much wonky, but its better than before.
Old art - Comics
A short webcomic I made for the WOMBATS, a local art group I used to be apart of. It was a fun little project to make, and the characters are very much inspired by Miis.
drew my caves of qud character and a few other critter things. Decided it was time to dust of my fine-liners and do some line art.
The Battle of Neptune IV by Oliver Cuthbertson
Some sketches of a race of avian aliens i’m calling the proto-shina for a story/comic thing that been sitting in my head for a long time. Their an extinct species but are very influential in setting. (don’t have a proper name yet). They evolved on a dying world and at the height of their civilization technological prowess their star basically went super nova and blew up their planet. They weren’t an FTL capable species, and had tech that was a bit more advanced than our modern day world, think near future or cyberpunk. So as a way to have some sort of remembrance of their civilization they opted to choose a few select members of their species to have their minds copied and made into AIs. I was messing around with trying to design what a robotic version of their facial features might look like.
