FINAL I ARTWAR 2 I 2D I Life Conservation Unit 07_Ash Walker I Niezniezgov

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Name : Nicolas Sitbon
email: nicolas.sitbon@free.fr
website : https://www.artstation.com/nicolas_sitbon
facebook : https://www.facebook.com/nicolas.sitbon.737

Hi everyone, as you can see i changed my concept along the way, so only the latest posts are relevant to the final concept.

After years of pollutions and degrading environment, the earth is atoxic wasteland, no rain anymore, only heavy gases that stay close tothe ground and a thick atmosphere. Humans left the Earth, only AI remain, they built some machines that are designed to maintain original indigenous life under dire conditions. They sustain the vegetal lifeform by providing light, CO² and shelter. They have long legs to elevate the subject above the heavy gases clouds and recycle the ambient airinto CO² that is blown on the plant and energy to power the lights. Ithas laser defense systems to take care of toxic lifeforms that are
attracted to the oxygen breathed out by the plant.

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Those thumbnails lookin goood broo! Cant wait to see more progress!

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Thanks cipskie !
Going more into the details of the armor

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linework of an overgrown war gorilla armor

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tried out colors ans textures

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I like the top right one. Good luck

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@Mana_Crystals thanks for the feedback, it's greatly appreciated !

Figuring out how will the plant creature will overgrow the armor; probably going with the bottom left "flower"

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The flower idea is definately visually appealing. But the issue I could see with it could be the concept. I mean, it kinda needs to be weaponized or explained with something else, rather than arbitrary overgrowth for something so specific and elaborate, right?
I mean, if you would see that creature in a game, what would you immediate thought be? It's that it's either a very dangerous weapon, or that it fulfills an important function, or that it's the creatures weakpoint.
And if it's the weak point, it's kinda weird how heavily armored he is, but not on his weakpoint. XD

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@snakebearer Thanks for the feeback ! Yeah that's true, i should have provided more informations on that. The flower is probably gonna be his biological weapon, like a poisonous spore exhaler, if i can't find a suitable solution for the flower design i will add a canon in the same style as the armor also overgrown

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Tried some various forms of flowers but i'm leaning toward the more mineral solution on the bottom left, the light makes it more alive than just a plant or eggs. They have various defensive functions,
the first 3 work the same way, they open to release spores,
the fourth has small "berries" like the yew that spit out a seed that acts like a spore grenade;
the fifth "mineral" flower is actually an alloy of natural materials and gases that produced this stone like rose. The petals are rooted in a pressured gas pocket, it can shoot out each solid petal like a mortar, once the projectile hits the ground, the exposed part of the petal (that was rooted in the gaz pocket) sublimes into a spores;
the sixth is also a spore projecting flower, remains open when passive but closes immediately after it spits out the gas
the seventh is simply small eggs that hatch and release spores;
the eighth is actually a hive completely covered by these thick leaves, that has antennas out that can detect pheromones or vibrations when the do, they retract and release a hive of insects

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Compositon for the illustration

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Illustration again, i'm gonna try to make it not too static

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Hey considering the extended deadline, i decided to do another proposition. After years of pollutions and degrading environment, the earth is a toxic wasteland, no rain anymore, only heavy gases that stay close to the ground and a thick atmosphere. Human left the Earth, only AIs remain, they built some machines that are designed to maintain original indigenous life under dire conditions. They have long legs to elevate the lifeform above the heavy gases clouds and recycle the ambient air into CO² that is blown on the plant and energy to power the lights. It has laser defense systems to take care of toxic lifeforms that are attracted to the oxygen breathed out by the plant

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Trying to determine the details and the functional structure

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Considering the approaching deadline i'm working on everything at the same time, i solved design problems early on so that i wouldn't have to worry by now

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Here's the illustration