Tamriel Rebuilt

One I went to, Bodies, was real humans.

Yes, plastified human tissue.

It's getting a little macabre in here, methinks.

Why? It's purely scientific. althgohu I wouldn't like to have a ngiht shift as a security guard there

yep, it's all real humans, soaked in a weird plaster thing, frozen, cut up into slizes thinner than a millimeter, analyzed, then put back together.

and who said anything abouut macabre?

Me. I did. And it is. You are to the macabre what dark elves are to nymphomania

Chahiero has obviously missed you Dunmer pic Lutemoth!

There was something like that in Germany aswell, with dead real people just without their skin acting like a statue...

Had something to do with conservating bodies in some plastic aswell...

Quite spooked to me 2...

These, I made some time before.. But it'd help if I posted them here, for design purposes and such:
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Just a deity design for one of the lesser known gods that shape the mystique of Yoku god-myth:
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More of Emekh-i (Emkay, as it's vaugely known to imperials and laymen) later for you'se folks

Saw the top one on ESF.... very nice


And as per usual beautiful design. I like this bloke, he seems kinda shady, I like his eye slits being so low down in the circle.

And he's holding a couple of Totally Freakin' Awesome dollars or something! The merchant-god?

Actually he's God of Show Some Gold (also called Flick Your Cash). I'm not kidding.

This one really, really needs to be implemented as a statue somewhere. Best cameo ever!

a Morwha mask to help me get started on design, as I'd been severely putting off one of the greater gods for a while.
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Also, for fun I did an Ansu-Gurleht mask.. No basis for his face, I just wanted to do a Vehk face in yoku-style

The hole in the eye is too small. It's pretty hard to see something, while having that mask on your face. Looking good until now, as it always was!

considering they are the faces of gods, visual sight wouldn't matter much to one who is omnipotent, eh?

thankee very much, by the way

I've always been udner the impression these are masks. And have just considered the actual inadequacy of vision from the masks accepted throguh artistic license, as it were. I didn't realsie they were the actual faces.

Still as usual, imagintive and interesting Lute, I like the Ansu-Gurleht mask/face. Morwha is much better now, inafct she is awesome. Inafct she is a word not invented yet, so yer, I think that is one of my favourite of your gods, along side Tu' Whacca. Good job man.

They're masks you don't need to see through.

another one of those attempts at reinventing the wheel, I suppose. Should I make a pun on carriages?
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With a bit of help from my girlfriend (a veritable mistress of knowledge reguarding ye olde equus caballus), I got a somewhat convincing mountainous centaur around.

These centaur are based on shire draught horses, so lots of ker-fluffed hair at the feet, tail and head.. The crossing line on the bottom sketch is an average horse's shoulder height, so it's a monsterous thing. The hands are adapted hooves that form a callous three-fingered hand, able to manipulate rudimentary objects.

They rarely speak (if at all), and you're more likely to hear it roar. You could compare them to minotaurs, as they run in social herds and have capacity for sentient thought and abstract concepts.

It wouldn't be hard to make this guy, I suppose. If you could put him on the head of a stouted, enlarged horse model, you're set.

Leaving the awesomesauce that this latest piece is, minotaurs don't run around in packs, and TES lore pictures centaures as intelligent species. Now lemme put my jaw back in place...

That is so cool man. I love his forearm/ adapted hooves that you mentioned, they just make it so unusual. And his face looks really scabby and fine haired, which is nice, but, it's not how I'd imagine a shire horses centaur head, but I think it is prefect as is, because the face is excellent. And I love the fine hairs sprouting from his head. Animating the arms might be a bitch, but there's gonna be loads of problems with that before HF is finished!

That is as usual, another excellent concept from you. By the way, I know a lot of the anatomy is made up, but the torso is aweseom, and all the invented muscles, seem to fit in very well. Good job Lute!

Looking good

El Scumbago wrote:Leaving the awesomesauce that this latest piece is, minotaurs don't run around in packs, and TES lore pictures centaures as intelligent species. Now lemme put my jaw back in place...

Yeah, that was a bad comparison, wasn't it? I guess I was thinking on how textures would be placed, but anyways..

I always imagined that the centaur (or whatever Redguard call them here) as a different type of intelligence. One that could be easily misunderstood as barbaric nature. Of course, with abstract thought, they have the capability to understand symbols, statues, and dieties easily.

Your drawing fits almost perfectly with an account given by Argyl Beauchamp in 3E 378.

• And it was then that we came across a beast most marvelous to behold. 'Twas the fabled sennetar, most common in Valenwood and Colovia, but rumored, truthfully it seemed, to still inhabit the lower Dragontail slopes on the northern side.
  
  Its face was a marvelous mixture of Equestric and Aldmeric and at once seemed beautiful and hideous. On its head was hair like a horse's mane, but wild and long, some falling over its face like a veil. The yellowing eyes were focused on our little hunting party, a mixture of concentration and annoyance.
  
  It was covered in blackish-brown fur. In its right hand, if it could be called a hand for it were equally hoof-like, there was a long spear. Its body was slightly stouter and rounder than a horse's normally would be, and its hind legs were higher than its front. The front were also unique in that its hooves were much like hands, and appeared to have thumbs, some sort of strange mix between the foot of an Imga and the hoof of a horse.
  
  "Wa vusikala?" it said, scratching its side with its left front foot. Its voice was not like a horse's, but more like the sound of the forest itself. Crackling branches, falling trees, the rushing of a river. None in our party spoke Sentori, so we simply gazed on in a silent mixture of reverence and fear.
  
  Recieving no response, it slapped at a fly on its face and continued, "Tral burkrankla." This was fiercer and louder than its previous utterance, and it stomped the ground. We understood the meaning, we were not welcome on this part of the mountain. Master Gwylim nodded and bowed to the monster.
  
  Thankfully, it accepted his nicities. With a roar it turned and galloped into the mist. We made our way a few miles off before returning to the hunt.
  
  From the Beauchamp Public Archives in the Architiberion College of Historical Studies at the University of Gwylim.

In other words, a little anthropomorphism of the front feet and a slight arching of the hind legs might make it even more awesome.

I tried to make one of your swords... this is the model. In order for it to look good i need some textures... If you have some in mind for the blade be happy to apply them.
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Gwa! How did I not see this earlier?
I love it, quite frankly. To be honest, I completely forgot about those reference drawings I made, heheh. As far as textures go, the blade itself is fine by me. Perhaps the hilt a little more red? Other than that, I had no specifications in colour


also, something I had in my collections for a while, but neglected to update with..
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Sry forgot to update the picture.

Looks very deadly, nice model.

myah! the centaur is fat! *dials 1800-Jenny20* otherwise, awesome as always

great model there Ilidur, i think ive said that before though

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MK wrote:"Porcelain armor has exactly the exoticness that seems appropriate to the stone-worshipping people of the Hammerfell. Like glass armor, its name confounds expectations, which inherently pushes it into the fantastic (and look how glass armor is accepted nowadays). *Of course* raga porcelain is enchanted and blessed by the Gods through the hands of its craftsman, and thus a viable (and beneficial because of its lightness) form of protection. "And they mixed its powder with the milk of Morwha, the mother of all sands, and it stood firm, and sounded of small music as its porcelain scales shook with the wearer, and so did they sing along their ranks as they did in Old Yokuda among the saints." I would see these same scales painted each by hand as if in a mosaic, with ocean patterns that moved like the waves of the Eltheric, confusing the enemies of the sons and daughters of the orichalc isles. Warrior wave, indeed."

I liked the old one better, to be honest with you.

It might be better if the scales were larger and rather than being all blue, they had a wavelike pater on them.

It does look a bit chainmail-like. Also, it's really layered, and thick, I can see that being bloody hot which is a problem in making armour around here (most of my concepts suffer from it majorly ). I had imagined beautifully decorative full breastplates and large plate like pieces of china. It would be a shame not to see that lovely blue patterning you previewed - in detail, which would be too tiny to make out or texture nicely on those little "chips". Props on the helm though, i seriously dig that

Dig and props? What is my language coming to! Anyway, it's still a beautiful design, as always, and excellent job.

I agree, I like the first version better, although the art of this is beautiful. I love the pencil-pen combo you've been going with. Very professional. Actually, the only thing I don't like is the helm. Dunno, call me wacky. Though, I think perhaps in it's own light it's nice, but I don't think it matches the set. Anyway, perhaps this could be coined something else, and we could have both set's in-game? They both fit Hammerfell in their own way. Though, I do agree with Pound, this would be terribly hot. Perhaps it's a more northern set?

Either of the two versions would fit as a sort of duke's guard armour, something worn by the personal guards of a city ruler. I like the second version because it does fit MK's description, but I agree that, even though the plates are made of porcelain, it does look like a heavy version of the armour. I hope both of them end up in-game, along with the other Yoku armour that you designed, so that if I ever get Oblivion I can add them to my collection.

And I wonder why the two ceramic helmets remind me of the Dwemer, I think it's because the Morrowind Dwemer helm, though I haven't really looked at it for a while.

actually, I did have a northerly idea in mind, something to the east. But, it doesn't hold captive as the others, I still think it holds the war-raga in mind. To be honest, I had some weird inspiration when I drew that. My girlfriend had watched an Omar Sherif movie and a documentary movie of Ghengis Khan in one sitting. I guess that explains the odd layered design, but mind you, the pencils I was working with wouldn't accomodate a detailed image of gods, birds, snakes and warrior-wave all that well..

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going over some old Yoku designs, and recreating them.. Expect more like this in the future
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double post:
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Tuwhacca.. not much of a change, but eh

Triplepost.. I'm terrible, aren't I?

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Sep, the crazy snake god we all know and love

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Tantha: A very timid animal, one of a remarkable convergent evolution for arboreal quadripeds and birds. Like any species of the monkey family, it makes it's life mostly in trees, eating fruit, insects and whatever else in it's territory.
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a few images requested in the TR-IRC. More to come along the way

As much as I'd like to see you make the record, I'm going to have to cut you off and say fantastic job on the last few things you've posted, especially your new species exclusive to Hammerfell

Monkey-bird FTW!