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Dragoonfliy — Slakemoth WIP
Published: 2013-08-28 00:39:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 690; Favourites: 7; Downloads: 0
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A long overdue WIP of a Slakemoth (weirdly folded mind-sucking hypnotizing moth-things) from China Mieville's 'Perdido Street Station.'A WIP because I should really add a proper background and also it's crazy hypnotizing wings. The super ambitious part of me is like HAHA ANIMATE THE WINGS DO IT. But god knows I remember how long it took me to make other quick animated things and I scare myself off.
Any suggestions? I'm having issues with making sure it doesn't look too flat or dark, and I always have problems with digital texture.
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Whoa this is freaky and neat. ALL THE LIMBS.
A really easy way to animate psychedelic wings would be to draw crazy rainbow-patterned wings on a separate layer under the body, duplicate it, adjust the hue slider slightly, then duplicate THAT layer, wash rinse repeat until desired number of frames / the hue slider has gone full circle to the beginning. I dunno how the source material describes them, but I think if the wings have a symmetrical pattern that goes to a center, that would be pretty hypnotic.
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Thanks! Tried to stay as close to the original feel as possible. Too many limbs all reaching out to grab you, unfolding like some sort of freaky puzzle. A giant brain-sucking moth-monster puzzle.
As I recall (I'd have to reread though) it was like... Muted tones that shifted colors and patterns, and was symmetrical down the middle, like a big dark rainbow shifting ink-blot test.
I'd like to do so that the pattern changes and not only the color, which would mean LOTS of work. But I'll see. I need to get back into the swing of digital art first. 
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Maybe a little shading behind the... tongue... thing? The thing coming out of its mouth.
This is highly disturbing!
WAY TO GO!
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Thanks!
And yeah I'll definitely have to change that, it's looking a little flat. Not what I want out of weird brain-sucking tongue things.
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Everything looks really good! Though the only problem I have with the mouth (it looks a little flat), but even then I don't know what it's supposed to look like. I'm really looking forward to seeing the wings
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Obviously I haven't worked on this since school ended... :/
You're right about the tongue though. That's the number one fix, then I think I'll start the arduous effort of animating wings!
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