Another update on the Catori, worked on the details a bit and took down the lighting from the previous version.

This is the latest update for the Menewa image. I added more snow and more atmosphere giving more interest to the piece, hope you like it...

Heres an update for the Catori image, just added some snow and touched up the contrast.

This is another image I've been working on, this is the Catori a predator on the ice planet of Kreth who is used to hunt in packs.

I was thinking the Catori with its powerful legs runs at an impressive speed and attacks using its lower jaw to jab at its prey.

The Catori to survive in this ice planet filled with liquid nitrogen has developed a blue aerogel-like tissue to counter the freezing temperatures of Kreth. The blue bubbles you see on the Catori's back is the aerogel peeking through the exterior layer of the skin.

I imagine this creature to dwell mostly on flat plains of Kreth living in packs like lions and preying on antelope type creatures who venture nearby.

As promised here is an update for the Menewa full body render. Just playing around with colour and adding snow to the image.

Im liking the colour in this image as it more resembles the freezing temperatures of Kreth. For the next update I want to finalise this image by tightening up the details as well as add a few bits and pieces to Menewa's costume.

This is a full body render of Menewa, the main character of my story, after talking to my teacher I decided to fix the pose and some of the left arm. Il post the previous version so you can see the differences made with this one.

For this image I want to add abit more to the character maybe a knife or some equipment. Also I want to play around with the colour just to see if I get something more interesting happening. Will post updates soon

This is another key shot, showing Menewa turning to find a Trion soldier coming straight at him. This shot takes place after the Trion invasion and its when all citizens of the ice planet Kreth are being taken prisoner including Menewa and the mountain people.

For this image I again used a lot of reference from James Gurney section on night time rendering to get the dark snowy atmosphere. This painting really opened my eyes to see colour

The ice planet I wanted show has an abundance of liquid nitrogen. For this painting I imagine theres a liquid nitrogen lake of river near by releasing all the fog seen in the image.

Also I painted in these spheres on the trees, Im thinking that the trees over time have developed these bubble like "blisters" on its surface indicating a large amount of nitrogen being accumulated in that particular area. I also took that idea further and placed these plants with these chimney looking things spewing nitrogen gas into the atmosphere adding to the heavy fog.

I want to add further details like some snow falling and even some rocks and things to break up the ground a little bit, but for now hope you enjoy!

Here is a full body render of the bio armour Menewa puts on. It turn out to be the key to Kepler and the only way to escape.

This armour has enough energy to open up wormholes and travel large distances, it also isn't affected by Kepler's low tech zone.

Here is an update of one of the paintings iv been working on. Iv added a few details to the Trion and a force field protecting it from the surrounding environment. As well warping the arm of the Pronaxian as soon as it passes through.

Here is a key scene for my story. In this painting I wanted to show an invasion of highly advanced aliens spreading destruction to a lesser civilisation. The figures in the centre(the Trions) use a space warping force field to cause the weapons of the Pronanxians to malfunction and misfire, while at the same time using it as a shield.

Here is an update of the bio armour render post from a few weeks ago.

Just a few subtle changes nothing major, I made the face more symmetrical as well as sharpen a few small details.

This is a close up of The Warden, the ruler of Kepler. In the story The Warden is enhanced with nano technology provided by Sovereign in order to find the Grand Master. However over countless years he has failed to locate him and has grown frustrated and desperate to find him.

All painted in Photoshop took me about a day to finish.

This is the final render for Menewas (main character) face. Inspired by a giant turtle.
I used mudbox to sculpt the basic form and then used photoshop to paint over the model.