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Sons of Orionby `ukitakumuki

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Sci-Fi

yes, this miniverse is sorta linked with the one in [link]

Went for bgrade retro film poster look

Thanks to Benqwek, my cosmic duststorm looks much less like a pollock filter. Still nasty, but I like it enough.

Another pet project I'm keeping. Might make a sequential some time! In short, this is about a team of hunters in a really sad future where mankind is forced to harvest extraterrestrial species to fuel the biosciences/pharmaceutical industry, keeping a dying Earth alive and looking forward to better days.

Yes of course there will be plenty of blood, guts [non species specific], sentry guns, frantic running, more running and people getting stomped on by 20 foot alien rhinos.

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Sons of Orion by `ukitakumuki
The future sure looks terrifiying, when humankind has to harvest extraterrestrial species for its own needs. ( Featured by `gucken )

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~vezun Nov 4, 2012

hella bad ass.

`ukitakumuki Nov 4, 2012

thanks!

~SirGodspeed Oct 26, 2012

Kinda makes me think of how I envisioned the Sardaukar to look the first time I read Dune.

Amazing stuff.

`ukitakumuki Nov 4, 2012

For real? Wow thanks. I personally love how Westwood did them in Dune II, well.. at least the minigun wielding harkonnen infantry..

~SirGodspeed Nov 12, 2012

I was kinda in a old-school sci-fi mental state at the time I read it - perhaps a bit Meobius-style art in there too (I had just read The Incal. - and it turned out he'd done some artwork for a failed movie adaptation as well.) So round shapes and a mix of high tech and antique was how I envisioned the Dune universe. When I saw the Harkonnen minigunners... well, I dunno. They seemed a bit too industrial and a bit too modern-military to me. A bit too "familiar", if you will. As in 90s sci-fi as opposed to the era of weirdly psychedelic sci-fi that Dune was written in. But that is of course just my "reader's vision".

Of course, yours aren't "weirdly psychedelic" in any way - but I love how they blend old weapons and advanced suits into this post-apocalyptic-like warrior look.

I guess that's one of the things about Dune that I liked (I wasn't so crazy about the characters, but that's just me); the grand scale of it all, and how our current creeds, beliefs and by extension our styles, sensibilities and prejudices had been completely outdated and forgotten; only for snippets to survive in completely new settings. I suppose I like the humbling feeling sci-fi on that scale can give you; that for all our achievements, all our grand designs, there is going to be a time when all we were will be forgotten, and entirely new things will be the crux of conflict and the center of ideologies.

But anyways - great work, sorry for rambling. XD

`ukitakumuki Nov 20, 2012

I hear you on the psychedelica SF. While hyper fresh and forward thinking for its time, I think audiences of today have been spoilt to the point they demand a golden ratio, if you will, of Familiar vs Fantasy where design is concerned. Doesn't help that the school of thought wove its way into entertainment design academies all across Hollywood.

I did enjoy reading through your thoughts on the theme of 'highbrow scifi', as I like to call it. They truly are the ones that, as you mentioned, evoke a sense of humility and awe that the 'harder' sci fi may not- as those tend to focus on different themes entirely, and in more familiar settings. At least in my experience.

~sby1delta18 Oct 23, 2012

i want to see more of these badass mutha f******

`ukitakumuki Nov 20, 2012

thanks! Its a personal project of mine that I hope to ressurect sometime!

~shtl Sep 9, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

haha! old school! love it man ! <3

`ukitakumuki Mar 1, 2013

I really ought to clear out my old DA notes ;_; thanks bro

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