Any plans to get the Ortnok a new look?

[Ildamos]

I used to remember saying that the Orts just look like guys on steroids who are wearing body paint. Any plans of overhauling their models?

[BTAxis]

No plans, but if you (or anyone else) can produce better looking models, that would certainly be nice.

[Ildamos]

I can't do 3D but I can certainly do concept art for it.

For now, I can't commit to making it since I still have the Bloodspider to draw and some components of my (VERY late) XVI Census painting to polish (you still might want to use several of its XCF layers) but I just wanted to know if it's open.

Ecstatic to hear it's still open; the thing wears no armor of any kind and it's simple that it clearly screams "I need more work!" Thanks BT! Will get on it soon as I'm done. (The company's making me read a book this week so no go for now. Will get on it soon as this imminent executive committee's meeting is done...)

[BTAxis]

We have armoured versions of the Ortnoks.

[Ildamos]

Whoa! I haven't met any of those. Is there an image of them somewhere in your database? Thanks.

EDIT: Nvm. I found it. (http://ufoai.ninex.info/gallery/game-characters/alien003.jpg.php) Still needs a bit of work.

[Ildamos]

Had a meeting with the CEO this lunch time. Drew a very rough conceptual art of how I see Ortnoks during the meeting. Hopefully I can scan it tomorrow and drop it here. (Note: it was drawn on those things they put below your plate and utensils.)

[BTAxis]

A table.

[Ildamos]

Very funny.

I meant a paper place mat. Don't expect anything approaching any of my finished work (http://thefivepillars.org/art/J_A_Pimentel/images/clockworkdragon_finished.jpg) as it's a rough sketch.

[BTAxis]

Thanks. And your link doesn't work for me, says "denied".

[Ildamos]

Hmm odd. Mattn got that one too. I dunno what he did but he finally saw the pics. (Try copy-pasting.)

Mind you, although mine, those are ones I gave to another game. It's not the Ortnok.

[BTAxis]

Yeah, copy-pasting the link helped. I think the server may not like it being linked from a different webpage.

Cool image.

[Ildamos]

Thanks.

I'm off to another meeting so I'm having someone scan the sketch. Will hopefully make a more refined one this weekend.

(About the bloodspider, I'm rethinking my design as --- with its eyes and probes --- it ended up looking like  a sentinel from the Matrix universe.  )

[Ildamos]

Here it is.

TAKE NOTE THAT THIS IS JUST A QUICK SKETCH.

I want to emphasize that they are huge but are lower in the ranks. (Am I right?) I also want to emphasize more armor weight in the shoulder-back area giving a hint that they are a subservient race (cannon fodder working for the smarter Tamans). The spines on its back have lights on them and I fancy they can be used to interface with machinery once in the UFOs to secure them. They also have this holo-rings in front of their faces (near the neckline area) that streams instructions from their Taman masters. The lines in their armor glow (as I seem to remember one of the devs took a fancy to several video game models one of the volunteer artists showed).

I am not well-versed in UFO: AI lore so of course this sketch is subject to changes as I learn in-depth what an Ortnok is.



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[BTAxis]

Storywise there are no "ranks" among the aliens, but stats-wise the Ortnoks are meant to be the shock troops. They're relatively slow, but tough. So in that sense I think you're thinking along the right lines.

[vedrit]

Just being nitpicky, but storywise or not, there will always be "ranks", thats just how things work out. A "queen" ruler, all the way down to the "cannon fodder".

But I agree that this is a good concept shot of the Ortnok