EndlessCrashes wrote:

Mithrill wrote:

A little more of my draws:

The Protector:

An interesting design there, what exactly is within that thing, a giant seed or a crystal?  Perhaps a description would help us understand it better. 

It's a kind of baloon, as The Protector is rather an airship than a classical plane. I have no more idea to let giant sentient tree fly. ,,Wings'' are small solar sails to provide energy for weapon. It's basically inspired by an Overlord desing from Starcraft II, I've just made it more tree-
-looking and equipped it in guns.

I've done my composite image, just asking my duck peers to check my descriptions... 

Showing off an almost ready to be finalized small ship variant this time. All the drawings I've posted still need a couple touch ups and coloring, both of which I will be doing on my computer after I've used a scanner to ready the finished product via digital editing on Wednesday.

BlackBird1696 what I like about your ship design is that the bow/front resemble the head of your population pic.

EndlessCrashes wrote:

I have been enjoying the creativity of the recent entries, as they are straying from the typical Treefolk look.  But I'm gonna have to go back to Hinin's entry which gives a logical reason for the humanoid shape, as well as look more "diplomatic pacifist" than most others.  And people complaining about the color palette, well I'd say his ideas are pretty colorful compared to the average Ent style.  I can imagine all these giant tree ships suddenly uprooting from the ground and floating into the sky to form a defensive armada.

Thank you for your feedback EndlessCrashes. I've modified the soldier to make it a little more menacing (and to add the dust fireflies that we can see around the civilian).

I would have liked to see more feedback for my pictures : except you and DigitalHawk96, all I had was : wow, sunflowers...

(if you want to see them, they are page 2)

Interesting work on colors to show perspective better.

@Blackbird1696: I find the sunflower bits really distracting, to be honest. It's hard to think of something else than "this is a big bark dude with sunflowers for head and hands, which is too familiar territory for me to interpret it as anything else but the sum of its parts. By contrast, I like the idea behind your civilian unit a lot better.

Unrelated, but important:

We are pushing the deadline to this Friday, 4PM CEST. We'll be exceedingly busy tomorrow anyway launching the Tempest closed beta, so you guys get an extra 24hrs. If you have anything you'd like to change to an existing submission, simply resend an e-mail with the same title, and it'll be taken into account.

What about the question of word count ? Do we have to submit 5 * 50 words or 250 words in any chunk we feek like ?

Apologies, I read your question, thought about it, and forgot to address it altogether.

Feel free to split your 250 words whichever way you think does your submission justice (just make sure to send it as plain text, and not written on your image. The text will go next to the submission).

Frogsquadron wrote:

I find the sunflower bits really distracting, to be honest. It's hard to think of something else than "this is a big bark dude with sunflowers for head and hands"

Perhaps that is Hinin's intention?  Giant soldiers with flower heads lumbering through the battlefield could act as a psychological method of distraction and pacification to enemy soldiers.

Sovereign wrote:

So many great artists here. A special hello to Uriak I can well remember your submission for the visuals design for cultist. Nice to see you.

There are so many great artists here  that its kinda intimidating. I started drawing some ships with my non existant drawing skills but I think now that
I will not participate as I dont think I have the skills to draw a civilian and a soldier.

I rather grand my voting points to the artist I believe in.

But I still want to show my ideas and even though  very bad sketches here with you

 just for fun.

The Stage is for the professionals but what speaks against it that I still share my humble work  and ideas here?

I had the idea that the Unfallen would grow giant exemplares of them. Trees with nano carbon tubes bork being able to grow so tall

that they would reach the lower orbit of a planet. From there on they would catapult seeds which where frozen due the low temperatures of the high height.

Those seeds would be covered by a special resin which enables them to survive the void of the endless space.

Using catapult mechanism which can be found throughout our nature.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsIojj4PzAo

The seeds would be catapulted by intent by those giant Unfallen into the direction of an asteroid belt where the seeds could use them as basis for their roots and ultimately grow

to large spacecraft using the minerals and metals of the asteroid as nourishment.

These are some excellent and inventive ideas you have for the Unfallen contruction process. I really like the idea of them utilising the minerals from asteroids in their ships.

Nice works !

I'm kinda feeling like I completed the whole sheet, though some people feel the dreadnought lacks something. I've got a hard time deciding upon what to add since it would hide the front vines. I'll put my descriptions once I've settled on them tomorrow

Interesting work on colors to show perspective better.

@Blackbird1696: I find the sunflower bits really distracting, to be honest. It's hard to think of something else than "this is a big bark dude with sunflowers for head and hands, which is too familiar territory for me to interpret it as anything else but the sum of it

Wait what? What sunflower? Are you sure you didn't mean to comment on Hinin's post?

Sovereign wrote:

So many great artists here. A special hello to Uriak I can well remember your submission for the visuals design for cultist. Nice to see you.

There are so many great artists here  that its kinda intimidating. I started drawing some ships with my non existant drawing skills but I think now that
I will not participate as I dont think I have the skills to draw a civilian and a soldier.

I rather grand my voting points to the artist I believe in.

But I still want to show my ideas and even though  very bad sketches here with you

 just for fun.

The Stage is for the professionals but what speaks against it that I still share my humble work  and ideas here?

I had the idea that the Unfallen would grow giant exemplares of them. Trees with nano carbon tubes bork being able to grow so tall

that they would reach the lower orbit of a planet. From there on they would catapult seeds which where frozen due the low temperatures of the high height.

Those seeds would be covered by a special resin which enables them to survive the void of the endless space.

Using catapult mechanism which can be found throughout our nature.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsIojj4PzAo

The seeds would be catapulted by intent by those giant Unfallen into the direction of an asteroid belt where the seeds could use them as basis for their roots and ultimately grow

to large spacecraft using the minerals and metals of the asteroid as nourishment.

It;s such a shame you're not going to be completing this entry, since so far you've put the most thought into your designs. I do hope you consider finishing it.

Just finished the medium ship design. Now all that's left is to finish the soldier, do some touch ups and updates to the other ships, and to color them.

Some very cool designs in the latest previews here.  Its nice to see all the variety!