[wtf_cl0vvn]

Incredible that no one's mentioned the Vasudan pinup yet...

Good work so far. Is there any anatomical difference between their males and females?

[jr2]

* jr2 has a few nice reference shots for you... stand by.

EDIT: Linky to thread.  2nd & 3rd to the last pics. 

[Mustang19]

We apparently see some female-voiced Vasudans in FS2 using the normal Vasudan head ANI. But IMO it's ridiculous to assume that the Vasudans have the same sexual dimorphism that we do, or that their evolutionary line even has two genders, as opposed to one, three, five, or whatever.

[Mars]

I don't think that's the point

[Gamma_Draconis]

I do not believe having 3+ genders is very efficient. 2 seems to be the perfect number. Gives the specie the ability to mix genetic information up without having to make it difficult to find a mate.

[Turey]

without having to make it difficult to find a mate.

like it isn't hard enough already...

[Cobra]

They may be asexual?

[Snail]

They may be asexual?

I hope so, I can't imagine two Vasudans screwing. (or rather, I wouldn't like to)

NO JAPONG, GO AWAY

[J.P.]

Well, after a long absence, I finally regained interest. I made a new Vasudan head. Today. And it's better than the last two.

The topology is better but the back end is still cluttered with to many faces. But this is by far the best Vasudan head I've done. Eventually I'll have to try to understand the concept of the neck and body, find reference pictures. Eventually I'll be able to to get it right using observation of the animations and such. But anyways check it out. Rather than pictures, I'm uploading the model so...

Right Click/Save as

For those of you who don't use blender, here's a .obj

Critique?

-J.P.

[Goober5000]

And for those of us who can't view either .blend or .obj files, how about a screenshot?

[Cobra]

J.P., the .blend file link doesn't work.

[J.P.]

There you go.

@Cobra: Wierd, worked for me. I just tried it.

-J.P.

[Galemp]

Nope, links not working here either.

[J.P.]

I'm not sure if this site will work. I just randomly searched for some places to upload. Try it and see if it works.

The .BLEND

The .OBJ

By the way, does anyone know what a vasudan neck looks like? I don't think it's the same as a human neck. For some reason I have the impression that there are three necks there. Anyone got a good picture from any of the pilot animations or something?

-J.P.

[Galemp]

Works now! had to be patient, but I got it.

[J.P.]

So what do people think? I'm positive there things I need to change now. I might need a better front reference. I managed to get the perfect side reference from the silent threat vasudan vs terran video. Right when he grabs the terran his head is in the perfect side view. So that's what I bases this off of.

I've seen pictures of the front and back at certain angles and I'm positive I'll have to mess around with the mesh, retopo some areas, reshape others. It's almost perfect.

I've put the model up for download so other people can edit it if they want to.

So critique?

-J.P.

[Goober5000]

The "protuberances" above his ears protrude too much.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Perhaps the headz video can help? You're doing well anyway