http://search.deviantart.com/?q=gallery:abiogenisis/21184677&section= deviantART RSS for gallery:abiogenisis/21184677 en-us Copyright 2013, deviantART.com Wed, 22 May 2013 16:31:17 PDT deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://st.deviantart.net/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Junkers-J-1-3-345443592 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Junkers-J-1-3-345443592 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 06:47:45 PST Junkers J.1 - 3 nonadult traditional/sculpture/models Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 *Abiogenisis
The A-10 of its day, apparently they were so well armoured none were ever taken down by enemy fire. ]]>
The A-10 of its day, apparently they were so well armoured none were ever taken down by enemy fire.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Junkers-J-1-2-345443450 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Junkers-J-1-2-345443450 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 06:46:32 PST Junkers J.1 - 2 nonadult traditional/sculpture/models Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 *Abiogenisis
The A-10 of its day, apparently they were so well armoured none were ever taken down by enemy fire. ]]>
The A-10 of its day, apparently they were so well armoured none were ever taken down by enemy fire.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Junkers-J-1-345443357 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Junkers-J-1-345443357 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 06:45:41 PST Junkers J.1 nonadult traditional/sculpture/models Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 *Abiogenisis
The A-10 of its day, apparently they were so well armoured none were ever taken down by enemy fire. ]]>
The A-10 of its day, apparently they were so well armoured none were ever taken down by enemy fire.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/The-Birth-of-Fire-341327521 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/The-Birth-of-Fire-341327521 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 07:33:12 PST The Birth of Fire adult digitalart/paintings/fantasy Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 *Abiogenisis
Wedge-tailed eagles, which long ago learned of this cycle of gathering and destruction, roost on her ancient body each year to await the birth of fire, and swoop down on the myriad little creatures fleeing the advancing flames. ]]>
Wedge-tailed eagles, which long ago learned of this cycle of gathering and destruction, roost on her ancient body each year to await the birth of fire, and swoop down on the myriad little creatures fleeing the advancing flames.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/The-Second-Instar-338923357 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/The-Second-Instar-338923357 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 06:45:20 PST The Second Instar nonadult digitalart/paintings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 *Abiogenisis
You can see the making of this image here: [link]

Prints Available. ]]>
You can see the making of this image here: [link]

Prints Available.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Needlejaw-337872340 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Needlejaw-337872340 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 06:54:35 PST Needlejaw nonadult digitalart/paintings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 *Abiogenisis [link] soon!]

The Needlejaw is a 4 foot tall quadrupedal omnivore inhabiting the dense red-leaved woodlands of a small fertile world. During the forty-hour periods of daylight it divides its time between resting, and tracking down fruits and soft plants with its keen sense of a smell, peircing them with its hardened rostrum and sucking out the fluids.

As darkness descends however, its behaviour changes dramatically: Antennae previously held furled against the head are deployed and are able to detect the infrared radiation given off by its warm-blooded prey in the darkening forest. Using its slender legs and light build, the Needlejaw stalks silently until near enough to strike, driving its pointed beak downward with enough force to pierce tough skin and inject potent toxins and enzymes. The wounded prey is then tracked by the Needlejaws’ keen sense of smell, and drained of its body fluids by a strong muscular pharynx.

Powerful, sharp edged claws usually held flat against the chest are used to manipulate prey to facilitate feeding, or to tear open organs and other tough tissues. They are also utilised in carrying prey to a safer feeding location, where it will be protected from other, larger predators.

This ability; to exploit different food resources during both day and night cycles, has allowed the Needlejaws to diversify greatly, and the group is found in large numbers in many habitats across the planet. ]]> [link] soon!]

The Needlejaw is a 4 foot tall quadrupedal omnivore inhabiting the dense red-leaved woodlands of a small fertile world. During the forty-hour periods of daylight it divides its time between resting, and tracking down fruits and soft plants with its keen sense of a smell, peircing them with its hardened rostrum and sucking out the fluids.

As darkness descends however, its behaviour changes dramatically: Antennae previously held furled against the head are deployed and are able to detect the infrared radiation given off by its warm-blooded prey in the darkening forest. Using its slender legs and light build, the Needlejaw stalks silently until near enough to strike, driving its pointed beak downward with enough force to pierce tough skin and inject potent toxins and enzymes. The wounded prey is then tracked by the Needlejaws’ keen sense of smell, and drained of its body fluids by a strong muscular pharynx.

Powerful, sharp edged claws usually held flat against the chest are used to manipulate prey to facilitate feeding, or to tear open organs and other tough tissues. They are also utilised in carrying prey to a safer feeding location, where it will be protected from other, larger predators.

This ability; to exploit different food resources during both day and night cycles, has allowed the Needlejaws to diversify greatly, and the group is found in large numbers in many habitats across the planet.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/ACU-Copperhead-334408369 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/ACU-Copperhead-334408369 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 08:22:34 PDT ACU - Copperhead nonadult digitalart/paintings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 *Abiogenisis
Copperheads takes orders from a designated field commander either via vocal instruction or mobile communication devices, engaging targets with a series of integrated weapons systems: Small missiles, launched from interchangeable piggybacked pods, can hammer vehicles and structures from great distances. The primary punch however comes from two arm mounted high intensity laser emitters: The robot’s battery feeds energy to large cylindrical capacitors on the lower arms, which in turn supply power to the lasers mounted above. These lasers can dispense energy at intensities ranging from harmless visible light, to enough power to punch holes through tanks.

With the battery almost depleted, the robot enters a low power mode, settling on its hover pads to conserve energy while the upper body is still able to defend its position as a stationary turret. It can then be either recharged in the field, or evacuated via land or air vehicles to a field servicing facility. ]]>
Copperheads takes orders from a designated field commander either via vocal instruction or mobile communication devices, engaging targets with a series of integrated weapons systems: Small missiles, launched from interchangeable piggybacked pods, can hammer vehicles and structures from great distances. The primary punch however comes from two arm mounted high intensity laser emitters: The robot’s battery feeds energy to large cylindrical capacitors on the lower arms, which in turn supply power to the lasers mounted above. These lasers can dispense energy at intensities ranging from harmless visible light, to enough power to punch holes through tanks.

With the battery almost depleted, the robot enters a low power mode, settling on its hover pads to conserve energy while the upper body is still able to defend its position as a stationary turret. It can then be either recharged in the field, or evacuated via land or air vehicles to a field servicing facility.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Piersons-Puppeteer-332178264 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Piersons-Puppeteer-332178264 Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:25:15 PDT Piersons' Puppeteer nonadult digitalart/paintings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 *Abiogenisis
Commissioned by [link] ]]>
Commissioned by [link]

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Abdul-Muhsi-330793636 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Abdul-Muhsi-330793636 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 07:28:26 PDT Abdul-Muhsi nonadult digitalart/drawings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 *Abiogenisis
Launched from inexpensive single-use rockets in North Africa and South America, the drone blasts into orbit to intercept enemy targets. As it enters range, the protective shell of the launch vehicle falls away to reveal the weapon systems. If the target attempts to defend itself a small countermeasure capsule rockets away, taking guided missiles with it. When within striking distance the high powered laser opens fire on the objective, destroying it by superheating the fuel tanks or electrical systems.

With the laser fired, the power systems are fused and can never be used again. The drone then fires its engines one last time and enters a decaying orbit, destroying itself as it re-enters the atmosphere. Although expensive compared to simply launching a missile, the Abdul-Muhsi enjoys some success as it is immune to most anti-missile countermeasures, and with its long range laser does not have to be launched accurately to destroy its target. ]]>
Launched from inexpensive single-use rockets in North Africa and South America, the drone blasts into orbit to intercept enemy targets. As it enters range, the protective shell of the launch vehicle falls away to reveal the weapon systems. If the target attempts to defend itself a small countermeasure capsule rockets away, taking guided missiles with it. When within striking distance the high powered laser opens fire on the objective, destroying it by superheating the fuel tanks or electrical systems.

With the laser fired, the power systems are fused and can never be used again. The drone then fires its engines one last time and enters a decaying orbit, destroying itself as it re-enters the atmosphere. Although expensive compared to simply launching a missile, the Abdul-Muhsi enjoys some success as it is immune to most anti-missile countermeasures, and with its long range laser does not have to be launched accurately to destroy its target.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Galkgrokst-Head-Study-323886714 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Galkgrokst-Head-Study-323886714 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 06:14:29 PDT Galkgrokst Head Study nonadult digitalart/paintings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 *Abiogenisis
Part 2 of 2, Part 1 here: [link] ]]>
Part 2 of 2, Part 1 here: [link]

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Galkgrokst-Anatomy-323886520 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Galkgrokst-Anatomy-323886520 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 06:12:48 PDT Galkgrokst Anatomy nonadult digitalart/paintings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 *Abiogenisis
Second image is here: [link] ]]>
Second image is here: [link]

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Commission-Hairy-Truppon-322309507 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Commission-Hairy-Truppon-322309507 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:52:39 PDT [Commission] - Hairy Truppon nonadult digitalart/paintings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 *Abiogenisis [link]

The vast forests of the ringed planet Sor’ are by no means safe during the day but with the right knowledge and through sticking to ones own territory a sentient can usually avoid the dangerous predators that stalk it. By night however…all chaos breaks loose as the skies become a total blood bath, the ferociously violent hunts of aerial predators being so frenzied that one would assume such hunting activity would create a totally unbalanced and unsustainable food chain what with how many creatures (both grazers and hunters themselves) are consumed, but days and nights on Sor’ are shorter than on earth meaning there is less time for the carnage to ensue.

Underneath the forest canopy where cover and hiding places are more plentiful the terrifying assortment of life forms that roam the eerie night have evolved to be more stealthy and devious in their nature. Many have developed hyper advanced senses and are so stealthy one might never see the predators sneak up on them before their flesh is literally being torn into – even if the creature in question is vast, such as the huge Hairy Truppon in this picture. For some scale of its size the spiral shaped vegetation seen both at the edges of the picture and close by it are around the size of a tall human.

This particular individual has encountered a group of the much smaller Drakar’ or Dragons whom were taking shelter in a cluster of the mysterious centuries or more old cylinder shaped ruins that litter certain parts of the forest along with other relics and mysteries. The function of these huge structures as well as the identity of whichever race that built them remains a mystery.

The Hairy Truppon despite its insect like appearance is actually of the same reptile like animal class (though this family possesses mammal-like characteristics such as being warm blooded and suckling their young in a manner) as Triphons and Dragons. However it has traded in its toes and fingers as well as wings for six limbs that each end in - and are mostly made up of a huge razor sharp barb that it walks on. These vicious replacements for feet not only elevate it off the ground to appear even bigger than it already is so as to intimidate would be predators but because of how small the tip of each barb is – when it moves the hunter is literally as silent as an insect scurrying along the ground and cannot be heard – even when sprinting up right behind you… on the rare occasion that it needs to sprint at all…

If one looks closely at its head they’ll realise it is simply the devolved upper jaw of what was once a reptilian face that now lacks a mouth completely (skin has grown over what would have been the roof of its mouth). Skin has also grown over where its eyes, ears and nose would be. To breathe gill shaped openings are at the back of its head. Replacing its eyes, nose and ears is a cluster of excruciatingly sensitive sensory organs for smell and hearing, concealed within tubes that are withdrawn into pores in its head when not in use as the price for their sensitivity comes at being incredibly delicate. These hyper advanced sensory organs can sniff out the exact location of prey hiding in the trees up to a mile away and its said amongst locals that Hairy Truppons don’t look for their meals – they merely walk about for a while already knowing where everything is hiding but simply trying to decide who to eat tonight.

Hairy Truppons (the largest species of the Truppon family) get their name from the excruciatingly long thin white hairs covering their bodies that both silence their approach further by gently brushing vegetation aside and are also covered in sensitive nerve bundles so the creature is aware of its surroundings despite lacking vision. To further the animals knowledge of its surroundings it also travels along sensory trails that its advanced smell sensors can detect and through these it is able to know exactly which part of the forest its in – its phenomenal smell also comes in handy when avoiding its own predators and rather than possessing many defences Truppons simply sprint away whenever they catch the faintest the faintest whiff of a distant predator.

Because it lacks sophisticated hunting techniques and is a solitary animal its intelligence is not incredibly high but it is still roughly as smart as an intelligent canine though possessing a different mentality due to not living in a pack. It can communicate with other members of its kind to a rudimentary level through releasing hormones but this communication is almost entirely limited to attracting mates, warding off would be rivals and releasing a warning when predators are close by.

A Hairy Truppon is relatively weak for its size, and though they will sometimes take prey out in the open they are mainly adapted to in fact cornering maternal prey that has taken shelter from the night in their dens. An individual sniffs (and occasionally hears) out its prey and after honing in on its location it then creeps up towards the creatures den with an eerie knowledge of the preys line of sight so that it can stay out of it until the last moment when it must position itself in front of the hidden dens entrance. It then rears up on its hind legs and digs its front four barbs through the side of the shelter to lock its body against the den before pressing its entire chest against the entrance to seal off escape.

Grotesquely its chest then bursts open to reveal its stomach which has evolved rubbery lips that can part like a mouth, and through millennia of mutation excess intestines now uncoiled and slightly hardened, ending in claw like teeth whip out with lightening speed to grab prey and drag it towards the ominous mouth stomach. Although prey might loose much of their skin to the serrated teeth its usually still alive and screaming as its thrust into the mouth shaped stomach to be digested alive.

The Hairy Truppon is a truly terrifying predator feared by all for its uncanny ability to sneak right up to the entrance of ones shelter without notice despite its vast size, and the unnerving belief that even when you don’t know where it is out in the forest- it always knows where you are regardless of whether it chooses to eat you that night or not.




The Shades of Red saga is in the second stage of editing, after three years of being written, and a website with more information will be up soon. All elements of the Shades of Red world, including the Triphons are copyright by Alex Hatton. For additional information as well as to see the rest of the sketches for the saga contact multi_coloured_alex@hotmail.com ]]> [link]

The vast forests of the ringed planet Sor’ are by no means safe during the day but with the right knowledge and through sticking to ones own territory a sentient can usually avoid the dangerous predators that stalk it. By night however…all chaos breaks loose as the skies become a total blood bath, the ferociously violent hunts of aerial predators being so frenzied that one would assume such hunting activity would create a totally unbalanced and unsustainable food chain what with how many creatures (both grazers and hunters themselves) are consumed, but days and nights on Sor’ are shorter than on earth meaning there is less time for the carnage to ensue.

Underneath the forest canopy where cover and hiding places are more plentiful the terrifying assortment of life forms that roam the eerie night have evolved to be more stealthy and devious in their nature. Many have developed hyper advanced senses and are so stealthy one might never see the predators sneak up on them before their flesh is literally being torn into – even if the creature in question is vast, such as the huge Hairy Truppon in this picture. For some scale of its size the spiral shaped vegetation seen both at the edges of the picture and close by it are around the size of a tall human.

This particular individual has encountered a group of the much smaller Drakar’ or Dragons whom were taking shelter in a cluster of the mysterious centuries or more old cylinder shaped ruins that litter certain parts of the forest along with other relics and mysteries. The function of these huge structures as well as the identity of whichever race that built them remains a mystery.

The Hairy Truppon despite its insect like appearance is actually of the same reptile like animal class (though this family possesses mammal-like characteristics such as being warm blooded and suckling their young in a manner) as Triphons and Dragons. However it has traded in its toes and fingers as well as wings for six limbs that each end in - and are mostly made up of a huge razor sharp barb that it walks on. These vicious replacements for feet not only elevate it off the ground to appear even bigger than it already is so as to intimidate would be predators but because of how small the tip of each barb is – when it moves the hunter is literally as silent as an insect scurrying along the ground and cannot be heard – even when sprinting up right behind you… on the rare occasion that it needs to sprint at all…

If one looks closely at its head they’ll realise it is simply the devolved upper jaw of what was once a reptilian face that now lacks a mouth completely (skin has grown over what would have been the roof of its mouth). Skin has also grown over where its eyes, ears and nose would be. To breathe gill shaped openings are at the back of its head. Replacing its eyes, nose and ears is a cluster of excruciatingly sensitive sensory organs for smell and hearing, concealed within tubes that are withdrawn into pores in its head when not in use as the price for their sensitivity comes at being incredibly delicate. These hyper advanced sensory organs can sniff out the exact location of prey hiding in the trees up to a mile away and its said amongst locals that Hairy Truppons don’t look for their meals – they merely walk about for a while already knowing where everything is hiding but simply trying to decide who to eat tonight.

Hairy Truppons (the largest species of the Truppon family) get their name from the excruciatingly long thin white hairs covering their bodies that both silence their approach further by gently brushing vegetation aside and are also covered in sensitive nerve bundles so the creature is aware of its surroundings despite lacking vision. To further the animals knowledge of its surroundings it also travels along sensory trails that its advanced smell sensors can detect and through these it is able to know exactly which part of the forest its in – its phenomenal smell also comes in handy when avoiding its own predators and rather than possessing many defences Truppons simply sprint away whenever they catch the faintest the faintest whiff of a distant predator.

Because it lacks sophisticated hunting techniques and is a solitary animal its intelligence is not incredibly high but it is still roughly as smart as an intelligent canine though possessing a different mentality due to not living in a pack. It can communicate with other members of its kind to a rudimentary level through releasing hormones but this communication is almost entirely limited to attracting mates, warding off would be rivals and releasing a warning when predators are close by.

A Hairy Truppon is relatively weak for its size, and though they will sometimes take prey out in the open they are mainly adapted to in fact cornering maternal prey that has taken shelter from the night in their dens. An individual sniffs (and occasionally hears) out its prey and after honing in on its location it then creeps up towards the creatures den with an eerie knowledge of the preys line of sight so that it can stay out of it until the last moment when it must position itself in front of the hidden dens entrance. It then rears up on its hind legs and digs its front four barbs through the side of the shelter to lock its body against the den before pressing its entire chest against the entrance to seal off escape.

Grotesquely its chest then bursts open to reveal its stomach which has evolved rubbery lips that can part like a mouth, and through millennia of mutation excess intestines now uncoiled and slightly hardened, ending in claw like teeth whip out with lightening speed to grab prey and drag it towards the ominous mouth stomach. Although prey might loose much of their skin to the serrated teeth its usually still alive and screaming as its thrust into the mouth shaped stomach to be digested alive.

The Hairy Truppon is a truly terrifying predator feared by all for its uncanny ability to sneak right up to the entrance of ones shelter without notice despite its vast size, and the unnerving belief that even when you don’t know where it is out in the forest- it always knows where you are regardless of whether it chooses to eat you that night or not.




The Shades of Red saga is in the second stage of editing, after three years of being written, and a website with more information will be up soon. All elements of the Shades of Red world, including the Triphons are copyright by Alex Hatton. For additional information as well as to see the rest of the sketches for the saga contact multi_coloured_alex@hotmail.com

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Winding-Down-319879279 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Winding-Down-319879279 Wed, 08 Aug 2012 09:38:11 PDT Winding Down nonadult digitalart/paintings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 *Abiogenisis
The practices are not universally accepted, and many societies have strict controls to reduce their economic impacts. Others embrace them to such an extent that they have become an essential part of the daily ritual, as is the case with the Southern Chey nations: Before and after work many Chey stop at their local smoking bars to partake in a variety of substances both inhaled and ingested. As community focal points, smoking houses are also places for social interactions, and as a way to prepare for, or wind down from, the days’ pressures.

Smoking houses have a long history, this example predating the widespread collapse of birrin society millennia ago. Restored by wealthy locals as civilisation recovered, the interior was painted a calming blue to lend an air of tranquillity. To avoid the smoke damaging their garments, many regulars wear blue smoking suits infused with years of volatile chemical scents. ]]>
The practices are not universally accepted, and many societies have strict controls to reduce their economic impacts. Others embrace them to such an extent that they have become an essential part of the daily ritual, as is the case with the Southern Chey nations: Before and after work many Chey stop at their local smoking bars to partake in a variety of substances both inhaled and ingested. As community focal points, smoking houses are also places for social interactions, and as a way to prepare for, or wind down from, the days’ pressures.

Smoking houses have a long history, this example predating the widespread collapse of birrin society millennia ago. Restored by wealthy locals as civilisation recovered, the interior was painted a calming blue to lend an air of tranquillity. To avoid the smoke damaging their garments, many regulars wear blue smoking suits infused with years of volatile chemical scents.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Kilnrunner-317513687 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Kilnrunner-317513687 Sat, 28 Jul 2012 09:44:43 PDT Kilnrunner nonadult digitalart/paintings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 *Abiogenisis
However it took the re-discovery of powered flight to finally traverse the Kiln. Able to fly high enough to avoid the searing heat, early pressurised aircraft began hazardous day crossings to re-map the expanse. With little chance of rescue, the aircrews had to accept significant risk while also making their aircraft far more reliable. Indeed, it is largely due to the engineering necessities faced by these pioneers that later Birrin aircraft were so reliable.

Pictured here is one of the first dedicated Kiln runners, able to fly non-stop between airfields in the North and South to deliver people and cargo in a regular fashion. The three fuselages enabled heavy loads to be carried, the outer two being unpressurised and only suitable for cargo.

The two flight engines, mounted on the front of the cargo fuselages, are powerful in-line units each driving a contra-rotating propeller. Due to the lethal nature of the Kiln and to aid lifting off from short desert runways a supplementary engine is mounted on the rear passenger cabin: This engine, with its single folding airscrew, is used to assist takeoff and, perhaps more importantly, to supplement the main engines should one of them break down during flight.

Below this aircraft the desert is baking at an average temperature of eighty degrees Celsius, yet evidence that this was not always so abounds: A faint tracery of ancient roadways and industrial ruins dots the landscape and awaits re-discovery by future generations of Birrin. ]]>
However it took the re-discovery of powered flight to finally traverse the Kiln. Able to fly high enough to avoid the searing heat, early pressurised aircraft began hazardous day crossings to re-map the expanse. With little chance of rescue, the aircrews had to accept significant risk while also making their aircraft far more reliable. Indeed, it is largely due to the engineering necessities faced by these pioneers that later Birrin aircraft were so reliable.

Pictured here is one of the first dedicated Kiln runners, able to fly non-stop between airfields in the North and South to deliver people and cargo in a regular fashion. The three fuselages enabled heavy loads to be carried, the outer two being unpressurised and only suitable for cargo.

The two flight engines, mounted on the front of the cargo fuselages, are powerful in-line units each driving a contra-rotating propeller. Due to the lethal nature of the Kiln and to aid lifting off from short desert runways a supplementary engine is mounted on the rear passenger cabin: This engine, with its single folding airscrew, is used to assist takeoff and, perhaps more importantly, to supplement the main engines should one of them break down during flight.

Below this aircraft the desert is baking at an average temperature of eighty degrees Celsius, yet evidence that this was not always so abounds: A faint tracery of ancient roadways and industrial ruins dots the landscape and awaits re-discovery by future generations of Birrin.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Indian-Peafowl-314033465 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Indian-Peafowl-314033465 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 10:21:18 PDT Indian Peafowl nonadult digitalart/paintings/animals Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 *Abiogenisis
Part of an untitled commission project ]]>
Part of an untitled commission project

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Commission-Neptune-s-Pride-2-313160000 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Commission-Neptune-s-Pride-2-313160000 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 08:20:17 PDT [Commission] Neptune's Pride 2 nonadult digitalart/paintings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 *Abiogenisis

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Commission-Neptune-s-Pride-313159492 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Commission-Neptune-s-Pride-313159492 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 08:16:35 PDT [Commission] Neptune's Pride nonadult digitalart/paintings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 *Abiogenisis
Lots of retro goodness. ]]>
Lots of retro goodness.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Commission-Illiak-Garage-308135475 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Commission-Illiak-Garage-308135475 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:34:37 PDT [Commission] - Illiak Garage nonadult digitalart/paintings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 *Abiogenisis [link]

The authors' description:

"Illiaks, as the race depicted here are known, are a bizarre race for multiple reasons the first being their otherworldly body structure. Their extremely muscular arms do not end in hands but instead feet with two pincer like toes that clamp onto branches directly above. Their legs on the other hand, although below the arms like one would expect for a biped, are spindly and easily tucked away. At the end of them rather than feet are hands with two thumbs and five long spindly fingers which can hold and manipulate objects directly in front of the Illiaks highly evolved eyes, which are capable of seeing colours few other species could even imagine. Their legs can easily reach up to their faces due to being longer than one would expect a trait the species has easily evolved as they don’t actually support themselves on their legs for balance.

The reason for this odd body shape is because for Illiaks the branches above them are the same as the ground below is to humans. Due to living in a world infested with hyper lethal predators that have evolved to become extremely efficient hunters as a result of planet Sors shorter day and night span, some species such as Illiaks have not even bothered trying to live life in the predator infested skies or below on the ground crawling with monstrous ambush predators. Instead they live up in the middle section of the huge trees safe from anything on the ground and shielded from the air by the thick canopy that they never venture above. Although they can walk on all fours on the ground they are clumsy and venerable like this.

A highly intelligent race that are experts with tool manipulation, Illiaks also posses facial tentacles and even clamps on their tail to help them manipulate technology in a way that along with their seven fingered hands is far more dexterous than humans could ever achieve. Or Triphons for that matter. Due to their extreme organizational skills and talent at transforming piles of useless scrap into sophisticated machinery and weaponry, Illiaks’ live and work directly alongside Triphons. Whereas Triphons do the majority of manual work such as fighting and clearing the forest so they can sweep through it, the Illiaks’ provide them with specialised equipment, organize the camp via the means of long boring lists and dreary paper work and pilot the more sophisticated hunting vehicles.

Despite being frailer and less aggressive than Triphons Illiaks are on equal terms with them, with each species acknowledging that they would be lost without the other yet secretly believing themselves to be the great contributors in the relationship. Illiaks’ no longer live in the forest as their ancestors once did and have become semi-industrialized like Triphons, but for their ease of transport where they work and across the camp numerous bar rigs are set up to allow them to comfortably hang above the ground freeing up their leg hands.

Illiaks culture is centred around knowledge and story telling. They absorb information at a shockingly fast level and if they had access to even half the resources we on earth do it seems likely that they would have achieved space flight centuries ago. For an Illiak’ the greatest gift it can receive is more knowledge whether fictional or non fictional (though it must be specified from the giver which it is otherwise it would be taken as an extreme insult). In their spare time they love creating comic strip style “magazines” either of short stories or recent scientific findings. These articles are traded, sold and given at an alarming rate with those created by the more senior science officers being the most highly prized. Hanging from the same bars the Illiaks work from themselves, many of the comics are created in less than a day despite being beautifully illustrated thanks to their advanced dexterity, and after use most of the less valuable ones litter the floor due to Illiaks’ never forgetting what they’ve learnt and getting through so many articles a day they only keep hold of treasured comics they want to re-read simply to blissfully remember the day they first learnt the information within or because they want to be exclusive possessors of that knowledge.

Illiak females possess a highly integrated social mentality, being maternal creatures with a strong sense of group bonding. Males are very different beings, however, and display the strong sexual dimorphism of this species: Attached to each female's back is a leech-like creature that is actually the highly modified male, reduced to little more than a sex organ. For cultural reasons this male is always respectfully concealed by the female's garments in observance of a cultural taboo. During a short larval stage females and males connect with the female then developing further whilst the male does the opposite. The devolved male regularly releases hormones into the female hosts’ body causing her to act aggressively and dominant for short periods of time on a weekly cycle. Although other races cannot be sure how spiritual or not this is, Illiaks claim that they maintain the consciousness of both male and female “parts” equally, with the male sex organ apparently continuing to evolve intellect along with the female well after the larval stage.

Asides never feeling lonely, this gives a major advantage to Illiaks’ because each individual is able to create offspring alone that will not be clones nor will be related to each other so that one individual can create an entirely new colony without limiting the gene pool. Illiak’ “pairs” as each female calls herself, can still mate with each other by secreting a slime like chemical through their mouth which when mixed with the same substance from other individuals develops into eggs outside the body. This means offspring can be created that have many parents. As a result the gene pool within Illiaks is vast, totally devoid of genetic diseases and they seem to evolve at a faster rate than other races changing drastically in just several thousand years.

Despite their different nature, the Illiak race does enjoy mingling with Triphons taking keen interest in the blood sports Triphons love to participate in – though Illiaks are nearly always just fascinated spectators, and some of them even go as far to experiment with the numerous hallucinogenic drugs off-duty Triphon soldiers favour. Being a curious race who are great lovers of mystery and science many of them admire the forest and bear no deliberate bad intentions towards it. However they never let this get in the way of wiping out entire local tribes and obliterating the forest to fuel their own existence, which they along with Triphons feel is under threat from a distant but extreme threat the planet has never faced before.

Here a small work team of technicians stares in horror at the carnage caused to a small buggy. Out of the large Triphon and Illiak’ force of attack vehicles sent into the forest only this insignificant vehicle has returned with just one terrified Illiak’ pilot, the blue bloody hand streaks along the side giving some indication of the gunners fate. Relations with the forests local native race – the dragon like Drakar’, living in the forest have escalated as always when the two sides clash, and now the two forces are at total war with each other once more. What is so surprising to the Illiak’ work team here, as well as extremely unnerving is that the large assault force which was so easily wiped out was part of a fail-proof ambush plan to attack and hopefully capture more Drakar’ but according to the soul survivors frantic report, the Drakar’ somehow knew about this plan and instead they ambushed the Triphons and Illiaks, brutally massacring the entire force.

The Drakar’ tribes were angry after Triphons aggressively invaded their territory without permission and after a badly misunderstood negotiation that unfortunately neither race took seriously enough, the Triphons killed several Drakar’ young. Sadly neither force will now stop until the other has been wiped out to the last individual.


The Shades of Red saga is in the second stage of editing, after three years of being written, and a website with more information will be up soon. All elements of the Shades of Red world, including the Triphons are copyright by Alex Hatton. For additional information as well as to see the rest of the sketches for the saga contact multi_coloured_alex@hotmail.com ]]> [link]

The authors' description:

"Illiaks, as the race depicted here are known, are a bizarre race for multiple reasons the first being their otherworldly body structure. Their extremely muscular arms do not end in hands but instead feet with two pincer like toes that clamp onto branches directly above. Their legs on the other hand, although below the arms like one would expect for a biped, are spindly and easily tucked away. At the end of them rather than feet are hands with two thumbs and five long spindly fingers which can hold and manipulate objects directly in front of the Illiaks highly evolved eyes, which are capable of seeing colours few other species could even imagine. Their legs can easily reach up to their faces due to being longer than one would expect a trait the species has easily evolved as they don’t actually support themselves on their legs for balance.

The reason for this odd body shape is because for Illiaks the branches above them are the same as the ground below is to humans. Due to living in a world infested with hyper lethal predators that have evolved to become extremely efficient hunters as a result of planet Sors shorter day and night span, some species such as Illiaks have not even bothered trying to live life in the predator infested skies or below on the ground crawling with monstrous ambush predators. Instead they live up in the middle section of the huge trees safe from anything on the ground and shielded from the air by the thick canopy that they never venture above. Although they can walk on all fours on the ground they are clumsy and venerable like this.

A highly intelligent race that are experts with tool manipulation, Illiaks also posses facial tentacles and even clamps on their tail to help them manipulate technology in a way that along with their seven fingered hands is far more dexterous than humans could ever achieve. Or Triphons for that matter. Due to their extreme organizational skills and talent at transforming piles of useless scrap into sophisticated machinery and weaponry, Illiaks’ live and work directly alongside Triphons. Whereas Triphons do the majority of manual work such as fighting and clearing the forest so they can sweep through it, the Illiaks’ provide them with specialised equipment, organize the camp via the means of long boring lists and dreary paper work and pilot the more sophisticated hunting vehicles.

Despite being frailer and less aggressive than Triphons Illiaks are on equal terms with them, with each species acknowledging that they would be lost without the other yet secretly believing themselves to be the great contributors in the relationship. Illiaks’ no longer live in the forest as their ancestors once did and have become semi-industrialized like Triphons, but for their ease of transport where they work and across the camp numerous bar rigs are set up to allow them to comfortably hang above the ground freeing up their leg hands.

Illiaks culture is centred around knowledge and story telling. They absorb information at a shockingly fast level and if they had access to even half the resources we on earth do it seems likely that they would have achieved space flight centuries ago. For an Illiak’ the greatest gift it can receive is more knowledge whether fictional or non fictional (though it must be specified from the giver which it is otherwise it would be taken as an extreme insult). In their spare time they love creating comic strip style “magazines” either of short stories or recent scientific findings. These articles are traded, sold and given at an alarming rate with those created by the more senior science officers being the most highly prized. Hanging from the same bars the Illiaks work from themselves, many of the comics are created in less than a day despite being beautifully illustrated thanks to their advanced dexterity, and after use most of the less valuable ones litter the floor due to Illiaks’ never forgetting what they’ve learnt and getting through so many articles a day they only keep hold of treasured comics they want to re-read simply to blissfully remember the day they first learnt the information within or because they want to be exclusive possessors of that knowledge.

Illiak females possess a highly integrated social mentality, being maternal creatures with a strong sense of group bonding. Males are very different beings, however, and display the strong sexual dimorphism of this species: Attached to each female's back is a leech-like creature that is actually the highly modified male, reduced to little more than a sex organ. For cultural reasons this male is always respectfully concealed by the female's garments in observance of a cultural taboo. During a short larval stage females and males connect with the female then developing further whilst the male does the opposite. The devolved male regularly releases hormones into the female hosts’ body causing her to act aggressively and dominant for short periods of time on a weekly cycle. Although other races cannot be sure how spiritual or not this is, Illiaks claim that they maintain the consciousness of both male and female “parts” equally, with the male sex organ apparently continuing to evolve intellect along with the female well after the larval stage.

Asides never feeling lonely, this gives a major advantage to Illiaks’ because each individual is able to create offspring alone that will not be clones nor will be related to each other so that one individual can create an entirely new colony without limiting the gene pool. Illiak’ “pairs” as each female calls herself, can still mate with each other by secreting a slime like chemical through their mouth which when mixed with the same substance from other individuals develops into eggs outside the body. This means offspring can be created that have many parents. As a result the gene pool within Illiaks is vast, totally devoid of genetic diseases and they seem to evolve at a faster rate than other races changing drastically in just several thousand years.

Despite their different nature, the Illiak race does enjoy mingling with Triphons taking keen interest in the blood sports Triphons love to participate in – though Illiaks are nearly always just fascinated spectators, and some of them even go as far to experiment with the numerous hallucinogenic drugs off-duty Triphon soldiers favour. Being a curious race who are great lovers of mystery and science many of them admire the forest and bear no deliberate bad intentions towards it. However they never let this get in the way of wiping out entire local tribes and obliterating the forest to fuel their own existence, which they along with Triphons feel is under threat from a distant but extreme threat the planet has never faced before.

Here a small work team of technicians stares in horror at the carnage caused to a small buggy. Out of the large Triphon and Illiak’ force of attack vehicles sent into the forest only this insignificant vehicle has returned with just one terrified Illiak’ pilot, the blue bloody hand streaks along the side giving some indication of the gunners fate. Relations with the forests local native race – the dragon like Drakar’, living in the forest have escalated as always when the two sides clash, and now the two forces are at total war with each other once more. What is so surprising to the Illiak’ work team here, as well as extremely unnerving is that the large assault force which was so easily wiped out was part of a fail-proof ambush plan to attack and hopefully capture more Drakar’ but according to the soul survivors frantic report, the Drakar’ somehow knew about this plan and instead they ambushed the Triphons and Illiaks, brutally massacring the entire force.

The Drakar’ tribes were angry after Triphons aggressively invaded their territory without permission and after a badly misunderstood negotiation that unfortunately neither race took seriously enough, the Triphons killed several Drakar’ young. Sadly neither force will now stop until the other has been wiped out to the last individual.


The Shades of Red saga is in the second stage of editing, after three years of being written, and a website with more information will be up soon. All elements of the Shades of Red world, including the Triphons are copyright by Alex Hatton. For additional information as well as to see the rest of the sketches for the saga contact multi_coloured_alex@hotmail.com

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/The-Lost-Sea-305696978 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/The-Lost-Sea-305696978 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:20:59 PDT The Lost Sea nonadult digitalart/drawings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 *Abiogenisis
Agricultural needs necessitated the damming of several major rivers to provide irrigation for Kiln border areas, and the lakes these rivers once fed began to evaporate. Ultimately most of these lakes vanished, leaving behind shallow sandy basins and ghost towns.

Unable to afford relocation, or unwilling to spare the expense, shipping companies left their craft to rust on the dry lakebeds. ]]>
Agricultural needs necessitated the damming of several major rivers to provide irrigation for Kiln border areas, and the lakes these rivers once fed began to evaporate. Ultimately most of these lakes vanished, leaving behind shallow sandy basins and ghost towns.

Unable to afford relocation, or unwilling to spare the expense, shipping companies left their craft to rust on the dry lakebeds.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Commission-Triphon-Riders-293452021 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Commission-Triphon-Riders-293452021 Sun, 01 Apr 2012 04:06:43 PDT [Commission] Triphon Riders nonadult digitalart/drawings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 *Abiogenisis [link]

The authors' description:

"Triphons are one of the dominant sentient races on the densely inhabited ring planet Sor’. Unlike earth’s sentient race humans, Triphons have not traded in as much of their own physical capability for intelligence, due to their immensely dangerous home world. That is to say unlike humans who since achieving sentience are now physically frail creatures, Triphons are fast and agile sprinters, are armed with razor sharp claws and posses a raptor like head containing four rows of dagger sharp teeth – although they do not have an immensely large cranium in their skull as a result of this, their brains are still large due to the fact they extend all the way down their necks, wrapping around the base of their spinal chords.

These ruthless creatures live a nomadic lifestyle on the edge of the bizarre, predator infested forest covering most of Sor’. Large heavily fortified war camps are set up whilst the Triphons “harvest” the forest – that is to say suck it bare of life and resources. When they have drained all resources from a large area of forest, they reduced it to ash, pick up their war camps on wheeled platforms and move them miles in towards the newly created forest edge and the cycle repeats. Over a slow process they are wiping the planet bare leaving only a barren wasteland in their wake, although rumour has it large settlements lie on the other side of the wasteland from which the Triphons originate.

Triphons are a war like brutal race, driven by the need to survive and gain good harvests to make profits to fund a large war taking place elsewhere on the planet (most likely on another continent entirely), with an unknown similarly advanced sentient race. Achievements and kills are displayed through piercings and tattoos, and rank is shown via plume colour. The “Boikar troops” depicted here have clipped their plumes to make them immensely shorter than the length possessed by infantry as part of their uniform. Even the lowest ranking soldiers capable of riding the incredibly difficult “Boikar” vehicles are seasoned veterans, with the unmasked purple plumed Triphon being a very high ranking officer known as a Boss, hence his right to wear slightly longer (but still considerably short) plumes and the heavy tattooing and piercings adorning his armoured body. Their culture is not entirely restricted to fighting and status though – they also have a love of substance abuse (of which the forest has much to offer), gambling, drinking, blood sports, tattoos, sex and are fascinated by creative technology – that is to say making useful weapons and gear with limited resources and by melding together scraps.

The vehicles shown here are designed to be steered one handed, the other hand free to either operate the harpoon launching and net casting turrets or fire the tranquiliser pistols that all these specially trained Triphons carry. Spare dart clips sticking out the side of the bike means an emptied pistol needs only be slammed into the side of the bike over a fresh magazine to reload. As an elite corpse this branch of Triphon society has two primary roles - scouting ahead through new areas of the forest, on the look out for various threats such as one of the Triphons primary enemies the ever more scarce growing “dragons” (which are far from anything like typical fantasy dragons) another sentient tree dwelling race to which they are distantly related, and for directly hunting down large “game” as they call their prey, when all other tactics such as trapping, ambushing and surrounding their enemies have failed.

These three soldiers are perusing an unseen foe through the less heavily fortified and slum like outer living perimeter of their own war camp, where soldiers not on duty reside. Whether that foe is an intruder or an escaped victim who had not yet been “harvested” (a slow and horrific…though not intentionally so, process) remains to be seen but evading the Boikar soldiers all the way to the forest edge and through the dense forest itself for which these lightening fast vehicles are designed to travel through will require skill, guts… and a lot of luck…"

The Shades of Red saga is in the second stage of editing, after three years of being written, and a website with more information will be up soon. All elements of the Shades of Red world, including the Triphons are copyright by Alex Hatton. For additional information as well as to see the rest of the sketches for the saga contact multi_coloured_alex@hotmail.com ]]> [link]

The authors' description:

"Triphons are one of the dominant sentient races on the densely inhabited ring planet Sor’. Unlike earth’s sentient race humans, Triphons have not traded in as much of their own physical capability for intelligence, due to their immensely dangerous home world. That is to say unlike humans who since achieving sentience are now physically frail creatures, Triphons are fast and agile sprinters, are armed with razor sharp claws and posses a raptor like head containing four rows of dagger sharp teeth – although they do not have an immensely large cranium in their skull as a result of this, their brains are still large due to the fact they extend all the way down their necks, wrapping around the base of their spinal chords.

These ruthless creatures live a nomadic lifestyle on the edge of the bizarre, predator infested forest covering most of Sor’. Large heavily fortified war camps are set up whilst the Triphons “harvest” the forest – that is to say suck it bare of life and resources. When they have drained all resources from a large area of forest, they reduced it to ash, pick up their war camps on wheeled platforms and move them miles in towards the newly created forest edge and the cycle repeats. Over a slow process they are wiping the planet bare leaving only a barren wasteland in their wake, although rumour has it large settlements lie on the other side of the wasteland from which the Triphons originate.

Triphons are a war like brutal race, driven by the need to survive and gain good harvests to make profits to fund a large war taking place elsewhere on the planet (most likely on another continent entirely), with an unknown similarly advanced sentient race. Achievements and kills are displayed through piercings and tattoos, and rank is shown via plume colour. The “Boikar troops” depicted here have clipped their plumes to make them immensely shorter than the length possessed by infantry as part of their uniform. Even the lowest ranking soldiers capable of riding the incredibly difficult “Boikar” vehicles are seasoned veterans, with the unmasked purple plumed Triphon being a very high ranking officer known as a Boss, hence his right to wear slightly longer (but still considerably short) plumes and the heavy tattooing and piercings adorning his armoured body. Their culture is not entirely restricted to fighting and status though – they also have a love of substance abuse (of which the forest has much to offer), gambling, drinking, blood sports, tattoos, sex and are fascinated by creative technology – that is to say making useful weapons and gear with limited resources and by melding together scraps.

The vehicles shown here are designed to be steered one handed, the other hand free to either operate the harpoon launching and net casting turrets or fire the tranquiliser pistols that all these specially trained Triphons carry. Spare dart clips sticking out the side of the bike means an emptied pistol needs only be slammed into the side of the bike over a fresh magazine to reload. As an elite corpse this branch of Triphon society has two primary roles - scouting ahead through new areas of the forest, on the look out for various threats such as one of the Triphons primary enemies the ever more scarce growing “dragons” (which are far from anything like typical fantasy dragons) another sentient tree dwelling race to which they are distantly related, and for directly hunting down large “game” as they call their prey, when all other tactics such as trapping, ambushing and surrounding their enemies have failed.

These three soldiers are perusing an unseen foe through the less heavily fortified and slum like outer living perimeter of their own war camp, where soldiers not on duty reside. Whether that foe is an intruder or an escaped victim who had not yet been “harvested” (a slow and horrific…though not intentionally so, process) remains to be seen but evading the Boikar soldiers all the way to the forest edge and through the dense forest itself for which these lightening fast vehicles are designed to travel through will require skill, guts… and a lot of luck…"

The Shades of Red saga is in the second stage of editing, after three years of being written, and a website with more information will be up soon. All elements of the Shades of Red world, including the Triphons are copyright by Alex Hatton. For additional information as well as to see the rest of the sketches for the saga contact multi_coloured_alex@hotmail.com

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/LCAC-283214412 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/LCAC-283214412 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:45:09 PST LCAC nonadult traditional/sculpture/models Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 *Abiogenisis
The air intake screens were built from scratch, as were many of the surface details. A very fun kit ]]>
The air intake screens were built from scratch, as were many of the surface details. A very fun kit

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Crystalline-Cloakmouth-282112169 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Crystalline-Cloakmouth-282112169 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:51:15 PST Crystalline Cloakmouth nonadult digitalart/paintings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 *Abiogenisis
"The flowerjaw body plan reached its peak diversity in marine environments, where this group inhabits almost every major ecological niche. The deep oceans, while low in energy and deprived of oxygen and sunlight, are nevertheless home to numerous creatures. The beings of this ecosystem are able to exploit the abundant surface environment through either migrating vertically at night to feed, or by preying on creatures migrating into the deep to escape surface predators.

Sit and wait predation is an energy efficient way to hunt, and the Crystalline Cloakmouth represents an extreme adaptation to this way of life.

The reduced, soft body hangs below the highly modified mouthparts, which are dominated by huge vertical jaws spanning 13 inches from tip to tip. Sharp semitransparent mandibles are poised ready to snap shut on any prey lured inwards by the bioluminescent tip of the tongue. Prey that comes too close is skewered by the mandibles and then enclosed by the heavily pigmented jaws. This prevents they preys' defensive bioluminescence being detected by larger foes.

The two huge lower eyes are oriented upwards and modified to detect the bioluminescence of prey, or their shadows' against the downwelling surface light. The horizontal jaws, thin and elongated, are spread to the sides and covered in a line of fluid filled spheres able to detect vibrations in the water, a system also present around the rim of the main jaws. The horizontal mandibles are shorter and more robust than the crystalline seizing jaws, and are hidden away until prey is captured, which they proceed to butcher and then pass downwards into the pharynx.

The upper eyestalks are highly elongated and the post-ocular sections bifurcated into sensors adapted to detect the sex pheromones of conspecifics. Currents are so slow and the environment so vast that highly sensitive antennae are needed to detect minute concentrations of chemicals in the water. The small eyes on these tentacles are still functional but of low resolution; they monitor the light from the surface world and allow the Crystalline Cloakmouth to tell night from day.

Although ungainly, the Crystalline Cloakmouth can move quickly in short bursts to escape predators. Defence consists of several stages: First, the jaws with their large surface area are clamped rapidly together, shooting the creature away in the opposite direction. At the same time, thin translucent threads are extruded from modified limbs near the tail to form a mesh in the fleeing animals' wake. Predators caught in this are tangled by the sticky threads, which bioluminesce on contact and thus render the predator visible to its own enemies. Proteins on the Cloakmouths' skin inhibit this reaction when it becomes entangled in its own threads. As a final defence, the Crystalline Cloakmouth leaves the area using paired fins usually held tightly against its body, swimming slowly backwards to new hunting grounds. " ]]>
"The flowerjaw body plan reached its peak diversity in marine environments, where this group inhabits almost every major ecological niche. The deep oceans, while low in energy and deprived of oxygen and sunlight, are nevertheless home to numerous creatures. The beings of this ecosystem are able to exploit the abundant surface environment through either migrating vertically at night to feed, or by preying on creatures migrating into the deep to escape surface predators.

Sit and wait predation is an energy efficient way to hunt, and the Crystalline Cloakmouth represents an extreme adaptation to this way of life.

The reduced, soft body hangs below the highly modified mouthparts, which are dominated by huge vertical jaws spanning 13 inches from tip to tip. Sharp semitransparent mandibles are poised ready to snap shut on any prey lured inwards by the bioluminescent tip of the tongue. Prey that comes too close is skewered by the mandibles and then enclosed by the heavily pigmented jaws. This prevents they preys' defensive bioluminescence being detected by larger foes.

The two huge lower eyes are oriented upwards and modified to detect the bioluminescence of prey, or their shadows' against the downwelling surface light. The horizontal jaws, thin and elongated, are spread to the sides and covered in a line of fluid filled spheres able to detect vibrations in the water, a system also present around the rim of the main jaws. The horizontal mandibles are shorter and more robust than the crystalline seizing jaws, and are hidden away until prey is captured, which they proceed to butcher and then pass downwards into the pharynx.

The upper eyestalks are highly elongated and the post-ocular sections bifurcated into sensors adapted to detect the sex pheromones of conspecifics. Currents are so slow and the environment so vast that highly sensitive antennae are needed to detect minute concentrations of chemicals in the water. The small eyes on these tentacles are still functional but of low resolution; they monitor the light from the surface world and allow the Crystalline Cloakmouth to tell night from day.

Although ungainly, the Crystalline Cloakmouth can move quickly in short bursts to escape predators. Defence consists of several stages: First, the jaws with their large surface area are clamped rapidly together, shooting the creature away in the opposite direction. At the same time, thin translucent threads are extruded from modified limbs near the tail to form a mesh in the fleeing animals' wake. Predators caught in this are tangled by the sticky threads, which bioluminesce on contact and thus render the predator visible to its own enemies. Proteins on the Cloakmouths' skin inhibit this reaction when it becomes entangled in its own threads. As a final defence, the Crystalline Cloakmouth leaves the area using paired fins usually held tightly against its body, swimming slowly backwards to new hunting grounds. "

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Sardu-Reef-277721355 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Sardu-Reef-277721355 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:09:40 PST Sardu Reef nonadult digitalart/paintings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2012-2013 *Abiogenisis
The birrin are at home in water, and many engage in swimming recreationally with or without the aid of SCUBA systems. Diving activities are associated with risks: as in this potentially dangerous encounter with the creature seen here.

Evolved from the same land-living ancestor as the birrin the Sardu, as they are locally known, are air breathing creatures of great strength and predatory skill. They range across most regions of the ocean, hunting diverse prey depending on local resources, and adjusting their strategies accordingly. All however rely on an extraordinary ability to generate powerful electric shocks via organs housed in their huge, elongated horizontal jaws. This allows them to stun entire schools of smaller organisms to consume at their leisure, or to probe their jaws into soft mud and detect, flush out kill benthic creatures of considerable size. The electrogenic organs also have a social purpose; and mating individuals compete to show both their ability to generate electricity, and to withstand the shocks of their adversaries. The small creatures that accompany sahdy as commensals must also be tolerant of this hazard, and most swim to a safe distance during the closing stages of a hunt, moving in to feast on the scraps afterwards.

The birrin diver seen here may seem in danger, however it is experienced with the local sardu and knows it is not a part of their prey search image; the constant stream of bubbles generated by the SCUBA gear and bright wetsuit look so unlike the large bottom dwelling creatures it usually hunts that it does not view the birrin as food. ]]>
The birrin are at home in water, and many engage in swimming recreationally with or without the aid of SCUBA systems. Diving activities are associated with risks: as in this potentially dangerous encounter with the creature seen here.

Evolved from the same land-living ancestor as the birrin the Sardu, as they are locally known, are air breathing creatures of great strength and predatory skill. They range across most regions of the ocean, hunting diverse prey depending on local resources, and adjusting their strategies accordingly. All however rely on an extraordinary ability to generate powerful electric shocks via organs housed in their huge, elongated horizontal jaws. This allows them to stun entire schools of smaller organisms to consume at their leisure, or to probe their jaws into soft mud and detect, flush out kill benthic creatures of considerable size. The electrogenic organs also have a social purpose; and mating individuals compete to show both their ability to generate electricity, and to withstand the shocks of their adversaries. The small creatures that accompany sahdy as commensals must also be tolerant of this hazard, and most swim to a safe distance during the closing stages of a hunt, moving in to feast on the scraps afterwards.

The birrin diver seen here may seem in danger, however it is experienced with the local sardu and knows it is not a part of their prey search image; the constant stream of bubbles generated by the SCUBA gear and bright wetsuit look so unlike the large bottom dwelling creatures it usually hunts that it does not view the birrin as food.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Birrin-Study-274382033 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Birrin-Study-274382033 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:46:09 PST Birrin Study nonadult digitalart/paintings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2011-2013 *Abiogenisis

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Sea-Urchin-Anatomy-271355683 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Sea-Urchin-Anatomy-271355683 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:47:40 PST Sea Urchin Anatomy nonadult digitalart/paintings/animals Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2011-2013 *Abiogenisis
Illustrated is the generalised internal and external features of a typical arbacia-type sea urchin. Several features such as gills and the pedicilaria were omitted as they are outside the scope of this image.

Sea urchins are globular, superficially pentamerically symmetrical echinoderms which inhabit marine environments world wide. Movement across the substrate can be made in one or both of two ways: The defensive spines can be moved independently and thus act as mobile stilts in the long spined species, or the hydraulically extended tube-feet can be employed for both mobility and anchorage.

These tube feet are part of an internal network of water filled tubes and bladders called the water vascular system. This network is connected to the seawater via a structure called the madreporite on the aboral (upper) surface: When the bladders along the radial canals contract, they inflate and thus extend the tube feet.

The sea urchin feeding apparatus is a five sided complex articulated structure called the Aristotles' Lantern. It consists of a series of interlinked plates and muscles which manoeuvre five continuously growing teeth, used to rasp away at algae, their predominant food source.

The nervous system is relatively simple, centred around a nerve ring inside the lantern from which radiate five nerves to innervate the radial water vascular system. ]]>
Illustrated is the generalised internal and external features of a typical arbacia-type sea urchin. Several features such as gills and the pedicilaria were omitted as they are outside the scope of this image.

Sea urchins are globular, superficially pentamerically symmetrical echinoderms which inhabit marine environments world wide. Movement across the substrate can be made in one or both of two ways: The defensive spines can be moved independently and thus act as mobile stilts in the long spined species, or the hydraulically extended tube-feet can be employed for both mobility and anchorage.

These tube feet are part of an internal network of water filled tubes and bladders called the water vascular system. This network is connected to the seawater via a structure called the madreporite on the aboral (upper) surface: When the bladders along the radial canals contract, they inflate and thus extend the tube feet.

The sea urchin feeding apparatus is a five sided complex articulated structure called the Aristotles' Lantern. It consists of a series of interlinked plates and muscles which manoeuvre five continuously growing teeth, used to rasp away at algae, their predominant food source.

The nervous system is relatively simple, centred around a nerve ring inside the lantern from which radiate five nerves to innervate the radial water vascular system.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Ctenophore-Anatomy-268989913 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Ctenophore-Anatomy-268989913 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:52:20 PST Ctenophore Anatomy nonadult digitalart/paintings/animals Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2011-2013 *Abiogenisis
Ctenophores are a group of marine animals commonly known as Comb Jellies. They exist in large numbers throughout the worlds oceans in which they hunt their small invertebrate prey.

Unlike the superficially similar but unrelated jellyfish, most species do not use contractions of the body wall to move, but rather rows of synchronously beating comb plates of fused cilia. These organs refract sunlight as they move, generating spectacular displays of colour.

Ctenophores lack both circulatory and central nervous systems, behaviour being controlled by a diffuse nerve net. Information about orientation in the water is fed to this nervous system through the apical organ, a domed structure on the aboral surface containing a small statolith (weight) suspended on four pillars of fused cilia.

Food in ctenophores is captured in several ways; in many species food is captured by sticky cells called colloblasts borne on two retractile tentacles. When food such as copepods is captured, the creature rotates its body to bring the tentacle to the mouth for ingestion. From there, prey is drawn into the pharynx and stomach for digestion. This food is distributed throughout the body by extensions of the digestive tract called diverticulum, many of which run directly under the comb rows. ]]>
Ctenophores are a group of marine animals commonly known as Comb Jellies. They exist in large numbers throughout the worlds oceans in which they hunt their small invertebrate prey.

Unlike the superficially similar but unrelated jellyfish, most species do not use contractions of the body wall to move, but rather rows of synchronously beating comb plates of fused cilia. These organs refract sunlight as they move, generating spectacular displays of colour.

Ctenophores lack both circulatory and central nervous systems, behaviour being controlled by a diffuse nerve net. Information about orientation in the water is fed to this nervous system through the apical organ, a domed structure on the aboral surface containing a small statolith (weight) suspended on four pillars of fused cilia.

Food in ctenophores is captured in several ways; in many species food is captured by sticky cells called colloblasts borne on two retractile tentacles. When food such as copepods is captured, the creature rotates its body to bring the tentacle to the mouth for ingestion. From there, prey is drawn into the pharynx and stomach for digestion. This food is distributed throughout the body by extensions of the digestive tract called diverticulum, many of which run directly under the comb rows.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/EVA-268610718 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/EVA-268610718 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 07:23:33 PST EVA nonadult digitalart/paintings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2011-2013 *Abiogenisis
Maintenance of these systems, and the manning of interplanetary vehicles, is undertaken by a politicaly independant astronaut corps funded by an investment pool of nations and organisations with interests in space. Paid well, the corps construct, salvage and decommission orbital objects on a contract basis.

Seen here, a technician sets to work repairing damaged internal systems on an orbital antennae. The large impact-hardened diagnostic package has been integrated with the antennas' interface to root out faulty code or hardware for repair or replacement. ]]>
Maintenance of these systems, and the manning of interplanetary vehicles, is undertaken by a politicaly independant astronaut corps funded by an investment pool of nations and organisations with interests in space. Paid well, the corps construct, salvage and decommission orbital objects on a contract basis.

Seen here, a technician sets to work repairing damaged internal systems on an orbital antennae. The large impact-hardened diagnostic package has been integrated with the antennas' interface to root out faulty code or hardware for repair or replacement.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Pfalz-DIIIa-View-2-266565154 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Pfalz-DIIIa-View-2-266565154 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 07:36:51 PDT Pfalz DIIIa View 2 nonadult traditional/sculpture/models Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2011-2013 *Abiogenisis

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Pfalz-DIIIa-266565030 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Pfalz-DIIIa-266565030 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 07:35:40 PDT Pfalz DIIIa nonadult traditional/sculpture/models Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2011-2013 *Abiogenisis

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Tenzeni-Port-256148225 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Tenzeni-Port-256148225 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:13:35 PDT Tenzeni Port nonadult digitalart/paintings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2011-2013 *Abiogenisis
The Birrin discovered that, when dried, the heavily compacted masses of dead plants that constitute the older larger islands can be burned as a very efficient fuel. In a short period of time mining began and factories sprung up in the old forest, large areas of vegetation being destroyed to supply fuel for cooking and industrial steam boilers. Soon steam powered ships plied the channels of the float forest , using the forest itself as fuel as they travelled, or purchasing high grade and dried peat from retailers.

As seen here, some more enterprising groups combined the two and use huge ships to transport peat for sale in towns across the forest. The tall hull of this vessel contains racks of high grade peat, being dried on the go and kept warm via heat diverted from the steam ships' own boilers. To counter balance the height of the ship, much of the vessel lies under water in an expanded hull filled with ballast. This added mass also gives the ship the inertia needed to ram through sections of forest, using the blade like prow to first life and then cut the mats of vegetation floating on the waters surface. The flared disk built out around the bow catches vegetation and forces it downwards, keeping it from impacting against the front and sides of the vessel.

Anchored and with boiler firing to dry the latest shipment, this peat-merchant paddle wheeler has stopped off at one of the larger suppliers in the oldest parts of the forest. Over the next few days it will be loaded as the crew relaxes a little, and set off into the narrow channels to deliver its wares across the inland sea, using a portion of its peat load as fuel.

A few locals, curious, look across the water towards it on their morning swim. ]]>
The Birrin discovered that, when dried, the heavily compacted masses of dead plants that constitute the older larger islands can be burned as a very efficient fuel. In a short period of time mining began and factories sprung up in the old forest, large areas of vegetation being destroyed to supply fuel for cooking and industrial steam boilers. Soon steam powered ships plied the channels of the float forest , using the forest itself as fuel as they travelled, or purchasing high grade and dried peat from retailers.

As seen here, some more enterprising groups combined the two and use huge ships to transport peat for sale in towns across the forest. The tall hull of this vessel contains racks of high grade peat, being dried on the go and kept warm via heat diverted from the steam ships' own boilers. To counter balance the height of the ship, much of the vessel lies under water in an expanded hull filled with ballast. This added mass also gives the ship the inertia needed to ram through sections of forest, using the blade like prow to first life and then cut the mats of vegetation floating on the waters surface. The flared disk built out around the bow catches vegetation and forces it downwards, keeping it from impacting against the front and sides of the vessel.

Anchored and with boiler firing to dry the latest shipment, this peat-merchant paddle wheeler has stopped off at one of the larger suppliers in the oldest parts of the forest. Over the next few days it will be loaded as the crew relaxes a little, and set off into the narrow channels to deliver its wares across the inland sea, using a portion of its peat load as fuel.

A few locals, curious, look across the water towards it on their morning swim.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Dawn-216394689 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Dawn-216394689 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 05:04:14 PDT Dawn nonadult digitalart/paintings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2011-2013 *Abiogenisis
Many turned to the floatplane: Able to land in narrow lake clearings, operate in areas chocked with vegetation, and with far higher speed than shipping, aquatic aircraft manufacturing exploded across the region.

Aircraft of this type are available of many designs and configurations, often customized by the families that operate them. These unique vehicles form an integral part of life for most float-forest inhabitants.

The model here is relatively small and used by many organizations, particularly law enforcement, due to its excellent downwards visibility. A large central float provides buoyancy while two outrigger types at the tail end give stability. Used primarily for patrols or transporting small numbers of people, this models' fuselage is too narrow for heavy freight, and the stock in-line piston engine too weak for large loads. However many have been fitted with modern turboprop or jet engines to improve performance.

Seen here, two law enforcers are refuelling their craft as morning breaks over one of the open stretches of water near the float-forest centre. They will spend much of their day flying lazily across shipping lanes, dropping down to inspect suspicious boats or help birrin in need. ]]>
Many turned to the floatplane: Able to land in narrow lake clearings, operate in areas chocked with vegetation, and with far higher speed than shipping, aquatic aircraft manufacturing exploded across the region.

Aircraft of this type are available of many designs and configurations, often customized by the families that operate them. These unique vehicles form an integral part of life for most float-forest inhabitants.

The model here is relatively small and used by many organizations, particularly law enforcement, due to its excellent downwards visibility. A large central float provides buoyancy while two outrigger types at the tail end give stability. Used primarily for patrols or transporting small numbers of people, this models' fuselage is too narrow for heavy freight, and the stock in-line piston engine too weak for large loads. However many have been fitted with modern turboprop or jet engines to improve performance.

Seen here, two law enforcers are refuelling their craft as morning breaks over one of the open stretches of water near the float-forest centre. They will spend much of their day flying lazily across shipping lanes, dropping down to inspect suspicious boats or help birrin in need.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Kaybor-Gate-193956941 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Kaybor-Gate-193956941 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 07:39:56 PST Kaybor Gate nonadult digitalart/paintings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2011-2013 *Abiogenisis
Part city and part fortress, this gate was built to defend one of the few entrances to a lush, steep walled floatforest valley beyond, in which a society of several million inhabitants flourished for centuries.

Initially a natural stone monolith with only a narrow passageway dividing it, generations of craftspeople and slaves hammered away at the stone to perfect it into its current form, before finally coating it with a resin/sand mixture to protect it from further natural erosion.

The guardian statues warned foreign armies and traders of the power and capabilities of the valley people, who maintained a massive standing army at all times, based in a garrisons built into the gate walls.

Too heavy to themselves be created from stone, the guardian statues were built from the interlaced and cemented trunks and roots of local float-forest and other imported plants. Treated with resin to prevent decay, this meshwork was then coated in the same substance used to smooth the wall standing behind them.

Ultimately, the civilisation responsible was conquered by a society that had developed steam powered warships, and who attacked from one of the seaward entrances of the valley.

Left to ruin by the conquerors for several centuries, it is now of prime interest to archaeologists attempting to reconstruct the history of the valley society.

Seen here, a small camp of nomadic locals pitch tents in the evening glow of the great gate. ]]>
Part city and part fortress, this gate was built to defend one of the few entrances to a lush, steep walled floatforest valley beyond, in which a society of several million inhabitants flourished for centuries.

Initially a natural stone monolith with only a narrow passageway dividing it, generations of craftspeople and slaves hammered away at the stone to perfect it into its current form, before finally coating it with a resin/sand mixture to protect it from further natural erosion.

The guardian statues warned foreign armies and traders of the power and capabilities of the valley people, who maintained a massive standing army at all times, based in a garrisons built into the gate walls.

Too heavy to themselves be created from stone, the guardian statues were built from the interlaced and cemented trunks and roots of local float-forest and other imported plants. Treated with resin to prevent decay, this meshwork was then coated in the same substance used to smooth the wall standing behind them.

Ultimately, the civilisation responsible was conquered by a society that had developed steam powered warships, and who attacked from one of the seaward entrances of the valley.

Left to ruin by the conquerors for several centuries, it is now of prime interest to archaeologists attempting to reconstruct the history of the valley society.

Seen here, a small camp of nomadic locals pitch tents in the evening glow of the great gate.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Brushfire-183871380 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Brushfire-183871380 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:49:16 PDT Brushfire nonadult digitalart/paintings/animals Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2010-2013 *Abiogenisis
The pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus is accompanied by two curious Troodon as it stalks warily towards this potential feast. ]]>
The pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus is accompanied by two curious Troodon as it stalks warily towards this potential feast.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Seafarers-181819442 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Seafarers-181819442 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 06:54:03 PDT Seafarers nonadult digitalart/paintings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2010-2013 *Abiogenisis
The boat, a small but strong outrigger yacht, was built by the local tribes to sail relatively close to shore in low tropical seas.

Its frame is built from the tough, plant like stems of local phototrophic organisms which have been pre-stressed into strong curved shapes and bound together under a watertight leather skin. This was then coated with sap and waxes from local plants and animals to further seal it. Inside the cabin, a birrin can rest, as well as store the days' catch. If water does flood the boats' interior, it is not a concern as flotation is provided by bundles of sponge like plant tissue inside the hull. ]]>
The boat, a small but strong outrigger yacht, was built by the local tribes to sail relatively close to shore in low tropical seas.

Its frame is built from the tough, plant like stems of local phototrophic organisms which have been pre-stressed into strong curved shapes and bound together under a watertight leather skin. This was then coated with sap and waxes from local plants and animals to further seal it. Inside the cabin, a birrin can rest, as well as store the days' catch. If water does flood the boats' interior, it is not a concern as flotation is provided by bundles of sponge like plant tissue inside the hull.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Protest-179905676 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Protest-179905676 Mon, 20 Sep 2010 04:05:13 PDT Protest nonadult digitalart/paintings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2010-2013 *Abiogenisis [link])

Refugees, faced with starvation and loss of livelihood by the diversion of the river that feeds the vast lakes they live upon, were shipped to uninhabited badlands in neighboring nations. The state responsible for the disruptive developments paid local poor governments, in arms and financial relief, to accept millions of displaced people inside their borders.

Ill feelings due to the destruction of their towns and habitat, anger soon erupted into large scale protests which the financially insecure and corrupt nations had trouble containing.

Seen here is a vast march from a nearby tent city; angry refugees storm an area of newly (but cheaply) build admin towers created to manage the huge displaced population.

Younger and angrier refugees quickly turned to violence, attacking understaffed riot police staff with knives and other improvised weapons. ]]> [link])

Refugees, faced with starvation and loss of livelihood by the diversion of the river that feeds the vast lakes they live upon, were shipped to uninhabited badlands in neighboring nations. The state responsible for the disruptive developments paid local poor governments, in arms and financial relief, to accept millions of displaced people inside their borders.

Ill feelings due to the destruction of their towns and habitat, anger soon erupted into large scale protests which the financially insecure and corrupt nations had trouble containing.

Seen here is a vast march from a nearby tent city; angry refugees storm an area of newly (but cheaply) build admin towers created to manage the huge displaced population.

Younger and angrier refugees quickly turned to violence, attacking understaffed riot police staff with knives and other improvised weapons.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Whitespotted-Boxfish-179653399 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Whitespotted-Boxfish-179653399 Sat, 18 Sep 2010 06:02:50 PDT Whitespotted Boxfish nonadult digitalart/paintings/animals Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2010-2013 *Abiogenisis

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Superb-Fairywren-178141059 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Superb-Fairywren-178141059 Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:24:18 PDT Superb Fairywren nonadult digitalart/drawings/animals Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2010-2013 *Abiogenisis
Pictured here is the male wearing his spectacular breeding plumage. ]]>
Pictured here is the male wearing his spectacular breeding plumage.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Common-Blue-Damselfly-177104582 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Common-Blue-Damselfly-177104582 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:26:59 PDT Common Blue Damselfly nonadult digitalart/drawings/animals Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2010-2013 *Abiogenisis
An illustration of the Common Blue Damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum), a species found across much of Europe. ]]>
An illustration of the Common Blue Damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum), a species found across much of Europe.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/American-Flamingo-Study-176200647 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/American-Flamingo-Study-176200647 Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:31:28 PDT American Flamingo Study nonadult digitalart/paintings/animals Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2010-2013 *Abiogenisis

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Coconut-Crab-Birgus-Latro-161124787 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Coconut-Crab-Birgus-Latro-161124787 Sun, 18 Apr 2010 02:59:05 PDT Coconut Crab - Birgus Latro nonadult digitalart/drawings/animals Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2010-2013 *Abiogenisis
The creature inhabits various tropical islands which it reaches as larvae carried there on the currents. On arriving it reveals its ancestral nature as a hermit crab, surviving predators by living in a series of ever larger shells. Eventually it outgrows all shells, but is so massive it no longer needs one.

Able to breathe the humid tropical air, they move about the islands eating fruits, carrion, and any live creatures small or slow enough to be captured and consumed.

Although they drown if submerged, the females must eventually carry their eggs, bundled under the abdomen, to the ocean. Here they release them on the high tide, where the larvae are released to join the plankton. With luck they may find a new, perhaps very distant island. ]]>
The creature inhabits various tropical islands which it reaches as larvae carried there on the currents. On arriving it reveals its ancestral nature as a hermit crab, surviving predators by living in a series of ever larger shells. Eventually it outgrows all shells, but is so massive it no longer needs one.

Able to breathe the humid tropical air, they move about the islands eating fruits, carrion, and any live creatures small or slow enough to be captured and consumed.

Although they drown if submerged, the females must eventually carry their eggs, bundled under the abdomen, to the ocean. Here they release them on the high tide, where the larvae are released to join the plankton. With luck they may find a new, perhaps very distant island.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Predator-Headshot-151919132 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Predator-Headshot-151919132 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:28:15 PST Predator Headshot nonadult digitalart/drawings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2010-2013 *Abiogenisis
Upper eyestalks contain eyes and ears, lower contain eyes and sensory tentacles.

Most creatures related to the Birrin have 4 'lips' covering their jaws. However in this case the upper lip has evolved into a head shield which helps the creature push through dense forest. The blue membrane is used for display and can be retracted under a shield when not in use.

The animal hunts like a large heron, snatching smaller prey by shooting forward its long neck. It swallows most food whole, or by tearing it apart with its smaller inner jaws and toothed tongues. ]]>
Upper eyestalks contain eyes and ears, lower contain eyes and sensory tentacles.

Most creatures related to the Birrin have 4 'lips' covering their jaws. However in this case the upper lip has evolved into a head shield which helps the creature push through dense forest. The blue membrane is used for display and can be retracted under a shield when not in use.

The animal hunts like a large heron, snatching smaller prey by shooting forward its long neck. It swallows most food whole, or by tearing it apart with its smaller inner jaws and toothed tongues.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Explorers-142873541 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Explorers-142873541 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:46:44 PST Explorers nonadult digitalart/drawings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2009-2013 *Abiogenisis
A concept for an ongoing book project. ]]>
A concept for an ongoing book project.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Seran-Poi-Brachiator-29051766 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Seran-Poi-Brachiator-29051766 Tue, 14 Feb 2006 00:20:06 PST Seran-Poi Brachiator nonadult digitalart/drawings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2006-2013 *Abiogenisis

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Parasite-29234006 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Parasite-29234006 Sat, 18 Feb 2006 02:06:20 PST Parasite nonadult digitalart/drawings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2006-2013 *Abiogenisis

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Alien-Parenthood-40631696 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Alien-Parenthood-40631696 Sat, 30 Sep 2006 08:49:33 PDT Alien Parenthood nonadult digitalart/drawings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2006-2013 *Abiogenisis The plants stock their underground tubers with water and starches for their long hibernation, and it is these the alien mother is trying to find. However her child seems more intent on catching a large floating seed as it drifts past on the dry afternoon breeze. ]]> The plants stock their underground tubers with water and starches for their long hibernation, and it is these the alien mother is trying to find. However her child seems more intent on catching a large floating seed as it drifts past on the dry afternoon breeze.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Serrum-40690109 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Serrum-40690109 Sun, 01 Oct 2006 09:19:48 PDT Serrum nonadult digitalart/drawings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2006-2013 *Abiogenisis

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Stoplight-Loosejaw-40690697 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Stoplight-Loosejaw-40690697 Sun, 01 Oct 2006 09:31:48 PDT Stoplight Loosejaw nonadult digitalart/drawings/animals Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2006-2013 *Abiogenisis
The Loosejaw is a small deep water fish which through evolution has lost the skin on the floor of its mouth. This alows the jaw to shoot out with minimal water resistance to snare prey. The red light under its eye is used to spot food, as many creatures of the deep see cannot see red light. This gives the Loosejaw its own 'sniper scope'. ]]>
The Loosejaw is a small deep water fish which through evolution has lost the skin on the floor of its mouth. This alows the jaw to shoot out with minimal water resistance to snare prey. The red light under its eye is used to spot food, as many creatures of the deep see cannot see red light. This gives the Loosejaw its own 'sniper scope'.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Huntress-40743493 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Huntress-40743493 Mon, 02 Oct 2006 07:17:01 PDT Huntress nonadult digitalart/drawings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2006-2013 *Abiogenisis

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Dreamtime-40849335 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Dreamtime-40849335 Wed, 04 Oct 2006 06:40:25 PDT Dreamtime nonadult digitalart/paintings/fantasy Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2006-2013 *Abiogenisis

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Feedzen-Keltan-40960225 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Feedzen-Keltan-40960225 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:35:33 PDT Feedzen-Keltan nonadult digitalart/drawings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2006-2013 *Abiogenisis ]]>

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Xenobiology-42223053 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Xenobiology-42223053 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:45:15 PST Xenobiology nonadult digitalart/drawings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2006-2013 *Abiogenisis
The Sol Union Xenobiologist Makeba Sutphen was sent with the company when they left earth, to make sure the laws regarding alien ecosystems were followed. Here she is approached by possibly sentient natives of this large moon. Although she has a camera out now, if they get closer or show aggression she is well armed.

The species itself evolved from large aquatic creatures which resembled less broad versions of Earth stingrays. As they began to move on to land small feeding appendages on their underside grew into thicker organs to propel them, and the large side fins retracted and darkened to protect against solar radiation. Sensory appendages which stuck from the sides of the head and helped find food underwater become very useful for judging distance above water, with the eyes set so far apart.

Males, who had to compete for mating rites, developed these eye-stalks further into horns, and used them to scare off other males. They also developed a more upright stance to better compete for mates until the species was standing almost vertical. With a head now so far from the ground, the large mouth migrated to the bottom of the body, leaving the brain, eyes and breathing tube on the upper head, so as to spot danger and eat at the same time. Waste products are ejected explosively from the body from a pore on the back, to prevent contamination to the mouth.

Now able to walk upright and survive on land, the species spread across its world to become the dominant creature on the planet.

An alternative, warmer variation is here: [link] ]]>
The Sol Union Xenobiologist Makeba Sutphen was sent with the company when they left earth, to make sure the laws regarding alien ecosystems were followed. Here she is approached by possibly sentient natives of this large moon. Although she has a camera out now, if they get closer or show aggression she is well armed.

The species itself evolved from large aquatic creatures which resembled less broad versions of Earth stingrays. As they began to move on to land small feeding appendages on their underside grew into thicker organs to propel them, and the large side fins retracted and darkened to protect against solar radiation. Sensory appendages which stuck from the sides of the head and helped find food underwater become very useful for judging distance above water, with the eyes set so far apart.

Males, who had to compete for mating rites, developed these eye-stalks further into horns, and used them to scare off other males. They also developed a more upright stance to better compete for mates until the species was standing almost vertical. With a head now so far from the ground, the large mouth migrated to the bottom of the body, leaving the brain, eyes and breathing tube on the upper head, so as to spot danger and eat at the same time. Waste products are ejected explosively from the body from a pore on the back, to prevent contamination to the mouth.

Now able to walk upright and survive on land, the species spread across its world to become the dominant creature on the planet.

An alternative, warmer variation is here: [link]

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Alien-Parenthood-Sepia-47681751 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Alien-Parenthood-Sepia-47681751 Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:47:50 PST Alien Parenthood Sepia nonadult digitalart/drawings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2007-2013 *Abiogenisis

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Altruism-47694025 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Altruism-47694025 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:29:42 PST Altruism nonadult digitalart/drawings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2007-2013 *Abiogenisis
I have not done line art for a while, so enjoy the change ]]>
I have not done line art for a while, so enjoy the change

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Greater-Lightsail-47762656 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Greater-Lightsail-47762656 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:18:37 PST Greater Lightsail nonadult digitalart/drawings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2007-2013 *Abiogenisis
A creature based off a Dimetrodon, and pretty much my earliest attempt to use painting techniques instead of lineart. ]]>
A creature based off a Dimetrodon, and pretty much my earliest attempt to use painting techniques instead of lineart.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Alien-Anatomy-48450807 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Alien-Anatomy-48450807 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:58:53 PST Alien Anatomy nonadult digitalart/drawings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2007-2013 *Abiogenisis
Its the insides of a sea creature called the Barnards' Swordswallower, which is very thin if you looked at it from front on, hence 'sword', and has a large filter feeding mouth at the back, hence 'swallower'.

This kind of drawing aims to get people pondering alien life as a serious possiblilty so enjoy it ]]>
Its the insides of a sea creature called the Barnards' Swordswallower, which is very thin if you looked at it from front on, hence 'sword', and has a large filter feeding mouth at the back, hence 'swallower'.

This kind of drawing aims to get people pondering alien life as a serious possiblilty so enjoy it

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Barnards-Swordswallower-48828781 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Barnards-Swordswallower-48828781 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:07:06 PST Barnards' Swordswallower nonadult digitalart/drawings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2007-2013 *Abiogenisis
To alter its depth, a gas bladder fills much of its insides and can change volume at will, letting the Swordswallower feed using minimum energy.

Under the shadow of this specimen, a school of smaller fish-size relations of the Swordswallower seek shelter under its shadow. If I predator attacks, the feeding mouth of the large creature can be retracted, and the fish size creatures will hide inside. In return for this shelter, the fish like animals keep the Swallower free from parasites.

Trailing from the rear of this specimen are two long pale strings of gametes, releasing hundreds of reproductive cells into the sea as it swims, to mix in the water with the eggs and sperm of others swimming nearby.

To see the internal anatomy of this critter check out my gallery.

It was painted in Photoshop using standard fuzzy brushes set to between zero and 70% hardness, with hard brushes used for fine details. ]]>
To alter its depth, a gas bladder fills much of its insides and can change volume at will, letting the Swordswallower feed using minimum energy.

Under the shadow of this specimen, a school of smaller fish-size relations of the Swordswallower seek shelter under its shadow. If I predator attacks, the feeding mouth of the large creature can be retracted, and the fish size creatures will hide inside. In return for this shelter, the fish like animals keep the Swallower free from parasites.

Trailing from the rear of this specimen are two long pale strings of gametes, releasing hundreds of reproductive cells into the sea as it swims, to mix in the water with the eggs and sperm of others swimming nearby.

To see the internal anatomy of this critter check out my gallery.

It was painted in Photoshop using standard fuzzy brushes set to between zero and 70% hardness, with hard brushes used for fine details.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Primatoid-50912313 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Primatoid-50912313 Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:38:56 PDT Primatoid nonadult digitalart/drawings/scifi Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2007-2013 *Abiogenisis
This one-meter tall brachiating life-form hails from a planet with a large band of thick jungle bordering its equator.

Though it can eat some vegetable matter it is mainly predatory, and its bony sideways-opening mouth conceals hundreds of gripping teeth which hold prey while tearing jaws in its throat rip of huge chunks of flesh. Two smell organs flick from its lower snout and large pits in its face conceal infrared and visual sensors, which see well in the low light of the forest understory. Two orifices near the back of its neck allow it to breath without suffocating while it feeds. ]]>
This one-meter tall brachiating life-form hails from a planet with a large band of thick jungle bordering its equator.

Though it can eat some vegetable matter it is mainly predatory, and its bony sideways-opening mouth conceals hundreds of gripping teeth which hold prey while tearing jaws in its throat rip of huge chunks of flesh. Two smell organs flick from its lower snout and large pits in its face conceal infrared and visual sensors, which see well in the low light of the forest understory. Two orifices near the back of its neck allow it to breath without suffocating while it feeds.

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Red-Eyed-Tree-Frog-51575457 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Red-Eyed-Tree-Frog-51575457 Sat, 24 Mar 2007 08:05:20 PDT Red Eyed Tree Frog nonadult traditional/drawings/animals Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2007-2013 *Abiogenisis ]]>

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Nephila-51646206 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Nephila-51646206 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 05:23:59 PDT Nephila nonadult digitalart/drawings/animals Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2007-2013 *Abiogenisis
Will get back to aliens soon I promise! ]]>
Will get back to aliens soon I promise!

]]> http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Omega-51712671 http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/art/Omega-51712671 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:00:00 PDT Omega nonadult digitalart/drawings/fantasy Abiogenisis http://a.deviantart.net/avatars/a/b/abiogenisis.jpg?1 Copyright 2007-2013 *Abiogenisis

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