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September 3, 2024
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The Entity Chapter 06-04
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Some of the instructors nodded, while the others began to look at the building's exit.
It wasn't long before some of the girls showed by the door, and they were even prettier than before.
Sighs and whispers among the instructors pointed those succumbing "Oh cuute...", slowly walking to the girls and their doom.
"Flee boys, we shall try to handle this," said one of the others. "It is clear you were right, and the powers of this Entity will grow fast, at this rate."
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One question that's kind of gnawing on me, What the actual heck is Levi Ackerman doing there 😆
What the actual heck is Levi Ackerman doing there
😆 🤣 You are playing (knowing) too much computer games 😆 😀 Jarviss is an University planet, so we can guess he was there to follow some course or training… 🤨
Save for the Niklas & Friends gang (and the three-boobed blue girl), everything was posed (by me) and rendered in XNALara, using 3D models some guys extracted from computer games… There is an IMPRESSIVE library, and I used the models somewhat fitting the realistic style, and diverse enough to account for the numerous species found on the planet.
You certainly noticed in the previous pics we have R2D2 and the other "rolling-ball" bot plus Luke, Mickey and Donald, Jabba the Hutt and others I don't know where they came from. 😉
The Entity Chapter 06-05a
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Jahv was still using his scanner, shifting from a view to the other, trying various sensitivity levels. "It is growing fast indeed. See the energy beams? They are now going farther than the girls. I'd bet it won't need them for long, and will be able to control people by a distance. Thankfully it is slow, moving like an amoeba."
"Why doesn't it drown into the ground, if it is that heavy?" asked Prince Arion.
'Don't know. Possibly it uses some compensation or anti-grav field", replied Jahv.
"Can't you analyze this?" added the Prince.
"My sensors are not granular enough, and the thing is too heavy"
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Background generated with XNALara and stuff available on www.deviantart.com/xnalara-customized
I tried another technique to preserve the shadows from XNALara. It even allows to "project" them on the drawings! So you can see the shadow of Keyro's head over Niklas and Jahv bodies (without the antennas, though…)
@lyel : Actually I don't play computer games at all, as my old linux laptop probably wouldn't run any 😝 But I did read some mangas and watch some animes in my life, Levi is a rather specific character from "Attack on Titan" so a rather widely known one 😉 Just Very funny to see that particular guy there... He'd better not be giving lectures on 3dimensional warfare to soulans 🤐
@anthony Ah ok… I never read mangas, as for anime, all I remember is the original Dragonball series !!
The Entity Chapter 06-05b
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We switched to a comics layout for this one!
LOTS more work, but such concepts as "increasing exponentially" weren't easy to convey with a simple drawing!
This is my very first page in such format. Had to figure the layout, then pose the boys in XNALara, build a first layout with XNALara renders, on which the artist based his drawings.
Then back to PhotoShop to integrate the drawings with XNALara renders (without the CGed boys of course). Plus the balloons…
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The Entity Chapter 06-06a
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Whizzzzzzzzzz, whizzzzzzz, whizzzzz. Plop.
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The Entity Chapter 06-06b
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The Entity Chapter 06-07a
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They began to run away, while the alarms were starting all over the campus.
Jahv regularly checked his sensor unit.
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Foreground background generated with XNALara and stuff extracted from various games
Distant outside background shot from Tamriel (The Elder Scrolls IV)… on a 4k monitor.
Assembling (backgrounds, boys and shadows) with PhotoShop.
The Entity Chapter 06-07b
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Pyramide and antennas ported to Oblivion from stuff available for XNALara
Landscape and vegetation background shot from Tamriel (The Elder Scrolls IV) on a 4k monitor.
Usual post-processing with PhotoShop.
The Entity Chapter 06-09a
no "08",just a gap in the numbering. Likely included into the 7b page
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The elevator opened after a rather long descent, and the boys entered the actual laboratory.
Arion was yet flying towards the hardware. Jahv jumped at the closest device, and Keyro began running from one hall to the other, frantically checking the stuff.
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The Entity Chapter 06-09b
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Meanwhile, Keith was nosing around, freely, and suddenly he wondered why…
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The Entity Chapter 06-09c
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Feeling free, Keith resumed nosing around for out-of-focus experiments 😉
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The Entity Chapter 06-10-1
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"Can we help," asked Niklas?
"Sure!" shouted Jahv considering a strange apparatus he had dragged out of a pile of junk: "Get out of the way!"
Even before Niklas could show his surprise of being verbally kicked away, Jahv shook his head and reached to grasp Niklas' shoulder.
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Hi, my name is Niklas. I’m the one to the left with the blond hair and those goofy freckles. I’ll tell you in some cartoons and stories what happened after I told my best friends the truth. You should know, I love my friends, really! And guess what some of them, like Fabian and Jason, love me too! I always thought they’d say I’m weird, well, maybe we’re all weird.