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[Sialater]

ReiSilver wrote...

I really like the body shape you gave her, makes sense in my head.
Only thing I'd quibble with is the idea that an adult female would naturally sped her entire adult life breeding. We hear tales of female warlords in ME1 before the genophage hit really hard. I'd be more inclined to believe krogan would have naturally had a breeding cycle during which they'd have a clutch of a large number of children but otherwise being free to do what Krogan do best.
But since the genophage that's changed to focusing on breeding to try and make up lost numbers.
The only thing that I still puzzle over in how Krogan work is why there are so many males and what percentage of a clutch would be male. If Krogan were non-predatory in their past (I can't remember where I first heard it but their wide set eyes and flat teeth suggest this) and group animals it would make sense that there would be more females to males. I'm left wondering if the female camps are just huge or if their evolution moving up to being the dominant species on their planet changed this somehow to being more even.

The codex in ME1 says that the wide-set eyes evolved that way, not because krogan weren't predatory, but because there are that many more things that can eat them first on Tuchanka.  Doesn't mention the teeth, though.  I think they're just omnivorous.

[Pacifien]

monsoontide wrote...
OUCH!

Don't you talk about Wrex's mother like that!

[Pacifien]

monsoontide wrote...
I figured it was because Turian female waists are very slender... so in comparison Shepard's is "supportive"... lol

OK, started to give the female Turian a go... any other details you reckon would differentiate male & female Turians?

Actually, I figured Garrus was desperately trying to find ways in which Shepard looked attractive by Turian standards, so perhaps the females really do have supportive waists? Not so slender in the transition between waist to hip like the males are.

Can't remember exactly what he said about Shepard's hair... think he just said it looked nice, though. Wanted to think he said it was shiny, leading me to believe the females did something to their fringes to give it extra sheen.

When I think of turian sexual dimorphism, though, I really do think that the males and females would be hard to tell apart at first glance to another alien.

Hmm. Reflective skin for a harsh ultraviolet light. Exoskeleton-like exterior. Eyes, hands, teeth like a classic predator. What would make a female different from a male...

Give them four digits.

[monsoontide]

Oh drat - what is it Garrus says about getting some time with a Turian female while training - he had reach and she had flexibility?



Turian female is about 50% complete.

[tmk]

A great concept, but I must nitpick

monsoontide wrote...
Since the male Krogan possess 4 testicles, I would imagine the females each have at least two uteruses (somethign that occasioanlly happens in humans actually!!!)

Technically, four testicles doesn't mean two uteri, it only means four ovaries. And since it's perfectly possible to have multiple fetuses develop in the same uterus, having two of them is actually pretty pointless. And although it is in fact much more common in Earth fauna than a single ("fused") one, duplex uterus could cause birth complications for precocial orthogrades (which is probably one of the reasons humans ended up with fused).

Modifié par tmk, 26 juillet 2010 - 02:13 .

[epoch_]

Its not bad, but this is better.

Siansonea II wrote...

[monsoontide]

Hee hee!
Now I am really going to ruffle a few feathers...

Here's My interpretation of the Female Turian.

http://www.foundatio...28&d=1280130373

She has a slightly longer neck, and a slender, more flexible body, while still keeping the metallic protective "bony" skin and large hmmmm chest/back area, though she has more "fleshy" parts to allow for greater flexibility.
Females also sport residual plumage (much like humans still have hair) and depending on local custom or current turian fashion trends, these feathers may be "as is", cut in patterns/shapes, dyed, decorated, or plucked.
The female Turian can flex the feathers, so they can be displayed (as per picture) or folded back against the body.
Her genital "armor" acts as both a support for her wider hips and narrow waist and something of a "chastity belt"
Considering Turian's have three digit hands, I went with 3 digit feet, with the "slashing claw" usually hidden by their footwear.

As always, I am really keen to see what Bioware actually come up with.

And stop posting the picture of Wrex with lipstick - it's creeping Me out!

[monsoontide]

Might have a crack at the Salarian female now, just to round things out.



Suggestions on what she might look like?

[Neria Rose]

Don't think the Salarian females really look any different from the males. Perhaps physically slightly larger and duller in color since the closest Earth equivalents are amphibians.



Just out of morbid curiosity, what made you decide to give the female Turian feathers? Yes, Turians are avian in design, but in most birds, the male is the more brilliant gender. If anything, I'd think males would be more likely to have residual feathers (which, to our knowledge, they don't).

[monsoontide]

I wasn't so much going for bird like as going with the more recent discoveries relating to dinosaurs having feathers - and when I turn the feathers "off", she looks a bit er.. "naked"!

[monsoontide]

Here's how she looks without feathers... a bit plain really.

http://www.foundatio...55&d=1280179774

Modifié par monsoontide, 26 juillet 2010 - 09:31 .

[Neria Rose]

monsoontide wrote...

Here's how she looks without feathers... a bit plain really.

http://www.foundatio...55&d=1280179774

I prefer it, honestly. I find it more believable as we've had no indication of Turians having feathers. I liked altered versions of the male concept art. Of course, it's your work, so whatever you do is your preference .

[FuturePasTimeCE]

monsoontide wrote...

Hee hee!
Now I am really going to ruffle a few feathers...

Here's My interpretation of the Female Turian.

http://www.foundatio...28&d=1280130373

She has a slightly longer neck, and a slender, more flexible body, while still keeping the metallic protective "bony" skin and large hmmmm chest/back area, though she has more "fleshy" parts to allow for greater flexibility.
Females also sport residual plumage (much like humans still have hair) and depending on local custom or current turian fashion trends, these feathers may be "as is", cut in patterns/shapes, dyed, decorated, or plucked.
The female Turian can flex the feathers, so they can be displayed (as per picture) or folded back against the body.
Her genital "armor" acts as both a support for her wider hips and narrow waist and something of a "chastity belt"
Considering Turian's have three digit hands, I went with 3 digit feet, with the "slashing claw" usually hidden by their footwear.

As always, I am really keen to see what Bioware actually come up with.

And stop posting the picture of Wrex with lipstick - it's creeping Me out!

:blush:i'd tap that... Zap Brannigan style... Captain Kirk kligon on that ass... 

Modifié par FuturePasTimeCE, 26 juillet 2010 - 09:40 .

[FuturePasTimeCE]

Neria Rose wrote...

monsoontide wrote...

Here's how she looks without feathers... a bit plain really.

http://www.foundatio...55&d=1280179774

I prefer it, honestly. I find it more believable as we've had no indication of Turians having feathers. I liked altered versions of the male concept art. Of course, it's your work, so whatever you do is your preference .

that's your garrus' LI dude... 

[Titanium Man]

I think the feathers look good. Maybe not as HUGE PROMINENT, but feathers work to distinct the two.

[tmk]

 Feathers on turians looks pretty out of place IMO. I think female turians are just subtly more slender than males, and maybe have those facial features shaped slightly differently (the forehead "shield", the "sideburn mandibles", etc.) Probably wider abdomen. Not sure why they would have longer necks.
I'm tempted to draw my version, but can't draw worth scrap... 

[monsoontide]

Wasn't really intending to do a series, but here's the Salarian female... she's sorta colored after Mordin and sorta not.
I am guessing from the various in-game comments, Salarians don't actually engage in intercourse? More of a spawning thing with the female laying eggs and the male fertilizing them.

I liked Mordin... he was entertaining - only people to give him a run for most amusing are the two in the engineering section.

http://www.foundatio...74&d=1280288261

Modifié par monsoontide, 28 juillet 2010 - 03:43 .

[Titanium Man]

That thing is frightening.

[tee_bird]

I love the art. They're all great, but I feel the krogan is the strongest of them all.



The turian is beautiful, though.

[Pacifien]

I thought I had posted my impression of the female turian. I thought the feathers were interesting in a vestigial sense similar to human hair. Also like the very supportive waist.

The female salarian doesn't fit my own perception of the them. I always pictured them with a much greater sexual dimorphism than the males. Plump. Not much muscle tone.

[Mentatzoee]

I don't find the feathers so appealing when it comes to female turians. They look to me as an obvious avian reference, and this doesn't strike my concept of avian sexual dimorphism.

As far as I've seen, when it comes to birds, it's usually males the ones who have the most accented and visually appealing traits because they're the ones in charge to impress the other sex in order to be chosen (and therefore females don't have that reason to be so visually appealing/impressive).



Of course, this is how it has gone in Earth (and I'm sure there are plenty of counter-examples to what I said), I don't know how evolution went in Palaven, but something tells me I would personally need a longer codex entry explanation than "Due to the path evolution took in Palaven...".

[tmk]

 Turians aren't that obvious actually. They look sorta like catfaced raptors, but their skin really doesn't look like something that could evolve from feathers, nor something feathers could evolve out of. At most they could be related to some sort of pterodactyl/bat sort of thing, imo. They could also be simply too heavy to fly, with all the "natural radiation shield skin" thing.
And their blood actually looks like that of Earth's cephalopods... 

The salarian female looks like a male, except partially skinned 

Modifié par tmk, 28 juillet 2010 - 06:06 .

[monsoontide]

Thought I'd try an alternate version of the female Salarian...

"Well hiya there Mr Shepard, wanna spawn?"


http://www.foundatio...03&d=1280372555

Modifié par monsoontide, 29 juillet 2010 - 03:09 .

[monsoontide]

Which one do you prefer?

The thin Salarian female or the BBW Salarian?

Or is the thin version how she looks most of the time and the big version what she becomes duting spawning season?

[Miss Yuna of Atlanta]

monsoontide wrote...

Might have a crack at the Salarian female now, just to round things out.

Suggestions on what she might look like?

One of the Consort's acolytes in the first Mass Effect is a salarian. From a human perspective, she is identical to the males.