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Just putting up the last of my imagery.

I decided to stay with the gray colour for this alien. I felt it looked almost rock like and would work well with its indigenous environment.

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 Here are the finalised designs for the two races. The savage are now called Raakthu, and the passive are now called the Vak'arshi. I put them next to each other to show the size difference.

 These are the Raakthu, the adult and the infant.

These are the Vak'arshi, male and female versions.

I will go into the particulars of the design on the character turnarounds.

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Here are the pre final designs for both of my alien races. I have done two designs made up of my favourite parts of the development designs. From here I will combine the best parts into a completed and final design. I have been getting feedback from peers to see which parts of my designs are the best. I have had mixed reactions but generally my feelings are the same.

Personally, from the savage race I like the design on the left most of all but i am partial to the face of the design on the right, I may mix and match for the final design.
For the passive race my feelings are the opposite, I like the general design of the design on the right but prefer the head on the left design.

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Here are my thumbnails for both races. Got some good results, wish I just had more time. Looking back I think it may have been wiser to just create one alien race and go further in depth with the design.

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Forgot to post this. Finally got round to scanning some of my reference drawings in. Was difficult, i had to do them individually at different angles. Would have liked to do more but time is short.

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These are my final mind maps for the alien race designs. From here on out it will be all about visual design and development of my ideas.

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I've finally got round to doing some design sketches. so far I've started my initial sketches to just draw out some of the ideas i had in the mind maps, Mainly the physiological one as the cultures and such are difficult to draw in such quick sketches.

I will now finalize my ideas in mind map form and begin drawing some thumbnails for my actual design ideas.
I'm quickly running out of time and another project has sucked up most of my time. I am going to have to keep my remaining time in mine when i finalize my ideas as i doubt i will have time to do everything i initially planned.