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Zhirrzh are tough to draw.
2003-12-03, 3:30 PM #1
EDIT: Better Quality Scans, and one

Well they are...Timothy Zahn didn't describe them very well to begin with. Oh well.

[http://www.massassi.net/ec/images/13864.jpg]

[http://www.massassi.net/ec/images/13862.jpg]

I had another picture, but it got screwed up when I took a photo of it (the pencil lead got all shiny) so I'm going to Xerox it and take another picture. EDIT: And here it is.

[http://www.massassi.net/ec/images/13863.jpg]

Anyway, the Zhirrzh are characters in the "Conquerors" trilogy by Timothy Zahn. I'm going to try and model this guy sometime in the near future. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

Model:
[http://www.massassi.net/ec/images/13865.jpg]

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[This message has been edited by Thrawn42689 (edited December 06, 2003).]

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2003-12-03, 4:05 PM #2
Darn...it got blurred. I need to hook up my scanner again. Oh well.

[http://www.massassi.net/ec/images/13842.jpg]

Not sure what to do with the boots...they look kinda stupid right now. Any idea?

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2003-12-03, 4:13 PM #3
You are an awesome drawer. I can't draw if my life depended on it. Very nice.

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2003-12-03, 4:14 PM #4
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2003-12-03, 4:14 PM #5
you could model it for us too!

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Free Jin!
2003-12-03, 4:20 PM #6
Looks like an Iksar... with a space suit... and a gun.

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2003-12-03, 4:49 PM #7
Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by -Monoxide-:
Looks like an Iksar... with a space suit... and a gun.

</font>


Looks like a what now?

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2003-12-03, 4:49 PM #8
Did you read Icarus Hunt... god that was an excellent book. It just made me want to go play Freelancer... and i did [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]



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2003-12-03, 4:59 PM #9
Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by saberopus:
Did you read Icarus Hunt... god that was an excellent book. It just made me want to go play Freelancer... and i did [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]
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I did. Someone should make an Icarus Hunt mod for Freelancer. Or maybe even a Conquerors mod. That would be yummy. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

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2003-12-03, 5:11 PM #10
Looks like my anole in a cyber-suit.[edit]with a rifle, even![/edit]

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2003-12-03, 10:09 PM #11
That first picture looks great, and the second is good from the legs up. The tail looks weird.

What I really want to see is a Ssi-Ruuvi, the creatures from 'The Truce at Bakura'.
"Well ain't that a merry jelly." - FastGamerr

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2003-12-03, 10:56 PM #12
http://www.theforce.net/timetales/tt4-1/TRUCE4.JPG

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Pissed Off?
2003-12-04, 4:59 AM #13
His right leg and tail look broken, and his body in the first pic looks 2d. Shade it, or 3/4 it like the head.

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2003-12-04, 2:29 PM #14
He has double-bent legs, to balance with the tail. The tail is an atmospheric sampler, and spins in a corkscrew pattern.

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2003-12-04, 3:15 PM #15
Thanks Avenger, you know if that's officially what they look like?

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2003-12-04, 3:39 PM #16
Acharjay, there's another picture in the Essential Chronology that I think looks better, but I don't have the time to find it right now. I'd never seen Avenger's before, but it looks interesting. Happy hunting!

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2003-12-04, 4:26 PM #17
usux

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Moo.
Moo.
2003-12-04, 4:28 PM #18
Thrawn u r kool.
Nice pic! [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]
Oh, and if you're drawing what Avenger posted, those are Ssi-Ruik (or something), they were in The Truce at Bakura by Kathy Tyers. Zahn didn't write that.

[This message has been edited by Evil_Tofu (edited December 04, 2003).]
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2003-12-04, 10:19 PM #19
Tofu, I'll let you in on a little secret...

Look at the post above Avenger's.

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"Well ain't that a merry jelly." - FastGamerr

"You can actually see the waves of me not caring in the air." - fishstickz
2003-12-06, 2:25 PM #20
New pix0rz!!!111 I'll add one of the actual model in a bit.

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2003-12-06, 4:05 PM #21
[http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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" You killed me. That wasn't very nice."
Noble Gases
Holy soap opera Batman. - FGR
DARWIN WILL PREVENT THE DOWNFALL OF OUR RACE. - Rob
Free Jin!
2003-12-06, 4:20 PM #22
niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice

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2003-12-07, 5:59 AM #23
OMG teh Zrirxhzseszz!11

Scetched up my own in a few minutes Sorry for the messy lineart, I only had a ballpoint pen. I included a handy "How to draw a Lizard Thing or Whatever" tutorial.

[http://therat.free-host.com/lizard1.jpg]

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My signature puts the 'hat' in 'phat'.
My signature puts the 'hat' in 'phat'.
2003-12-07, 6:20 AM #24
[http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif]

Head shape is a little off, eyes need more pupils, but that's really cool. I like the feet--I had way too much trouble trying to get them to look right.

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2003-12-07, 12:51 PM #25
No offence, but the head kind of looks like a turtle head mixed with a eagle. But it still looks cool!
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2003-12-07, 1:15 PM #26
Okay, I decided to re-do the model, because the old one sucked. The new version is based on the profile drawing I did.

[http://www.massassi.net/ec/images/13876.jpg]

[http://www.massassi.net/ec/images/13877.jpg]

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[This message has been edited by Thrawn42689 (edited December 07, 2003).]
2003-12-07, 7:41 PM #27
Before you go much further, keep in mind: eyeballs are round. They have to fit inside the skull.
Warhead[97]
2003-12-08, 1:16 PM #28
You're right, and long ago I realized this would be a concern. I'm still not sure what I'll to about it, to tell the truth.

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2003-12-08, 4:31 PM #29
Shrink the eyesockets? I'm redrawing that head, so it looks more lizardine (unless the species in meant to look turtle/birdlike).

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My signature puts the 'hat' in 'phat'.
My signature puts the 'hat' in 'phat'.
2003-12-09, 12:53 PM #30
It's pretty much open to interpretation--I can give you the initial description from the book (plus some stuff from other parts), if that helps.

Quote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally Posted by Timothy Zahn:
They were roughly human in height, with slender torsos and a pair each of arms and legs in more or less human arrangement. Their heads were hairless, the faces roughly triangular in shape as large brow ridges over the deep-set eyes narrowed to hawklike beaks.

Their heads, Pheylan saw now, extended farther back than he'd realized, curving back and under to the neck and to a low spinal ridge that jutted out from their jumpsuits. The ridge terminated just above the legs in a flat, eellike tail that seemed to twirl continually in a tight corkscrewing spiral.

Pheylan found himself looking into the aliens wide eyes, noticing for the first time that each had what looked like three seperate pupils. The two on either end were vertical, catlike slits, while the center pupil of each eye was noticably wider. It struck him as an odd and rather redundant arrangement. Though so did the aliens' hands, for that matter, comprised of three fingers plus two oppositely placed thumbs.

They walked slightly bent forward, their feet appearing to have something of the splayfooted design of seagull feet except without any webbing between the toes.
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That's about all I can get without becoming redundant. Hope that helps. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/tongue.gif]

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2003-12-10, 4:38 PM #31
Cool.. I gotta read some of these books... I'll have to look for books by this guy.

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2011-03-27, 11:18 PM #32
Haha I ****ing sucked in 2003
2011-03-28, 7:34 AM #33
Yeah you did, but seriously dude I got excited thinking you were actually posting something here. Why don't you post up summa dem 2011 Zhirrzh drawings?
2011-03-28, 1:50 PM #34
gotta get some zhirrzh up in this *****
2011-04-05, 12:00 PM #35
Originally posted by saberopus:
Yeah you did, but seriously dude I got excited thinking you were actually posting something here. Why don't you post up summa dem 2011 Zhirrzh drawings?


[http://imgur.com/1HHSG.jpg]
2011-04-11, 11:10 PM #36
oo yeah that's the stuff

uh are there zhirrzh in the galactopticon?

or is that just a

side project :cool:
2011-12-25, 11:17 PM #37
I basically just used the design because I thought it was cool and called it something else.
2011-12-26, 8:12 AM #38
o!
2011-12-27, 1:13 AM #39
2011-12-28, 9:20 AM #40
What is this for?? Gcopticon too? Or is it some Skyrim deal.

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