Looks like I had Unity stuff on the brain the pst couple of days. The three Unity fighter classes, Shocktroop, and Bloodwing:


Cannibal Fighter - First output of the Unity's Bloodwing Project - 'unmanned' fighter. Fast, Maneuverable, deadly. 4 light energy cannons, 2 medium energy cannons, 1 magnetic cannon, 2 warhead launchers.


Dragon Fighter - Mainstay fighter of the Unity fleet, much as the TIE in SW. Except more durable and with shields :). 4 energy cannons


Unity Assault Fighter - Heavy assault fighter - 2 light energy cannons, 2 medium energy cannons, 1 magnetic cannon, 2 warhead launchers.


Shocktrooper - Male verpien soldiers. Because of their wings, they are used in special operations and rarely in garrison duties.


Bloodwing - Robotic shell controlled by slave-rigged brains. I'd rather not give away much more

Those ships look a lot better than the previous sketches, which were slightly wobbly. Excellent.

The third is what I'd like to craft my UFO to look like in Spore.

I thought you said you couldn't draw characters

He meant he couldn't draw human characters. Good thing those aren't meant to be human, or we'd have to totally diss the proportions and posture.

Yeh :). I CAN draw characters, I just usually prefer to do other stuff. But armored characters is usually pretty easy for me. And yeh, drawing non-humans means I don't have to worry about those proportions.

they do kind of seem to... lean forward a bit.

Besides which, those feet on the first one are tiny... Poor guy must have a small... err nevermind.

Anyway, I thought you couldn't design the UFO in Spore. Am I wrong? Cause I hope I am.

Yeh, the forward lean is intentional. If you look back through my page at the EC (I don't know where exactly) there's a sketch of the Karlot out of armor, and the lean is there too. It's just their posture - kind of hunched. Since the bloodwing is a Karlot design, it fell into the same mold. As for the Shocktrooper's feet, I'm still undecided on what to do with them, and was unsure when I posted. The Karlots are supposed to have long, spindly legs, so it would be bizarre for them to have large feet. They're supposed to kind of click when they walk - they're insectoids, after all. So any suggestions how to do this?

New stuff:

Unity Crescent Bomber - twin energy cannons, two missile launchers, and bomb bays underneath.


Ariel Assault Bomber - variant of the Ariel starfighter, but wider and featuring a modified armament. Two energy cannons, and two enormous bomb bays.