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Rand @rand-micky.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Another Zbrush Anec'Um sculpt, and two different renders - environment for this guy coming up next!

A black-and-white lineart render of a strange, partially-humanoid figure, on a blank white background.The figure's upper half consists of torso, head, and chest covered in overlapping triangular scales, save for a great singular eye in an otherwise featureless face, with two hands and arms, neck, and area around eye covered in raw sinewy muscle. The lower half consists of a widened "mantle" of scales, with four especially long ones emerging from a ring where its hips would be. In place of legs, several tendrils of muscle curl from beneath the rim of the mantle.

A color render with chromatic abberation of a strange, partially-humanoid figure, on a blank white background.The figure's upper half consists of torso, head, and chest covered in white overlapping triangular scales, save for a great singular eye in an otherwise featureless face, with two hands and arms, neck, and area around eye covered in red, raw sinewy muscle. The lower half consists of a widened "mantle" of scales, with four especially long ones emerging from a ring where its hips would be. In place of legs, several red tendrils of muscle curl from beneath the rim of the mantle.

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Rand @rand-micky.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Thank you! I've been trying to cook up some more of these, I'll post some soon!

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Rand @rand-micky.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Little experiment making a video from a flat illustration! DEEP-CAST 2201-D: 4DHAR//W243// ENC01 BEARING: 0 DEG. P7 25 DEG. P6 DESIGNATION: "EIQUR OF ULLAN" NOTE: SUBJECT OBSERVED IMMOBILE FOR DURATION OF DEPLOYMENT, APPX 219 HOURS

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hazelle rachelle @hazellerachelle.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Seems tonally appropriate for Black Friday. Originally appeared in The Dread Machine, Issue 3.2.

DreamBlastic™ Stimulating White Noise Boost Your Productivity Lucid Dreams Night Light Rotating Lamp - ★★★★★

Before, my dreams were useless,
like dreaming of chopping too much cabbage,
or that you never died.

Sometimes I dreamt of rubbing against a large balloon and it felt like sex.
Other times I dreamt of sex and it felt like rubbing against a large balloon.

I still dream of my teeth falling out, but now instead of dry-swallowing,
I dream of mouthguards to tame their roaming geology,
whitening strips to strip their history,
and veneers to fix their shamefulness outright.

Like before, I dream of my exes: HBO, Netflix, Paramount+.
I dream of flying: American Airlines.
And I dream of showing up to school pantsless: Victoria’s Secret.

I no longer dream about your death,
or having to explain gender to my parents,
or all my long-dead pets in a cold sweaty ball.

Instead I dream of cream spread over thin limbs.
I dream of dildos shaped like krazy-straws, and sheets silky as a bud.
I dream of myself, fragrant with purpose.
I dream I bump into the woman who picked my coffee beans at the park,
and she is dressed colorful and she is happy,
happy,
happy.

Now when your heart stops as it often does in my worst nightmares, the iPhone 14
dials fast and sweet, and the operator knows the exact words to start your heart again.

When our Toyota Camry plunges over the cliff face, we float to the surface
like beads of cream, smiling and giggling like gulls.

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Rand @rand-micky.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Maybe the most polygon-intensive sculpt I've done! This is Nchul, a Fabricator-General in the court of Kalit Yal from K. 2031-2134. Known for having being particularly sparse in their consumption of eias, the life-breath of all things, Nchul cultivated a reputation of pious ignorance.

A 3D sculpt of a vaguely humanoid figure, with a torso and head of scaled, gray, bonelike material with a metallic sheen, and large all-black eyes. The head is reminiscent of an insect, with a long, thing spine descending down in place of nose or mouth. Emerging from underneath the upper body are thick bands of raw, red muscle, coiled into two pairs arm-like tentacles, the upper pair larger than the lower, and a single, snakelike coil in place of a lower body. One "arm" is extended, releasing a trickle of incandescent orange-gold light, which is coalescing into a complex sigil.

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Rand @rand-micky.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

DEEP-CAST 909-B: 4DHAR//W288// ENC19 BEARING: 0 DEG. P7 90 DEG. P6 DESIGNATION: "ENCOUNTER II" NOTE: FIRST INSTANCE OF NON TYPE-I/TYPE-II ENTITIES This was my first render of grainier sorts of filters and more complex scenes, and I think I'm going to try to do a series of them. #horror #analog

A grainy image of a strange creature, huge and resembling something like an armored and one-eyed caterpillar with several pairs of long arms, reaching towards a vaguely humanoid, if distorted, figure on a cliff. The creature is rising from the misty expanse below and in front of the cliff, while the humanoid figure reaches out as if to touch the end of one extended arm. The image itself is a 3D-sculpted scene, done in Zbrush.

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Dusty Ray @sloppjockey.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

contact, mailing list, patreon, website, prints and originals all available here: linktr.ee/sloppjockey <3

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Rand @rand-micky.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Tulein, Word-Weaver, pictured here in Kalpyr 1455, shortly after having been shackled with Runes of Binding, for having greatly insulted a powerful lord of the Anec'Um. This was a really fun one, with the bulk of the work done in Procreate over a relatively simple Zbrush sculpt. #horror #art

A portrait of a bizarre, vaguely arthropod-like figure, looking directly at the viewer. Large eyes and a large triangular mouth with multiple jaws sporting thin teeth dominate a solemn face, with red chitin and plates making up most of this figure's body mass. A torso covered in thin rib-like plates and an arm with an eye in the center of the shoulder are visible, with a cloak of a deep teal fabric drapes behind. Sigils of glowing red-orange cover the head and chest of this figure, some in a glowing, intricate script.

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Rand @rand-micky.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Sculpt & Render of Eiatov'Shavum, taker of life and home. Done in Zbrush! #zbrush #surreal #horror #horrorart

A black and white image of a strange, centaur-like creature, with a lower body consisting of several segmented leg pairs and long, thin tendrils, and an upper body that is somewhat humanoid, albeit covered with spines and scales.

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Rand @rand-micky.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

DEEP-CAST: 1201-B: 4DHAR|/W90||ENCO7 UNIT:03 BEARING: 15 DEG. P2: 30 DEG. P3 DESIGNATION: "ENCOUNTER IV' NOTES: LAST IMAGES FROM AUTOPROBE UNIT 03 "CHARON" BEFORE SIGNAL LOSS (Some "probe"-style renders in Zbrush)

A grainy image, taken from an autonomous probe in a strange, barren landscape - the image is centered on a bizarre, misshapen figure, with a scaly upper body of one apparent piece, covered in spikes and spines. A smooth, helmet-like head with two eyes sits atop the body, and three long, segmented arms curl from and in front of the figure. A flash is employed, casting stark shadows on the landscape behind.

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Rand @rand-micky.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Derazjul, Terror of the Underglade. A vicious beast, slain by the great warrior Zusanu in K. 31, after terrorizing Asur'Um communities since time immemorial. More #zbrush and #worldbuilding, and more to come!

A bizarre, dog-like creature, covered in spikes and spines, and with four jet-black eyes. It glows with a raw and red mist, and is superimposed over a flowing sigil of yellow script, on a gray-black gradient background.

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Rand @rand-micky.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

🩸🦐🦪 some of my 3D sculpts that I painted over with procreate:

A scaled, surreal figure, with six gleaming black eyes and a total lack of other facial features. Only the torso is visible, but the entity is covered in ridges, spines, and plates of scaly bone, with flaring arms and hands that end in three spiny points. Small incandescent pink flames dance atop these points, and project together to form a hovering pink sigil above the figure's hand.

A bust of a strange, arthropod-like creature, with a flat, skull like plate atop face and head, two large black eyes, and a mess of tissue and fangs where a mouth might be. Cords of red muscle coil around the neck, and words in a flowing script read the creature's name, "Vesoragh," above the personal sigil of the entity.

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Rand @rand-micky.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Wow, the colors in this are fantastic - I love the sensation of sharp, lethal motion as well. Awesome work!

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Rand @rand-micky.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I really appreciate this feature, and that you curated such a great list! Thank you! May I be added?

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Rand @rand-micky.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

This is Eslugal Gezi, leader of the Ashumer'Aum, for whom all Asur'Um are named. They will be the first group of Asur'Um, the so-called "Mute Folk," to be absorbed as foedoratii to Perman's Enyr'Um state, in K.10, during the early phases of the Permannic Consolidation. This was a fun one!

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Crab Creatures @crabcreatures.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

This is Brent. Brent has been scaring my prized Hens and stealing their precious eggs. Get fucked, Brent.

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Emily Hoey @emhoey.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Falling Stars

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Rand @rand-micky.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Bust of Vesoragh, High-Fabricator of the court of Sanaxal, Somne 'Um Primarch, K. 1431, shortly before their death at the hands of marauding Asur'Um. Another paintover of a #zbrush sculpt - bonus image of them before they got skin 🙈

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Rand @rand-micky.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

This is Taarqun, Magister-General of the Vanyr'Um, d. K. 103. A keen scholar, and fierce warrior, they perished in the siege of Tsambalai. Sculpted/rendered in #Zbrush, with some paintover in Photoshop. #worldbuilding

A portrait of a strange, vaguely humanoid figure from the waist up, clad in overlapping gray scales across chest, shoulders, and arms, with golden eyes, and in place of a nose or mouth, has stacked layers of teeth-like growths. Winding over the forearm and behind the figure is a ribbon of yellow energy, and a gradient of pink-orange mist flows behind the figure. A sigil rests above their eyes.

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