Vignette Finish

Tyche Vignette

Tyche: Boss & Hero

Hero and Boss Creature thumbs

boss

hero

Tyche: Common Characters

Character Thumbs II

*will post the others soon!

Character Thumbs & Refs

Flora, Fauna, Vehicles

Turbine Bike

Personnel Carrier

(I've had Blender sitting on my computer forever, but this was the first time I've ever really tried modeling with it.)

Cavern and Bioreactor Core

Cavern

Bioreactor Control Room

Spec-Con

Specimen Containment Facility

In-Class Spaceship

Tyche Scenes

Comm-Station Overlook (finish & variations)

Comm-Station Overlook

With my planet's scenario, it seemed important to show the scale of the planetary veins compared to the human structures. I played around with a few different approaches and settled on the idea of a view from one of the communication relays near the edge of the pit. I'm leaning towards the top one, since I feel like it captures a better sense of scale and distance, but I've posted the alternate as well since I couldn't make up my mind. For the final version of the piece, I'm going to have more structural forms in the pit, rather than just blue vertical walls, to make it more alive and alien. For reference I looked a lot at natural canyons here on earth, as well as sinkholes and hot springs. For designing the habitat (still to be done) I gathered pictures of antarctic bases, an undersea lab and nasa moon base concepts. I've also been thinking a lot about the organisms inside the planet, so I put together some images of strange plants, fungus, sea sponges, etc. 

Colony 117

Key Points:

-General Terraforming Corporation wins contract to assess newly discovered planet Antaeus and its three moons for possible human habitation.

-Only the moon Tyche seems promising, as it appears to possess a vast network of lakes and rivers.

-GenTerra, corp. establishes Colony 117 on the surface of Tyche.

-Veins of iridescent blue-green organic growth spread across surface, stemming from central point in moon’s core. This is the ‘water’ seen from orbit.

-Organism’s cells contain 1000’s of chromosomes, and a redundant genome, making it almost infinitely mutable.

- Colony scientists genetically modify the Tyche organisms, combine them with mechanical systems, and incorporate them into the infrastructure of the colony.

-Moon itself is discovered to be a single super-organism made up of billions of colonies of specialized cells, much like a coral reef.

-Seasons are dictated by the lifecycle of the planetary organisms, including a “Sporing-Time” when all surface organisms on the moon simultaneously release their spores into the air to reproduce, creating a perpetual dense haze across the world.
-Spores are found to be extremely resilient, and can seed any carbon-based lifeform with the Tyche organism if inhaled/absorbed. If taken in, the Tyche organism will merge it's DNA with the host's, taking over the host's body in a short time. 

-The moon’s core is thought to be a dense neural network, in effect, a colossal organic supercomputer half the size and weight of Earth’s own moon. 
-GenTerra hopes to be able to modify the genetic code of Tyche's core, with the goal of harnessing the moon's organic systems to create self-sustaining, biomechanical industrial and military facilities.