final vignette

the heroine descending into the poisonous miasma

descent

oops sorry! i never posted this sketch! it's of the heroin descending into the poison mist from Orinoco.

the village leader and the heroine

These are my two main characters!  The first is the village leader.  As penance for some great sin, he shackled himself with all encompassing bird manacles- that is why he isn't going to go save the world himself.  They are heavy and he cannot do anything with his hands.  The keys hang from the bottom, but he cannot unlock them because, well, his hands are useless. His bird friend takes care of small things for him.  The second is the heroine.  She is not a trained fighter, and at first is not a good fit for her role, but eventually she grows into the part.

village leader and the heroine

the first set are designs for the village leader and the second set are for the heroin of the story

the common-folk of Orinoco

boiz and gurlz.

thumbs, refs, and props

props!

yeah!

orinoco village close up edits

So I made some changes to my village close up!  I think it works a lot better :)  I decided to roll with the lines as an alternative look.

orinoco village close up

orinoco tiers edits

I made some edits :D  What do you think?

orinoco- tiers

These are the agricultural tiers in the middle of Orinoco :) And the ship.

Orinoco beauty shot re-do

I liked doing this a lot better :)

and nook sketches

orinoco

the sky village of orinoco

is there such a thing as too much visual research?

The Poisoned Planet and the Sky Village of Orinoco

·       -The planet is completely covered in a cloud of poisonous miasma that streams from beneath its crust through fissures- the miasma burns flesh and is poisonous to breathe

o   The planet has not always been covered in poisonous miasma 

§  For as long as the planet’s inhabitance can remember the fissures on the planet have released poison clouds into the air, but only two or three at a time and only once every few years

·      - They developed masks and protective clothing to protect them for the brief time while the air was harmful until the winds could clear it away

§  There was a leader of one of the many villages on the planet who was paranoid that one day more than a few fissures could erupt so he and the only two other leaders who believed him began to prepare for that day; all of the other leaders thought they were stupid and wasting their time

·       -dug around their villages and fit the land with “balloons” that could be filled and used to lift the villages above the toxic clouds

·      - stockpiled all supplies they could need to be sustained for however long it took for the air to clear

o   As it happened, the three leaders were right to plan ahead because one day their fears were realized and the fissured began to erupt the poisonous miasma, covering the whole planet

§  The three leaders and their villages rose above the poison and survived, believing that everyone else was killed

§  Those left behind and unprepared donned their masks and protective clothing

·       -Many died and those who survived were disfigured and damaged

o   Generations passed and their offspring became impervious to the poisonous miasma, changed from the original inhabitance of the planet

o   A deep hatred for those who escaped above the toxic clouds was passed down through the generations of this New Race

o   Formed small tribes  

·      - Three Sky Villages (inhabited by the Old Race) are perpetually suspended above the toxic clouds by “balloons” filled with a buoyant gas that can be continuously replaced thanks to a species of plant native to the planet that changes the breathable air into a weightless gas

o   The three villages in order from largest to smallest are Parrolet, Orinoco, and Kyte

§  Communicate via carrier birds

§  Travel between the villages by glider

§  Do not know of the existence of the poisoned tribes (the New Race) below the toxic clouds