I may be way wrong, but I seem to remember someone having a problem like that recently (it may have been Jason Welsh - Cannedmushrooms), and all they did to fix it was uncheck an unrelated setting in tools (by unrelated I mean if you know Z inside and out ok but if not, you’d never guess it, eg: it was something like reset polygroups). I’m sorry I can’t remember, but you may want to post a new thread.
Thanks again Point! 
How did I miss this thread, its freakin cool man. I just spent half an hour looking at everything. Can’t wait for more. 
Zicarious - thanks for the support! 
What the hell is that thing ? O_o its kind of scary ;/
Elder Thing bulb. 
Great use of ZB! 5•••••
Ohh, yes…
And HP does describe them as two starfish mating with a sea cucumber.
I absolutely can’t wait to see where this one ends up!
I trust the “staves” will re-emerge at some point?
thanks Bas!
markkens - yeah I was wondering how to interpret that. I will probably just embellish the shapes a bit. maybe a cut in reveals without making it to barrel like.
hehehe that last sculpt looked like somekind of organic hand grenade. awesome. i like your beasties skullbeast.
Thanks for the kind words Henry! 
I’m still sorting out the proportions and the balance of details.
A fine start! I think you’ve already got a hint of the vertical structure in the columns of protuberances between the wing wells…
I did catch the Hellboy II examining room scene you referred to earlier…just enough to do a sly homage to HCL without striving for accuracy as you are.
Watching and waiting.small_orange_diamond
markkens - thanks!
Don’t see this as a crit because it’s not meant to be one: there’s some resemblance with the eggs from Alien, but to be honest, I like yours better.
Time for a remake. You team with HRG, you get a budget of one week of war in Irak and a free-pass for parental rating.
This would be a movie…
And after blockbuster success, the final Dracula movie. With Keira or Scarlet as a real Minna.
sweet dreams are made of this…
None taken. They have hatched from the same egg so to speak.
There may be a resemblance because Dan O Bannon (writer of Alien) was a protégée of August Derleth whom followed Lovecraft’s style of work closely.
“At the mountains of madness” was written in 1931 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Long before “Alien”.
The meat and potatoes from “Alien” is oddly similar to Lovecraft’s story concept.
And this fact also applies to “The Thing” was inspired from a story called “who goes there” and the writer of that (John W. Campbell) worked for Lovecraft’s editor on at the mountains of madness.
The similarities will make any hardcore fan of Alien and The thing Ill, but I still love those movies. Let see, aliens crash landed in isolated Antarctica (outer-space) people discover the old ones, then the monster that can change shape and gets them.
I should know, once I found out that everyone steals from lovecraft and gives no Homage I felt pretty sad that a fantastic artist could go unnoticed for his whole life and death. Lovecraft’s spirt and influence in todays world Is greater than most would know.
“At the mountains of madness” never saw a complete print until after Howard’s death.
Once all the legs, wings and arms are on it wont look so egg-ish.
When Colin Wilson wrote his “The strength to dream” around 1960 he mentioned Lovecraft in it as a man with a gloomy and remarkable fantasy, but as a writer he found him atrocious, with lots of negative doom emotion and a total lack of ideas (not inspiration, but thinking). Don’t forget this was the time of the “angry young men” movement in literature, and that Wilson was a writer with a scientific mind who read the more difficult long works of literature.
Derleth responded and challenged Wilson to write a novel in the Lovecraftian tradition. This gave us The Mind Parasites, which Derleth liked and edited, The Space Vampires and The Philosopher’s Stone.
The Space Vampires was turned into a movie. The script for "Lifeforce"was by Dan O’Bannon. Not really a good movie, as they stripped all the ideas, yet the original movie was better than the US cut version, which was 15minutes shorter. It’s also the story of a spaceship that is discovered blah blah…
The Space Vampires was written in 1976, which was a little before O’Bannon wrote Alien after the failed project with Jodorowski on Dune.
(Bob Venosa had shown Giger’s work to Dali who showed it to Jodorowski who was working on a movie with O’Bannon.)
The principal vampire was female, played by Mathilda May and I’m shure at least some of the inspiration to create the Species series came from here.
Personally, I like the Philosopher’s Stone the most. What I like in Wilson’s work in Lovecraftian tradition is the fact that as far as he is concerned, and sorry for the play with the quote, resistance is not futile but fertile.
When I read Lovecraft, I think his “not great literature” way of writing adds to the authenticity of his stories. He is not a bad writer. On the contrary: he is deceivously simple, which makes the “message” enter easily.
Yet I am not a doom person. When I see and read all the creativity that has been unleashed by the works of the great HPL (I love his poetry nearly more than his stories), I can only say that where creativity reigns, there is no real doom or fatality, but an inspiration sparkling from a chosen attitude of doom.
Sorry for the meanderings in your thread, but I really like what you do, and your attitude towards it.
Most welcome!
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That’s disgusting. Good work.
-Dustin
John,
About midway through I was wondering if you were going to take any ‘shortcuts’. But when I saw the eyestalks slither out, I knew I should never have doubted…
ET’s in the hands of a loving master, I think.
Good stuff!!!
P.S. : Thanks to you and Erik for that history of connections of writers and movies I have appreciated all these many years.