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This image was created for the CGSociety's twenty-second CGChallenge. Entrants were instructed to create an image inspired by David Brin's "Uplift Universe" books showing human-extraterrestrial interaction. This image was modelled with Wings 3D 0.99.01, sculpted and textured with ZBrush 3.1, composed in Softimage XSI 6.5 (a free version provided for the contest), and rendered with mental ray. The hair on the alien hand was done with Softimage, while that on the human hand was created with Maya 7.0's paint effects and exported to Softimage as geometry. The background was created with Apophysis 2.07. Final compositing, retouching, and colour correction was carried out in Adobe Photoshop CS.
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~Cromagblack6 Jan 17, 2013
I love the concept of Terrans going out into space and at least for a time having Military and Technological supremacy maybe even numarical, and taking it upon ourselves to uplift other primitive cultures

for better or for worse
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~vmulligan Jan 17, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
:D
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~5ilvara Sep 21, 2012
♥ What specie is this one already? It's been a while I haven't read Brin and the only book I've finished so far was Startide Rising.
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~vmulligan Sep 23, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
It was a while ago that I did this, and that I read the novel Startide Rising. If I remember correctly, part of the plot involves the discovery of primitive tool-using aliens on an island on the world on which the human ship is hiding out to make repairs. I think it was the primitive tool-users that inspired the alien hand, here. The novel doesn't seem to have stuck in my mind all that well, though.
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~5ilvara Sep 29, 2012
Okay. Thank you for explaining. :)
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Mood: Joy *segura2112 Dec 13, 2011  Student Digital Artist
That is a great series and this is a beautiful image. Thank You
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Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it s stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddngton
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~vmulligan Dec 14, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thank you!
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~Leunbrund Dec 1, 2011  Student Digital Artist
Something about it makes you pause and stare. Something really strange about it, but attractive, too. Quite cool!
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~vmulligan Dec 2, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thanks a lot!
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~Autonomous-Ink Dec 1, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
That creature only has one digit on the side, and four on the top? We certainty are different, aren't we?
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