Explorers. Reach near a planet. Got strong and rare signals from it. High energy signals. Signals that suggest a sentient origin. But planet is not paradise. Is not even habitable. Au contraire. Is hostile. Even its gravity seems to fluctuate on a dangerous fashion. Like trying to pull whatever comes near it in random bursts of gravitational attraction. There are no signs nor readings of life... as we know it at least. Explorers had been on space for generations. Long lasting generations. Need something to grasp to. Need answers. These strange and insistent signals just keep invading mother-ship sensors. Sometimes strange noises come up from speakers. Even when offline. Inciting. Teasing. Some dare to say signals are scanning mother-ship. Others began having abstract unsettling, distressing, unpleasant even painful dreams. Others tell they hear weird noises, inside their ears. Things like clicks, hums... So they go down. Down to the surface of planet 0M1-Novs.
Kidding. This was a commission I did some time ago. Thing to depict was a hostile environment. And what came to my mind was surface of planet LV-426 from Aliens. Love those 2 movies. Alien and Aliens. Yes.
This is the classic hyper-rough notan from where I started.
Initially the ship looked like a piggie haha. But I had in mind that it would look like a caterpillar. Strong and sturdy. All terrain. So I change it when painting. Only showed the front though :(
This is the super-heavy process gif:
And here's the final:
Couple of zooms:
Crew
Ship
It would be a nice space-horror story though. It could be called. The signal. Hahaha. I watched Cell, an adaptation of Stephen King's novel, and I loved it. That would be horrific, to deal with a sort of electromagnetic sentient entity which can... Now I need to read the book cause I imagine there's more juice than can be in any hour-and-a-half-book-adaptation flick.
