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Unaha-Closp Culture Droneby ~verox11

Digital Art / 3-Dimensional Art / Scenes / Futuristic & Sci-Fi

Just a quick render of the culture drone Unaha-Closp from the Iain M Banks novel: Consider Phlebas.

!PixelExplorer Jan 7, 2012

niiiice

~coolio2654 Sep 18, 2009

hmm, I think this is a great success considering there's barely any reference in the book on how he looks like. Though I remember the book stating he had some sort of head that could "swivel"

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"Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple."
-Albert Einstein

~verox11 Sep 19, 2009 Student Digital Artist

Oh... okay. Let's say that bulge on the lower right wraps around the drone and can smoothly swivel horizontally through 300 degrees.

I don't see why anything on such an advanced drone would need to swivel though, unless it is for rapid repositioning of a directional weapon turret or something.

~coolio2654 Sep 26, 2009

idk, noone can tell anything from mr.bank's books lawl

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"Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple."
-Albert Einstein

~Hycanithe Nov 15, 2009

That's the best bit about them though, you can then take your own interpretations and visual it for yourself, which makes it a much more enjoyable experience.

This render is fantastic though!

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