Vanishing Point

(via fuckyeahbioware)

Title: Certus

Summary: In the end, there’s only one thing that really matters. Explorations, variations and off-camera moments from the Mass Effect 3 storyline. Multiple character POVs.

Rating: M, language, violence, sexual scenes.

Chapter 39: Hearts and Bones, in which Joker plays his hand. (Also on AO3.)

Writing a bit of Feron dialogue and I looked up a pic just for reference and the internet did provide.

Thanks internet, I needed a chuckle.

Shep, hun, smile. It’s a date. No baddies to charge around here.

From screenshots by shenzi123 :)

Apparently I poked a hornet’s nest with that comparison. Anyway.

Days’ worth of work on a new ZBrush practice model. I took Nyreen as the base, but elongated the head back to something of a more turian neck/head connection. The lack of fringe does exaggerate the length, but extending the plates back seems to compensate. I also did the full compliment of plates along the neck, though they’re probably raised too far. If I did it again I’d keep the full set but have them lying much flatter to the skin. They’re too harsh right now (although to do sort of recall long hair in a way…).

Still, I think this is closer to how I envision the female turians. The lack of fringe, the more smooth mandibles, wider nose, but the same head/heck connection and elongated skull. And round pupils.

Title: Certus

Summary: In the end, there’s only one thing that really matters. Explorations, variations and off-camera moments from the Mass Effect 3 storyline. Multiple character POVs.

Rating: M, language, violence, sexual scenes.

Chapter 38: Breach the Darkness, in which Liara seeks the lost. (Also on AO3.)

And we’re back! So… my life is still bananas on a cracker, but I’ll do my best to stick to the schedule. I just have to make it through another couple of weeks and then a major weight should be off my shoulders and I can refocus on the end!

Man, line up the models and you really see to what extent they humanized Nyreen’s headshape.

Why is it so damn hard for them to conceive of ‘alien’ and ‘female’ in the same thought process, without trying to make her human? Is sexy babe really the only way they know how to define a female character?

Rhetorical question is rhetorical. Sadly we know the answer. Grumble grumble bitch, I really want to see more variation in female characters. Sexy is fine where appropriate, but alien, monstrous and all shades in between would be nice too.

Model turnarounds courtesy of Troodon80’s database.

messerehawke:

I just wanted to say I'm sorry. Not just about the coup, but Mars and Horizon. This whole great big mess. And thanks y'know for always being there; the best you could.

(via shenzi123)

Urdnot Bakara and Kye Shepard

One of these days I’ll learn to do those really gorgeous photosets and edits others can do, but in the meantime I still love these pics.

Bakara’s towering dignity and strength. even as her body tries to quit on her, was so moving. Everything about the genophage is so messy, even Bakara and her sisters’ sacrificing themselves to terrible experiments just for the hope of finding a cure. Much as I love Anderson, Bakara was the one who cut through the same tired platitudes of war and sacrifice and said things Shepard badly needed to hear.

Keep digging, Shepard, you too can find some light.

Screenies by shenzi123

annakie:

You learn to appreciate the light by living in the dark.

By request from Sinvraal. <3

This is one of my very favorite conversations and moments in ME3. This was seriously something my poor Shepard needed to hear right then.

Thank you! :D