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I need a critter created for a book cover ...

WillowRavenWillowRaven Posts: 3,787
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It's called a water scorpion. In real-life, these can be hand-held, not in this story, it's over 6-feet long and is attaching a couple of teens in a rowboat. Anyone up for the challenge?

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  • GoggerGogger Posts: 2,506
    edited July 2019

    If you don't get any takers, how close is close enough?

    https://www.daz3d.com/twiglet-wood-spirit

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  • WillowRavenWillowRaven Posts: 3,787

    It's not a fantasy character ... It's an actual animal that has mutated to being much bigger than normal thanks to environmental influences, so the animal has to represent the real animal, just bigger.

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,795

    You might have a bit better luck finding a water strider that's already been modeled by someone.

  • FirstBastionFirstBastion Posts: 8,050

    Water strider  https://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/471454

     

  • WillowRavenWillowRaven Posts: 3,787

    That one is the other breed. I need the skinny one. See attached comparison of the two bugs. And is a water strider also a water scorpion?

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  • missuskissesmissuskisses Posts: 918

    I'm not able to do this, but just asking for the sake of those who could--is this a paid gig?

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,925

    There's other sites that may model for you, for a fee of course, but you probably would need to rig it. Do you know how to do that? 

  • Eustace ScrubbEustace Scrubb Posts: 2,730

    One point that seems to come up every time cover art is discussed in the writing-blog I follow is that the art needs to signal the genre and the feel of the book, more than it needs to depict any actual scenes from the book.

  • WillowRavenWillowRaven Posts: 3,787

    This particular project isn't paid because I'm not getting paid for this one. It's a small, traditional press that only pays in royalties, which translates: may never see a penny if it never sells sort of arrangement. Why I still work with this publisher is because their books win national awards and almost every project I promote that I've done for them tends to land me a paid gig or two from the indie community. 

    I don't know how to rig, either, but I'm guessing there are tutorials for that or maybe it can be modeled in the pose I have in my head. Maybe?

    And I've been doing this for thirteen years. When a publisher or client wants a specific scene portrayed, that's the scene they want to be portrayed and accurately so. Vague 'feeling' only works with certain genres. When a creature or character is described, said creature or character better be accurate or people give bad reviews.

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,795
    WillowRaven said:

    That one is the other breed. I need the skinny one. See attached comparison of the two bugs. And is a water strider also a water scorpion?

    They look similar, like they are closely related but they ain't (well that's subjective I guess), that's why I suggested it. That and being reasonably certain you'd find one of those before you found a water scorpion.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteroptera

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepidae

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerridae

     

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