A Glimse of the End

I'm not a fan of excuses but I will say that my current laptop from 2006 does not work as fast or as well as my desktop did before the crash. Also this update is a two page spread, so it still would have taken twice as long in any case. However, I would like to post some of the progress.

I wanted the "central" Imp village to be a massive gathering place, something with scale. There were concepts for different types of communes and structures made out of various types of foliage, but the grand gathering of the oldest and tallest trees was the end result.

I didn't want a man-made looking structure assembled out of vines and trees since these creatures are just NOW adapting to one being on the planet, and I also didn't want to make it mushroom huts, sawn tree houses, or just one big "home tree" (see: Peter Jackson's 'Avatar'). Their society is similar in social structure to chimps/apes but with an oligarchy-like council and written language, so they hide in the tallest trees and split their resources/abilities.

The base colors start off as more green, but there are plans to appeal to a myriad of colors. This is the home of different seasonal Imps on an alien planet. I'm happy with the perspective on the trees, and the vines are not finished at all, but a little thickening for closer ones can solve that easily.

There's a great deal of detail to be added and some major tweaks and refining to do on the outlines/positioning of the characters, but it's a good start and hopefully one more week until I can be back up to standard updates and a release for the second chapter.

Thanks for checking in.