#one humanised

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Just something made real quick to celebrate TPOT 20!

Might make some more.

Close ups and design sheet below:

This was both fun! And painful…

After all my tests on making a more creepy One design, I found, it didn’t work as well as I hoped. Testing eyes and teeth worked separately, but once in the full design it didn’t work. So I have now focused on my main three motifs which is ‘parasite’, my second motif ‘space’ and my third ‘alien’. Since she was trapped on the moon and her practices as an unfair deal maker makes her essentially parasitic.

Works much better for the design, but I still wanted to keep elements of the uncanny, so I kept her eyes and whale/needle teeth.

The biggest change is her clothes and colour palette.

For XFOHV I made One have normal arms and have a different astronaut suit, a more modern one with a different star pattern. And those boats, I admit I am very proud of them.

That and One’s cape and mantle in both designs. Which was inspired fashion in 80-90s sci-fi movies like ‘Fifth Element’ and ‘Flash Gordon’. All phases of the moon on her mantle and the star pattern (I totally didn’t take from my Black Hole design) for the cape. The shape which makes her look more like the silhouette of a one. And it makes it so XFOHV One could be mistaken for not having arms.

The colour palette change in TPOT One (mainly for her robotic arms) are to mimic a snail parasite called the ‘Green-Banded Broodsac’ which is a type of flatworm that infects the eye stalks of snails. (Note: please don’t look them up, unless you want to see something really unpleasant)

As for the smashed cosmonaut helmet, it is based off how face-huggers from ‘Alien’ bypass the helmet to get to victims, so it makes One look like she has broken into the spacesuit and removed the original person inside it.

Anyways, glad to have done this, I hope you like it.

Previous Design and Commentary: Here

If you just want to see the old design and not the commentary just press keep reading for that and the sketches I made for the current design:

Had a go at recreating this scene with my humanised design of One, just a quick drawing. She was so unhinged this episode, sounds like this deal was personal. You missing your arms, dear?

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Anyways, I hope you like what I have made!

She’s always watching.

One won the votes in the previous poll so she was done! I wasn’t surprised.

I have done both XFOHV One and TPOT One!

Now for my Ted Talk for how I came up with the design:

Firstly, as you see in the note above the designs, XFOHV is dressed as an American Astronaut (Influences taken from the EMU and Apollo spacesuits) whilst the TPOT is a cosmonaut, a Soviet astronaut (influence taken from Orlan and Sokol spacesuits). A reference to the Cold War and the Space Race. Symbolic of how she has switched sides, from an ally to a powerful and threatening enemy.

Interestingly, the American suits are softer and made up of more than one component, but a Soviet suit are harder, made up of one component and is a one-size-fits-all. There is your fact of the day.

Other influences for spacesuits would come from ‘A Space Odyssey’.

You also would have noticed the weird robotic arms. These too have an influence, I used the arms of Vontra from the movie ‘The Wild Robot’ references. Like Vontra, One can retract and extend her arms at will, which she’ll use to grab anyone far and trying to run from her. This also means like Vontra when she touches someone with her arms it is snake-like so uncomfortable as it feels like that person’s space is invaded, meaning she can use them to trap a contestant or make them uncomfortable so they’ll be more likely to agree to her deal.

Additionally, I made TPOT One’s pupils extremely dilated, as if she is trying to look friendly like a kitten but is actually off-putting as it appears more like a predator. I added a bit of a shine, like what happens when you shine a torch at cats’ eyes.

One is thinner in TPOT since she has been inside the moon for so long, yet due to this can now fit in her new spacesuit. Another thing she has been doing whilst inside the moon is sharping her robotic fingers.

Throughout the entire thing I listened to Kiltro, especially ’The Drunk’, it reminds me of One:

Overall, I think I did well, the colouring process was the hardest part because One’s colour palette is diabolical simple. Thank you for listening to my Ted Talk, here is some close ups for your troubles.

The next poll is coming so make sure to vote!

These are some scratchy sketches I have done!

As you can see I am trying to make One look more alien and uncanny. But there is struggle as making someone remotely creepy is so incredibly difficult. Especially, when avoiding trope others have seen.

Although, making One’s silhouette was much easier.

Working on it. (Might change the helmet too)

When One is unleashed, not sure but it will be soon.

Current Design: