Thread 149503236

>what if human but.......LE TENTACLES!?!?!?!?
Its nearly always just human + silly quirk

>>149503236 (OP)
Because they want the aliens to be fuckable

>>149503236 (OP)
>Its nearly always just human + silly quirk
I think because most alien design, animated or not is created with the idea/ based on the foundation of, it needs to be able to fit a man in a suit or be relatively cheap to put makeup, prosthetics, and a wig on guy.

>>149503236 (OP)
excusing star wars which by the way, the literally explain why there are more humanoids than there should be.
animating aliens is hard and currently motherfuckers are too lazy to even try or they don't have the proper time to do so.

>>149503623
also, had you ever considered the setting as well? because you'll have to go full on speculative evolution and design an entire alien world from scratch if you want to do it right.
its own flora and fauna which by default should function as alien as you can.

>>149503683
you have to either be a genius or one hell of a imagination to design an entire alien world like how you desire OP.
shit even designing the very planet will be hard too.

>>149503236 (OP)
>big buff guys with arm blades they use for cutting tree bark because they're tree huggers
>Greys that are giant cockroaches at another part of their lifecycle
>Giant centipedes that are constantly hungry and fall into cannibalism
>Blue telepathic mouthless centaurs with eyestalks and hoof mouths and scorpion tails

>>149503236 (OP)
It's more marketable. Companies know this. Blame the audience for preferring those types over less humanoid ones. The exception being something like xenomorphs but that's because they're monsters. Monster/alien fucking is on the rise but it's not on mainstream million and billion dollar popular.

>>149503236 (OP)
easy for merch and toys

>>149503308
Of course, she was a good friend.

>>149503236 (OP)
Shart Wars is for low IQ niggers

>>149503236 (OP)
If you want alien designs, you go into spec evo, that genre requires you to have some interests in biology, zoology, chemistry and physics to do it properly.

>>149503236 (OP)
They should look like (And do) this.

Gaseous lifeforms are fine, too.

>>149503308
Then they should look like this

>>149503236 (OP)
>watches kiddie show
>complains about kiddie designs

>>149504468
Spec Evo almost always devolves into one or two autists screaming at anyone who dares design something they personally dont like, eventually drowning out all other discussion.

>>149504545
Shut up fag

>>149503236 (OP)
Bipedalism with hands is pretty top tier design for tool use. Basic priciples dictate that things like hammer and nails are going to be one of the most common ways to build things until you can develop further. And that requires a certain design in your species to hold a stick with a rock tied to it.

Therefore any species that develops would need to do something like that.

>>149504563
built for BIG HUMAN COCK

>>149503236 (OP)
If you make them anything else they're basically just monsters. You do get some variety with things like Star Wars, but generally speaking they all have some aspect of being humanoid. All the ones that don't are viewed as monsters/animals.

Now, I know someone is going to say 'Nuh uh! Look at the Huts!", but they're just human (if fat) from the torso up, and fat snake/slug below. They still have arms, opposable thumbs, a face, and are capable of speaking a complex language. They're basically a slug version of a mermaid.

>>149503236 (OP)
People that make this argument are often crypto zoophiles.

>what if building but.......LE SKELETON AND FLESH??!?!?"?
Pure kino.

>>149503308
Its this, OP. When you make them unfuckable you end up with fucking Stellaris, where everyone runs their own horny-minded portrait pack because nobody likes ugly creatures/critters/people, no matter the setting or justification.

>>149504528
I love baxxid

>>149503236 (OP)
I hear you anon, I feel the same, both in scifi and fantasy. That's why I like Star Control (not /co/ i know). Sure it falls into the "silly quirk" pitfall, but at least it's not afraid to go weird and silly when it comes to alien species.

>>149506413
>”Holy crap Lois!”

>>149506311
Shut up boringfag

>>149503236 (OP)
Humans typically relate the most to what looks human.

>>149505528
I've seen some strangely erotic art of female hutts.

>>149503236 (OP)
Don't go in this direction. Eventually you just wind up with the hard sci-fi buzzkills poo-pooing anything more interesting than a slime mold.

>>149503236 (OP)
Does anyone have an image of Ahsoka when she reaches Ontario Canada age of consent?

>>149505733
MODS! ANON IS TRYING TO DISPENSE FORBIDDEN ESOTERIC STAR WARS LORE AGAIN!

>>149503236 (OP)
Everything is just human + silly quirk/quirks.

You have a bit of convergent evolution going on, and when intelligence sets in, the lack of evolution constraints will remove overly complex features that arent vital. Culture can keep some of it but the more evolved you get the more naked and humanlike you might become. Genetics like simplicity.

>>149503236 (OP)
Because fuck you. They're hot.

>>149509487
Hutts are hermaphroditic (like all Gastropods)

>>149503537
You forget that it's also just really easy to relate to human-like aliens. Plus some aliens are used as commentary or as analogy for things we would recognize.

bump

>>149503236 (OP)
convergent evolution is a thing, the humanoid body type is very practical

>>149503236 (OP)
I'm much more sick of constant furries as aliens. And Disney is now falling into that with Skeleton Crew. Half the new aliens were just elephant furry, owl furry, wolf furry, frog furry....

>>149503236 (OP)
Shaak ti was very alien looking, and then they just went with orange human when they invented Ahsoka. They got lazy.

>>149503236 (OP)
stop being a faggot op and maybe the reason why we have so many human looking aliens is because we can't stop fucking them

>>149506311
we would fuck a xenomorph if we could and definitely if it had some pussy

>>149503236 (OP)
Blame the Force, you can't look the Twi'lek and tell me it's not dipping into the fetish well.

>>149505998
You're so addicted to jacking off that you can't imagine being interested in any fictional concept for non-sexual reasons, and you're so devoid of creativity that you think the only alternative to "aliens are humans with tentacles" is "aliens are dogs with tentacles". Please fix yourself.

>>149509487
hey, there are in-universe Hutt pinup girls

>>149503236 (OP)
humanoid design is simply that good

>>149503236 (OP)
Watch Ben 10

>>149517714
>four arms
>that fish nigga
>heatblast
>that crystal guy

>>149518430
They still look unique

>>149503236 (OP)
How alien do you want them to look?

>>149506151
man I wish I went while the weather was good, it's gone shit now and it'll be this way for the rest of the year

>>149503236 (OP)
Because Star Wars is at its start a live action movie franchise. So you have to limit yourself to what can be out into a costume or what can be handled animatronically.

AND PLEASE REMEMBER that before Star Wars a lot of scifi designs/costumes were pic related. Just because the bar is set so high now days do not forget that Star Wars was one of the ones that helped push the bar to where it is today.

Protip: Any depiction of alien life that looks even remotely humanoid is pure vaporware

>>149517632
Yes

>>149521466
What?

>>149519436
Waifu

>>149521466
Don't you mean the reverse? Humanoids are everywhere.

>>149521466
>supposed science fiction fans can't fathom convergent evolution
Why can't it be both? And are the retards who make this argument not understanding that it depends on the intellectual property?
Star Wars has simple shit where nice things are design nice, ugly things are designed ugly, and weird things are designed weird.
Aliens and Predator follow a different design philosophy than Oddworld. And something like District 9 made them bugs but gave them big eyes for cuteness.
It always depends on the series.
I hate fags who say
>why are fantasy creatures/aliens designed so blandly
Epspecially when mentioning sexual dimorphism. Sometimes it's basic like in WoW, but other times different. THERE IS NO BLANKET DESIGN SO STOP LOOKING AT MAINSTREAM SHIT AND WONDERING WHY EVERYTHING IS DESIGNED TO BE APPEALING TO THE MAINSTREAM.

>>149519452
and they are designed with the idea that they actually are living things. Even upgrade is a bunch of sentient nano machines. UA kinda fucked with things and OV fucked with it more.

>>149503236 (OP)
Thats a hat not tentacles but you are right

>>149503236 (OP)
people want to look at creatures that they can associate with their species.
aliens are strange in general and repulsive
less problems with merchandising if 1 human model is used and a couple of details can be added
the animal world is also very similar to ours from Earth. boring.

>>149525650
No, it's a horn/tentacle combination. The horns are called montrals and have some echolocation functionality.

I like how the Ultra series does aliens

>>149526929
Have good examples?

>>149505733
>pic
Did the bloodsucker lose his bike?

>>149527731
Well there's way to many I like such as Alien Baltan, Alien Metron and Alien Guts but one I've always held a real fondness for is Alien Mefilas who's characterised as a highly cunning foe who fought the original Ultraman to a draw. I also really like how they reinvented him in Shin Ultraman while adding some interesting characterisation as a very affiable polite adversary but one that clearly still wants to manipulate humanity into becoming the latest bioweapon despite enjoying them and their world https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Np_h87rCLs

>>149503308
/thread

>>149528000
Thanks for explaining

>>149503236 (OP)
Too often creators underestimate the lower bounds of human empathy.

Also, Sci-Fi like Star Wars (or Avatar) is generally for boys and there is this underlying assumption that boys won't care about a person unless that person is conventionally attractive.

And one last thing is that human(oid)s are easier to storyboard and animate.

Once you start adding limbs or eyes it starts getting harder to figure out how to move and emote.

>>149503236 (OP)
For Star Wars or Star Trek, I just figure that we mostly see the humanoids interact with each other because of the human centric point of view, and convergent evolution producing humanoid important resources like similar air, food, size planets etc.

I figure off screen there are probably bizarre aliens like some sapient shade of blue, but there is little reason to interact with them as there is little commonality.

>>149516762
Disgusting

>>149529580
No problem, any chance to gush about the Ultraman franchise I'll take.