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gillyeowalters · 15 days
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I love the small things about Warframe's design so much. Like, the Duviri architecture.
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The houses obviously are just wall parts of the Zariman, arranged to look like settlements/towns. The same goes for many of the harvestable plants, that also mimic Zariman design elements (especially noticeable with the cactus-like Ueymag, that has an unnaturally symmetrical shape, mimicking the often repeated tuning fork-shape).
Duviri has multiple bioms, plains, snowy mountains, a desert, but they are all way too small to exist naturally.
All this paints the picture of a world created by the mind of a child, who might have never seen anything else but the inside of a spaceship. They might have never seen other architecture, so all houses have to look like they were ripped straight out of the Zariman's structure. They know that mountains and deserts exist, but they do not understand their scale, so they become just one more small piece of Duviri. Just like cartographs back in history they fill the unknown of their world with set pieces and the skeletal structures found all over Duviri lend themselves for a comparison to this "Here there be dragons" mindset.
Children build and recreate what they know all the time to learn and better understand it, but also to express their wishes and creativity. This gives the idea of a child, confined in space, wishing to get to be somewhere else, visiting the places they have heard of.
We get to see quite a few rather large settlements in Duviri, but the amount of houses and people does not seem to match. In general, only very few people seem to be roaming the streets. This is not an adult doing extensive worldbuilding, this is a child with a lot of building blocks but very few dolls building a world on which they can project their emotions and memories onto.
Most of Duviris normal inhabitants are just decorations, not existing to be characters, but because a town "needs to have people in it". They are not defined by who they are, but by what they do- and what they do is react to the player, sit around, talk and cower in fear when enemies approach.
The simple shapes of the buildings are very close to the concept of real life building blocks. Paedagogic toys often are simple, to allow for easy handling and more creative freedom.
The theme of death is also omnipresent. Every animal resembles a carcass build from metal plating and even the Dax enemies are skeleton-like, the Gladius' helmets lower part even resembling a rabbit skull. We obviously know how the story of the Zariman ended and the skulls and bones might be just an indicator of potential danger, but what if the skeletal design of Duviri's inhabitants are not supposed to indicate not (just) death, but an infinished state? They are walking skeletons, yet missing a skin, their shape, just like the fractured bodies of the townspeople, not fully formed out in the child's head. Since the townspeople are humanoid though, they look more finished, while all the child might have ever seen of sheep, cats, dogs, horses and owls could have very well been just pictures in a school book, maybe next to a diagram of their underlying anatomy (after all, one of the few things we get to experience of the daily life on the Zariman, is school).
There is also an enemy called the Dax Herald. A Herald was a specialist in ceremonies, making sure that they were held correctly (besides also having diplomativ tasks). Their head resembles a security camera, adding a layer of oppressive social norms normal humans certainly suffered under in the orokin empire
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hamelastralis · 1 year
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My Zephyr Prime but very customized
Gonna use him for a TTRPG campaign my classmate wants to run
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gabe-lovebot · 1 day
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councilor 3D model
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i learnt 3d modelling from the ground up to bring him to life. he's yours now. do whatever you want with him
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please credit me if you make something using the model (or even ping/link me to it, i would love to see what you made!)
currently available as a .blend, .fbx and an SFM port.
#hello councilnation i'm finally releasing him to the wild#have fun playing toys with him#ultrakill#councilor#councilor ultrakill#3d stuff#obviously with the councilor having just 1 full body image of him means that some stuff i had to improvise on#so you get to enjoy my headcanons on how he looks#(like obviously the wings & halo)#(but also the chestplate design)#but did you know that the councilor's canon design has subtle engravings on his forearm armor pieces?#i only barely noticed them when painting textures and i was floored#i had to add them#to the sfm anon and whoever else wants to use this for sfm stuff-#i did my best with a port for sfm and i'm quite proud of the result#but please be aware i have never used it before so if you find that something doesn't work as it should please please let me know!!#gonna pour my heart out in tags as always so close your eyes if you don't wanna see me being sentimental but#i'm not kidding when i say i learnt 3d modelling from the ground up for this#i have meddled with blender before but never actually came close to finishing a project#and i don't know how i did it and how i kept going#(i do know) (it was my friend encouraging me every time i showed him progress)#this was like 1 entire month in the making#but i'm so fucking proud of this and how it turned out and people's tags in my act 2 render genuinely were such a huge confidence boost#so thank you guys for liking it <3#i'm still very much thinking of doing a version with just his bloodied head#but it might take a while because i want a break and i want to play warframe
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vialrush · 7 months
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THE DEVIL WORKS HARD BUT I WORK HARDER
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andr0nap-03 · 2 months
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tired of navigating the labs on foot? dont have energy to walk 2 hours to fabrica anatomica and back? got heavy vitriol vials to transport and dont feel like pulling the cart yourself?
well do i have a solution for you!
the necrakaithe! originally bred by the entrati family to serve as warmounts, now repurposed to work within the hazardous laboratories instead
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bismuth-soup · 5 months
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vikcleonaturin · 7 months
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Heirloom Ember #warframe
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systemhead · 4 months
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describing Warframe’s story without spoilers will make you type shit like this
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quarturtherusty · 7 months
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I literally drew it exclusively to have a place to express how funny it was of de to show excalibur with posterior buff for anniversary. They really do know their audience.
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somberdespair · 7 months
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im obsessed with this design i just had to draw it
design by @yerichonnn on twitter
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sinistersinita · 2 years
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Transformers x Warframe AU
Soundwave frame !
Random idea I had this week, I thought "I can draw both transformers and warframe, I'm in both fandoms. Why not combine them." And ended up making Soundwave a warframe lmao
I think his ability would be similar to Banshee's and that he can summon his kids. I still need ideas on his overall abilities as a warframe tbh I don't know 😭😭😭 I need to design Rumble and Frenzy next. Mini warframes !
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gillyeowalters · 15 days
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Addendum to my previous post, because I forgot (sorry!):
As an example how the inhabitants of Duviri are not real characters, just templates:
Remember the guy we have to save from the Dax? Even when we save him, he keeps the shackles around his hands. He stays captured, even when we rescue him. Because that is his role. He is not a prisoner. He is *the* prisoner and he always will be. He also says something like "Isn't it strange how things always work out?" Of course they do, because this is a child's fantasy. This character was created to be saved and saved again, giving the child the feeling of being a hero. It has to work out, if not, the fantasy collapses.
The guy who challenges us to a Kaithe duel looks exactly like the driver of Acrithis carriage. These are two people looking exactly the same, because they serve the same purpose, they are riders, they tend to the horses.
As much as it may cause issues later in life, putting people into categories is important for children; otherwise they have trouble understanding the world, they can't work with fine nuances yet. You can actually easily observe this when asking children of different ages to sort toys into boxes. At first all blocks are blocks, then they may be sorted based on color and later based on their shape.
Duviri and Deimos are so important to me; I worked as a nursery school teacher and family mediator and Duviri as a whole and the Entrati family conflict hit so close to home sometimes. And what is Warframe but a story about stories of broken families? A power fantasy, something so many children in abusive situations need to stay alive.
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hamelastralis · 1 year
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Character card for DnD
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diana-chud · 1 month
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My Operator Arden and their Excalibur (I still choose him for most Quests playthroughs)
Just a side note: Arden's pronouns are she/they
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noirrelite · 6 months
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The many ways I've drawn Sierra's eyes since Feb 2022, in rough chronological order (oldest to newest)
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frostynovaprime · 2 months
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Entrati tennogen is now a thing
Have a Frost Prime if he was made by Albrecht instead ig
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