the ramble dump

An alien that'll be appearing in Starcustard in the near future.

His right arm is supposed to look oddly misplaced like that. The idea is that he can hook arms with different functions to the metallic belt around his chest, and these arms are not fixed in any set position on it; they can slide along it freely, so he can have them attacking someone directly behind him quite easily. The arms he's not using are attached to an easily-accessible belt around his belly.

All the wires going into the back of his head and neck are so he can control the arms as if they were a real part of his body.

From left to right, the arm functions on this particular drawing are supposed to be as follows: regular 'grabhand', some kind of firearm, a torch and a knife.

This is just the simple mechanics of the thing. The proper description of the creature itself will be in the actual story, whenever it gets written. This isn't finalised or anything, but it's likely that the one we eventually used will be very similar to this one.

Labels: pirates, sketches and doodles, starcustard

# posted by Chris @ 9:25 PM