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Star Trek redesigns by `thundercake:iconthundercake:

Categories Fan Art > Digital Art > Painting & Airbrushing > Movies/TV

©2009 `thundercake
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I guess this is fanart? My friend ~carcadann and I were watching Star Trek DS9 and I was thinking how all the aliens look basically like humans with makeup, and what they would look like if ST could have played around with the bone structure and design a bit more. So I did some little speedpaints of how I think they'd look.

This is sure to piss off some Trekkie but I had fun doing different takes on the aliens =p Apart from these little portraits I've been working on body designs.

These are kinda semi-based off the characters, but they turned into more general portraits of the alien races.

1. Bajoran - this one's definitely meant to be Kira =p They're really spiritual and they have a warm cast to their design so I tried making them look a bit more ethereal, very long and spindly with pink eyes, and I pushed the ears a bit more. Also gave them four arms in the body design. :D
2. Trill - major changes here. I hated how Trills were so completely different physiologically speaking (they have a symbiont inside of them) yet they look like humans with a little jaguar facepaint - boring. So I...did this. The third eye is supposed to be the symbiont eye, and in unjoined Trills this eye is closed. Also gave them tails.
3. Changeling/Odo... Odo based his own form off the form of a Bajoran scientist, so I made him slightly look more Bajoran and took away his hair - that hair looks AWFUL, odo!
4. Ferengi - their design is already great. I just pushed it a bit.. I did a body design for most of these, and the Ferengi body is more changed than the head design, but I thought I'd do a painting anyway.
5. Klingon - brought the cheek bones up around the eyes, tried to give him a more feral look with all-black eyes and more beard. My body design for the Klingons is a lot bigger and beefier than the real one.
6. Cardassian - my favorite star trek race.. I just played with the bones a bit. Their bodies will be extremely top-heavy.

I just finished up this set today as part of my warm-up.. but today is a work day, I have to make up for my sick days -_-

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*Umi-Satome Mar 7, 2009, 2:06:37 PM
Dudeee~
O.o
Trippy but oh so fabulous!

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~PheonixKarr Mar 7, 2009, 2:08:25 PM
These are fantastic! :clap:

I've always felt the same way, but I understand the restrictions of the show. Heck, it takes like 5 hours to get the klingon makeup applied already :O I especially love Kira and Odo's redesigns :D

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=i-am-anonymous Mar 7, 2009, 2:12:58 PM
i am a huge star trek fan and i have to say, i happen to like these. one of the biggest flaws, in my opinion, with star trek, all the speices are humans with a little something on their face, basically speaking.

The Ferengi should look just slightly more cunning though. and i do like the Klingon's more lion like apperence.

i think the only one i don't like is the Trill one, but that's because i just really like how they are portrayed in the show. the eye is fine, i think it's just the skin tone that throws me off.


Hey, do you have one for the Borg? i'd like to see that. surprisingly they were my favorite "race". That's probably because 7 of 9, but still, i love them.

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~Cescolin Mar 7, 2009, 2:15:24 PM
i would actually date the girl in the upper left XDDD

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~UlaFish Mar 7, 2009, 2:16:49 PM
It always bugged be how human-looking all the aliens look. Still, you have to give the show credit, at least they came up with a rationalization for it. The basic premise is that one humanoid species seeded sentient life throughout the galaxy that started out looking exactly as they did. Over time, the population of each planet changed according to their environment. All the same, I like these better than the originals.
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~unwanderinggirl Mar 7, 2009, 2:17:25 PM
omg! so awesome. it was fun listening to you talk about them, but it's even cooler to see them!
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~rincewindmog Mar 7, 2009, 2:18:14 PM
Holy crap this is amazing.

I like how even though the redesigns are nuts, they still look like the original characters-- you really capture the personalities of Dax, Odo, et al.

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*falingard Mar 7, 2009, 2:25:29 PM
That's awesome! Your Bajoran is really cute :D, and I like the others as well, The Ferengi is hilarious!

The "humans with make-up" deal is probably a budget issue as much as anything, but you had a great idea with trying to redesign these :)

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`thundercake Mar 7, 2009, 2:27:43 PM
I never heard that explanation. It makes so much sense! But then you have the random aliens like Odo and that species from the liquid space that are totally non-humanoid..

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`thundercake Mar 7, 2009, 2:34:11 PM
I won't paint the Borg because I really dislike them. It seems to me that if you're trying to create the most efficient and unstoppable species ever, you should at least let them run rather than lurch and give them the intelligence to shoot Starfleet people that are walking among them looking for ways to thwart their plans. For the most dangerous force in the galaxy they sure get defeated a lot for dumb reasons. Still, good design work for the implants and stuff.

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