Character Contemplation

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As the aesthetic details such as muscle, texture and the few graphic glitches in Maya have been solved, I am still contemplating overselling the purple skin of my character as a character since as I stated before creating human being after human being can become tiresome.

Furthermore, concerning my discission ith Jaime Pardo during the second year module of altering the anatomy of the nomad further until it no longer resembled a home sapien at all could be a possibility for me if I am still personally displeased with his human head.

Interestingly after poking around the internet I came across a man named Brandon Sanderson who expressed that "Ideas are cheap. A good writer can take the worst idea and make a good story out of it.".

Therefore with the research, I conducted on biological pigmentation my character appears to share characteristics with a berry and insect notably a Mantis.
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References

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3JlBLG7xOI

https://kiersparey.wordpress.com/popular-posts-and-articles/841-2/
http://www.akfiles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=160415

https://www.reddit.com/r/fantasywriters/comments/3l3iol/discussion_fantasy_without_humans/

By Sebastian Jones

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