Sweet naga

Thanks, hehe ^^

That's a badass snake.

Thanks! :3

Your welcome.

Awesome naga dude! And very cool gun design/concept. :}===<

Also: The shirt blowing in the wind like that is very.. 'romance novel cover', I think. Or 'Sexy photoshoot', perhaps? Haha :D

Thanks a lot! :3
Nice to read that you like the design also!

The shirt thing was a sudden/random idea but I found it fun to stick with it :D

Fuck, man, your snake-work gets better and better!

I'm glad to read that, hehe! ^^
I like their aesthetics in general so it's a subject matter I enjoy working on too.

I'd be delighted to give ya' more reasons to work on them. This picture's gorgeous, man. ♥

Oh that is nice to know ^^
And thanks a lot!

HA! Very nice pic! I like the gun too, sounds interesting~

Thank you!
I got plenty of designs in my mind, I'm glad to see you and others are interested in seeing them ^^

Besides the epic look (i.g. content)

Is it only my imagination or did you got WAY better ?

Or is it because most of your species have a rather different anatomy so I did not noticed it before ?

In any case awesome work!

Thanks a lot! :3

I often experiment with various techniques, compositions, etc, and it varies how a pic turns out, this time for example I took the time to think about how to make a fitting snake scale texture without manually drawing every scale, also I adjusted te lighting layers more carefully to make sure they have a look that fits to the situation.

I'm not sure what exactly you mean by different anatomy but regarding the scales, so far I omitted that detail on my Hesiarr characters, as they have much finer and smaller scales than the guy in this pic, an ill-fitting texture would look weird on them, especially as the thinner scale hide follows their musculatre/bone structure more closely, making inconsistencies more visible.
I was thinking about how I can implement such a scale texture to them eventually without the huge extra work of drawing every tiny scale, but so far, their scales not being visible can be considered just a lack of resolution, as with the usual camera positions, those smooth scales wouldn't be obvious at the first sight anyway, at least that's my excuse for not spending time on drawing scales every time :D
Still, will see if I can create and use a texture that fits them well.

And thanks again! :3

Meeting this guy realy leaves an impression. Great Work
~Ralyr

He doesn't usually show off, but if there's a good reason, why not? :D

Thank you!

It was interesting to experiment with creating and applying the scale texture and various details, and I already have ideas to potentially make better looking ones :3

Actually, a ring shaped or cylindrical projectile wouldn't work very well. Because of it's speed, the air pushed in front of it wouldn't be able to flow through it, and it would effectively act much as if it was solid and flat until it caught an edge and tumbled, causing it's aim and velocity to rapidly degrade.

Maybe I should've described it more precisely in the descrition, the "cylidrical ring" doesn't describe it very well.
The projectile itself is a thin sheet of rigid metal wrapped around to form a shape that is like the outer mantle of a cylinder, the cross-sectional area from the front is very small therefore it wouldn't push a significant amount of air in front of it, compared to a bullet shape of similar weight for example.
It would keep its heading and trajectory well, as long as it keeps a decent amount of rotation that was intoduced by the launching itself (the spiral-shaped vents on the gun's sides give an indirect hint towards an accelerator arrangement that causes this effect).
For aerodynamical considerations, the edges and surface can even be shaped and the weight distribution adjusted by thickness variation for optimal flight characteristics, and opposed to a bullet shape, the flight ballistics is the most significant part in the shape consideration, as for the terminal ballistics it doesn't need to expand inside the target, the cutting effect by the larger radius compared to a bullet of the same weight is what defines both the penetration and destructive effect.

Eh, I dunno. I suppose rifling could help a bit. If it's a thin cylinder I think it would be all the more likely to catch an edge and tumble though. The only potential advantage I could picture would be the damage it could do if it managed to hit something since it would probably tend to tumble and really tear things up. I'm not an authority on these sorts of things or anything, but it seems like simple physics to me.

Thinking about it, the walls of the projectile could have a cross-section resembling an elongated teardrop shape on on bots opposite sides of the cross-section instead of a thin sheet, thus giving it the aerodynamics that prevent tumbling as long as sufficient rotational velocity is maintained.
Also, the spin is induced by the electromagnetic acceleration and doesn't need rifling.

I was sort of thinking the same thing. Possibly if the cylinder had a cross section -as you mentioned- with a teardrop shape and the larger, heavier side on the leading edge, and it was heavy enough and had enough velocity there could be some possibility. The other thing that had occurred to me initially was that if it was a good idea someone would probably have tried it already. The problem with that is that I can't immediately picture how a conventional weapon would be able to fire a projectile with that shape, since they tend to rely on something that presents a decently sized face that pretty much completely fills a barrel to push on. No doubt there would be some way if one was to think about it enough, even with some sort of reasonably conventional mode of launching it.

Indeed, it needs some designing and tweaking until a technology or method reaches an efficient level, see the early history of firearms.

Also, this tech is based on electromagnetic acceleration, with this you can have a barrel with a cross-section of various shapes, and allowing the walls to always be close to the projectile's surface itself, allowing efficient acceleration with the low distance in the magnetic fields
In this specific case there is a secondary accelerator that sits in a tubular space surrounded by the projectile's path, but the loader system in the back is designed to have this steady and still allow quick chambering of a projectile).

I guess you could create such a projectile with gunpowder firearms too, using sabot cartridges, but it won't be ideal compared to magnetic acceleration that can be more specifically tailored for this purpose.

It also occurs to me that with this shape of projectile the larger or heavier it is the more likely it would be to work. (Within reason of course.)

Also, if this is magnetic, the projectile would have to be made of ferrous metal, which, being much harder, would have much different effects when striking a target than soft metal like lead, etc. I would think it would be much more inclined to tear right through something, as opposed to blunting and tearing apart or changing direction like a lead projectile often does.

Indeed, tearing through the target is one of it's main characteristics instead of the expansion/fragmentation of lead and similar projectiles.
That is one of the main reason the projectile is relatively wide (but because of its hollowness, not too heavy).