C.O.W. - #040: Noseeum - VOTING!!
ROUND #040 VOTING
Topic: Noseeum
Deadline for the voting: Sunday, 09th April 2006
Posting thread (closed):
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=64404
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artist: dragon4lunch
concept: The Noseemees are little goblin like creatures, who are completely harmless and very shy. They like to show off their courage to each other by showing how close they dare to fly up to a human! Of course, as soon as the human turns around, they'll chicken out and quickly turn invisible!
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artist: Saise
concept: Scumsumlum
Scums is the answer for the biggest question in the universe... What the hell is going with pairs of socks... how many socks you lost in your life? No one, beacause the Scums thief it, and build a nest form stealed socks in the darkest places in your house. Why you can't see them? Hm, do you see a lamp on his nose? This little thing produce something like 'Invicible Field' that cover the Scums when someone try to see them. They are harmless little creatures, but stole a lot of socks and create myths around this proceder
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artist: cognition.sb
concept: Noseeums are an incredibly curious species that have always co-existed with man. While their purpose is unknown, some believe the creatures are God's eyes; eternally watching over the world. It was only in the 24th Century that their presence was confirmed and consequently exploited by the Global Domain.
The GD is a world-wide government organisation that captures and equips these creatures with surveillance masks before releasing them back into the community. By exposing these creatures to strong electromagnetic fields their natural camouflage can be temporarily subdued, allowing scientists to work with them in clear view. The sheer number of Noseeums available allows for almost all city regions to be observed with a mass visual link-up to GD facilities.
Noseeums' commercial use ranges from hazard assessment to early crime detection.
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artist: Orion9282
concept:
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artist: Trashy
concept: These noseeums(also known as eye-lods) are an intelligent small group of creatures that are currently being overrun by another species that find the noseeums head to be quite a delicacy for food. The noseeums main head consists of many eyeballs that allow it to see in multiple directions. It follows in the path that it's two large eyes at the top of its head points in.
The noseeums has built a mechanism inside their bodies to disappear so their enemy can’t spot them. This machine creates another dimension to their world they like to call the "cloud plane". They drift about in these planes of endless cloud cover until their enemy turns away from their view. They can see into their actual dimension using their two larger eyes again.
They can't stay in these "cloud planes" for too long though, since it seems to suck their life force away, so they only turn invisible when they could possibly be spotted.
They are currently scouting their enemy out, trying to find as much information about them as possible and communicating their findings telepathically to others. With this information they soon plan to blow their enemies to smithereens with advanced weapon technology and avenge their headless comrades.
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artist: br0ken_spirit
concept: Vanishing Eyedra
It is said that the eyes are the windows to the soul. Sometimes, one can look directly into the soul of another through the eyes... and some, may possess it.
Deep within the Marjae Sea sleep a breed of monsters, sailors avoid sailing this sea because they fear awakening them. Legend has it that by gazing into the tranquile waters, even by shore, the waters become alive and gaze back into the eyes of the viewer. The monsters awaken to rise and look into the soul of the person, and possess it for themselves. The unfateful victim is un-aware however, since they become mesmerized and gradually they begin to loose their eyesight, while they continue to watch the waters. For the briefest moment, just before they go blind, the monsters appear before them: the dreaded Eyedra, an enourmous beast composed of many tentacled eyes. The eyes of its victims that it adds and grows to its massive body, growing in proportion and in numbers with each new prey. And just as quickly as the Eyedra becomes visible, it vanishes again into nothing, stealing eyes, stealing lives... stealing souls. What is left of the victim is an eyeless, mindless but still living body, without soul. Their bodies become terribly cold, and they die a horrible, convulsioned and violent death months after.
Legend has it that a hero will come forth to slay the Eyedra, one born without the gift of sight. The unfavoured hero will slay the Eyedrah and become champion, and latter King.
Or so Legend has it...
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artist: Lewis
concept: Satans little helpers - The Noseea
These little buggers irritate humans and mess up everything intended by humans to be built.
However, when someone looks at them they transform into an random object, something like a toaster or whatever.
Therefore no-one knows about the existance of these creatures sent by Satan...
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artist: JakkaS
concept: "PEEPER"
Sorcerers from Kalimshtag Archipelago created these creatures especialy for spying. These small creatures are very intelligent, because their brains are very big and they can easily learn a lot of new things. They know a few languages used on the Archipelago, so they can understand almost all races living in this part of the world. At the begining they were used to spy on other mages and nobles to obtain their secrets such a magic formulas or informations that could be used to blackmail. They were bound with their creators, so they had to obey them. However, they finally discovered the way to freedom, they did be created to get other people' secrets. When they became free they started to serve for money or other valuable things [Nobody knows why, because they have never bought anything].
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Why are they so good in spying? Because they can become invisible. Their skin has many bubbles that are full of "living silver". These liquid metal bubbles can enlarge and when are big enough covers whole creature. The surface of this big silver bubble looks like a mirror that reflects the surrounding. But it's not a reflect, that is visible in a particular bubble. Image seen in front of Pepper is shown in his back, so it looks like you are able to see through his body. The deflection caused by angle of refraction can be only perceived in indirect look. This process is very quick but sometimes [rarely] when the creature is not well concentrated become almost visible, because image on the silver surface looks like image on the broken mirror. When caught out spying it uses sound waves to stun the person that noticed its present. Its hobby is to .....peep at naked girls having a bath.
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artist: bluefooted
concept:
The dust bunny is a small, harmless dustivore with a interesting camouflage and escape mechanisms. The 'feathers' are actually reflective scales that render the animal almost without contrast. The result of this is that it can only be viewed out of the corner of the eye, where the density of more contrast-sensitive rods is higher (Look it up!) If the animal is approached, however, it will flash two specialized scales (normally held flat against the back) containing high-contrast 'eyespots'. This will invariably cause a startle reflex in the target animal as the, heretofore, invisible creature is suddenly revealed. In the ensuing chaos, the dust bunny makes it's escape.
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artist: redehlert
concept:
Muscae Volitantes, aka Flying Flies or No-see-ums are clinically known as shadowy shapes that appear solo in your field of vision. Quite distracting, these creatures can be perceived, but never looked upon directly. They live within the vitreous humour, a jelly-like substance of the eye and appear on the retina as shapes as seen in this eye looking up at the sky (see inset). These creatures become more visible at the periphery of the eye, but when a host focuses his or her eyes on the creature turning this way and that, the poor creature is shifted within the eye and therefore seemingly alluding direct perception. As annoying as this may be, these creatures very much want to be seen by their host, but alas, they will only be felt as disturbances across the field of vision.
When these aesexual creatures reproduce to get rid of that lonely feeling, they increasingly distract its host by further clouding the vision. Sometimes these creatures leave the eyes and migrate to the brain and ears chattering incessantly which is commonly coined as 'voices inside the head' and 'tinnitus', aka ringing of the ears. This can become so profound and disturbing that the host will self medicate or end their existence.
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artist: guggenmaneuver
concept:
it was only until i got a dog and witnessed him start barking and running towards something that isn't there, that i realized maybe i wasn't losing my mind. well, i probably was, but he was barking at something.
i started seeing, or rather, catching a terrifying glimpse of these horrible, reeking apparitions when i worked the graveyard shift at a 24HR Pop-Copy back in my college town. It happened mostly at points when because of one reason or another began feeling very sleep deprived and INSANE, or hadn't EATEN properly for a day or two, staring blankly at some badly compressed jpg turned MS word document turned pdf-ing nightmare and then WRONGLY turned into a 48" x 96" oversize poster, and listening to HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE noise music blaring into my ears, soothing the loneliness AND anger. I caught a slight glimpse of one of these creatures, staring at me through a couple of panes of glass, just beyond our xeroxn4525 printer in the self serve computer area--Not a second after i had seen it, it VANISHED into a puff of SULFURY yellow haze and was gone. I thought at first that the glowing yellow eyes and the drooling mouth were some binging, CRAZED CRACKWHORE collapsing from an eXXXhausting day of panhandling and probably ready to whip out a switchblade or a rusted revolver on me for $2 ... but, when i trembling walked over, FREAKED OUT OF MY SKULL there was NOTHING there, only the smell of ROTTEN YELLOW TOENAILS, a WET DROOL SPOT on the carpet and the dimly-lit Florescent hum of DOOMED projects put off until the very, VERY last minute...
Since then, it has become my theory that this particular creature is maybe following me??? Sometimes i feel it in the same room as me, drooling, stinking, glowing yellow more saturated and a sicker shade than incandesent tungsten bulbs would naturally produce. It's feet are designed for moving stealthily, and if it catches up to me without my noticing and sinks its horrible claws into my brain i will then be prone to doing some evil deeds; maybe ignore my drawing development or just horde crap obsessively or worse. Unfortunately it puts me in a bad place to try and get out of. maybe these things are demons; i know they are there after the sun goes down, always stalking me. I'm not sure how to get rid of them, or that i ever can.
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artist: Plate
concept: Aeromites
these harmless dust-sized creatures exist in the air in practically every environment. They tend to grow large populations in dry stale areas like underground tombs, and in such areas they sometimes congregate by the hundreds of thousands into visible masses called wisps, similar to the way some types of fish form schools. If disturbed by the presence of another creature, these masses will rapidly dissipate into the air, rendering the individual aeromites practically invisible again. Early sightings of wisps were often mistaken for ghosts, and even though their shapes are amorphous, people who manage to catch a rare glimpse of one still sometimes claim to see an eerily ghost-like face in it in the split second before it disappears into thin air.
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artist: rWDrk
concept:
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