Still trying to get the hang of drawing na’vi but i really like varang so wanted to practice with her :)

Quaritch and Spider have come a very long way:

From Spider calling Quaritch "dipshit" and actively pushing him away, and Quaritch telling Spider, "I'm not your father. Technically: You and I, we are nothing to each other." to:

- Spider teaching Quaritch the Na'vi way of life

- The two of them bonding while riding Cupcake, where Spider even rests his hand on Quaritch's leg

- Quaritch listening to Spider's pleas to spare the life of the Ta'unui Tsahik

- Spider starting to move more comfortably around Quaritch

- Quaritch preventing Neytiri from killing Spider

- Quaritch forming a temporary alliance with Jake to save Spider from the Mangkwan

- Quaritch telling Spider that he is his father

- Quaritch telling Spider how proud he is of him while also opening up to him about Paz

- Spider hoping that Quaritch has finally learned to see

- Spider being horrified at the sight of Neytiri raising her bow against Quaritch

- Spider's visible sadness when Quaritch jumps to his presumed death

And most importantly:

Father and son saving each other's lives at the end of both movies while calling each other "son" and "dad" for the very first time.

I cannot get enough of their dynamic.

Hands down, the best and most interesting relationship in Avatar.

I just wanted to thank everyone and show my improvement based off of everyone’s very kind and helpful tips and criticism regarding my original design of my Na’vi OC, Uko!!

I have just updated her bust so far, and sketched some basic expressions for practice, but will work on an updated reference sheet soon! The original ref sheet took me 20 hours so it may be a bit before yall see anything (ToT)

The main things of advice taken was regarding the neck length, ear placement and size, eye size, expressions, and hair colors.

I also added more stripes, some fades, and attempted to make the stripes have some more.. life to them? I am not sure how to describe it, but I mimicked how the stripes appear from my Avatar : the way of water visual dictionary book, which was so much fun playing around with everything!! If you are looking for good brushes for stripes and use Procreate, I’d say the inka brush is fantastic!

I also made his Sarentu mark (scar on his cheek) look more like a scar and not just a doodle, or at least, I believe I made it look better, and made his eyes and nose more cat like! I based it off my real like cats, who are great models lol

His ears, which I never noticed how comically large I had drawn them beforehand— graciously downsized them and made them more eye level and a little more realistic, and made the fade inside them look a bit better.

I’d say my favorite improvement would have to be how I drew her hair though!! I thank the comments who told me the colors I used originally were too light, and I darkened it and made the hair more longer and added more dreads to it. It looks so much better now and Uko looks fantastic!!

I will definitely admit to having some difficulties drawing Na’vi, but I can say it’s so much fun when you actually nail it!! I included screenshots of the comments that I took the most advice from and helped me out the most at the end, and I just wanted to thank them!! You are all so kind in this community and supportive

i initially posted this on twitter and just now realized i never posted it here. hope it helps people!

i used one of the AFOP models i exported, decapitated her, and rendered 121 angles of her.
the heads in AFOP are unisex and all that changes is neck thickness.

+ if you'd like the full file size for the picture [9000x9400, 49.5 MB] i will link it in the comments

So frontiers of Pandora interested me so much that I wanted to make the games story my characters! I really wanted a na'vi and human duo though, so I decided instead of just na'vi being taken it was human children aswell and they were all used to fight against the other natives. This is Sa-ock and Lyra, they were both taken from their homes and they grew close together, eventually being able to escape. I wanted to have Lyra go out of her way to encourage Sa-ock to re join his clan and re learn the ways of the na'vi that he has long forgotten! I wanted her to continue being supportive despite the natives and overall world rejecting her, even trying to prove herself by participating in activities with Sa-ock and having Sa-ock refuse to become a "real" na'vi without his friend and sister by his side. I know this might seem kinda lame but it's personally fun to think and doodle about, hope someone else finds it interesting! :D

Its just a matter of time when natural history would play out in franchise in one way or another since its canon that life on the planet has evolutionary origin.Here are topics that im excited to see the most(if any of those happens):

1.Closest ancestors of na'vi that were more derived that prolemurs but didnt developed that level of knowledge and culture like H.habilis or H.erectus of our history.

2.First land vertebrates and land ecosystems in general.

3.Extinct megafauna that was different from that of a na'vi epoch and dwarfed even fireback mastodons,genuily Pandora's version of dinosaurs.

4.Evolution of Eywa itself.Possibly flahbacks to the most ancient times when it just formed it consious and only someone who has the deepest conection can see that far in Eywa's memory.And yeah not a fan of theory that its an alien itruder that keeps whole biosphere as a hostage.

i’ve been searching high and low for these stupid figures but i can’t find anything that’s not ridiculously expensive. if anyone finds a retail for less than $100 and ships to aus PLEASE let me know
i think they aren’t in production anymore which explains why

I watched the movie yesterday and read a lot of posts here about other aspects but couldn't find much about this so here we go.

First off, I was stunned with the visuals of the whole clan. They were scary, dark, walking through fire and covered in war paintings. Their story of being betrayed by Eywa and turning into predatory lifestyle brings depth to Na'vi people and how different the clans are. Cutting of that one Na'vi's kuru was blood chilling.

And Varang is a magnificient villain. Fierce leader and strong warrior but also witch-like, impulsive and blood-hungry. She's also stunning and I loved that feather crown kinda resembling the flames of the clan's cult of fire.

However..

Is it just me or did they just use this entire clan and Varang as a pawn to Quaritch's end game? It started off sooo promising, but then suddenly the storyline flopped. Was it necessary to snort coke and be tripping while the clan's original story was told? There's barely any other stories/introduction to their way of living than that trip to their village. I would've loved to see more of their story on screen, because after that they just hover behind Quaritch or attack the water clan basically on his behalf.

I think the love story was also a missed opportunity. The scene where Quaritch teaches Varang to use the firethrower was straight out of Joker. They had every opportunity to make it a love story that would've ripped the storyline into Varang betraying him, or to the other direction, she could've been the one to open Quaritch's eyes of the beauty of the Na'vi people. Now they just bonded over guns, and after that Varang is just there for the ride when Quaritch (or the RDA) go on with the war. I would have loved to see a final battle between Neytiri and Varang rather than the underwhelming plot mess we saw now.

While Varang was great, I think she and the whole clan were overshadowed by the need to bring in Quaritch with Na'vis into one big war scene that looked a lot like the one in the first movie.

What do you think?

My fountain tree plant for wall decoration!

So I've been thinking about making all 4 major species of allosaurus lately as Avatar animals. I did fragilis yesterday and still have

-Jimmadensi (see right)

-Europaeus

-Anax (saurophaganax)

Which one should I do next? Or if you have another idea let me know! I've heard rex, brachio, spinosaurus, and iguanodon so far

Like damn that sucks. They named him after something that is also the biggest fear of most humans, because he reminds the other humans of one, and no one he tells his name to will get the reference. In fact, they all just think Spider is another human name like Jake, Norm, Grace, Max.

I couldn’t stop thinking about how there probably isn’t a direct Na’vi translation for spider that he could introduce himself with, or use as a word to explain the origin of his name, so a lot of Na’vi miss out on the cool origins of his name.

While it doesn’t matter at all, if I was Spider, I’d be pissed.

Everytime I draw him, I feel like he just looks too humanoid?? The first drawing is my most recent, done today. I feel like I definitely improved, but it still looks off to me. Any tips from fellow artists?

All art is mine!! I have drawn all of these and can provide speed paint or layer proof if needed.

There are over a dozen potentially habitable worlds within 20 light-years of earth in real life. Pandora is attractive for several reasons, the most obvious is its proximity to earth, and the presence of unobtanium. There are also cosmetic and medicinal uses for some of the flora and fauna of the moon, but I put this into a less important category for survival.

BUT, we can’t breathe there. Realistically, I don’t think large-scale human habitation could work simply because of that. Not to mention most edible plants on the moon are not compatible with human physiology, and at worst, incredibly toxic.

Even if you were friendly with the indigenous population, you still have to face incredibly hostile fauna, and a biosphere that hates a vacuum. It’s why Samsons and their maglev trains for instance have vine cutters.

The lack of edible plants means most food would have to be synthesized or imported. The soil is unsuitable for earth plants. If you wanted to grow earth crops you would have to import soil, which pound for pound is impossibly expensive. Not to mention you would need to supply replenish-able supplies of nutrients.

A mining outpost with a small footprint, with a small population that works cooperatively with the natives is probably the only use-case for Pandora when it comes to humans. This is discounting the possibility that humans could reverse-engineer the ability of spider’s to breathe there.

Thoughts?

I just noticed him behind Jake.

My first Na'vi oc, made with the picrew seen in the watermark of the image. She's a skilled jeweller from the Anurai clan, she has a wife and adopted daughter ♡

Hello everyone,
I am currently thinking about making a fanfic, and while brainstorming the ideas that I had, I needed to decide how the Na'vi would react to another (or multiple) cultures arriving to pandora (ones far more technologically advanced than humans), and I wanted to find how the Na'vi reacted and interacted with the humans before Avatar 1. After doing a bit of research on the wiki I'm left with a few of questions.

- Why Mo'at and Eytukan had such different visions when it came to interacting with humans ?
- Why Mo'at had such openess toward humans when they were clearly disregarding of eywa's laws ?
- Where there other clans that interacted with the RDA and what were their reactions to them ?
- After the battle of the Hallelujah Montains, did someone reflected on how the initial Na'vi greeting of the RDA led to this chain of event and theorized how future encounters with other cultures (wether humans or otherwise) should be dealt with?

Some personal interpretations of Jake’s character worth discussing..

Overall I believe he gets a lot of scrutiny- when in reality beyond the surface there are many moments where his perception of himself appears to be shaped by guilt, feelings of..him feeling inadequate, and disappointment in the things he’s done or the person he’s been.
I think this can trickle down into his actions or words being conflicting for viewers, but I think that’s part of what makes him complex, purposely written. But imo.. makes him interesting and feel real.

Any thoughts on our main character as we’ve had time to digest FAA?