Freespace - Shivan Model

Back in 2009, I posted a couple of dumb comics on DeviantART, noting, and I quote: "The severe lack of Freespace fanart disgusts me."

And I stand by it. Obviously, the focus of the games is on the ships and space combat, so most people who DO create any fanart just do the ships. And by "most" I mean damn near all. I'm about 90% sure those comics I drew were the first time anyone outside of Volition actually drew a Shivan, and while a FEW more drawings and bits of fanart have popped up in the years since, it's still barely anything.

ANYWAY. I love the design of these guys, and it was an absolute pain in the butt trying to find remotely decent references to use for making this model, because as I said, they make exactly ONE appearance in a cutscene with their total screentime barely reaching 20 seconds, where they jump around a lot in a darkly lit area and murder some humans. On top of that, the game came out in 1998 and has decidedly 1998 quality CG animated cutscenes. Not exactly high-res. Fan mods can update the game graphics, but nobody wants to completely remake all the cutscenes no matter how much better a job they think they could do. (Pretty sure I could at least *match* that quality on my own, if I really wanted to try, but...hmmm....I dunno. I'll file that idea under "maybe.")

Freespace 3 when?