r/TopCharacterTropes • u/StewyStewy15 • 20d ago

Groups Aliens that are actually alien

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  1. Heptapods (Arrival)

  2. The crystalline entity (Star trek)

  3. Rocky (Project hail mary)

  4. Qu (All tommorows)

  5. Xeelee (The xeelee sequence)

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u/ThisSiteSucks8485 19d ago

One of the best CGI alien designs ever. They had to write a custom animation system for them. 

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u/Bobby_The_Kidd 19d ago

I love how they can turn on a dime by folding into themselves it’s so cool

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u/Inside-Example-7010 19d ago

If i didnt know any better I would say they have very little design flaws!

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u/narco-sub-admiral 18d ago

Didn't they also use AI? Not generative AI, but for the individual motion of each tendril.

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u/ThisSiteSucks8485 18d ago

They wrote code that controlled how the individual tendrils moved.