haii, i love your miis sooo much, i wanted to ask if its ok to also use ur ocelli idea for mine (/anyone elses too)? its so cute!!!!
i wanted to ask just in case u consider it like... Ur Thing... idk lol. i love it tho ^_^
OMG YES please use it!!!! AND @ ME IF YOU MAKE/POST THEM I WANNA SEE YOUR LIL GUYS!!!!!
quick biology lesson: wtf are ocelli?
ocelli are simple, light sensing eyes, which complement the larger, more complex compound eyes on a number of insects. they are most commonly seen in threes but some species have only two or one ocelli. look it up!!!
i love them, especially because on a praying mantis i was observing under a microscope, the ocelli almost looked like gems on the mantis’ forehead (a mantis i caught and named morgue princess btw, rip beautiful girl) because they were amber-colored rather than black. definitely a thought for if you make any zetans on miitopia (switch release) or draw them because you have more freedom with coloring/painting on features.
here’s some extra info on them in case anyone wants to use their made up race wholesale. feel free to pick-and-choose features however you want, but it can be fun to join an existing idea as well! i call them zetans bc all their last names are zeta. simple, and maybe a little dumb, but i like it. last name doesn’t have to be zeta, it was just a way to designate who they are in my tomodachi life file.
the ocelli are made with the two dots nose + a birthmark centered right under them. i usually center them between their “compound” (regular) eyes, but i think higher on their forehead could work too! lots of them have antennae too—but i feel the ocelli are the most important feature to make them zetans. the antenna are just eyebrows placed high enough and upturned enough that they look like little stalks coming off the mii’s head. definitely try different eyebrow shapes for this!
miss epsilon has regular eyebrows as you can see, so my thought is she is half zetan half human. there’s really no limits, and infinite room for variability. they’re a diverse species just like us. any skin tone, any hair color, any face shape etc etc etc go hog wild.
ultimately they are based on insects so i use that for inspiration. for me, if they don’t have visible eyebrows or antenna, that means the antenna are hidden in the hair (see my girl #nebula carina), but you can also keep regular eyebrows and have the same logic—their antenna are there somewhere, just not visible on their mii!
i was hoping to make a more formal post with some drawings and screenshots of ALL my zetans to show their diversity—as a response to people who wanted to see more of my alien miis. i will still do this at some point. i have a bunch of other non-human miis to show off too! real life responsibilities be damned, i’ll make those posts eventually.
if you’d like to take a general look at my miis, look at my #pebble island tag!
anyways, thank you for asking, and thank y’all for reading!!! go forth and bring more awesome lil guys into the world!!!!!!
