jujube wrote:I imagine it would help to know what it is you want to create.
*puts on biology geek hat* "Intersex" refers to any number of real but different medical conditions, so to model an intersex character, you'd have to decide what you want to use as a reference.
Hermaphroditism is something entirely different, and is currently not possible in humans, and as far as I know, not in any mammals at all. And there are two different kinds of hermaphrodites: sequential (changes from one sex to the other) and simultaneous (can produce both sperm and eggs). I don't even know if there are even any tetrapods that are (sequential) hermaphrodites... I've only heard of fish and invertebrates. So to nitpick, something that comes from imagination (like a hermaphroditic mammal) can't technically be called "realistic".
(And you'd have to decide how your fictional hermaphrodites' anatomy is structured... do they have both ovaries and testes, or a singular pair of ovo-testes? Are the testes outside the body cavity, as they are in humans in order to achieve a cool enough temperature to produce functional sperm? questions, etc)
*takes off geek hat* Well okay, it would be probably useful to think about for your story, if you haven't already (or in order to know what you want in case you ask/commission someone to make it for you), but if you're only just learning blender, thinking about all this would just get in the way, as you'd be a long way off from creating any of it... Mostly I just said all this because I wanted to get the biology exposition out of my system....
Ah, I've done a bit of research on biology and genetics through the years. *puts on speculative fiction writer's hat* I use intersex in the biologic sense of physical organs. I've actually met a few people through the years who were born with testes / ovaries as well as penises / uteri. Back when I was a kid they'd get reassigned shortly after birth to the gender the doctors preferred, usually male. Rare to be certain, but they do happen and in that sense are realistic. I know a kid who looks male, acts female in many ways, who was born with uterus, penis, ovary, and one testicle, and was reassigned. My last release features a prototherian (egg-laying mammal) species that intrigued someone with an anthropology background enough to do some digging. Humans still have one of the genes necessary for laying actual eggs, and odds are someone could eventually splice the other genes required.
As for the story line, genetically modified people, some ostensibly male or female with some intersex in that they've got penis and vagina, internal testes as well as ovaries or ovo-testes if cyclic on sexual function, and a body temperature down around that of prototherians or monotremes. Per the original description, similar to Japanese futanari without that much exaggeration. Trust me, I've already thought about the points you've raised, but the good part about sci-fi is it often takes place in the future. *takes off writer's hat*
As for commissioning the work, I'm neither rich nor famous. Apart from a few Kindle sales totalling maybe $20, my royalties for the last four years (after taxes) averaged $5.625 per year. The award-winning artist / author who did my first three covers will do them for what indies like myself can afford, but I can't ask him to do it for free. That's why I was trying to learn enough to make a cover on my own.
I'm starting to think I'll be better off just finishing my writing as I have the chance, print a few proof copies sans artwork, and let my replacements worry about getting them published if they care enough to do so. If it's going to take several years to learn Blender or any other program well enough to do a simple cover, I might as well not waste time I don't have.