The Beast - Nature`s Executioner (VickGaza)
polycounter lvl 6
So I`ve decided to join and try to finish this one !
Story/Objective:
My goal is to at first glance, show a beast, blissfully eating a female hand.
At a closer look the beast will be surrounded by muddy pollution, metaphorically hinting that in fact it is humanity (the girl) that is "the beast" (through the effects of pollution), and that nature is "the beauty".
As much as we love and need nature, our weakness is how self centered we are - which might lead us to our undoing unless we accept who we are so that we can truly change. If we don`t - we die, more or less like the girl...
Creature notes:
Design a fatty creature from scratch with 4 or 6 legs. (anything not bipedal)
On the evolutionary chain is at a transitional place between water and land. (can both swim and walk, but both are done badly/slowly)
Mostly based on Amazonian Cat fish - (Black/Cream and Oranges) , will borrow idea for scutes (imbedded crusty skin/scales) from the Armored Catfish.
That`s that, updates soon.
Vick.
EDIT:Current state of creature (scroll down for more shots/views/progress):
Creature notes:
Design a fatty creature from scratch with 4 or 6 legs. (anything not bipedal)
On the evolutionary chain is at a transitional place between water and land. (can both swim and walk, but both are done badly/slowly)
Mostly based on Amazonian Cat fish - (Black/Cream and Oranges) , will borrow idea for scutes (imbedded crusty skin/scales) from the Armored Catfish.
That`s that, updates soon.
Vick.
EDIT:Current state of creature (scroll down for more shots/views/progress):
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Thanks,
Vick.
Some more itteration ... thinking of not having too much material definition, thinking if I want to add any kind of armor / straps / etc on him.
In the meanwhile feel free to give crit and suggestions and anything along those lines .Unsure at the moment if I want him to have legs or fins or both or none. If he has two fins he`ll be useless on land, if he has legs he`ll drown more than likely .Decisions decisions
In A it looks like he's dragging his body around with his big arms. B and C look better, but his legs might need to be bigger to support his large upper body? Just a thought
I woke up early today before work and crammed another hour and a half into it.
I kept the back legs as fins and the front ones as legs. Thinking he uses the back fins complementary to the tail propulsion, and once he hits shallow water he uses hands to drag himself and the little feet as pivots in case he want to stretch upwards to reach something above his head.
Vick.
Next:
-apply tail feedback
-bigger back fin - reduce comical proportions
-try to add a sense of fatty tissue on the body but with more muscular arm (muscles will get progressively sharper around the deltoid/triceps area which will be the strongest point. )
-might have to add some more muscles around infraspinatus/teresmajor so he can potentially extent hand backwards (not like a dog with movement in only one direction)
-want to add a fin on the back again for balance underwater.
-bone vs fat definition points
Ok that`s it, thanks for looking and again, thanks for the feedback !
The overall shape looks pretty solid to me. I know it's far from finish, but I feel like you lost a little bit of the weight definition you had with the first zsphere paintovers.
This is the current state of the beastie, hope it`s getting better haha
What I'm not diggin so much are the forearms ;/ i think it doesn't transition well into its hands? I'm no beast expert though so don't have to take in what I say. XD But maybe it's worth having a think about that area a bit... or not... XD
Other than that it's looking well! Can't wait to see more (:
@Kee I do agree there`s some funky stuff going on there, I`ll have to better define those muscles, reason why I haven`t touched them yet as I need to solve torso first , then will go down on arms
Vick.
Freud might have something to say to me here but, I think the head of the beast..... looks like the head of a penis. Which makes the whole creature look like deformed genitalia. I think it might be because there is a defined line separating the whole head from the body? Perhaps smoothing the top of his neck and adding a few extra chins might help. Having said all of that I seem to be the only one who is seeing this so maybe it just me.
Either way I really dig this entry and I am keen to see where you take it.
more please.
I do agree though, you are right, that separating line does make it feel a bit phallic. Will amend that, as for the forearms, yes I have to fix them broken arms up asap
As a side note perhaps he could look cool with some spines around his jowls...like a pufferfish
I am keen to see what the weekend brings.
Anyway, I know it doesn`t look like a huge improvement for a whole weekend of work, but this is because I stayed away from the details and itterated on silhouette over and over again. I think I have at least 8-9 versions of it so far. I`ll post the steps sometime in the future.
So far this is what I got, penis head look still needs to be rezolved, though it`s growing on me ... get it ?! get it ?
Vick.
Also seeing that the forum thread is on another page I`m going to repost the image and add another render with multiple views so that it`s easier to crit
(I`ve laid them in a row orto side, ortho front and persp 3/4) .
Other changes:
+changed hands (went through 5 variations lol)
+changed body to head proportions - pushing realistic proportions a bit more aggressively
Also playing with the idea of a female face/tongue lure. He puts the tongue outside the water or from dark places to attract people who can barely notice the facial features, then BAM he gulps them.
Thoughts and crit is always welcome
This is the progress thus far
The expression on it's face is priceless now, it's like: "HAH, You fools have no idea what's in store!"
Nice job, you're on fire!
I`m incredibly inexperienced with everything non human, so this is a good exercise
I`ll slowly move down to hand then legs and all the way down to tail soon
Thanks again,
Vick.