DWIV - 3D - pestibug
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Alright, latest wips and such shall be posted here aswell: stage: concepting! 
Bit of backstory: (pending)
Even in the chaotic and dark hellish dimension, this creature is little understood and much feared. If there is being spoken about it at all, it is referred to in hushed tones as 'The purifyer'. It seems only the higher forces know the purpose of this entity and how it fits in their schemes.
All that is known is that once the purifyer is unleashed, nothing is left alive. Once it humongous bulk settles and pupates from bud into its full state it will begin to unleash spores of death into the air. These massive clouds of this syrup like substance liquify any living tissue it touches. The goop that's left serves as a means of food for 'The purifyer'as it slowly, but steadily moves aross the lands.
Bit of backstory: (pending)
Even in the chaotic and dark hellish dimension, this creature is little understood and much feared. If there is being spoken about it at all, it is referred to in hushed tones as 'The purifyer'. It seems only the higher forces know the purpose of this entity and how it fits in their schemes.
All that is known is that once the purifyer is unleashed, nothing is left alive. Once it humongous bulk settles and pupates from bud into its full state it will begin to unleash spores of death into the air. These massive clouds of this syrup like substance liquify any living tissue it touches. The goop that's left serves as a means of food for 'The purifyer'as it slowly, but steadily moves aross the lands.
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This year, it shall be a demon warlord. I read the brief as: posesses no human characteristics at all. Now after re-reading it seems you can have some, but I opted to go for something completely otherwordly.
To make it even crazier, I'll be using flowers as inspiration! Now i pretty much got the rough idea in my head, and I'll be pretty much focussing on individual parts concepting wise, and then as things progress somethign wicked will come out of it.
All there's left to say is, it's tentacle and meat-flower time!
now pics:
So, quicky side view, roughly the idea I'm pursuing, some huge tentacle, flower/pupating thing
Scribbling ideas.
More refined idea for the base tentacles. perhaps I'll add soem spider eye-ish things, so they might be sort off their own entity. Anyway so far i like the direction.
Bit of a head study, pleased with this idea, see if it'll evolve further.
Belltann, good to see ya here too!
He should totally have a tongue to lure prey.
Rooster: Thanks man, stick around to see the craziness unfold!
where did his head go on your last side view sketch!?
Imagine that thing coming out of the mouth looking at you before it's going to kill
Belltann, vahl, kite, vig thank you, glad you guys dig it!
Sir gimp, machuca: Remeber it's based on plants/flowers for inspiration, but it will not be an actual plant. Just the shapes and idea of leaves and such. Colorwise it will probably be grey meat with fleshy bits and maybe some flurecent green. Well, the color bits will come later.
As for the head:
That's where it roughly will be. The front of the body will have a zipper like idea of tentacle things interlocking, protecting the face and such. Once opened the head will emerge.
So, the red circle is where the head roughly sits.
R4ptur3: I take that as a huge compliment!
DrElu: The eye one eh? funny I prefer the second tongue, but the eye thing is cool. I might re-work it. It would be nice if the tongue was a sort of (parasitic) entity of its own.
Now this idea was damn interesting, so I did some sketches! As you can see the whole 'head' part stays the same, because I really like the stuff I have going for it now. It's just the body that changing and the placement of the head.
So, umm, is this better or worse, the floating one or my original idea?
And which of the floaties do you guys dig the most?
Let hear it!
really liking ya work pesti!
I'm all for the flying #2. It's almost too appealing
But ofcourse I had to go and chat with rawkstar and he said: Well, what if it had legs?
So, off I went to draw legs hahahaha I guess this covers all bases now!
No feet yet, would have to play around with some ideas for those.
Damned.. Too many directions to take this. I feel legs are really pushing it maybe too much into something recognizable. I really want something weird with no personality, something very alien.
Any thoughts on the legged version guys?
Freuon: Glad you like it, go crazy, show plants and flowers on the polycount side are more than just for giving away on mother's day
Coldkodiak: Actually I want it to be very unrecognizable as what it exactly is and not have any personality. Just something very alien and disturbing in tis own way
Kamui: Well, I will model a few different base tentacles (3 types i think) and then just copy them.
jackblade: I actually used pitcherplants in the first sketches I did in my sketchbook, but some how I wan't really happy with how those turned out. Right now I'm pretty set on this direction, pitcherplants will habve to wait for the next domwar
Boojeah: Thanks, Luckily its not too hard to mix and match between concepts for my final choice.
Joolz8000: When I was concepting I was thinking about more wings, but I figure that would probably be something that I could sort out in 3D when blocking out the model. I agree it needs atleast another set of wings.
MojoE: Thanks
Inpw: I don't think I'll add more petals, I have to be able to model it too after all
rats78: Thank you, and yeah the pollen thingies out of its back work nicely. Still I could mix that with nr2 aswell
keep it up dude, the concepts rock.
Belltann: It scared me how much difference the legs made. Geez, I'm almost concepting a whole race! haha The noxious fumes definately works, since the basic principle remains, it's spreads clouds of spores.
Kamui: I'd rather have him floating than on stubby legs. Looking back my original concept was all about having it on the ground, and while a cool idea, I'm much happier the way it is evolving. I think it needs to be intimidating in its height, wether by floating, or on huge stalky legs.
Alright and a update! I pretty much deceided on what tentacles I'll go for, 3 types.
The spore/acid tentacle. This is pretty much for a direct ground assualt and has a impregnating effect as in creating a ground covering mist. The tentacles make up for the bulk of the tentacle mass.
The probe tentacle is a big sensory sensitive probe of sorts. It drags over the ground and is used to localize, and to examine the surroundings. These are pretty much forming the center of the tentacle mass
The attack tentacle is used in case somethign would head on attack this creature. Normally these tentacles are pretty dormant, aside from prehaps destroyong large objects if needed. These tentacles are on the outer rim of the tentacle mass.
Thanks all for the comments, keep them coming!
Keep it going, mate.
I really don't care much for the legs though, it adds too much of an earthy factor, that kind of takes away from the bizarreness of it. Keeping it floating is going to be very unique for this contest.
the Tenticals are great addation! Its more cthulhu mythos than large plant creature, which my personal taste cares for more.
Cant wait to see more dude!:thumbup:
So I deceided for floaty nr1. Funny because when I concepted these I really preferred nr2, like most people. But after some more time to look and think about the concepts I found nr1 to be more to my liking. It's just a bit more 'weird' than nr2.
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Belltann: I knows you luvs it
jackablade: Well, I deceide for floating, and some tentacles dragging on the ground, no walking at all.
Beatkitano: Well mister, then I thank you very much
Zatoichi: I had a look at your entry and its awesome! Our entries could definatly exist in the same universe. Very cool to see how people can come to the same ideas of sorts. Let our demonic hordes crush the opposition with tentacle weirdness!
Caseyjones: Thank you very much
Mikezoo, Diwan: You'll be pleased to see the legs will not be done! I agree, after looking a bit more at these concepts the legs just somehow brought it down to a more 'normal level'. While I think they still look cool, they would most likely work on a different character within this species.
I didn't intend to go for chtulhu, but well tentacles and pretty quickly chtulhu will come around the corner
Killingpeople: Yeah, he's a nasty gnarly oldie with a bad temper
Anyway added the head fixed, little tentacles, just basic stuff.
cool stuff pesti !!! I need to get mine started