DW3 : Mutant WIP

[CybrGfx]

Definitely the more organic forms, #s 5 on up. Vegetation has more curved lines. 7,8,9 are the strongest to my eye, but each one slightly lacking. Maybe a combination of the three?

Interesting concept, it will be fun to see your final creation!

[joeian]

i see a big red X like this->http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l69/kenman2626/dominance_02.jpg

[capone_adam]

Latest, need to decide which one to take to final concept. Any preferences?

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l69/kenman2626/dominance_03.jpg

[CybrGfx]

I vote for the first one with the glowing lily shaped antennae.

[capone_adam]

Yeah that is what everyone is saying, was playing around with some head designs...

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l69/kenman2626/dominance_04.jpg

[CybrGfx]

If you're gonna give him a detailed face, you then need to give him a personality.

Is he nice/evil? Young/old? Male/Female? Confident/Shy? Warrior/nerd? Haughty/humble? Intimidating/friendly?
Most of the faces you are drawing are somewhat intimidating and unfriendly looking. This is mainly due to "browbone" direction. Humans will almost always apply human characteristics to visual representations of humanoid faces. If you ever saw the movie where a really cute alien eats the housewife who coos at it, you get the idea.

They also look a lot like mean Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle heads...

How you present this creature, as well as the surroundings, will affect how the viewer perceives it.

~Cyber

[capone_adam]

Thanks for the interest cyber. Been playing around with more ideas and trying to come up with character. Am going for old/wise/tribal/stoner/sleepy type characteristics here. This is an early WIP of what I feel has to be the final character design as I need to get on to modeling pretty soon.

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l69/kenman2626/dominance_05.jpg

[CybrGfx]

Looks like you described.

Will be fun to see it modeled!

~Cyber

[capone_adam]

Really going for the stoner angle now,

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l69/kenman2626/dominance_06.jpg

[capone_adam]

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l69/kenman2626/dominance_06-1.jpg

[matsman]

gha.. glad you went with a little more aggressive feel to the character.. like the last picture better than the previous two....

However what happened to the antenna? :( They are so cool! maybe add something similar by props... like a backpack with vines sprouting out... or some shoulderpads that have the antenna/ vines on them... I think it is a shame the one mega characteristic thing from the concept got ditched.

about the last drawing,... don't really like the claws that much... might also be that they are to simply drawn to get the right feel.. and I wonder what the white teeth-thingies are?

[GlennEBrooks]

I liked the b/w version too (post 6). I feel something got lost.

[matsman]

Hi... if I went over the line say so... but I had a little time on my hands just before dinner... and when looking for somthing to do I came across here again and I just couldn't resist...

http://www.matstm.com/CGtalk/antennea_bio_creep.jpg
weighting in at about 1500 tri's here is concept number 6 in a quick (30-45 min) fleshed out form.

Thanks for your inspiration, bye!

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