Beast of Burden - Character/Contraption - FEDRON

#21

After starting to model many doubt cames to me.

The first one was the not very original cow looking, very used in this comp by many people.
The second was the not enough brute force look i was searching, some sort of terrestial whale.
And for finish the need of a good side sketch with very defined muscle groups for an easy modeling.

My traumatic lack of scanner pull me again to the coreldraw for a mouse only drawing. Hehe i’m starting to getting it.

Okey so here is the new model with 2 variant, the second is with a direct whale reminisence in the throat part. The 2 grey circles are the place where should go the horns, i didn’t draw it yet. The eyes are now in the front part and the nostrils are in the top of the head like whales.

So guys do ya like the change? Which one do you preferd?

(no mor sketches i promess from now only 3d :slight_smile: )

#22

Hope this are the last design update.

I think this is the final version, i made a male and a female, because i want to make an all group following the Treechariot.
The horn of the male is an extention of the nostril, so in fact the nostrils are at the top of the horn.

I’m posting an other version i made more buffalo classic, that’s why i will not take it.

Hope ya like it.
C&C please:)

#23

the female, smaller, no horn.

#24

The buffalo one

#25

FINAAAAL, here is the final version!!! :bounce:

A mix between rino and moose. I though the moose horn would fit better with the tree chariot and it’s more original :lightbulb .

Now time for a harness!! so let’s:wip: :wip:

#26

Fedron you’re a crazy animal creator!
I Like the new ones with the horns, but I’ll suggest to make the foremost legs thicker cause they have a huge head to carry.
The tree thing is good, but how great your beasts are, they can be kind of ecosystems themselves with sort of trees growing on them (the immense mass of old skin they lose can be a rich soil), and why not different races living on , with some troglodytes (digging tunnels inside the beasts) or whatever. There’s lot of potential in the concept.
Waiting for updates and bonne chance!

#27

Hey m@!!! Cool to see you here!!! Apt told me that he give you our path. Are you entering the comp?

Hey you idea IS very cool.
I had a similar one but only the beast driver would have his house on the beast. Where he lived all his life with his family. Liked indian cornac with there elephants.
But what you’re saying is much more radical!!!
Maybe it would be a tree per beast, so if they live in troupeau it would be like a moving forest!!! What do you think?

Otherwise good to see you in this chat too :thumbsup:

#28

AAAAARGGGGGH!!! Horns are growing like trees!!!

#29

yeah but the beast + tree must be symbionts(or the tree is parasite?), not the same thing, I think. So you’ll have to know who gives what to who (water, sugars, mineral salts, organic molecules) to adapt their physionomy(they don’t have to do the same thing each). Style: your beast have sort of roots or tentacles for a mouth so he pumps what the tree needs, and the tree gives him organic molecules with the help of the sun via the leaves.
I think it could be cool to have much different species on the same beast, but it will be a bit long to model; and must not be out of subject.

I think I will not have time to do this challenge , I’m still working on my woman and on the CG logo contest :wink:
Maybe the next one. See you and post updates!

#30

I like your concept sketches. The moose horns are a cool idea, but I don’t like the extra set of horns on its back just my humble opinion :smiley:

#31

This beast is getting better by the minute!!! I love his new look. He looks peaceful and serene, but he looks like he can kick your butt at the same time if necessary. I think you have achieved almost a perfect unison between your beast and his tree. I also agree with m@ though, making him muddy and a natural habitat by himself would be great.

My little suggestion is that maybe you could make the way back legs go in just a bit, and the front second set of legs go in just a bit as well so that the very front legs overlap the second set. kind of like this little picture I put together (don’t mind the photoshop directional light, I use it like the town bycicle:p)

Otherwise, I am really looking forward to seeing this guy finished. Oh, and by the way, I love seeing how you think. It’s refreshing seeing someone ‘not’ jump into the model phase right away. I bet it’s going to save you many hours in the long run:thumbsup: Keep up the good work!! Your creating something fantastic here.

#32

Just a quick question, is that a second set of horns on his back or just is it just one horn? Perhaps one horn would be better, it would create a triangle instead of a square.

#33

Aptpuppil -----> Thanks for the com Apt. I made the tweak you said about te legs. As for the back horn i don’t really know yet. I have to do some perspective now (and star with the modeling :buttrock: ).

ZrO-1 -------> I made a new post to keep everybody happy, the all Terramoth family. Hope ya like it.

My last update for today. I restart modeling tomorrow i hope. I’m doing a final character sheet with some perspective and mouth detail (this one is very cool :drool: you’ll love it).

#34

m@ --------> Thanks for the c&c m@! I will follow some of your concept! This is what i’m going to do:
I taken inspiration in the simbiotic relation between trees and ants. The tree give food and home to ants colony, and the ants give protection again predators and parasites.
So in this case the relation is between the wingedmen (i’ll keep this idea) and the Terremoth.

The Terramoth are primarly home and protection to the wingedmen people. The old bull have some climbing plant vegetation growing in there horns wich make them look like trees. For food the wingedmen can recolect the fruits of the climbing plants. They can also take some blood of the beast by a small cut they made. This doesn’t affect the giant and is very nutritive. The grease of the skin can be recolected too and used as fuel for lightning and cooking.

Un conterpart the wingedmen give, protection against all parasite and help to maintain the animal clean and free of desease. They eventually can administrate some healing potion too. They are like shepherd, guiding the herd to good food and water resources.

This beast are there home, food AND gods walking on earth.

I will try to do the Treechariot too. This tree should be the High Palace of the Wingued Queen. The royal capital city of the winguedmen, rulers of the great steppe. Brothers of the walking trees, the giants Terramoth.

Well, this is it. Hope ya like it :stuck_out_tongue: .

#35

:eek: How did I miss this thread till now?!! This beast looks awesome! I really like how you laid out all the muscle masses in the side view for easy modeling.

Can’t wait to see the new model! :bounce:

#36

Ahhhhh OK.
I see why there are the different beasts now. I guess I should have read more closely. :stuck_out_tongue:

Awesome idea having the age groups and sexes all planned out. And I really like how you put them together in the one pic. It helps dopes like me who don’t read all of the posts to understand what’s going on. :wink:

#37

Good concept Fedron.
Waiting for the 3D model!

#38

Wow, what a day!!! Ok so this time is for sure, it’s the last post, need some sleep. After all this sketches and changes i restarted from skratch my 3d model. Now that i know what i want things are going much faster. I’ll continue tomorow.

#39

:shrug: oh guys , i dont know what happened to me i’m progressing at turtle speed :cry:
Here is a small update, not much , but better than nothing.

#40

Awesome awesome awesome! I love the modeling you’ve done. Those curly bits rock man. Great stuff.