Well, here’s my last minute entry (first try at one of these); didn’t have a chance to start this till the last third of the month, so it ended up being kind of an unoptimized build, way too many polys. Still, got it more or less done :^).
I had the idea of using a dragon, and thought a lot about what would have to be done to reduce a dragon to a beast of burden, and this is the end result. He’s currently pulling a cart containing the majority of a dark circus (still need to finish the cart; was thinking something like a fantasy vertion of the carnival from Something Wicked This Way Comes, sort of). Played around w/the idea of making him skin and bones, but those tries didn’t really seem to fit the idea I had.
The ropes on the head and wings are more to constrain the range of movement rather than provide driving control. He’d be steered by prodding at the base of the wing; the rig that hasn’t been set up yet. The muzzle is removable so he can eat.