Beast of Burden - Character - strongarm

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I have been looking at these boards for a while and just have not gotten to the point were I had enough time to do some of these great challenges. I figured better jump in while the waters warm. My beast is a water beast. The “Sea Dog” is used to for hauling in
open sea but is best used as a tug in small water ways on planets covered with massive river systems. They are very loyal to their owners and have massive fat stores so they will waite for weeks for a owner to return. Well thats a little back story. Still working on the harness and I am not sure about what expression a water animal would have? Oh this is a mammal if it makes a difference.

shawn

#2

another image of the in progress model.

#3

and finaly one more before I go back to work on the harness.

#4

Hey strongarm, welcome to the challenge, great to have you here. I like your concept and your modeling looks great. One crit about the design is that I don’t think I’d put horns or a nose on an aquatic beast. Other than that I really like the design.

Great work so far, keep it up! :thumbsup:

#5

I don’t know what the probelm is with the horns Zr0-1. Horns make perfect sense to me. The nose, yes, I agree with. Might be difficult to breath, unless they’re a kind of frontal gill system, which may work!

Great stuff strongman. My only suggestion at this stage is to point the horns forward. Being aquatic, it’s main propulsion would be based going forward, so the horns mighten function very well!

#6

I considered both things before I started drawing. It is a mammal so a nose Like a seels nose is ok and looks somewhat dog like.
they just seal it up when they go under. A narwal (sp) is a whale with a big long white antiler like a unicorn. both mammals. I sketched out forward horns but thought they broke the flow of the animal. I will look close at a couple seels so I can match the look of a aquatic mammals nose.

shawn

#7

Ahhh OK…hit’s self in forehead You are totally right on both counts. I guess I didn’t think of that. :blush:

Keep on rocking bro. Sorry about the not-thought-out crit before :stuck_out_tongue:

#8

no problem, Your questions were valid ones, I always wondered about how seals keep there noses from getting flooded like us humans. I have included my first working sketch. Kind of posting this backwords but you have to give the newbie a little room. lol javascript:smilie(’:p’)

shawn

#9

In your sketch yur beast has a sort of Walrus proportion to it’s head/body relation. In your model it’s more of a fish proportion. I think I like it better in the sketch. I’d try scaleing down the head in relation to the body a bit. That might bring back the proportion that you have in your sketch.

Just my 2 cents :smiley:

#10

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