Creature Design Thread, Pure and Simple

Personface

Do you have
The Art of Hellboy?

Macera

Personface

Fresh
I raise


YOUR MOVE

Macera

NSFW

Personface

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DrDinosaur

There has never been a more perfect time to post stuff from my extensive collection of oceanic monsters.

Personface

This time may never come again in our lives! Let spill your folders of monstrous illuminations!

Ursca

You know, Paul Bonner paints with watercolours.

Fucking watercolours.

I was amazed. Although looking at it, he has to use gouache or something as well.



Additionally:



John Blanche



Tony DiTerlizzi



Ian Miller

Personface

JOHN FUCKING BLANCHE
Childhood idol. I recall getting to Bugman's bar and inquiring whether he had been in today to learn I had missed him by a minute or so.
Probably passed him in the parking lot.
I WEPT

Miller's stuff is phenomenal, but his more modern work outside of the ink on his website is a tad iffy.
Still stupendous. Liber Chaotica and Collected Visions were two of the best purchases I ever made.

Macera

Personface

That last Mignola yesss
I do wish he would give the inestimable Mr.Stewart a break for once and do his own colours in ink. Just beautiful.

Personface

Jeremy Bastian, ladies and gentlemen. Large images.

Ursca

Personface wrote:

JOHN FUCKING BLANCHE
Childhood idol. I recall getting to Bugman's bar and inquiring whether he had been in today to learn I had missed him by a minute or so.
Probably passed him in the parking lot.
I WEPT

Miller's stuff is phenomenal, but his more modern work outside of the ink on his website is a tad iffy.
Still stupendous. Liber Chaotica and Collected Visions were two of the best purchases I ever made.

God I'd love to have a chat with either of them. Stuff like the fighting fantasy books set the pattern for the rest of my life, I swear.

Anyway, unordered stuff-I-thought-was-cool:

Personface

Love the COW.
In a similar vein, I used to live a mile or so from John Howe and never thought to visit. Once again,
I WEPT

Ursca

A friend of mine got a facebook friend request from John Howe right out of the blue.

His reaction of simultaneous confusion and delight was amazing to behold.

Personface

See during pre-production on the Hobbit
Guillermo Del Toro
Wayne Barlowe
Mike Mignola
and John Howe
Were all in the same room at some point.
And I was not there.

Personface

BRB crying forever.

Ursca

He had Keith Thompson and Wayne Barlowe on his preproduction team for At the Mountains of Madness too.
Dude knows how to pick his artists.
Just a shame he can never get the films off the ground.

Personface

I prefer to live in a reality where his ATMOM is never realised as opposed to one where a bastardized PG13 moneyspinning version is released.

Tossrock

Harrier wrote:

The subjects are not strictly monsters, but I'm fascinated by the work done by the Speculative Dinosaur Project. It's an exploration of what life on Earth would be like if the Cretaceous extinction hadn't taken place.

http://dresdencodak.com/comics/2009-09-07-the_sleepwalkers.jpg

hadoken

Why does a T-Rex have such cute little hands?

MetroidZoid

For hugs

Semirrage

This thread is BAD ASSED.

Thanks.

Macera

Personface

Macera get out of that pond, you'll frighten someone.

Macera

ignore the absurd scare tactics and just enjoy neat monster designs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2qQeZ0VIewM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDJwyLWHzI0&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSNqKqqXVC0&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PepI3eyDaTU&feature=player_embedded

Personface

That top one - I am astonished that made it to television, but grateful.
Reminds me of when Per Haagensen was hired by a pest extermination company to do this -

DrDinosaur

Personface

NATURE

marty_0001

Personface wrote:

That sequence is among my cinema favourites. I spent a lot of time pausing and ogling.
Love that film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTWYQhTT388

The silence of the soundtrack and the vast echo makes it that much more chilling.

I couldn't agree more, the silence just makes it feel like this is where they all die and they have no hope.

Personface

I feel the sequence occasionally verges on the ridiculous (The massive crustacean claw for one) where I think a touch of restraint might have further improved it.
The Wetas (GET IT) are just fantastic though.

Macera

sculptures, spoilered for big

this one was made into an SCP by someone from the forums; I forgot who

Gatsby

I think it was pipe and Dichotomy who made that second one a completely harmless and puppy-like creature the SCP Foundation kept as a pet.

BahamutZERO

Bethryn wrote:

I have to say that so far this

has been my favourite. One of the things you notice about a lot of creature design is that they go for the old Greek/Egyptian/Indian style of sticking animals together. Man/Horse Centaur. Man/Jackal Anubis. Man/Elephant Ganesha.

See the Centipede/Eel/Nautilus above. Not to say it doesn't look amazing, but it's also easily comprehensible. When you get the really fucking weird designs (and not the ones that are just flesh + random bits i.e. this

), I think you get some of the best, creepiest creatures.

I don't see a centipede, eel, OR a nautilus in that thing. It's truly alien looking to me.

Personface

CA.org has some fantastic sketchbooks to browse

Antimatter

BahamutZERO wrote:

Bethryn wrote:

I have to say that so far this

has been my favourite. One of the things you notice about a lot of creature design is that they go for the old Greek/Egyptian/Indian style of sticking animals together. Man/Horse Centaur. Man/Jackal Anubis. Man/Elephant Ganesha.

See the Centipede/Eel/Nautilus above. Not to say it doesn't look amazing, but it's also easily comprehensible. When you get the really fucking weird designs (and not the ones that are just flesh + random bits i.e. this

), I think you get some of the best, creepiest creatures.

I don't see a centipede, eel, OR a nautilus in that thing. It's truly alien looking to me.

same

Bedlam

The claws or whatever on the sides of it kind of look like bug legs. Otherwise it looks like a giant land leech to me.

Personface

Can't actually see any legs/claws/mandibles, just layered scutes.
Love it all the same.

Beasteh

is dresden codak supposed to be good or

Personface

???