This is fairly well modelled from a technical point of view, however it suffers from weak design. The mesh has an obvious bad fantasy art influence (huge breasts, bat wings, massive hooved feet and a strange tail). What you have created is a chimera. A chimera is a creature made by throwing lots of different animal body parts together in the hope that you will create a SCARY MONSTER
. The word comes from Ancient Greek - there was a monster in Ancient Greek legends called the
Chimera, part lion, goat and snake that breathed fire and looks somewhat ridiculous these days
The term has now come to mean any creature designed by adding body parts from one or more creatures to another. This was how monsters were created in many legends up to the mediaeval period, after that writers and artists had to start to get more creative - the more educated the population became, the less likely they were to believe in the reality of a monster. As 3D artists, we are always trying to get the audience to believe in the reality of our creations - if the monster doesn't feel real, we won't believe in it and therefore it has no power over us. Your design is based (probably without knowing this) on the monster designs of 1950s and 1960s B Movies - the classic stick a monster head on a human body technique or dress a man in a rubber suit - both done becasue they were cheap to make - no animatronics, no expensive animation or super imposing to do, just a man dressed up.
Scary eh? Hope you didn't just run away screaming like a girl
Probably you just laughed at them yes? Well that's what you need to avoid in your monster designs. Modern audiences are not impressed with the chimera; they know it's fake. A modern monster must be something much more bizarre and yet at the same time seem possible. The alien from the film Alien - extremely frightening and very believable for something that is highly unlikely, yet it feels like it could have evolved, it feels like it could be real.
Now that should have you screaming like a first year who has just been given four projects in one week
So think before modelling!
1. Could it exist?
2. How does it live/eat/breed
3. How does its anatomy work - if it has wings they need to be big enough to let it fly (unless it's a penguin of course, but penguins aren't very scary )
That's a good start. Now design a real monster
Now that's odd, what the hell did 3DHit do to my layout?
Edited by Moid, 07 April 2009 - 09:37 PM.
3DHit or HTML hates me :(
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