Creature Life Cycle

[brasshorsekiller]

This is a creature design I'd been working on during my spare time for the past while. Just a personal design project for my portfolio. Here's the 6 main parts of the life-cycle.

This is the adult creature:
http://www.brokeneasel.com/brasshorse/Adult_side.jpg

It then gives birth to this:
http://www.brokeneasel.com/brasshorse/Larvae_alpha.jpg

Which then gorws larger, into this:
http://www.brokeneasel.com/brasshorse/Larvae_alpha2.jpg

Which then grows more and nests underground, making an eggsack:
http://www.brokeneasel.com/brasshorse/Pitcoil.jpg

These hatch from the eggs:
http://www.brokeneasel.com/brasshorse/Larvae_beta.jpg

Then they form massive cocoons, which hatch the adults.
http://www.brokeneasel.com/brasshorse/Cocoon.jpg

That's about it. Any feedback is good.
Thanks,

-a

[hyphen]

Wow, I love it. Great textures, I can almost feel the slippery skin :P

Only crit I have is:

When the creature burrows into the ground, it's a bit hard to distinguish it. Maybe push the coil back and bring the front tendril forward a bit to show depth. That the tendrils are protruding from the actual coil itself.

Anyhow, love the designs!

[Nucleardan]

It always amazes me how you make your creatures' skins feel how they should. The larvae skin, to me, feels slick and oily, while the adult's is rough and rigid. great work, i think this will definetly work well in your portfolio.

Dan

[Carnifex]

jesus h. christ!that's a big cocoon!:eek:














love all of them

[Atmospheria]

Holly Shit!!!! :eek:
Man these are awesome...cool concepts there...nothing to crit...nice job!

[chukw]

I'm glad you were paying attention back in high school biology! These are really terrific, and well thought out. Thanks!

[behemot5]

aaaaaaaarghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh:xx:

[I.was.ink]

That is one gret life cycle. The cacoon and underground shot are my favorite.

No crits from me. Only mabye that it'd be nice to relate the cacoon with the rest by adding a touch of green.

[smellybug]

I always look forward to your posts...cool stuff.

[stormeffex]

this is great...i like the detail you put into the life cycle. what determines m/f? or are they asexual? i think that's the word.

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[bwkeough]

creepy creepy creepy

so larva alpha is only an egg-machine, the betas are what grow into adults? do the adults m/f mate to create the alphas? are the alphas asexual?

[Bomba]

Solid. Well illustrated and thought out.
-J-

[Kappei]

d u draw that at first with pencil?
or is ths complet wacom?

very very nice stuff :)

cya
kappei

[nev]

Amazing work! but what about the adult creature? Only one angle?

[Groover McNab]

That's a really cool concept, great drawings too. I like how you combined the creature giving birth to another one and worked in the eggs at another stage.

[Fozzybar]

great concept art...if anyone is asking what conceptart is...come to this thread my friend...

The most interesting part which is missing in my eyes is to see how the beta larvaes form the cocoons...

Thank you brass...the most interesting thread latterly... :thumbsup:

[scumble fish]

You do some very cool work. I just saw your web site......drawing is top notch and sense of color- superb These new pieces reflect that skill.
And your aviator is Great.:chug:

[rimwalker]

Wonderful illustrations and fascinating concept. Just one question: I can't quite figure out how the 4.5 foot larvae beta can develop into such a massive cocoon. Please explain this.

[wimpos]

very organic. love your style.

a turnaround of the adult would be ----nice----:D

wimpos

[jezelf]

Very nice work. very clean and well presented stuff. lovely rendering.

My only comments are questions on the biology of the creature. In the adult its got these power legs and signs of a endoskeleton which are pretty dominant, but there is no hint of them on the larvae beta.

Other than the tusks at the front and the tail, they don't feel or look related as a species to me. a further picture to bridge the gap with the beginnings of the bones and skeletal structure development while inside the cocoon (a backbone, little horns and stubs with little bones at the tips for the legs, for example)

on relating a species, I guess the same could be said for a caterpillar and butterfly, but the caterpillar has legs, no bones as does the butterfly ( i think!). I guess its an alien creature so it does alien things?

However for and concept to be convincing, its a good idea to borrow from things people can relate to, and I think you've done great stuff with everything else and this aspect is the weak spot. If your creature is a vertebrate and then, gives birth to an invertebrate, which gives birth to a vertebrate again, could add more depth to the concept by making each stage unique and having more of a sense of purpose as well as looking cool.

I'm also trying to image the larva beta actually constructing that cocoon - how does it do it? is the cocoon free standing or is it attached to the wall/rock of some cave? where does all the matter that make up the cocoon come from when you have a 4.5ft creature making a cocoon which must be many times it's own mass?

other than moths and butterflies, was there any other influences on the lifecycle of this?

I think the larvae alpha being born just as a kind of worker of sorts is a brilliant idea. very refreshing. I also kinda imagine a scene of ignorant unsuspecting space explorers walking among the cocoons think they were large rock formations sticking out of the ground in a cave like stalagmites...unltil they crack!

certainly inspirational and as you tell, you got my imagination building a world around it!

thanks for sharing.
Jez

[Ant4d]

super EYECANDY.
very cool stuff.

[EVIL]

God damn! Aaro.. ehh Brass :)

This stuff is SWEET. where is it for?

I would love to have a creature like this as a pet :) I bet he CRAPS mighty at the park :D

exelent work. I am as always stunned with the quality art you produse.

[behemot5]

Can you explain us what are the steps you follow to create this style of creature....

[EVIL]

There is a tutorial on his website (2 actually), you might take a look at that!

[gallon]

a bit offtopic:
Brasshorse, I've seen your avatar used as an avatar on several different forums, but often the "redone" versions from that other forum (the one that had these loong threads dedicated to your avatar). I guess that u can't stop these kind of thing spreading, especially as it so funny. unfortunatly I didn't save the URL's , but if I come across the use of that funny guy again, do u want to get the forum URl's then ? I can PM them to u (but maybe this fight for your copyright is over and u just say: nevermind (or some other words ;)).
Hope u get what I'm saying as my english right now is a bit slow (too little sleep I guess)


As always , great creatures!

[Luke Mrozek]

These concepts are way cool, man, i would love to see a whole book of montrosities with this kind of illustrations.

Luke.

[brasshorsekiller]

Thanks to everyone who commented. The suggestions always help a ton.
To answer a few specific questions...

stormflex: Yes, asexual is the word. They don't need to mate with any other creatures to reproduce.

Jens: I'll do up a 3/4 view of the adult when I have a bit more time. The cocoon is so large because the adult has a pretty long body with the tail and all, so it needs a lot of room, plus the thick cocoon shell to protect it while it grows.

Kappei: I have a tutorial on my website

rimwalker: I have some in-between stages to finish up, but for now I just posted the main sections. Basically it goes through a long, boring, metamorphosis of secreting fluids, etc.

jezelf: Awesome post. The adult drawing is probably a bit misleading. The creature in all it's stages has an endoskeleton (like us squishy humans). I'm glad you took so much time to analyze it, and it'll definitely help me in the future for more designs. Thanks!

gallon: I recently made this to hopefully clear up some of the confusion: official bunchies website (http://www.wildpixels.com/bunchies/)

Luke Mrozek: One day, hopefully soon, I would love to do that.

Thanks again to everyone.
-a

[Montross]

Great work Brass, I was wonderin, what is the story behind the Timberhook creature? Is it an abomination made in some lab(the stiches)? Do you have a drawing of it in an enviornment also?

[Marko Djurdjevic]

Wicked!
Not half as wicked as your Avatar, but it comes close.
Very cool process steps. Only thing thet bugs me a little, is the fact that it looks very reptilian in it's adult stage, while the larvae reminds me a lot of squids, jellyfishes and tapeworms. That's the only inconsistency I can see to date. Everything else is fine. Maybe you shoud just rework and adapt the adult stage to the larval stage a bit more, and keep thing together thight.

Anyhow, good work!

Marko