C.O.W.#142-- Alien with Exposed Glow in the Dark Brain(s) -- VOTING!

[Michael Jaecks]

C.O.W. #142 Alien with Exposed Glow in the Dark Brain(s)!! -- VOTING!!

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ROUND #142 VOTING

Topic: Alien with Exposed Glow in the Dark Brain(s)!!


Deadline for the voting: Sunday 17 May 2009

Posting thread (closed): http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=157001.


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OK - before voting/posting read this!!!

1. Please give c&c or a reason why you voted for the image!

2. Feel free to comment on any or all entries, the artists will appreciate it!

3. No voting for your own entry!!! If a participants votes for his own entry, every member has the right to call him a stupid lame moron in this thread! And i will delete his/her vote anyway...
4. The poll is public and everyone will be able to see who votes for whom. No self-votes.

[ChromaticCodex]

Artist: Chromatic Codex

Concept: Brain Thief
A horrible beast with an exposed glowing brain! This creature hunts for brains, tracking down the largest brained creature it can find and gnawing through it's skull. Its bio-illumination and appearance are horrifying to the intelligent creatures that it stalks. The victum his rendered helpless by the hallucination inducing spores that beat from the wafting cilia that line its back.

[skunk257]

Artist: skunk257

Concept: Cerebral Colossus
The Cerebral Colossus has managed to carve out an existance for itself on a planet of darkness, nothing but starlight can be seen from the surface. An interesting fact about the colossus is that it appears not to need to eat, nor does it have any visable sensory organs other than its skin, the only viable hypothosis is that it produces energy internally, this idea is given more credit due to the itense size of its glowing, pulsating brain, which appears to need constant ventalation via a large opening sourounding the top of the brain,thus exposing the pulsating mass to the surounding -300 degree temperitures. most believe the creature has evolved past the need for sensory input, traditional communication or sustinence of any kind, in theory this one specimin could be 1000's of years old.

[Supervlieg]

Artist: Supervlieg

Concept: Grilla

Monkeys rule Simian,
planet far away

Grilla rules monkeys
Monkeys fear Grilla

Evolution screws up
Grilla brains grow
Skull top fades

Grilla easy target
Monkeys rule Grilla

Proud Grilla stands
on lonely rock

Dreams of days gone by

[Tom Garden]

Artist: Tom Garden

Concept: Yakoar
The Yakoar has a large glowing brain which gets longer and longer as it lives. The tip carries its youngest memories, and its entire life is revealed leading towards the front of the brain. Its a shame really this creature leads a very dull life, eating leaves and leading travelers through darkened forests and pathways, but it always remembers the way!

[Verehin]

Artist: Maxim Verehin

Concept: Exoticus Formicid


Ant-like creature living on a planet Ankor 5.
Groups of these beings incorporate in a colony in which there is a strict hierarchy.
On the given image presented subspecies "scout".
It is equipped by pair wings for fast movings, pair paws for gathering of food and a capacious stomach-bag.
Distinctive feature of the given kind are glow brains. Scientists assume that force of a luminescence defines position in a hierarchical chain of colony.

[acb]

http://i44.tinypic.com/2s1wuxl.jpg

Artist: acb
Concept: cave dweler

these creatures live in the rocky area of a distant planet .they live in caves and their glowy brain helps them lighten even the darkest places undergroud.they have no hands and only 1 fingure on their leg's feet and to it attached a rock solid fingure nail on which they walk .as they have no hands they need to lean forward and catch their prey with their 3 mouths and because of that relativly difficult manouver they have to have alot of muscles and their body is very solid.

[geronimo66]

Artist: Geronimo66

Concept: bio-luminescent brain widow
The rare brain widow uses a form of mental EMP to stun its prey. It attracts by use of bio-luminescent pods over its body, as well as the fluid surrounding its brain. It venom isn't as potent as some, however it is highly necrotic and can dissolve a human in only a few hours. Though it rarely will attack a mammal that large.

[6strings4life]

Hey, I´m new here. Critic is always welcome...

Artist: 6strings4life
Concept: Savange
[COLOR="Black"]These creatures life everywhere in the universe, where they want to get information about different planets, the life on these planets etc. They haven´t got legs, because they have to react to the different gravities of the variety of planets. With their brains they collect all the information.[IMG]

[Reymus]

Artist: Reymus

Concept: Mentis Nare aka "Flying Dutchman"


The entity dubbed the "Flying Dutchman" of the recently discovered gas nebula N-45 makes colonization nor exploration of the cloud impossible, if the fierce and constant magnetic storms do not cripple or destroy a ship, the psionic force of the Dutchman would drive any crew or colony to insanity. These ghostly creatures simply float out in the turbulence feeding on the constant energy of the nebula, their glowing minds serving as lethal beacons to any passing merchant ship.

[corza334]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v631/corza334/COWBrainGlowFinal.png
Artist: Corza334
Concept: Hunting beast for an unknown alien race, the planet it lives on is always dark.

[Buchmaler]

Artist: Buchmaler

Concept: Deep-Sea-Basilisk
This very intelligent harmless species lives in the subsurface deep sea of the planet Mars.

[waynedavis1977]

Artist: waynedavis1977

Concept: Phobiatrix
The Phobiatrix stuns its prey by telepathically activating the fear
centers in the brain. Its telepathic activity generates large amounts of
psychic energy which is dissipated away from its exposed brain.

[dadoalmeida]

Artist: Dado Almeida

Concept: Intellectus Parasitos

[Crowsrock]

Artist: Crowsrock

Concept: Bralgogg

Bralgoggs are cave dweller at planet Hierosun IV. They use their glowing brains to lure insects into reach to be able to hapoon them with horn-tipped mouth appendages.

[daveneale]

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Artist: daveneale

Concept: Brainbug


A little bug-sized alien, millions of years old, who floats from moon to asteroid, planet to star, wondering. Pondering big thoughts, and little thoughts, fun thoughts and serious thoughts.

[Teundeboer]

I hope I'm doing this correctly, first time doing this.


Artist: Teundeboer

Concept: Bob
This big piece of muscle is one of the most aggressive beings in the universe. It has to be so aggressive because it's actually very vulnerable. Since his brain is placed boldly upon his back.
Not very smart, but he makes up for it by his amazing speed and strength.


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[Pierropod]

Artist: Pierropod

Concept: Arachnobrain
Even if it has two big brains, this kind of creature is not the smartest one but it's the greatest web builder.
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[3mMajster]

Artist:3mMajster
Concept:Brainiac
A deadly predator from the planet Bataya in the Zaemun system. This creature lives in the forest imitating dead trees, and luring the pray with the big glowing brain. Despite their large brain these creatures aren't very intelligent, and their brain is being used only as a lure.

[Lexa]

Artist: Lexa

Concept: Fire Salamander
Very danger beeing. I have three minutes before deadline, so I cannot make a good description)

[scorge]

Artist: Scorge

Concept: Vidnaxian
Sent to hostile planets to document and categorize life and the threat posed by unstable cultures throughout the galaxies, these beings are the emissaries for their home planet Vidnax 9. Encountering dangerous and often malevolent lifeforms in their journeys among the planets, the Vidnaxian scouts use the gift of telekinesis and powerful thought transference to disable and study their specimens. Here we see a scout dealing with one of the most unruly and disagreeable life forms in the small galaxy known as the Milky Way.

[skullbeast]

Artist: Skullbeast

Concept: Biridian Aboreal Hopper
The Biridian Aboreal Hopper is a nocturnal hunter feeding mostly on moth like prey. It is thought to be roughly the size of a large toad.

[Lander]

Artist: Lander

Concept: Ein Cycloped
On a rather dark far away planet someone once said: Enlighten me :) And so they did. Feeding the eye with the light needed to find their way around they found so much to bee seen that they developed a secondary brain to precess the visual information. This doesn't make any sence. But why should it?

[Pic]

Artist: Pic

Concept: Cerebulus
On a swamp-planet cloaked in eternal night many of the land based animals use tactics to entice prey as our deep-sea fish do. Such an example is the Cerebulus, a common predator that uses its work like translucent tail and bioluminesance to tempt small mammals and the occasional bird to its waiting jaws.

[Knarf]

Artist: Alm0st

Concept: Fervens Silex Silicis
Flies: ooOOoo....the light...so shiny...

Insect-Eating Thing: Hmm these dumb flies always hovering by the light, oh well free food for me.

Fervens Silex Silicis: Cmon and get in my belly...

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[theHaggard]

Artist: theHaggard

Concept: Fraakurii
The fraakurii of Idius Prime are typically a docile creature by nature but when the planets twin moons are full on the same night the strange light charges the fraakurii brains and fills them with a terrible energy. Once the light infusion has reached its climax the fraakurii brain will glow and the creatures will become crazed, scurrying frantically across the landscape. These events are very rare happening once every five years however they take a devastating toll on the fraakurii population, as the fraakurii will scramble headlong into sharp rock formations that litter the landscape.

[timtim]

Hey all. I only discovered this site on Thursday, so hopefully my entry isn’t too late :^^;:

Artist: timtim

Concept: Darwin's Torchbird

An unfortunate confirmation of Darwinism, the Torchbird came to be by a chance evolutionary leap, resulting in an ancient species of parrot-like creature developing a bioluminescent brain underneath a paper-thin transparent skull. Upon discovering that its uncovered brain acted like a natural bug attractant, the Torchbird found that the ever present swarm of insects negated the need to hunt for food. Over the next few generations the Torchbird gradually lost its feathers through lack of use, becoming a species of grossly overweight, tree-dwelling flightless birds. Tastes like chicken, apparently.

[Jerik]

Artist: Jerik

Concept: Specimen A015 'Wipers'
Area 51 Files, recorded in 1987
The fifteenth of the first extra-terrestrial creatures to be recorded, found as a sort of 'pet' on a crashed alien spacecraft. Their brain possesses a unique frontal lobe and an amazing amount of electrical activity, using approximately 70% of their brain function. Combined with their translucent body and high electrical performance, the cerebral cortex of the critter apears to glow, noticeable primarily in the dark.Though able to use 70% of their brain, these creatures are not gifted with high intellegence, these crittors only survive and cannot comprehend complicated concepts alike to human beings. They gain nutrients through 'feeding' on brain activity, seemingly eating away unwanted, unremembered and out of mind memories... though guards have been noted for sudden memory loss when near the synthetic-environment base resorvoir.

[Buchmaler]

Voted fpr Timtim... i love this style (although it is not the most polished one) and the picture made me smile (what is worth my weight in Gold ... and i am fat).

[Razorleaf]

I voted for Tom Gardner mostly for his brains .... hahaha, no - what I mean is that his depiction of brain matter is the furthest from human. Even though I think his creatures is very well rendered, I appreciate that an alien's brains may not look human in configuration. So I vote for the alien with the most non-human brains. :)

[Michael Jaecks]

Razorleaf: Your vote isnt showing in the poll. Try hitting it again...

I also voted for Tom Garden, I think the rendering is subtle, buttery and delicious. Plus the design is super cool and I love a head tail as much as a glowing brain... putting the two together is an easy sell for me....

New round is on:

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=157687

[Knarf]

I voted for the longest brain. Really though, Tom Garden great job with the rendering. Very soft natural muscles, and just enough dash of color on that beast.

-Frank

[Supervlieg]

ChromaticCodex-Nice creature. It looks a bit top heavy but nice rendering.
skunk257-Nice concept, but I thinks it could use a bit more texture and something to show of its scale.
Tom Garden*-Great Job Mate, great rendering. Got my vote, I think you got this one in your pocket. Only thing I could hold against you in this one is that you didnt draw the human next to it. I initially thought it was a bit smaller in scale, until I saw the sketch in your sb.
Verehin-nice critter design. The pose is a bit weird though. Needs a bit more natural flow.
acb-Good attempt, but needs more detailing in the different areas. Its bit to bland, and needs a detailed focal point to draw attention.
geronimo66-Good idea, but the contrast between the hand drawn parts and photo's is a bit too much, making it a bit unbalanced.
6strings4life-Try working on those values to give your design more volume.
Reymus-Nice idea, the creature looks like it needs a something as a floatig device. The composition is really a bit too busy.
corza334-nice, but the perspective is off. Maybe a more dynamic viewpoint would be more dramatic.
Buchmaler-Lovely detailed creature. Would have been better withouth the dark hand in the background, maybe a simple lightsource in the bkg would have been enough.
waynedavis1977-Great creature. The values are a bit flat though.The blue/purple streaks in the back are distracting.
dadoalmeida-nice one, the colored version look flat, needs more variation in the values.
Crowsrock-Nice lighting from the brain, but ultimately the values make it flat
daveneale-Nice and simple design. A bit more texture on the skin would sell it more.
Teundeboer-nice start, but looks unfinished, try adding more love to the coloring and shading.
Pierropod-Funny critter. The bandages on its back make his body a bit flat though. They dont seem to curve enough.
3mMajster-Nice, but needs more work on the values. try working in higher res.
Lexa-Looks cool, but try variating in the skin values.
scorge-Nice, but lacks the punch and flow of your latest entries. It seems a bit more flat, the values could vary a bit more.
skullbeast-Wow, visual attack! While very cool, I would advise to concentrate the saturated colors/detail in one spot to draw the attention of the viewers.
Lander-Nice creature, but a bit hard to descern its features in the darkness.
Pic-It looks like the creature is flattened on a glass plate. Try a bit more dynamic pose to bring out the character.
Alm0st-Like the story. Try working at a higher rez so you can really work in those details.
theHaggard-I like the design, but the creature lacks volume. Try playin with the values.
timtim-Funny creature, I think it would have been nice if you colored the shadows, instead of using the lineart.
Jerik-I like the colors, but is needs a bit more variation to bring out the details.

[Pierropod]

I voted for Daveneale because it's cute and well done (I'm a little tired of angry creature :)
The Tom Garden's creature is very well done, clean and everything but it's hard to me to imagine this creature walking.

[dadoalmeida]

First of all, thanks guys accepting my entries in COW. This activity looks fast and intense. Perfect to practice.
At this momment (since it's my first participation) I woul'd make comments about all the entries. I do prefer discover your works and style first then try to critique/comment. Anyway, I think most of the entries are very original (and that's gonna be something I'll focus here).

My vote is for the Vidnaxian created by Scorge; That creature
get the most of the theme. It really looks a dangerous outher world creature, who use a powerfull brain to control another species. The anatomy, shapes are nice, and techinaly it's well rendered. Congrats man!

And my congratulations to all who add more creatures to the COWcylopedia. ;-)

[Marsch]

Voted in Tom garden.
Cause the art is awesome, and the concept behind the brain is hyper great.

[skullbeast]

I voted for daveneale. cause it just looks alive!

[Jerik]

well.. Tom Garden got my vote... not because its the most inhuman... or longest... but it looks good... has a nice concept to back it up and i've never seen it (or the style) before ... well done man...

other mentionable-s
Supervlieg.... your critter is really nicely drawn and the tentacles nearly changed my mind of this... but still... it's a monkey... with a glowy brain, same problem as my 6-legged raven about 4 Cows back

Scorge: your's as per usual is excellent in design and execution. very well done

Buchmaler ........... *twitch* ... well creepy

Skullbeast: something rather unlike your usual creations... i like it... but it is missing something that the other work i've seen of your's has.

Pic: similar to supervlieg's... looks too similar to an original animal... more alien would be preferred.

[Crowsrock]

Tom Gardens alien got my vote, simply because it looks great.

If I had more votes they would have gone to Scorge and daveneale.

[Tom Garden]

Many thanks guys, seems like length does matter! :P

The walking issue, yeh i promise it can walk, if i could upload a video of me doing its "Walk" i would.....but err...i wont!

Some good variety in entries this round i voted for dadoalmeida because i really loved the creature. Now for a little crit - the pencil sketch turned out better than the final render, try and keep that energy in your final render. I really like the way your creature works and how it feeds, you obviously thought out its design regarding this. I like how its not a conventional shape in its structure too. It would have been great if you had time to illustrate its feeding method in little thumbnail sketches. great work!

[Edward B]

Gah, ran out of time on this one.

I voted Tom Garden for great rendering and lovely musculature, so subtle. love it.

[ChromaticCodex]

I think we really do need to see that Yakoar walk video before you officially win. What can I say that hasn't been said? Lovely painting Mr. Gardner; you get my vote!

[acb]

thx alot super vlieg ^_^ yeah i know i made some mistakes with this pic and not alinging it to any vocal point is sadly one of them ^_^
well you learn from every pic you make so hopefully my next attempts will be better ^_^

[waynedavis1977]

Voted for Tom - interesting concept, great rendering

[CCThrom]

I voted for Tom Garden too... for the concept and the loverly painting. The only crit I have is that I don't buy the jointing on it's front legs... alien or not, I don't think those knees will work.

[Keng]

Vote went to Tom Garden. I loved the idea of the long brain, plus the creature itself is beautifully executed. Well done.

[scorge]

Voted TomG. Congrats on a well deserved win man.

SuperV: Thanks for the comments. I think I tried too hard to try to get the light just right and failed. The more and more i look at it, the less I like it. Digging the ape man. Always nice to see you.

[orchitect]

Daveneale, I like your entry. It shows that something as gross as a visible, let alone glowing, brain doesn't have to be scary, it can be cute.

[Michael Jaecks]

Whoo hoo! Congrats to Tom Garden for his blow out win. I'm going over to the control panel to get you your star right now....