C.O.W. - topic ideas - post 'em!

[Consuela]

the ugliest creature in the universe!

(Woo my first post...)

*edit*
ohhh also, an asymmetrical creature! (y'know, like flounder...and uh...flounder)

[rawwad]

- snow melter
- snowman destroyer
- snow flakes catcher
- avalanche creature
- danger icicles

[Snarfevs]

the ugliest creature in the universe!

(Woo my first post...)

*edit*
ohhh also, an asymmetrical creature! (y'know, like flounder...and uh...flounder)

And let's not forget the lovely asymmetry of the fiddler crab:

http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/650/yellowhandfiddlercrab0il.jpg

[Consuela]

Man, fiddler crabs. I completely forgot about those beasts. Good call!

*epiphany*
oh wow, are they called fiddler crabs because of the one huge claw? So it looks like they are holding a fiddle? I'll bet that's it! Good golly, the universe makes sense now...

[Fozzybar]

Consuela

welcome to the real life :)

[Snarfevs]

The Colours Out Of Space (i.e. the lovecraftian aliens)

[brokk]

I like the "pack hunter" idea.

Sand / Desert Beast
Forest Stalker
Jungle Predator
Oceanic Traveller
Sea Serpent
Juggernaut / Behemoth
Creature for low poly model
Creature for high poly model
Amphibian Colossus
Cryptozoological Creature / Cryptid
Ranged Striker / Unit
Adaptability
Prominent Bones
Poisonous
Undead Creature
Alien Basic Unit
Dungeon Beast
Castle Beast
Tree Devourer
Small Collectable Creature(s)
Creature for new Toy Line
Coliseum Creature
Creature from the Primordial Seas
Undiscovered Prehistoric Creature
Colony Creature
Crystal Eater
Mystical Creature
Laboratory Monstruocity
Sorceror's Familiar

[Jonoy]

An abused toy

[ludwrathjd]

A creature that hypnotizes or dazes its prey.:yayca:

[bloodsling]

I dunno,I've always wondered about seeing a new lycanthrope,WERECHAIR!! oooohhhh

[Emperor]

I've been thinking about some new threads, and these were the ones I found suitable for artists to make:
Fortune bringer
King of beasts
Suicide-bug
Giantly toothed
Shadowlurker
King of dragons
Sacred avatar
Ancient guardian
Toolspitter
Best-boned
Freak of nature
Drought causer
Swarm of doom
Giant watchdog (this doen't mean it has to be a dog)
Goldchewer
Soul harvester
Crystal hide
Tortoise lord
Absorber of time
shokking plant
Land scorcher

[Emperor]

Hey I thought up some more:
Alien primate
Ancient horror
Dragon-eater
Jungle chaser
Raging saurus
Closet monster
Man's best fiend
Pre-historic mammal
walking forrest
Leviathan
Behemoth
twisted pet
mutating creature (like a rabbit that's turning into a 7-legged reptile)
devourer of earth
swollen giant
pool of madness
herde of chaos
"smaller than matter"( a non-existing creature that's smaller than atom's)
"To big to see"
Robo-saurus
source of poison

[Simon Boxer]

What about some sort of ethereal beast that lurks in a world between life and death. It's never been witnessed before on earth and is just waiting for a group of naive, black magic abusing teens to accidentally summon it.

[Thoras]

How Bout:

Metal eating Golem.
Fire-spitting mammal.
Or an Alebrije ( If you wonder what that is, it's a monster that's so ugly that it scares demons away).

[wolverine_AKA_logan]

i don't know if this has being suggested already i'm new:teeth: , but i think it would be cool to pick any animal stick it somewhere where it isnt normally found and see it evolve to its surrounding's, i.e. stick a cow in antaric and watch it get big hairy etc... but you can be a little more inventive than that,
oh yeah once again forgive my stupidity and egerness but when do we get to draw/paint etc...?

[cadaverous]

carnivorous primate
cannibal plants

[cadaverous]

undead computer virus

[romance]

This ones going to seem a little harsh but... how about a Planet F***er.

[Hookswords]

I'll let the article speak for itself. We could play with this idea, but purhaps change the animals involved.

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/03/wasp_performs_roachb.html

[Nexus]

Wow, lot's of great ideas. Here's mine.
Heaven's Firmament
A mighty creature whose sole purpose is to carry Heaven itself upon it's back. Should be an interesting challenge both in terms of scale and by removing the option of the hideous creature which I see more and more people are relying on.
Also it means you have to concieve of a Heaven in addition to the creature at least in some compacity

[johnnyhotrod]

My son gave me an idea of having a Shark/Squid. The head of a shark and the tentacles of a squid coming from the back end.

[Fozzybar]

johnnyhotrod

hehe, show your son this artwork from romance :
romance's Mão do Deus (http://www.artofromance.ca/ca/projects/COW/Sharktopus_800x600.jpg)

go to this COW-round for more tentacles...but WITHOUT having your son near you!!! Some cruel images there...
C.O.W. - #029: Tentacles (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=56647)

[Thoras]

Warmonger
Chaos controler
It came from the void

[romance]

My son gave me an idea of having a Shark/Squid. The head of a shark and the tentacles of a squid coming from the back end.

Dammit, I guess I got it all backwards, back to the drawing board - God

[romance]

How's about a Sweet-tooth.

[Fozzybar]

Dammit, I guess I got it all backwards, back to the drawing board - God

haha yeah...how could you win with an upside down creature :nohope:

[Cyclopean]

Hi, I'm not really an artist, but I am into writing and biology, so I guess that counts for something. Here are my ideas; they may be similar to those before me, but oh well:

Eusocial / Hiveborn - a family organism organized according to reproductive capacity, such as ants, termites, bees and naked mole rats. But what about birds? Or rabbits? Or apes? Or even plants and fungi? What kind of defenses would they have? What is mating like for them? What do they subsist upon? What are their homes like?

Beast God - Humanity can't be the only species with faith. Don't rats have their kings? Don't gazelle pray to some windy force after successfully dodging a lion? Maybe flies do have some god, a "trash can thor", you could say... BOW DOWN BEFORE FLIPPERUS! EEE-EEE-EEE! Well, try to paint what their god looks like, as it is praised by its followers.

Extreme Specialist - There's a species of ant on some far-off island that feeds exclusively upon the eggs of one species of spider. There is a species of finch on Wolf Island (in the Galapagos) that feeds on the blood of blue-footed boobies. Come now, of course you can think of your own far-too-specialized specializer! How far have they gone towards getting a meal, evolution-wise?

Lean, Mean, Fartin' Machine - What smells, is soft and just stained my jeans? Why, a chunk of broccoli from my dinner plate! Why, what did you think I was going to say? In any case, a Fart Machine farts for a reason. Mating call, perhaps? Self-defense? Or maybe it's a form of locomotion? You make the call. I'll be too busy gagging in the corner.

Imperial Runts - Any creature - given the instincts and intellect required, of course - could create a society, then a city-state, and eventually an empire. Whether they act with the brutality of the Romans, the pomp of the English, or the innocent devilry of the Americans, these runty little critters have their own way that is totally unique in the end. Maybe they use the bones of their ancestors to build things, or perhaps they fuse themselves together to create living tanks and towers. Their goals may not be their own; perhaps it's all encoded as instincts (read Clan of the Cave Bear to see the neanderthal's instinct capacity), or their minds have been altered by some other... presence. Whatever, they are fierce, arrogant and above all, RUNTY.

That's it for now. Excuse the joking before, I'm fond of smiles.

EDIT: qitsune, as well as several others have mentioned wheeled animals.

Spinning Flesh - Somewhere out there, a beast with rotating parts exists. Not some cybernetic monster, not some silicon-based thing, and for all intents and purposes not metallic, electronic or even synthetic. Maybe this beast has wheels upon which it travels, organic discs composed of flesh, blood and bone (or chitin); furry, somewhat irregular discs with denticle treads, for example. Or perhaps its some aquatic leviathan with a bone propeller instead of a tail fluke, perhaps several propellers in succession to allow it great speed. Or maybe it flies? Up to you, that's for sure.

[Icey]

I think you should change something with this challenge ideeas.. Some are really silly..

i'm with this creatures right here... stick to the "classic", they are the best...

it's just my opinion...

i could add
Gargoils
Troll
Behemoth


What about some mythical monsters (don't know if this has already been said, to lazy ro read allt he ideas :P )

like;

hydra's sort of dragon with a lot of heads.
minotaur's bull's which walk like men
pegasus flying horse
cyclops giants with one eye
sfinx big guardian lion of the egyptians
a nimf evil spirit
centaur half horse, half human
chimera a creature with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and
the tail of a snake
aatxe a evil spirit which can change into a bull
adaro a group of seaghosts who travel on the clouds and rainbows
banshee with her screem she pronounced the death of a family member
cerberus the guardian of the underworld
phoenix a fire bird
harpies big evil birds who where the personification of storms and winds
griffon the back whas that of a horse, and the other half was like a bird
was known to be a well flyer
kelpie scottish waterfairy, though in other stories it is a waterdevil
leprechauns ah well.. the little creature who stand at the end of the rainbow
with a pot filled with money
rusalki that is a mermaid, in the north of russia they where seen as evil
creatures who tried to pull you into the water, and in the east it
where beautifull and nice creatures.
satyrs a forest and mountain ghost, half goat, half human
a werewolf in one story he is ofcourse a bloodthirsty wolf, in the others he is
more known for his courage.
argus a creature with more then a hundred eyes
gorgon's most known is medusa, where creatures which had instead growing
hair out of there head, they had snakes growing out of it.
:)

[digitalfly]

Little offtop:
rusalki - it's a piural of rusalka

What about a small parasite that used by people like cardiostimulator :?:

[Pixelestial]

A creature that carries its house along with it,
or, something like a pigeon or rat that has adapted its lifestyle to human civilization.

[GratefulDread]

A "Were-Rat" It aparently lives in the walls of common suburban households, One caused my Grandfather to draw an insignia on the wall, smash a hole in it with 5 pound sledge and dance around it in his tighty whiteys, Chanting.
"Were-rat Were-rat in the wall;
aint you got no sense at all,
dont you know that wall is plaster?
So come on out you little bastard!"
He was a little drunk.

[Nexus]

How bout....

High Velocity Octoped: 8 legs goin' at breakneck speeds, should be interesting

Sonic Blaster: A creature with some sort of sonic natural defense

Planet Strider: A beast who steps from planet to planet like stepping stones

Wise and Archaic: A species of creature who lives nearly indefinitely and acquires vast stores of knowledge

[JakkaS]

Small one, medium one, big one – three species helping each other to survive.

[Erilaz]

So many topics... hopefully I don't repeat!


Pocket Dweller
Bed Bug
Flying Spider-Eater
Deep Sea Primate
Creeping Doom
Hairless Berry Picker
Natural Weapon

[GratefulDread]

so Fozzy whats the next topic

[flatliner]

only a few from me:

Trojan Horse (Creature with a natural disguise)
It came from the Bermuda Triangle
Kamikaze!

[Mort]

a fully functional grasseater . no deadly predator. and it should be able to blend in with the rest of the animals of earth. but no hybrid or spinoff from an existing creature. no cowhorse or something. it should look normal and with no dangerous or colorful visual aspects. that means that the humans should leave it alone if they encounter it. but not a cuddly pet animal,perhaps its even beeing used by humans for food of some sort. they drink its milk or eats its meat or something.
seen so many cool predators ,but thought that be a true challenge to design a boring grasseater .

[lefran]

hi
i know this isnt a creature idea but what about if you set up different levels of competition, like a beginnners entry, intermediate and avanced, i know it would take a lot to organise but i think it might give more inspiration and enthusiasm to those such as myself that are in no way near the league of those that are posted, but i think if i had the chance to post something i would work harder and improve better maybe. As in a greater insentive
if this is a stupid idea let me know ^_^

[Fozzybar]

no good idea...too much time consuming and who wants to tell who is good enough for the advanced level?
The mod? No good idea.
The artist himself? No good idea.

[W!L]

[QUOTE=lefran]but i think if i had the chance to post something i would work harder and improve better maybe.

by why do you not have the chance now? thats a losers attidtude son. get posting and who cares what level you are at.. your work wil improve from crits and interaction. i suck and i post. it very helpful

[Naomi Ningishzidda]

Hmmm, well, I consider DSG to be a good place for beginners to start. These "of the week" projects, while exciting, are too time consuming for me, being a full-time student, mom and worker.

A newbie with nothing else to do could do the DSG and input more time with relatively good output in comparison to others in the DSG, plus gain some better practice by doing daily work rather than a long piece. The reasoning behind this is they have to practice each of the steps more frequently, whereas with a high finish piece you put much time and effort into the finishing stage. Sketching needs to be practiced more frequently in the early stages of artistic development, because drawing is the base of the pyramid of artistic skill. The art worlds in France and Italy both knew this for centuries.

[GoyaToons]

Hi, a pretty big question. Im kind of newie here but I really would like to get in this little contest...When are u deciding what to do? I mean, Im supposed u guys decide the creature in this weekend? Oh Im excited about this jejeje XD I want to send my stuff about this :tihi: :blahblah:

[Trashy]

Thought I'd throw in some thoughts.

Topic 1: beauty and the beast proposing

One must be on his knee's proposing to his true love. The idea is that one of the creatures is quite ugly looking while the other is beautiful. Think of “Beauty and the Beast” and you should get an idea. It is possibly that you can make one of them human if that fancies you more.

Topic 2: Monster trying to follow dress code policy.

The code states: All monsters must wear a business suite with a tie. We want all our workers to look like true professionals. Nails, teeth, spikes, or anything sharp for that matter must be well manicured or cut. We are not here to "SCARE" any customer's away or other employee’s! Shoes with long stockings are a must! No, your not going to walk bare-footed or slime your way around with your tentacles. And remember to always wear a big smile.

Just remember to follow the policy. The creature may not be good at following that policy but is trying to give it some effort. You do not actually need to show him working, just him attempting to wear cloths for the policy.

[Nexus]

Planet Body- a creature whose torso or some other part of its anatomy is an entire planet

[D0M]

i like the artificial spine idea. its vague but in a good way :teeth: do it

[Saise]

Cantofly - Project for the most stupid spiece in the world. The Brid'o, that can't fly but thinks that he can. It must have solid skull (a lot of crash...) and something like wings. They fall from the cliffs and try to fly they way into the air. Without sense of course.

[JakkaS]

Creature living in the vacuum
Nail Eater
Creature that JUST can’t stop eating
Gardener
Internet virus…..usually they say it’s a program…..is it?

[Simon Boxer]

Final evolution of a species (could be that of a current animal)
Cyclops' pet of choice
Permanently homeless

Faster than light - the catch is that it would theoretically be going back in time if it moved that fast. However, to maintain relationships with other creatures they need to stay in the same time zone. This means it limits its mobility to speeds below that of light, and feels like it's constantly in a state of hyperactivity.

Modernist creature - Form follows function. Simple design strictly to serve a purpose. Technically, all animals would fit this description, but you could have a bit of fun with this and exaggerate the trends of Modernist design.

[Trashy]

Shadow Master- By itself it is a harmless creature, but it can cast shadows off walls and maniplulate them into dangerous monstrosities that abide to the shadow master's bidding.

Book worm creature- a studying fanatic that reads hundreds of books everyday to make his head grow larger then everyone else.

The Kitchen Slob- Sneaks into kitchens all over the world everynight and eats all their food and steals their refrigerator’s.

The Evil Fastfood Mascot- Make your own evil fastfood mascot that would even give the Burger King dude the jitters.

[Krogdor]

a creature that constantly bathes itself, because it fears dirt


a creature that exists in the realm of peoples dreams

[inkerton]

Just a few ideas:

Wasteland Scavenger
Gargantuan Insectoid
Disposer - a creature that somehow eliminates garbage & waste
Floater - a creature that lives only on the surface of water, not above or below
Hive Builders - a species that lives and works together in massive communities, like ants or bees do. Maybe disallow entries of insect species to push for more original concepts.
And perhaps as a follow-up to the asymmetrical theme - create a creature with radial (circular) symmetry.

[Trashy]

Birth Spawner- Creatures that gives birth to thousands of smaller critters at a time. Stomach expands to a massive sack.

Glower- A creature that glows majestic colors from it's body to light up dark areas.

Pipeslugs- crawls in pipes and sewers and feeds on rats and garbage.

Bloodlatcher- Latches itself onto other species and sucks all their blood out of them completely.

[JakkaS]

I hope I didn’t repeat any ideas:

Creature that is feeding on the light.
Addicted one.
Creature that can manipulate the time.
Painter – creature that is painting something for some reason.
Voodoo mascot.
Digital beast.

[xyfzc]

post-mammal: like an example creature from the class more advanced than mammalia

[Condottiere]

A training creature.

IE. a creature that helps other creatures survive by teaching them life lessons. Like a creature that has fingers that look like poisonous fruit, and it shocks any animal that tries to eat it.

[Krogdor]

Neurotic Mammal

Ample Organism

Something that which it is not - a creature that gets continually confused about its appearance, and is always changing it,

[Snarfevs]

In the vein of xyfzc's post-mammal idea - evolutionary steps - take a currently existing animal species and plot forward a possible evolutionary descendent in a few steps like those pics you see illustrating evolutionary ancestors of homo sapiens. The concept would be a really important part of providing rationale for your steps.

[rWDrk]

Deep sea creature

[JakkaS]

When I saw that Oblio has chosen for the next ChOW some redesign topic, I thought that we could do the same…. sometimes. What do you think FOZZ? I also have a proposition for this kind of topic: "Fozzybear redesign" :D

[brokk]

hehe JakkaS, thats a good idea :P
Snarfevs, I was just going to suggest the exact same thing, creature evolutionary steps. Weird.

[JakkaS]

Every idea is better than waiting...c'mon FOZZ.....Pllleaaasssssssssse give us something :D My addiction is calling me :D

[Lewis]

design a new pokemon :D :D :D :P

[JakkaS]

Lewis, you mean FOZZemon?

[dragon4lunch]

I like SEA MONSTERS!!! How about a scene where a SEE MONSTER attacks old sailships. You know, from back in the day, when people had the wildest stories of sea monsters, thought to be real!

Bye the way, when are we going to get to vote on assymetrical creature??? It's about time!

[JakkaS]

I think somone did this kind of picture...nightfend; ROUND #029 Topic: Tentacles http://home.comcast.net/~mikecwagner/images/cow/tentacles01-3.jpg

[Simon Boxer]

Could it be based on a true story?

About 3 years ago I was on a cruise around Europe, and one evening the ship started rocking violently. You've got to understand that when a ship of that size starts rocking something is definately up. I was up on the pool deck at the time, holding onto a pole for balance. While trying to avoid sliding chairs amongst other items, the screaming nearby became especially loud. I now regret peering over as I'm permanently scarred by recurring nightmares of the beast I saw. As soon as I got home I devoted a painting to the creature, trying to remember all the crucial details of my sighting. I spent multiple days on this painting. Few people have actually seen it, but I've decided to share it with you all. This is what I saw. (http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f107/cognitionsb/seamonster.jpg)

[Lewis]

Lewis, you mean FOZZemon?

Stop reading my mind! :x

@Cognition: Teh horror, a bananashark lol

[dragon4lunch]

cognition.sb that was hillarious! I laughed out loud! Fun stuff!

Seriously now - I WANT TO VOTE NOW!!! Come on! Can't wait to see how much creature will do!

[xoet]

evil styrofoam construction that is getting spray painted by a mad man who ignites the spray paint (just an idea for an image)

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5087/739/1600/IM003728.jpg

[possessed]

black skinned white skinned dragon eater eater

creature from an electrified world

plant creature

[JakkaS]

Creature that live only one second/hour/day
The oldest creature in the universe
Spring Springer
It! :D…
…and of course grey skinned black skinned white skinned dragon eater eater eater :D
[Yes, I am boring!]

[xoet]

a straight line off to infinity in all directions from every point in space and then some...

a computer monitor turned monster that swallows the user with its screen. getting sucked in and such I know that is old but done from the computers point of view.

mammoth-elephant-robot-snail eating the artists hand then arm

don't worry I think of something new soon never fear

[Trashy]

Camouflage Giant- large species that Camouflages itself against large ojects or backdrops.

Sand snatcher- Lives under sand mounds a grabs anything living above ground to eat.

Mimic

I actually found this pretty interesting photo of a spider that looks alot like a ant. Pretty interesting!

http://www.redshift.com/~bigcreek/fauna/spiders/Peckhamia%20male%20spider%20(ant%20mimic),%20small .jpg

[Tyranx]

Crazed man eating space apes

[Azathoth]

Doppleganger space fiends

[Snarfevs]

Crazed man eating space apes

Was that intentionally incredibly ambiguous? :P

[xoet]

attack of the ringing telephones
bone yard with animals
the exploding zit monster
an overly sexual elephant in a cherry tree

[Tom Garden]

Creatures that look like famous people

The never ending creature of infinity

the most useless creature

an artists best friend creature

a frankenstien type creature

the monster from "lost" :P

[rWDrk]

The Monster From Lost!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats Great:cheerleader: :cheerleader: :party:

Allthough wasnt that the black mist thingie thing?

[Tom Garden]

haha :P well all we have seen is the mist - there must be more to it than that!!!

[Muttonhead]

the monster from "lost" :P


Ya, I think the black cloud was the monster.... which by the way is nano-bots..... just has to be. The writers of the show have admitted they are big fans of Michael Crichton... "Prey" anyone?

Anywho. Here are some ideas:

1. A Flurry of Furry Fury

2. See-Through Behemoth

3. Fire-Starter

4. The Filthiest Thing

5. Asteroid Eater

6. Elder Space God

[Azathoth]

1. Eine Kliene Nacht horror
2.Yokel Brute
3. Dash Slasher
4. IT
5.Lurker from beyond
6.MoonBeast

[BlueMech]

Jinn

Surah Al-a'raf: 12, Al Hijr: 26-27 and Ar-Rahman: 14-19, expressly states that man was created out of clay and jinn out of fire.

There are a bunch more passages in the Qur'an but I'm not paid to type out religious texts.

[Cyclopean]

Living Artillery
Organic Wheels
Rebel Livestock
Urban Evolution
Hive Maker
Extreme Specialist
Zombie Maker
Animal Messiah
Filter Feeding Behemoth
Dancing Behemoth

[Simon Boxer]

The Revolve (as in re-evolved) - Creature which has adapted to a setting other than its natural environment. eg. land fish, ocean bird, space monkey etc.
However, not necessarily using existing animals.

Silence dweller

Cloud hopper

Void devourer

Swarmer

Frontline animal

[Tyranx]

bulbous tree dwellers
Slimy cliff jumpers
Long tentacled swamp terror
Silicon based crazed space apes who eat their own young
Black Elder Cavern beast
Red spotted cow muncher
Orange sea leviathan
Spiked Ethereal Destroyer
Fiery grasslands beast
Genetically Engineered flying transport

[xyfzc]

creature: exactly 20 kg

[rWDrk]

hmmmm haha still go for the Monster of lost.
It will be fun to see what people think about it:P
And maybe somebody has the right idea just like the writers and makers of LOST :D

cheers

[Cyclopean]

Future Humans, maybe? I remember the "no humanoid" rule was bypassed for the Siren, and I'd like to see what everyone here would do in their interpretation of humanity's future. Would we go back to being apes, or would we be like woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed cats, only on two legs and with hands?

[romance]

A Thought Syphon

[Miss Naughty]

Take any kind of car, and turn it into an animal.

Combine a household object with an animal (FISHCHAIR!!)

"Dude, WTF?"--Something that makes anyone who sees it utter this phrase.

How a human would evolve in a different environment(i.e, a Swamp-human and whatnot.)

[Muttonhead]

OOO! Some sort of "Trash-Monster" or a "Junk-Monster/Collector"

[Savatage]

Pazuzu, the Assyrian demon of the winds. He is also the Lord of Disease and Plague.

Lamashtu, his demonic counterpart with Lion qualities.

Satan.

[Michael Jaecks]

creature best eaten alive (taste wise)
plant based creature that flies
creature who's visual spectrum is something other than ours (like x-rays) and fears light
creature that can live in interstellar space
creature with five or more heads
species where individuals are rare but conjoined twins are the norm
species where the female is huge and the male is tiny
creature that eats metal/ruins tehcnology, ships, craft, weapons, etc
creature with three eyes and blue fur (the rest is open)
species with their brain on the outside or exposed in some way

[Wolfbane]

dont know if this is said, cuz i wont mind going through ALL of these ideas :S But what about a contest where the contestors pick out one spesiffic seamonster and make it their own. For example Leviathan, Kraken, Nellie ect...ect...

[Muttonhead]

Got another idea:

"Sexy Beast"

Would be challenging since it can't be humanoid..... hmmmmmm

-Sean

[Bruce Jensen]

I'll toss one out:

"Creature from the hollow Earth"

[rudszy]

thunderbolt eater

[Charlie_2.0]

Holy schwingle....Davi has a whole alphabet soup of weird creatures:P
All I came up with is:
Overgrown parasitic mammal bacteria :P

Uhmm....well it's an idea:)

[Clintmilne]

A kiwi bird crossed with some kind of cat or fish or sumthin

[JakkaS]

Football creature or ....foodball creature :D

Sunny rays eater/feeder
Cursed creature
"...and that’s why dinosaurs EXTINCT!"
Creature that build their home in the clouds.
Cocoon maker
Prophet Creature
Gods creation.
Second World War mutated creature – something like a war-machine.


Ok, these ones were easy….
Now we play hard….

Stool cleaner
COW’s parasite
Procreation addicted creature….hmmmm…no dogs jumping on the legs allowed :D

[Tom Garden]

Poisened Creature
Dying Creature
The Creature in a mansuit
The most bizzare/incomprehansible creature

[ah.heng]

the artist.

[Fozzybar]

no drugs please.

[GratefulDread]

Erlking (Elfking)
text written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Narrator: Who rides so late through night and wind?
It is a father with his child;
he has the boy close in his arm,
he holds him tight, he keeps him warm.

Father: "My son, why do you hide your face in fear?"

Son: "Father, do you not see the Erlking?
The Erlking with his crown and train?"

Father: "My son, it is a streak of mist."

Erlking: "You dear child, come with me!
I'll play very lovely games with you.
There are lots of colorful flowers by the shore;
My mother has some golden robes."

Son: "My father, my father, don't you hear
the Erlking whispering promises to me?"

Father: "Be still, stay calm, my child;
It's the wind rustling the dry leaves."

Erlking: "My fine lad, do you want to come with me?
My daughters will take care of you;
my daughters lead the nightly dance,
and they'll rock and dance and sing you to sleep."

Son: "My father, my father,
don't you see
the Erlking's daughters over there in the shadows?"

Father: "My son, my son, I see it clearly,
it's the gray sheen of the old willows."

Erlking: "I love you, your beautiful form delights me!
And if you're not willing, then i'll use force."

Son: "My father, my father, now he's grasping me!
The Erlking has hurt me!"

Narrator: "The father shudders, he rides swiftly,
he holds the moaning child in his arms;
with effort and urgency he reaches the courtyard:
in his arms the child was dead."

for some reason this german song evokes a strong image in my head think it would make a great topic

[rWDrk]

hnmmm Jakkas great ideas !

cheers R3M

[Clintmilne]

The tooth fairys.... long fortold legend of the takers of teeth........

[Nexus]

Dust Bunny or Dust Storm Creatures
Sludge Maker

[Smitherines]

Topic idea for Evolution, create the creature in different stages and explain why it has evolved to its current state

[Jimpan89]

what aboute

creature combined with kid. (almost lika a centaur a litte bit of human and a little bit of a creature)

nigthmare insect

alien spider

swamp tiger

dead but still alive

a future version of a cow

guardian of the treasure

old forest creature

thats all for now :}

[Tyde]

Trap laying creature

[Fozzybar]

aaaargh...watch your words Mike...It's on the same place as Matt's COW...Jull made a wonderful entry back then for the COW mascot...where are you Jull???

[Emperor]

more ideas!!!

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"one of a kind" very unique creature, think about a new species of some kind
infantbeast, bay-ish creatures, baby-looking but mature
granny's pet granny-ish creatures, granny-looking but born to kill
towwering insect, big baddas insect creatures (that take over earth)
hyper-evolutions : creatures that can adept to anything by evolving in seconds of tine
newb-scientist's creations, weird genetic failures or a too strong breeding habid perhaps

@clintmilne, that souns very cool, but that would be more a chow than a cow

*phew*
I was on fire, but no my brains are burnt out

[Emperor]

LOL@mike

[Nexus]

Here's a few ideas I was kicking around in my head.

Gem/Crystalline/Gold Creature- something composed of precious materials

Heaven Bringers- race of creatures who travel from world to world cleansing evil and transforming everything into an pure/perfected version of itself

Building Block Creature- organisms whose body shapes form a structure when connected, think of something along the lines of living Lego blocks

Leaf Riders- creatures which use tree leaves as transportation
Ill post more later.

[Uziel]

COW is gonna reach #50 wooot!!!
open for interpretation - project n°50 (must include a tattoo on creature with "50")

we can also design a new muppet.

[sp00t]

Why don't we just do an intelligent species of alien or something, but you know since we can't have our creatures being too human like, I think it will be a pretty good challenge. Unless I'm dumb as hell.

[Bruce Jensen]

I wasn't aware that our creature designs couldn't represent an intelligent species. The only 'rule' that restricts that at all seems to be meant to reign in 'character design'.
Personally I assumed it was the participants personal preferences that kept COW designs on the 'beastly' side of the track.

[PsychoVoodoo]

Heavily armored war mammals.

or...

Heavily armored insects.

[sp00t]

I wasn't aware that our creature designs couldn't represent an intelligent species. The only 'rule' that restricts that at all seems to be meant to reign in 'character design'.
Personally I assumed it was the participants personal preferences that kept COW designs on the 'beastly' side of the track.
Well the thing with an intelligent species is that it would have to have some sort of manipulative organ that could build, make tools, etc.

[walnut]

It Came From Beyond!!!

[TechLoveAffair]

I got a few wierd ones...

Giant Spider With Evolved Laser-Cannons
Horrible Tentacle Monster Likes to Eat Trees
Virus-Transformed Behemoth
Human-Hunting Sea Monster
Tree-Like Creature With Numerous Boilous Eyes
Dusty Tube-Dweller Hunts With Nightvision
Wall-Crawling Hairy Jungle-Beast
Sleek Slippery Insectoid Stalks at Dusk
Catlike Scavenger Adapted to Desert Weather
Voracious Pack-Lizards Devour Everything

Inspiring stuff guys.

[Snarfevs]

Household utility creature.
Wheeled animal.

[Jimpan89]

waiting for a pray.
beach charmeleon.
desert hunter.
explosive bird.
it lives on the moon.
bikini creature.

[wildthing423]

I am new, but this fasinates me.

Hmm.........Dr. Jekyl...Mr/Mrs??????
Your darkest self
at the bottom of the pacific rim....{more then 2 miles}
within the fog

[Goertz]

Interstellar Cybernetic Moby Dick..
It Came From Beneath..
Bane Of Man..

[Michael Jaecks]

muscle-bound creature
headless creature
phosphorescent creature
hibernating creature
six horned creature

[Trashy]

Okay, two ideas here.

Siamese twins- I figure two creatures attached to eachother. Could be to any part of their bodies.
Colossal sized overgrown tumor creature- This one could get yucky:)

[Vampire Ninja]

Flying cyborg reptile...... yeah.

[Nexus]

Foundry Beast- an animal that lives and feeds off molten slag and other foundry leavings

Seasonal Creature- a creature that changes its appearance to match the 4 seasons

Plastic Monster- creature made of/ eats plastic

Corpse Inhabitor- animals which use dead bodies to make their homes

Cloud Dweller- beasty light enough to walk within the clouds, might be responsible for storms and weather changes

Razor Beast- creature covered in or possessing very sharp blades

Glue Creature- animal which makes and utilizes a natural gooey adhesive

Cyclone Creator- beast which controls windstorms

Cactus Monster- animal that makes its home in or resembles cacti

[Moai]

Creature with a startling defence mechanism- A critter that has some spectacular display or whatnot that surprises would-be predators into fleeing, or at least gives them pause long enough for the creature to escape. Real world examples would be creatures like the frilled lizard or the fire-bellied newt. I think the colorful imaginations on this forum could come up with some very interesting things for this.

[Snarfevs]

ambulatory vegetable

[WutDaHeckMan]

hey guys- im new here! lets hope i can get some time to put some pics up.


-Email eater:)
-mermaids best freind:)
- "creature the "Ipod" was named after"
-cotton creature
- iceberg living creature
- cratures birthed from volcanos
- a giants gaurd pet:)
-pet rock:)

[WutDaHeckMan]

-puzzle/enigmatic creature
-creature most likely to evolve from "todays" rodents.

[Moai]

Evolved Shark- All land animals of any size have been wiped out, and now nature's most perfect predator emerges from the sea to take their place...
And even more extreme:
Evolved Starfish/Sea Urchin/Anemone- All large lifeforms on the entire earth have been wiped out. Now some of the most unlikely, insignificant animals on the planet can flourish. Great possibilities for unusual adaptations and radiosymmetrical creatures...though I can imagine an overabundance of tentacles in the results.
Modern Dinosaur- What if they hadn't gone extinct?
Mimic creature- It mimics something in its natural environment, like the stick insect.
The Perfect Lifeform- The apex of evolution.
Zero Gravity Creature- Fairly self-explanatory. I'm just making these things up off the top of my head.
Bred creature- No, not "bread" creature, bred creature. Something domesticated then bred until it hardly resembles its wild ancestors, like pugs and sharpeis compared to wolves.

[Bruce Jensen]

Modern Dinosaur- What if they hadn't gone extinct?

http://home.earthlink.net/~yobaj/_uimages/umbrella-cockatoo.jpg

done.

The Perfect Lifeform- The apex of evolution.


Pretty much everything is, in the sense that it fits it's own niche.

[rawwad]

City Camouflager - creature which look like something in city, which imitate conquests of modern society, for example: creature looking like trashcan, or like mail box, or like bus-stop, also like all building, ....

Medical Healer - creature which can heal people

I had great idea, but I forgot it, pitty:D

[Fozzybar]

I had great idea, but I forgot it, pitty:D
It can't be that great if you forgot it, haha :P

[Jabo]

I haven't been reading the whole thread, so sorry if I post something that has already been there:

Giant Forest Snail - Incognito, take a second look
Glacier Float-Ray - Evolution redux: Not from water to ground, but from water to ice
Ice-age Frozen Creature - May be anything. Perhaps this will grant a wider variety of entries

[Nexus]

Storm Caller- creature who can create weather

Musical Instrument Beast- creature who uses its body to make music or whose whole body is used as an instrument by something else

[Dr Midnight]

Hissing Tar Belcher
Wretched Squeetworlg
The Tremendous Slug Goblin

[skunk257]

organ leech :O :O

[Sofia Alexandra]

I haven’t read through all the posts here but hopefully these haven’t been suggested:

Pearl finder
Alien lover (as in an alien Casanova, not some gawking kid at a sci-fi convention)
The thing that eats/steals/hides socks (but only one of each pair)
Thing that goes bump in the night
Bioluminescent mammal

[SprayNation]

Elemental Koala
Frogasaurus
Chinese Take-out box monster
Radioactive millipede
Thing that squashes
Exoskeleton Bird
Inverted fish
30 second life span bug
Ratcow
Extra Terrestrial Cocker Spaniel
Swampness monster
Testicular bonefish

[AztcFireFlower]

A few more ideas:

-Wasteland Ice Carver
-Vulcan Fire Fish
-Coastal Night Stalker
-Expanding Scaled Jungle Rippler
-"Don't invite it in"

[rawwad]

Jungle keeper - something like King Kong, but not big ape, something original naturaly:confident

[Snarfevs]

Scary but harmless

[m o я p h o]

hum..:thinking:


a walking wale :a?:

bird-eater plant :a?:

a ferret-like toilet-traveler :shrug:

omg

no more vodka today
:vodkamachine:

[TechLoveAffair]

Killer pack-clams
Space-faring fish
Armored, hulking worker drone
Swarming scavenger beetles
Creature makes tantalizing web designs

Hope I'm not repeating anyone :)

[ab4185]

unlikly pet
snow hunting companion
royal guard animal

[Supervlieg]

Moonwalker (and MJ doesnt count as a creature)

[Snarfevs]

Power overwhelming

[Moai]

a ferret-like toilet-traveler :shrug:

You got that from Dreamcatcher, didn'tcha?

Looking through some of my old creature names, I found these:

Rampager
Shell Shocker
Metal Eater
Meteor Strider
Pollen Popper
Gulper
Water Kicker
Giant Howler
Tusker
Lockjaw
Maneater
Body-Mouth
Bone Collector
Deepweaver
Cloud Gulper

I chose ones that were pretty open-ended without being too vague.

[Cloister]

That's is a long list of ideas, which I didn't read thoroughly and which probably means mine aren't very new...

1. One with lightning
2. Dreamweaver
3. The horrible Snowman finally revealed
4. On top of the foodchain... of your skin.
5. Satellite parasite
6. Fridge dweller
7. Secret of the Bermuda triangle
8. First truly problematic genetical experiment
9. The thing that causes the North Wind
10. Merlin's favorite familiar
11. The Vampire's natural enemy
12. CIA's most secret weapon
13. Lunar crater lifeform
14. The C.O.W-creature that made CA a part of Interpol's daily agenda... (no, skip the last one...too political)

[Supervlieg]

-Guardian of the Sacred Stone
-Claws and Camouflage
-MotorBeast
-Speedy Messenger
-From Beyond
-Planet Hopper
-Sludge Critter

[Mr Man]

Heres some random ideas (btw I havent read what everyones posted so sorry if theres repetition)

Poop mimic.

Most annoying creature.

Big but shy

Always tired

Creature that defied science e.g. bumble bee shouldnt be able to fly

Highly explosive

Creature that gave up

Stilt strider

Revolting smell

[bunny]

Parasites?
Invertibrates?
Oohhh.. Cephalopods!
Everybody loves cephalopods - Squids n' octopii etc.

[Cloister]

Some more...

1. What delivers the babies, if not the stork?
2. The wonderous steeds of Heaven
3. Pet of the year - 2990 A.D.
4. Magic incarnated
5. Anthill siege-bug (-creature)
6. Invulnerable to all but…
7. The Sphinx-nose-eater
8. Makes a great marmelade
9. The Amusement-park surprise
10. Bred to serve Ninjas.

[Deep_Blue_Void]

I'm new at this.

1. Creatures that live in your toilet
2. Suicidal creatures
3. Intergalactic Space Moose
4. Apocolyptic Badgers of Doom

[Deep_Blue_Void]

Are there any restrictions as to how sick and twisted we can make it?

'cos I was thinking of 'Creatures tormented of their flesh' - creatures that shed there skin in twisted and masochistic ways

[sm_Felipe]

Rock ´n Roll Eater (?!)
Sonic Monster

[SprayNation]

Mostly Flaming
Happier in a basket
Ball and socket monster
Retched Whorefish
Helium Puffer
Glacier Terror
Outer organed thing
Politically incorrect animal
Hypnotizing monster
Animal created for our amusement (not including mimes)
Animal of pity

[catandtadpole]

Gigantic herbivore
Space dwelling leviathan
Druid's pet
Worse thing you'd ever want to see on an x-ray
Design a new eating utensil
Cross-a-species-o-matic -- like, design an animal made of two mushed together... a cog (cat/frog) for example
What really ate the cat next door… you know it wasn't your dog!! unless your dog is a demon dog (gasp)...

[JakkaS]

Poll Arranger :D

[Michael Jaecks]

Well, the astronomers of the world just kicked Pluto out of the solar system. Its no longer a planet. Lovecraft fans everywhere will balk at this, because they know of course WHAT lives on Pluto.

I think we should have a COW in honor of this. Maybe what we all think a Migo would look like, or something just in a Lovecraftian style. Or maybe just creatures from Pluto without the direct Lovecraft reference. Aliens that get mad we voted them out of the solar system and come to earth for a little smackdown on the pious earthlings.

[Fozzybar]

Aliens that get mad we voted them out of the solar system and come to earth for a little smackdown on the pious earthlings.
Having this line aside your avatar scares me...it REALLY scares me...

[Moai]

I think we need to counteract the violence of Highly Explosive and do a placid domesticated grazing animal. Well, not too placid. It can have cantankerous moments.

More ideas:
Dangerous Delicacy
Ethereal Wanderer or Ethereal Stalker

[Paxtin]

I dont know if someone may have already suggested this one, but how about; Living Vehicles.
Not just creatures that people (or aliens.) ride as mounts, but actual biomechanical creatures bread and genetically altered as vehicles.

Examples could be; a military tank creature, (even with a gun turret built in) or creatures just bread for transportation or speed. They could be land based, hover or even fly, the possibilities are nearly endless.

[fughi from yuggoth]

Well, the astronomers of the world just kicked Pluto out of the solar system. Its no longer a planet. Lovecraft fans everywhere will balk at this, because they know of course WHAT lives on Pluto.

I think we should have a COW in honor of this. Maybe what we all think a Migo would look like, or something just in a Lovecraftian style. Or maybe just creatures from Pluto without the direct Lovecraft reference. Aliens that get mad we voted them out of the solar system and come to earth for a little smackdown on the pious earthlings.


hell yeah,look at my avatar and my nickname;)

how about:
creature living metropoles' bottomless ravines or skyscrapers
creature on gas planet
creature which is undead
lonesome wanderer

[kovah]

Cherub Catcher
Kitchen Sink Dweller
Error 404 Gremlin
Disco Fever Virus


Yeah they aren't the best, but i tried :)

[jackenstein]

Inept Harlot Amphibians
Animals suffering from a Phoenix Complex (cannot be birdlike)
Matricidal Ice Creature
Moondwelling Omnivore
Plague Rider
"Chariot of Peace"

[Chris Noeth]

Nano Hive Queen

Symbiotic Parasite

[Steve-O]

The Abscisic Ancient

Abscisic acid - a growth-regulating plant hormone, C15H20O4, that promotes dormancy and the aging and abscission of leaves.

Thinking maybe something that enters a seasonal dormancy and produces a hormone that causes appendages to wilt and fall off yearly.

[vonky]

Lavender-eyed Beast
Marine Screamer
Toothless Predator
Blind Bird of Prey
Something...orange...with an exoskeleton.
Mammoth molluscs
Monopedal grazers the size of cars
Felonous hooked thing - something illegal, something dangerous, something vaguely grotesque. You can't take it in your carry-on.
Glowing eyes and long knobbly fingers.

[xoet]

A Harlequin

A jelly bean in a harlequin out fit

a face shattered and on fire...

[wizo5454]

-a colossus,
-a spell-immune creature
-adapt to its environnement creature.

[zenarion]

1950-60ies Sci Fi movie monster
that is, IF it had not been done before.

[Studio Colrouphobia]

A flying vessel with a Creature infused in it.

[Deep_Blue_Void]

I apologise if this has already been mentioned, but what about 'the most annoying creature in the world that you'd love to annihilate'

I got this idea from getting real annoyed by the pigeons in town.

or how about: 'A child friendly creature'

[navarrot]

a Blind Bird

[cotron]

How bout one that's impossibly phallic? :P

or a domesticated alien

[Einen]

How about Extremely Delicious?

[Woodlandwalker]

With Halloween approaching, how about exploring childhood fears... perhaps what really is living under the bed... or living in the closet.

[zenarion]

It's just the beasts under your bed,
In your closet, in your head!


Sounds like fun :D

[xoet]

ok here is one or two or a few more...

a broken screaming alien fish head coming to earth by an invitation for invasion

a piece of gew in a fly's eye that is dilated

a deformed carrot having sex with a turnip

a deformed turnip having sex with a carrot

a rust ridden spaceship heap 'o metal

that dead dude after an acid bath or two...

and again psycodelia rules must apply and be followed for the pervious creations and so on and so forth ad nauseam nausium

[Evxyza92]

a animal (any type) created into a lycnathrope

not just wolves a cat ,lizard, rabbit,monkey,

[Sleep_Eden_sleep]

Someone suggested I post this here (from the Lounge), so here it goes:


Alright, let's all pretend that somehow, a species of the Homo genus (or humanoid mammals that would later evolve into someone as smart as the common man) were to evolve and adapt through water, what do you all think they'd look like?

From what I understand, the common whales (or just cetaceans overall) evolved from four legged or quadrupedal land mammals, and they were otter-like. If you think about it, it's a long jump from something like that to an actual whale, growing fins, losing their ability to walk on land, etc. So, my question to all you artists who have a good sense of anatomy and the body is, if there were to be some sort of ancestor humans or apes who evolved by adapting their bodies for the open ocean, what do you think they'd look like? Would they look like the creature from the black lagoon? would they look like mermaids? would they look like Cthulhu?

Okay, they probably won't look like Cthulhu or the creature from the black lagoon since I'm talking about mammals here, but it's a good example. Looking at whales now, they don't seem very mammal-like, but at the same time, if you look at them more closely, they don't look that fish-like as well (since they're not.) What amazing (or not) physical changes would you think an aquatic humanoid-mammal have if they were to be living right now and had the chance to evolve alongside the Homo genus/cavemen? (that would later on evolve to Homo Sapiens or us people.)

PS, If I used the wrong terminology, pardon me.

[Stephan_R]

Too many heads (that fight for food, leadership, etc)

Crust Muncher (as in it eats the planet's crust)

Pimple Parasite (lives inside boils and pimples of a host)

Giant Parasite (It doesn't realize it's body is bigger than the host)

[Evxyza92]

a wolf warrior

[Alezunde]

A stereotypically good mythological creature (unicorn, pegasus, etc) depicted in a dark fashion.

[ikuru]

Voodo dog
alien pig
alien skin beast (lives in human skin)
mutated soldier beast
Dragon eaters
Stone giant storm beast
city monster
Divine flying monster
Toilet snake
Nintendo monster
Child killing sand beast
water insect
alien colosus beast
shadow monster
sky chaser
robot insect
green slime

[Chuck Wadey]

I like Jfwalls's idea: "Angelic Beast" as a companion to last week's contest.

Also Mike's suggestion above is pretty cool.

[Supervlieg]

I Like the baby herbivore idea.

Some other light hearted suggestions:

-Pink and fluffy
-Furry friend
-It makes you happy
-Treehugger

[Bruce Jensen]

what ?! An uprising against giant and evil? I gotta make time for COW again if this should happen...even for one week.


(i'm guessing a low turn out... not FIFA-beast low, but low none the less.)

[jackenstein]

Vaginal Secretor

[Streifi]

At first I have to say, I love C.O.W.! I am a big fan of the fantastic concept art here for quite a while now. I never saw better concept art. You people are great! Unfortunately I am not so skilled with my tablet, so I won't contribute drawings anytime soon, I think, but I can try to contribute some new topics, although I had very much topics in mind, that already where mentioned before, like any kind of biomechanic creature, sky- cloud- and even spacedwelling creatures, and of course some other ideas like the anatomy of an alien critter or an evolutionary fact sheet. I even liked the suggestions about the creature, that pees the best drink in the world, the creature, that is used as a drawing tool, universes' oldest, youngest, first or last species and so on. But I think, I can still contribute something, so I'll try.

While I still like the idea of diagramm of the internal organs of an alien creature or the evolutionary sheet, there still lacked the kind of diagram, that shows the lifecycle of a creature. So this is my first idea:

"The life cycle of an alien critter."

Sort of a scientific illustration that shows several stages of the lifecycle of an alien lifeform. For example http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/zencmed/targets/illus/ilt/000ed370.gif

This kind of diagram could also include another idea I read before, the occasionally mating of the species.

And now for another ideas:

"The latest cryptozoological/exozoological addition of the zoo."

Could be an earthbased zoo or an alien zoo and could display a very dangerous creature in a secured environment for our viewing pleasure.

"A creature that lives inside a celestial nebular."

So your average spacecraft really needs fog lights (unless the critters are bioluminiscent) to dodge this creatures, otherwise they end up like insects on a windshield. But I guess a spaceship in that kind of environment would be more likely like a submarine because I think, that life inside a celestial cloud would resemble oceanic life, but who knows?

I remember the topic of an seamonster, that attacks an old sailing ship as well, perhaps this could be a SciFi Topic as well. Some form of space dwelling life could attack a modern spaceship. But I tink this is to much a szenario, would work better for the DSG, than for C.O.W., I guess. Anyways, I just wanted to mention it. :)

"The true masters of the foodchain."

I am thinking of creatures, that have evolved to live beneath humans and still staying unnoticed feeding off human wastes, human remains or humans themselfes. I have critters in mind, that resemble common household items or furniture but are very nasty predators in reality. (But this theme probably is to specific and off topic for a creature-thread, because it originates more of the idea, how monsters, that are disguised as furniture or householditems could be explained, so I perhaps should suggest this at the DSG as well.)

"Something odd your plumber find plugging your pipes."

Here I thought some bizarre creature like a strange kind of freshwaterjellyfish or squid could blocking the drains or so, swimming or crawling along, before it stuck at a very tight part of the pipes. I think, anything would be nice and could make a new potential aquatic pet as long it is not an ordinary sewer rat stucking in the pipes.

"A laser predator hunts an ordinary lightbased prey."

This was inspired by the fact, that the dot of a laser pointer is brighter than the cone of light of an ordinary torch. Nothing special, but at some point I thought, if creatures are composed of light, like it was mentioned several times before, there could a predator out there, that hunts the light creatures. It must be stronger than an lightcreature. So perhaps electromagnetic forces compress it to some kind of laser being, that could hunt the lightbased organisms. It is very abstract, but perhaps a useful idea.

"A virtual creature, that evolved on its own out of synthetic organic molecules in a simulated 3D Environment."

This idea speaks for itself, I think. a creature, that lives it entire life in cyberspace, but still is a lifeform, that can interact with other lifeforms and it's environment and that is not created by humans directly. I think, that still could be some form of life, that would be worth a round in C.O.W., so I suggested it here. :)

"Draw a monster, you were afraid of as a child."

In my case it would be something, I used to call "Grüne Haut" (= green skin). The fear of the green skin was established by some german tv commercial I saw back then. I can't remember, what it was for, but I think, it was the commercial of an insurance company. There was a helicopter flying over some meadows and suddenly, the meadows opened up like a big jaw and sucked the helicopter in, afterwards it closed itself completely and resembled normal meadows again. After that commercial I was sure, that any meadow out there could be a skin flat green monster, that eats up anything, that comes near its camouflaged jaw. So I called it "green skin" and was afraid of stepping on meadows for a while. So much for the monster, I would contribute, if I could draw better and this topic would be selected.

Children tend to see monsters almost everywhere. Moving lights and shadows at the wall at night, that are interpreted as ghosts, silhouettes of toys in the dark, that resemble monsters, moving twigs behind the window in front of a light source, that resemble some scary creature, that wants to come in, I still remember that. Or when I first encountered fireflys. I never heard of them before and one evening they were dancing around some bushes. I was very frightened and thought, that this would be my first ghost encounter until someone caught some for me and showed me, that they just were some fascinating insects. The mind of a child can spawn many variations of horrifying spectres. I am pretty sure anybody has some. I think, there are many other interesting childhood monsters out there and I realy would love to see them. :)

"Draw something, you won't expect living under your feet on an alien planet."

Some creature, that lives in the ground or even in an icy shell of a small lake, sea or even an ocean.

"The asteroid belt located in the habitable zone of a nearby star is in reality composed of the eggs of a spacedwelling lifeform."

Pretty much as the title says, an asteroid belt, that in reality is just the clutch of some cool space critters.

"Revolution from Outer Space."

This topic revolves around the discovery of a lifeform, that changes humanity. It's social displays could be the archetype for a new and better kind of social community and standarts or it's anatomy grants a great scientific breakthrough in some ways or something like that.

"Modified."

This topic has a very little background story. Humanity spread across the stars and colonises new worlds. But some worlds are more odd than others. Humanity is prepared, that the inhabitants of some colony worlds will slightly change over time to adapt their new environment. But there are several wild animals, pets and cattle, that would rather perish than adapt due to the harsh conditions at the new world. So bio-engineers altered the offspring of the animals, so that they are perfectly adapted to their new surroundings. Now it is up to the artists, how this modiefied animals could look like. Perhaps they have a blue or violett fur to reflect the ultraviolett radiation of the star, or they are bioluminiscent, because the days are not very bright and the nights are completely pitch black, or some mammals became a stonger exoskeleton because they are on a high gravity world or whatever the artists can imagine. How would a modified wild animal, pet or cattle look in the strange new worlds of the human race?

"It fed of radiowaves."

Could be space dwelling lifeforms or alien lifeforms, or still unknown earthly lifeforms. The first thing, that comes to my head is some organic kind of satelite dish, that is it's sensory ans consuming organs at the same time. But perhaps the most of you have better ideas. I think, just to give some exotic abilities like this as a topic could result in very interesting lifeforms. :)

"Nightactive, glowing swampcreature."

Because I love glowing critters. :)

I think, that could be a vampiristic whisp or a polencollecting whisp, that collect it's polen from nightactive plants or something like a honeybee.

"Symbioshell."

Symbiotic creature, that takes the DNA from it's host to transform to some kind of very protective exoskeleton for it's host to become almost invulnerable and descends it's organs into the body of it's host to fed of it's hosts lunch, it soon completely merges with it's host. (I just remember, that I have already seen that in some of the old C.O.W.s. Damn. You guys are so inspiring, that even my suggestions resemble something, that I have already seen here.)

"The day, the moon fed."

Outherworldy moon turns out to be some gigantic, spacedwelling lifeform, which feeds of asteroids or planetary ring or curious astronauts, as seen from the planet's surface, the moon is surrounding. At least, it would be impossible for the naked eye, to see a munched astronaut, so perhaps it is some big spaceship instead of the astronaut.

Would something like that work or would that be too much of an scenario?

"It dances with the snowflakes."

I am thinking here of a clouddwelling creature, that resembles a snowflake and when it is a full grown adult it starts it's matingdance with the first snow in the winter, falling between the snowflakes with the desired partner from the heavens and procreates. It's eggs will find their way with the steam of the melting snow back into the clouds later on.

I am not very sure, how exactly it has to resemble a snowflake. It could be a being composed of light, that looks like having a radial body with six arms, or something like a starfish like, whiteskinned being with six arms and a little fuzz, so that it resembles a snowflake, or it could have a parachutelike bell like a jellyfish, that has only a snowflakelike muster on top of the bell similar to the markings of a compass-jellyfish or it is some kind of very small beetle with a silvery whitish, light reflecting carapace, that reflects the light that much, that it looks like a shimmering snowflake for the naked human eye. However, I think, there would be very well ideas for the design out there. And that kind of topic would get well along with the oncoming winter. :)

"A festival creature."

Some creature, that resembles something, that would remind you of any festival season, holidays or anything else. Could be a bird (or even an alien creature, that looks like a terrestrial bunny, but still lays eggs), that lies eggs that look like they were painted as eastereggs or a christmastreelike being, a tinsel-snake or a dreidel-like creature, anything goes, as long, as it reminds the viewer of any festival season or holidays.

Now, I come up with some very random topics (and some very random creaturenames) without (mostly) any background at all:

"The creatures of the webbed canyon."
"Gaya's Lanterns."
"Creek Sparklets vs. Swamp Lights."
"The Xenozyte."
"The Tideland-Hustler."
"The Siltgullet."
"The Scarvandi."
"The living planet."
"The living planetary ring."
"The living tower of the highland planes of the jungle."
"The inhabitants of the icy deserts of Then'Kar III."
"The replicator." ((Okay, little bit of a background idea) It can resemble certain body parts and sneaks into hospitals to be implanted into patients to fulfil his parasitic purpose.)
"Invading Spores."
"It feed on acid rain."
"It hides between the wavelenghts of the light."
"It lurks in our subconsciousnes and feeds upon unaccomplished wishes"
"It shoots back." (Not an easy prey for hunters)
"Something, that is frightened to death, when you look at it."
"It hybernates below earth's crust for aeons now. (and might cause some tremors, when fully woken up)"
"Aerial plankton." (Any kind of floating and/or drifting creature in the air)
"It watches the sky and the top side of the water surface from deep below in the ocean."
"Colony of creatures that resemble a living fishing net."
"It hides in books."
"It hides in clocks."
"It is whispering and/or soothing and/or singing to little children."
"The angler-fang." (Creature, that is dangling from above and lures his victims with a bioluminiscent tentacle (And this is the second time I remember after writing down the idea, that I saw something like this already in some earlier C.O.W.))
"The rear-watcher."
"The razorspine."
"The swampfloater."
"The shimmering jellybell."
"The shadow-leaker."
"The colourfull poisonleech."
"The poisenous bladderfish."
"The spikey jellyfish."
"The armored jellyfish."
"The skinless squid."
"The cockaigne visitor." (Creature, that can instantly be eaten without cooking or preparations, even while it is stil alive (But that would be very cruel))
"The dreamcatcher of the northern forests."
"The dreamfiltering capling." (Creature, that permanently dreams, while it's body works entirely autonomous. It is rather telephatic and can help people to forget about nightmares and dreaming sweet dreams with the help of the telephatical dreamland-feed of this creature, when worn as cap.)
"It will be used in our computers in the next centuries." (Creature, that will partly or entirely be used in futuristic computers later on because of some usefull abilities of them for the computer science.)
"The balloonlianas of Theneprex VII."
"It maybe look beautiful but is a very nasty parasite." (such like a vampiristic butterfly or something.)
"It produces it's own food." (perhaps it's droppings are altered by symbionts, so it can digest them again, or it chews off extra-feeding-limbs or something like that. (And for the third time I think, I have seen this before. I even remember, that this entire topic happened before. I realy should rewatch the old C.O.W.s later on.))
"The last thing you hear, before it eats you is *poof*."
"Forrestdrapes." (Some lianalike creatures, that dangling in the forest like drapes)
"It only emerges during new moon from the depths of the ocean to display its amazing bioluminiscent bodies to their airdwelling mates for courtship." (Could be giant deep sea jellies and their gasbaglike mates, that float through the Sky, or some manta ray like fishes, whose mates mastered flying through air. Or any other organism, that you like. (In each case one gender of them both lives in the deep sea and only ascends during new moon for displaying their lights, courtship and the mating afterwards, the other gender spends it's entire life in the air and watching the oceans that time of the month, where no moonlight is reflected from the water, so they would recognize their mates in the sea. (Btw.: It doesn't mater, which of them should be male and which female, that is up to you, if you want to show them actually mating.)))
"The great Protectors" (Some creatures mankind leaves at Earth to guard and protect the planet from ecologicaly desasters to alien invasion or colonisation until mankind returns. (So they are some kind of very intelligent and manipulating biomechanic "guarddogs"))"
"The Well Orphans"
"The protagonyc snarklets"
"The most important lifeform in earth's ecosystem, that is still complete unknown to mankind."
"Semisymbiotic Spongefungus growing on a marine animal."
"Wandering Mudsponge."
"Amphibic, Insectoidic Hybridfishlet."
"Pulsating Seabubble."
"Mistbell"
"Catchfilament"
"Siltsnare Stumbler"
"Watervortex Inhabitator"
"Illuminaterox"
"Living Marinewall"
"Glowing Marinecell"
"Seasnorkel"
"Swinging Surgebuoy"
"Tideland-root-eater"
"Dunedozer" or "Dunesnoozer"
"Dewdancer"
"Iridescencing foam Maker"
"Glowpearlalgaestringworm"
"Glowpearlalgae-eater"
"Scurrying Spheroplasm"
"Oceanic Pelt"

Also there would be some esoteric "phenomena" to exploid. "Rods" for example have been proven to be motionblurs of fast flying insects, but still are believed in being an invisible lifeform, that "swims" through the air with a thin finlike membrane, to fast for human eyes to catch up. So perhaps such a "Rod" would be an interesting theme as well as this "spook lights", that are described as glowing spheres, that float close over the ground.

I also had another not completly new idea, but perhaps that would work for another C.O.W. Aniversary. I thought, that for at least one C.O.W. it would be possible, not to give the specifications of a lifeform but the specifications of a habitat. For example an alien planet. So the members could create long before that special C.O.W. an entirely new planet and discuss, how it should look like and what kind of lifeforms or habitats it should support, after that, they could together create some common Predators and Prey, that every artist can use later, to show his own creature being hunt, or even hunting and introduce their very own species at that special C.O.W. itself. Due to the preparations the artists would have a common base. They would have a common world, where their creatures would life and they would even have the same food resources or dangers via predators. So all of their own creations would at the end of this specific C.O.W. belong to the same ecosystem and would grant some kind of interconnection between their creations. At the end, ther can still be a voting for the best concept art that far. I think that would be fun, but it would require much work to prepare that event as well.

So. At this point I want to apologize for this hell of a post and I hope, you are not to angry with me due to it's length. I also want to apologize for my bad english, I am not a native speaker. :)

I still hope, that someone read this and find one or another idea quite useful.

[Supervlieg]

Whoaa, to much coffee!

But seriously, there are some very nice suggestions in there. I think this comes close to the biggest post ever.

[Piru]

Holy cow indeed! :D Some crackin' ideas, enough for a lifetime of COW! :)

[Fozzybar]

wtf....Streifi you scare me...

[Blue]

i was gonna suggest some, but Streifi suggested enough for the next year... dayum..


Well, i'll suggest them anyhow.

Pet of the Future
Slimy but cuddly
Office predator

[yaykatamari]

Whoa that is awesome can i pick your brain far a week or two.


Any way what is the new COW contest going to be?

[Adarias]

pretentious predator - it likes to think it's a badass

[Streifi]

Hehe. I am sorry to have scared you. That was not intended. :)

Most of the ideas I had on my mind since I first visited C.O.W.. Then, I even got more ideas, but most of them weren't good enough to be mentioned and other ones were already mentioned here. So I tried to suggest everything I had left. I just didn't expect, that so much would be left. But most suggestions, like "Wandering Mudsponge." were almost totaly random creature names I invented some time ago for possible species, that could inhabitate alien worlds. So I think, the more interesting suggestions of mine are the ones, that include a few background thoughts. The rest seems simply to follow the suggestion someone made earlier, just to combine a few words or even invent some.

And after I stumbled about the "Beast of Burden" again, I got (like many people before me, I guess) the idea of exchanging simply the words of a creatures description. So "The Beast of Burden" could become "The Beast of Boredom". The creature could be bored, or it could be boring for its viewers (although I do not think, that the creatures in C.O.W. could be boring after all).

Or playing around with letters, like the "D". "Dirty Dustdiggers doing their daily deeds" Okay, doesn't work with "their", but at least it sounds like a "D". :)

And some idea, I recently remembered:

"The Mistshifter, the favorite pet of any recently deceased."

Because most people like pets. So why should they don't like some in the afterlife? I just remember "Jack" from "The nightmare before christmas" having a pet ghost dog with a glowing nose. So, what about the pets of ghosts, ghouls or zombies? They could aetherial, or flesh and blood, that doesn't realy matter.

And last, but not least, something completly random:

"From the aetherial planes of Th'ush, where spheres of energy are raining down from the sky, it draws powers through it's rootlike tentacles."

Too much of a scenario? If so, we could forget about the spheres of energy part. :)

And now I will remain calmly for a while, so I do not frighten anyone else. :)

[Fozzybar]

i like your ideas...definitely i will pick one for the next rounds...

[Stephan_R]

To celebrate the Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess release how about a creature from the LoZ universe?? :)

[ikuru]

Heavenly Beast
or Divine Beast
or Hindu God mutation
or monster from 50s movie...
"IT came from the dessert"
HUGE Swamp thing.
any beast in classic king kong pose on the empire with girl and flying weihacles

[ikuru]

Cute killer
Lizardlike and Crab
flesheatingflowerbeast
seazombie
Godlike insect
Giant Pigmonster
Giant Pigmonster with cristmas spirit underwater
underwater doglike fish with many eyes
Mars creature made of rocks
Voododoll creature
Dark Horns
Black lava giant
Dark tower monster
cute yellow ducklike flesheater
duckfish
green slime
half insect half duck
microscopic
penetrator
red tree killer
jesus fish
divine underwater aliens
too fast
well beeing metro creature
small lazy dog eater
fly looking dragon dog
yellow bloodsucker
sexy beast
THEY live in the dark
city mutation
no legs no arms NOT snakelike and NO wings.
flying creature, with no wings
spinal shredder
infernallooking but really sweet
sweet and stupid
stupid but deadly
infernal duck
Hellish beast that works for santa
mostly spiritlike
stormbringer
forest killer
tree eater
huge sillylooking reptile
very nice and verry stupid
very cute and sexy but evil
sexy evil
schoolgirlfaking seamonster
alien goatlookin and from outer space
insect that lives on antarktis and kill people
deadly ice glider
mans best frend (not the dog)
its cute and yellow and it loves to play allot with your dog
sheeplike beast, smart as hell
smarter and bigger than a dragon
made from lava
star bird
small seamonster
loads of teeth
loads of teeth, really kind
humanoid jellyfish monster

[Supervlieg]

Wow, you guys are too much. Let me add a little to that:

-Urban camouflage creature (creatures that use urban enviroments as their camouflage)
-Organic Metallic creatures (Creature made of some kind of organic metallic stuff)

[ikuru]

Ill keep going then.... ;)
Monster hiding with flowers
the dark forest monster
the monster in the toystore
Flurocent tentacle creature of the sea
giant firebug
fireflys that kill
underwater flurocent cavedragon
seamonster made of driftwood
urban citymonster
toxic nuclare waste monster
giant atomic dessert snake
mix two annimals and 3 insects (free choice)
Worst thing unleashed on earth EVER
IT CAME FROM THE DESSERT
IT CAME FROM HELL
HELL ON EARTH (CREATures take over)
THEY live in the basment!
THEY Live in the subways
Subway soulkiller
soul chaser
death destroyer
The Great Destroyer
Bloblike cute greenpurple pet
Bloblike pet for kids
Pet it or it kills you
Alien Horse Molestor
FEEDS on lightning
Lucifer (the one that brings light)
Hellofant
Flying rabbits
Attack of the HELL HAMSTERS 2
SON of the HELL HAMSTER
Lord of the fly´s (the creature)
Iron King
Master of the universe
The UGLYEST Creature Ever
MADE IN JAPAN (not robot, 100% Organic)
MOM! I CLONED MY HAMSTER! WELL, ALLMOST...
Monster in the Closset
The evil child in school is NOT a CHILD at ALL!
Black blobish thing with red eyes and loads of tentacles
Hentai Monster But More Bad ass someohow
THE WORST MOTHERFUCKKER EVVVVER
So cute and HEY, it can fly!
To cute
SO cute it kills you
Sexy viper
Sexy and Deadly
Eight legs and no arms
NO ARMS NO LEGS REALLY BIG TEETH
intestine monster
No skin, still cute
Fish Scale on a forest swamp creature
flying thing with scale, no feathers
Made of Stone
Giant treelike beast
Meat lover
Made of Snow and ice
made of liquid
faster than light
birdlike thing that lives in caves, no wings
Stupidlooking with red spots
underwater with furr

[Stephan_R]

The next Colossi :If the PS2 title "Shadow of the Colossus" were made into a sequel what would the coolest Colossi look like in part 2?

[PeanutButterWerewolf]

Stephan_R : That would freaking awsome!!!!

[Streifi]

"Earth Fauna at the year 120.000 AD."

After seeing this image (http://www.dieneueepoche.com/pics/2006/11/05/l/2006-11-05-l--20061105071321_JAPAN_DOLPHIN_LEGS_TOK102.jpg) and reading that article (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1501AP_Japan_Dolphin_Legs.html) I thought of how it would be, when dolphins would come back to land again. I thought of it not as a simple mutation and a remain of the past but as a form of evolution. How dolphins would look like, when they return to land? Than it struck me. I remembered the series the future is wild (http://animal.discovery.com/convergence/futureiswild/futureiswild.html), where creatures were shown, that could exist in a distant future, when mankind vanished long ago. I remembered, that this was an interesting concept, although some creatures seemed rather ridiculous. But I thought that also could be a nice idea for a C.O.W..Portraiing the descendents of terrestrial animals, that perhaps could be living in a new habitat. Like dolphins or whales walking on the land again, octopusses burrowing under the muddy coastlines, catching prey with their tentacles from below and dragging the prey underground, or gasfilled, floating jellyfish, or penguins that now live permanently underwater, some kind of landcrawling manta rays or perhaps some totaly new kinds of animals, that could have been evolved from former wellknown animals. I am still thinking about wild packs of former pets like dogs, now perhaps more dominant canine races than the wolfs for example or herds of other domesticated animals, that found their way into wildlife again.

I think, there is much place for ideas. What do you think? :)

[ikuru]

I think, there is much place for ideas. What do you think? :)

there was a Simpsons episode where the dolphins (the clowns of the sea) come back up on land to take over. It was pretty scarry.

[Streifi]

Yes, I remember that. It really was scary. But it was a treehouse of horror episode anyway, so it was just fine, the way it was. >:D

[Charlie_2.0]

ikuru ,Streifi - you guys scared the living crap out of me with those ideas
I'm not thinking right now...it's sunday:)...aah.....:kicks back in chair and takes a sip if his umbrella drink:

Nose creature
Temptress
Illuminator
Stoney (stone eater)

(yah I know it's stupid)

~ Charlie ~

[Supervlieg]

The next Colossi :If the PS2 title "Shadow of the Colossus" were made into a sequel what would the coolest Colossi look like in part 2?


Yes, bring on the collosi! And a sequel with about 100 collosi please. That game was awesome

[PMaz]

*It live in your IPod
*"Twintip" Bug
*It look like a car
*High velocity turtle like creature
*Zero G -a creature that rely on the lack of gravity to feed, move, mate...
*Heart Worm

[ikuru]

LSD hallucination
Flower Creature
Angelic Clouddweller
Organic Veggiemonster
loads of furr
"Watch out! it transforms..."

[Azathoth]

Some Random Topics:
Undead sunbathing reptile
Fancy glitter Toad
Milky killer
Swimming Death
Fey dweller
Fetid Drone
Nurse parrasite

[ikuru]

thanks Charlie. ;)

doglike Shaolin
insect kung fu
cobrafish
arctic reptile
icemelter
water demon
pac man insect
cute flying object
big eyed microscopic demon
Looong legs
look out!
nanny beast
atomic guard

[Joey-b]

- deadly insect

- mother and child

- female eating male

- underground creature who eats birds

- 8 legged mammals

- self supported

- wind creature

- santa's little helpers ;)

hmm.. hope its any good for ya

[mattbyng]

How about...

1. Satan's Favourite Pet
2. Ancient Mammals
3. Beast of War
4. Outback Hunter
5. Gluttonous Beast

[Stephan_R]

We need to keep things unique :) How about....

PSP Pet
Creature the ultimate pet for a Sony Handheld at double res the screen size (so 960x544 is the size of each submission) These submissions are intended to be backgrounds to download at the end of the competition, to put on our PSPs. Does not need to be a mascot for Sony, just badass with these restrictions :)

ps: might want to allow people to not have the cow name and number clutter up the submission pictures?

[ikuru]

the creature that eventually replaced woman.;)

[kindless]

Oh hey there, first time posting and stuff. I usually just lurk, and wait until I can submit something worthwhile. But here's an idea I thought would be interesting, came to me after watching Avatar:

Face-Stealer.

[Oneironaut]

I'm in the same boat as kindless, first post, long way off from submitting, I just had a couple neat ideas I thought could be some good fuel for thought. They kind of tie in with all the holidays and the new year...

Holy Beast (Holy C.O.W!)

Temple guardian

Time Keeper, Time watcher.

eh?eh?
Hope these make some lightbulbs go off!

[Tyranx]

Huge Snow Eater, Ice burrower, Blue Mountain glider, Bulbous Artic Burrower, Hairy Crag Ambusher, Tundra Yeti's Pet, Ice Dancer, Gargantuan Snow packer

[Kabal-tah]

Medieval Armored Humanoid Turtle Warrior, for example it can be snapping turtle based.

[mattbyng]

Green intestine devourer;
Immune to Death;
Red, Sharp, and Poisonous; and
Hairy Beauty

[Phylum]

hey newbie here with some thoughts:

Dramatic Transformation: Coinciding with the new year, the idea is to have something that changes. Design is focused on the transformation of a creature. Either from infant to adulthood, possibly through metamorphosis, such as a butterfly. Or take a known creature and imagine million of years later, it evolves to take a totally different life style, like a pig that evolve to swim full time.

Unique Killing Methods: instead of killing using the conventional claws, teeth, etc. the creature uses other body parts to kill....strangled by a neck...

Projectile: well, creature that shoots out stuff. not by a gun or by throwing rocks, but a projectile weapon created within the creatures body.

[Moai]

-Shaggy Red Behemoth
-Metamorphosis

[Muchitsujo]

Big Green Things With Teeth: Viridans Mordicus Grandis has been around as long or longer then man and is one of the most appropriately named species in existance. In the distant past they were bigger, greener, and had more teeth but even though they have fallen back on the evolutionary ladder its ear-splitting scream is more then enough to send even the bravest of men running.

[Trashy]

Rock eater, meteorite worm, deep sea terror, spikey bouncer, toe nail pest, green toxic blob, fur ball, mold grower, grass eater.

massive butt hunter (uses big butt to kill prey)

[TomCardin]

Mud Slinger
Monster from the Id
Wheeled Predator
One Eyed One Horned Flying Purple People Eater
creature with a ground to orbit lifecycle
interstellar hit-beast

[Ernie82]

- deadly touch
- non-insect creature forming colonies like ants or bees
- extremely expensive creature
- life-bringer

[Oddo]

This is just one topic :)


Life stages of semi organic predator.

Predator creature that is formed of both flesh and anorganic matter ( flesh and translucent crystals, flesh and lava, flesh and rocks etc) .

No high tech stuff for the non organic part.

Basic illustration for at least two different life stages : baby form, young form, adult form, decrepit/old form.

[Kougansharde]

I'll like to see people work out these two ideas:

1. Mammalian Dragon
2. Logic Elemental

[longshao]

Ultimate scavenger
Library dwelling book eater
Big hands

[cherryworx]

how about animal transportation? if anyones already suggested it, sorry! v.tired think i missed some posts

giant bugs for buses etc. can be any animal made up or real as long as it's transport for humans (or aliens) in some shape or form.

[mrgrumble]

haha animal transportation...reminds me of the catbus in My Neighbor Tortorro:)
how about animals just absed solely on a fictional name? like, for example...
the nubblebeaked marmelsap, or ferocious jibblymuck?
interessting to see what people do just based on a wierd name alone...

[mattbyng]

More from the brain of me!
-Minute Giant
-Fat and Long
-Forced to Live Underground
-Skinny Fat Thing

[Grendel Grack]

Sasquatch sidekick.

[myo]

phoenix or firebird
undiscovered dinosaur
predator's predator
genetically engineered for destruction
exo-skeletal serpents

[mattbyng]

Delightful Screamer
Pleasant Stinker
Flammable Cloud Eater
Tree Devourer
Feeds-On-Blood

[Coinpurse]

pussy troll :)

[FlyingMilton]

Wrinkly Bird
Nonviolent Predator
Obese Ground Dweller

[TomCardin]

Based on what I see from a lot of CA artists these sound like they would be popular topics:

Earth Elemental (fire, air, water etc)
unique killer
unspeakably gruesome horror
soul devourer

[Vulgar`]

The Monster in the Closet
Buddha's pet dog Kang
THE WALKING FISH.

[scorge]

Goo-gash
blitzkrieg
monochrome
shackler
worm holer
bitchenosis
lethargis bulgaris
finklestien
gargantuan behemoth
egg trotter
trash guzzler
fumple stilt skin
narthesis
red bellied strathe
teethalicious
frosty ass biter
gritchen
great blue balled tickler

Whew!
That felt pretty good.
Glad to contribute.
:af: :au: :ak: :an: :aa: (the A is for art)

[TomCardin]

One Ton Baddass - if all the creatures in this weeks cow had to battle, it would win. I suggest the weight limit because they should all fit in the arena together.

Hmm call it the One Ton Monster Champion if that makes more sense.

Really we need more teeth and claws and tentacles! Oh and slime, lets not forget slime!

Gibbering Nightmarish Horror's everwhere! Hehehe even in the God of Art chow it looks like a lot of evil deities...If I drew my muse as an evil bitch I would never hear the end of it.