C.O.W. - #024: Huge Deep Sea Creature

[Fozzybar]

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/images/cow/cow.jpg


Round #024

Topic:
Huge Deep Sea Creature

Deadline:
Friday, 07 October 2005




- for any questions or help go here:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=37512

note: The deadline won't be EXACTLY after a week...it can last up to 24 hours more, i am human and have to work also, you know ;)

Post your creature for this week!

[Fozzybar]

well, a japanese scientist just made some photos of an Architeutis (Giant Squid) in the deep sea...it were the first shoots of a living Architeutis ever...

So i think this sensational happening deserves a topic for our activity...we should all be in the mood to create something huge, beautiful, mystical, amazing which lives thousands of miles down in the abyss and we aren't aware...

Something's down there...I KNOW!!! :dad:

[Fozzybar]

PS:
Go here for some inspiration, what animals down there look like...

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=19383

[duddlebug]

ooOOoOooh... this sounds interesting!!

I wonder what's down there...?

Waiting....

In the dark...

>:D

[brokk]

Whoo!!
Oh man... this topic sounds awesome!

[possessed]

Book of Job 41:1-34: "Can you draw out a Leviathan with a hook or press down its tongue with a cord? Canst thou put a hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a bridal ring?..."

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/2271/hugedeepseacreature3dy.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[S.C. Watson]

I'm down with this. :gasmask:

[Banned_User]

Nice Job Posessed

[nightfend]

http://www.icondream.com/images/cow/huge_sea_creature02.jpg

Monstrous Sea Terror - The water world of Cygnus III seemed like the perfect place. Lush beaches, warm waters and perfect weather. It was only after small boats and submarines started disappearing that the colonists to this new world realized something was very wrong with their paradise. Lurking deep beneath the oceans, the Monstrous Sea Terrors roam the oceans as undisputed kings. These cunning predators feed on anything that they find, including the colonists who mistakenly venture into their domain.

[princeofhappiness]

cool topic!! so much work..so little time......

[hurricane]

http://www.diduct.com/Hurri_Sketchbook/Sep-05/cow_deepsea.jpg

colosseus aequoreus

Scientist recently found a corpse of a gigantic octopussy floating near the shores of California, USA.
The spicies has never been seen before and the scientist are clueless of
where it origins from. read more>>

[S.C. Watson]

ohh... I can already tell this is going to be one tough round...

Cheers,
~O

[brokk]

Good entries. Yeah... I don't know what I'm gonna do yet. Tons of ideas and none of them are convincing me.
The topic is exhilarating and I can't think strait : S

[nightfend]

Hurricane, I really like the effect of the submarines lights on the creatures underside. Looks great!

[Nefarious]

http://home.earthlink.net/~nefarious/images/COW_DeepSea.png

Thalassiosaur - forgotten through the aeons, this creature has remained undiscovered by man in the darkest depths of the sea. Being the largest species in the water, the thalassiosaur has nothing to fear from other predators, but its equally large feeding requirements have limited its numbers to only a few.

Edit: Sharpened up the pic - thanks Hanuka!

[Fellah.]

Uh - i have a feeling this round would be the wrong time to try to do a COW. Some killer stuff already!

Maybe when its something closer to a chicken...

[Fozzybar]

Uh - i have a feeling this round would be the wrong time to try to do a COW. Some killer stuff already!

Maybe when its something closer to a chicken...
closer to you? :perv:

[arghmisfit]

i hope we dont see any tiger sharks :D

[possessed]

i hope we dont see any tiger sharks :D

Or shark tigers for that matter :$

[Fellah.]

closer to you? :perv:

Yup :)

[vigostar]

thats great work nightfend!

[Hanuka]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/hanuka/deepthroat.jpg

DEEP THROAT

Deep Throat is a mammal and often classified as whale. It's intentions however are much more vicious than your average whale's. He means ill. By all means. He will kill you. And your mother. Just out of spite, because he can and because he has those cool yet sloppily rendered teeth. Look at his eyes. He will get you and he will rob all your worldly possessions. He is just planning the PERFECT CRIME! Back in the day, when Mr. T and G.I. Joe were still around, Deep Throat and his gang often went to the Korova Milk Bar and had a milk-plus; milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what they were drinking. This would sharpen you up and get you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.

edit: this is not completely done yet, but i'm posting it anyway... just in case i don't find the time to touch it up till deadline.

[Amerasu]

Wow, some really top stuff already! Huge deep sea creatures just aren't my thing (as opposed to shiteaters??) so I don't think I'll be submitting anything this week. I can tell the voting decision is going to be hard this round. Nice work all :)

hurricane, your creature is just fantastic! Really eye catching. I love that lighting.

[[DAN]]

good stuff nightfend, possessed and hurricane .My favorite until now is nightfend's creature.

[Hanuka]

nightfend <3

you bring the extreme into the word rendeEXTREMEring... the detail is awesome, i like the color palette, that eye is nasty and you really know how to focus.

hurri <3

rock-solid hurricanism. nice touch with that submarine's light

possessed <3

unique stuff - clever texture-work.

Nefarious <3

if you sharpened it up a little, making it a little less blurry, this would be top-notch realism. i love how the flipper is rendered.

[rodrigo!]

i like yours nightfend

nice work hurri as usual i think its greeaaat...btw did you mean octopus or octopussy?:P

[Lake]

grr... I'm almost done with it... Hanuka, you got a thing for giant worms too?

[Red_Rook]

man i am so down for this if i have the time... and i think i do....



YOUR ON CABRONES!!!


tight entries so far dudes, hanuka, your description is fantastic, made me laugh out loud :D

[eliWolff]

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5121/1211/1600/lobsterSquid.jpg

Giant LobsterSquid Years of toxic waste have been slowly seeping into the giant squid's spawning area and eventually they start to mutate. Now the DNA from the giant squids has mixed with the DNA from a deep sea spiked lobster.

[Dusty]

Awesome, glad to see you back on CA, Eli!

-Dusty

[Helzon]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/Helzon/AbyssalMaggot2copy.jpg
Model display at 1/5th scale
"Opportunism(n)-the art, policy, or practice of taking advantage of opportunities or circumstances often with little regard for principles or consequences." as defined by Merriam-Webster.

Such is the life of the Trench Stalker, from it's first fluttering breaths to it's last death rattle. All known evidence of this creature is through local legend, and inconclusive markings located along area Chilean beaches.
What has been deduced from lore is that periodically the shifting and grinding along the Marianas trench will from time to time release large pockets of carbon-dioxide and oxygen. Unfortunate ships that happen to be in the area are lost to these super-massive releases. Yet what is lost to one is but an irresistable opportunity for another. It is suspected that the Trench Lurker can feel the vibrations of a sudden release and poise itself along the rugged walls of the trench, and when the time comes will ride the swift moving torrent to the surface, it's massive bulk made weightless. It feeds voraciously sweeping all into it's maw on both the trip up and back. And when one elder Trench Stalker dies...the breeding season begins by the laying of Abyssal Maggots who consume the dead, bones and all...leaving no other evidence behind of their existence.

[WARHEAD]

GIGANTICUS MARIUS - The extremely rare giant deep sea fish of the deeps.

Only glimpsed once by a deep sea research vessel this creature is huge - weighing in at 500 tonnes and is approximately 150m long with a tough exoskeleton to survive the massive pressures in some of the deepest regions of the sea. Its bioluminescent tentacles are used to capture it's prey with poison injected into the body and huge eyes help it see in the dark

.....considering the size of the creature it is yet unknown what the creature feeds on, rumours are that it's prey is even larger...... :P

http://www.war-studio.com/HostedImages/COWuc.jpg

[S.C. Watson]

Giant Jelly Catches Cetacean!
An adult blue whale (http://www.acsonline.org/factpack/bluewhl.htm) grasped liesurely in one of its many tenticals, a giant jelly descends into the depths on Tuesday afternoon as the research team of the USS Mysticeti topside, and scientists the world watched the massive creature fall majestically into the depths of the South Pacific. Without a doubt, the largest example of a deep sea jelly ever caught on film, the scientific community is astounded by this newly discovered species, and indeed, all of the unprecidented discoveries of the last week. Its discovery is too recent to have earned it a name, or know anything about its life cycle, preferred habitat, diet or reproductive cycle; however this gigantic jelly is believed to possibly feed upon colosseus aequori (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=605928&postcount=11) as well as blue whales, as a the research team was in fact trailing a school from Southern California when they stumbled upon this astounding specimen.

http://sketchforums.com/uploads/post-11-1128548046.jpg

[brokk]

I wanted to try a different approach than the one I was doing for the two previous cows, try to approach this more as an illustration and focus more on the colors (something I really have to work at, big time). No text or any other thing this time.
I think it sucks how it turned out :nohope:

I would really love crits on this if anyone takes the time.

Some really really great entries this round, but I'll save the comments for the voting round.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v254/bk7600/cow24f2.jpg

Depth Titan
An enourmous deep-sea creature, the Depth Titans can be found on some of the most profound regions of the Pacific Ocean. They are slow swimming, and have relatively small mouths in relation to their huge bodies, which are spherically shaped and end in a long, thin tail. Near the mouth are dozens of bioluminiscent lights that are used to lure its prey for easy consumption. Many of the observed individuals present scars on their bodies in unusual markings that resemble jaw wounds, suggesting the posibility of even larger deep-sea predators, to which the Depth Titans would be basic food.

[Nutter]

Thought to be the first fire breathing fish ever to be found, the Aqueous Inceneratious nomakesenseous is about 100m long and feeds on Deep Fried Calamari of the Giant Squid type. Scientists are still unsure of what the whole creature actually looks like as the artist was too lazy to draw the rest of it.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a178/Lechy/oceancreature.jpg

[Beatnik]

The Fangtooth Vipersquid is generally harmless unless provoked. They live an average of six miles below the surface and come up to feed at night. Their large powerful claws easily crush any prey it can catch, but the fangs are not to be overlooked. The lights on their head will shine bright when threatened or when looking for a mate.


http://hotfish.com/misc/deepseaCOW.jpg

[Eshara]

Octonailious:
Thanks to recent new advancements in technology humans are now able to explore much deeper into the depths of the ocean. Because of this there have been a number of new discoveries. Most memorable is the Octonailious. It was discovered by Henry L. Johnson. What is known about this creature so far is that it uses its innate camouflage on its back to blend in with its surroundings. To blend in better it digs a small trench for itself and sits in waiting. It doesn't move until the schools of gwandula fish are close by. Once they are close enough it feeds in a frenzied rage until it is full. They are solitary creatures and don’t see each other until it is mating season. They're like this because to many Octonailious's in one area would deplete the food source dramatically.

Below is a picture of the Octonailious after a big feast:
http://www.thehgl.com/rebecca/pictures/deepseacreature_smaller.jpg

I updated it :)

[nightfend]

I wanted to try a different approach than the one I was doing for the two previous cows, try to approach this more as an illustration and focus more on the colors (something I really have to work at, big time). No text or any other thing this time.
I think it sucks how it turned out :nohope:

Actually I really, really like the illustration. Your creature really feels tremendously large. I think it's a great concept. Kind of reminds me of the worms from Dune. :rendered:

[Lake]

Definitely going for the illustration on this one....

The narwhal worm gored open the plug at the bottom of atlantis with its horn, and atlantis sank. nuff said.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a280/viapanda/Narwhal-Worm-web.jpg

[brokk]

Actually I really, really like the illustration. Your creature really feels tremendously large. I think it's a great concept. Kind of reminds me of the worms from Dune.

I promised myself not to comment until the voting round began but I couldn't leave this without a reply.
Nightfend, this round your entry and Helzon's are my favorites so far, followed closely by Oregano, and I've been a semi-silent fan of your entries since a few c.o.w.s back (since the leviathan cloud dwellers I think) and I always look forward to seeing what you produce, so getting this kind of support from you is very nice and really means something to me. Thank you.

Just wanted to say that, and that your entry this round is rocking : P

More comments when the voting starts! : P

By the way Dune is one of my favorite stories, I want to get the book, the mini series was awesome.

[Schlo-mo]

http://www.creativespot.org/post/data/636/cowserp2.jpg


The Chinawhite Sea Dragon, a beast that was once thought to be just a Mythical creature of fables is a large serpintine-like underwater predator. As Pictured here with a small Pod of blue whales, the Chinawhite Sea Dragon has immense control over the Beard of anntenae -like-strands that hang from his under jaw, the strands act as a amplifier for movement detection within the surrounding, dark and distant waters. Picking up such movemnt of a gargantuan range allows the Dragon to find and easily consume a huge array of the worlds biggest sea beasties. Although they are and sparce and illusive creature, what they certainly make up for in lack of numbers is huge size and speed. With the ability of using its fins and eel-esque body structure, the Dragon can propel and navigate over great distances across the deepest depths of the ocean.

[Xpose]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/xpose/drawings/Shin-Mira.jpg

Shin-Mira, persumed to be leftovers from the dinosaur era's, lives in the darks depths of the ocean. Feeding on both plants and sea animals it can grow to extremely large proprtions. It's calls are oftenly mistaken for whale's but the Shin-Mira uses it almost like sonar. You'll never see one near the surface due to the pressure diffrences. Unfortunately if it rises to the surface it simply dies so the only real visuals are taken with state of the art computerized subs.

[shadoman]

http://www.shawnadomanis.com/images/cow/cow24.jpg

Giant Poisonous Altravertea
The Giant Poisonous Altravertea are ancient creatures found deep off the coast of Iceland. Their sizes range from 42’ to a suspected length of 57’. They are very elusive creatures whom, for the most part, keep to themselves, but will severely sting and paralyze any predators or animals that swim too close. The unique mating rituals of the Altravertea is the only way that this creature draws attention to itself. The female’s short tentacles will glow and release pheromones to attract the males.

[Dusty]

http://home.comcast.net/~turbutter5/deepsea.jpg

Giant Mimic Squid:

The Giant Mimic Squid, the larger cousin of the recently found mimic octopus is particularly interesting for what it disguises itself as. While the mimic octopus has been known to impersonate flounder and seaweed, camera images of this squid found it impersonating something much more interesting. While we can only speculate what the squid has seen that would cause it to make this shape, we do know that the squid is incredibly intelligent and may actually be giving us a glimpse of another unknown species. Hundreds of tentacles wrap around each other to form what appears to be a neck, head and mouth, and tentacles on the side wrap around to form what appear to be flippers. Amazingly enough, the squid actually uses its makeshift flippers to swim through the water just as you would expect it to do were it a real "sea serpent". The squid does not have suction cups, but small pliable "teeth" that can bend against the skin as to not puncture itself. After the amazing live pictures of the Giant Squid....we never imagined we would be so lucky to find this new species in the same month. Furthermore, the suggestion that some species of sea serpent truly makes this one of those amazing discoveries of all time.

[duddlebug]

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/8800/piratemuncher9jg.jpg

Ye Monstrous Pirate Muncher

The Pirate Muncher is a carnivoruous sea monster with an appetite for pirates. He'd probably enjoy any human folk, but pirates are particularly easy prey. He spends most of his time searching through ship wrecks on the sea bed, but has a penchant for 'fresh' pirates too, and to enjoy 'fresh pirates' he has to head to the surface. The Pirate Muncher is very clever for a sea monster and has learnt to draw. He lures pirates to his razor sharp teeth by drawing treasure maps and sending them off, by their hundred, in bottles for pirates to find. Pirates can't resist a treasure map... or treasure for that matter... so they greedily succumb to the Pirate Muncher's clever trap. The Pirate Muncher piles some sand on his head and a palm tree or two. He tops his little fake island with a chest of treasure (easy to find on the sea bed in pirate infested waters) and patiently waits for the pirates. Soon he knows a ship will turn up full of juicy pirates to collect their treasure. Once the Pirate Muncher is sure they can't get away he tosses them in the air and swallows them whole. He keeps a firm hold on the anchor so he can have a chew on the ship too. And if necessary, he finds the masts and yardarms particularly useful for picking pirates from his teeth.

[BrainBug]

hehe that is so funny and nice duddlebug :)

didn't read all descriptions yet, but so far you got my vote

[Fozzybar]

nice entry duddlebug, but it seems that this creature isn't a DEEP sea creature actually...not that i won't accept it, it's too good, just mentioning it, because it seems that you missed this detail :)

[duddlebug]

nice entry duddlebug, but it seems that this creature isn't a DEEP sea creature actually...not that i won't accept it, it's too good, just mentioning it, because it seems that you missed this detail :)

Ahhaaaahahah... but did i?

"He spends most of his time searching through ship wrecks on the sea bed, but has a penchant for 'fresh' pirates too, and to enjoy 'fresh pirates' he has to head to the surface"

He likes it deep down... he likes the dark and the sunken ships...but has to come up to eat... ermm...um.... er... his tentacles are deep..? aren't they? No one said how 'Deep'...??

And anyway... 'Deep' is all relative.

My mum's Jack Russell thinks puddles are deep. :wink:

[Sundance]

And anyway... 'Deep' is all relative.

My mum's Jack Russell thinks puddles are deep. :wink:


Don't go getting deep on us there duddlebug. :bashful:

Very nice...if I could reach across the pond, I'd give you an ass pat...er...maybe not. Perhaps Aly can do it for me! :$

[nightfend]

Ye Monstrous Pirate Muncher

Ahaha, that illustration definitely made my day. Too funny. You've got my vote. Great job duddlebug! :rendered:

[hurricane]

Thanks all for the kind words !!

duddlebug, nutter and nightfend are my favourites !

cheers !!!

[JakkaS]

Hi, This is my first post, so be gentle.

BLINDFISH
The "Blindfish" is a huge creature living in the deepest areas of ocean. The whole life it spends on drifting and searching for drawning oragnic matter at the ocean bottom. Those really big fishes are absolutely helpless without small "glow-worms". The small ones, in return for protection, do the pilot's work in dark deep water - that's the way they coexist with each others.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/JakkaS/HugeDeepSeaCreature--JakkaS.jpg

[Hanuka]

too much badass-competition. but oh well... accidents happen...

edit: dobry wieczor, jakkas :> amazing itroduction!

[possessed]

JakkaS, welcome. Great first post!

[Lake]

JakkaS - GREAT first post... now I'm torn on who to vote for!

[Nutter]

DAMN YOU PEOPLE!!!! why do you make it so hard to vote.

So many great entries here.

JakkaS - That's a really neat concept. You better stick around coz I want to see more of this stuff.

Duddlebug - Quality stuff as usual. I am partial to funny concepts.

bRØk3n_sPiRiT - That looks like the biggest creature here thats for sure. You've captured the hugeness really well.

Helzon - The transluscent skin on your creature rocks.

Nightfend - I like the action in yours.

Hurricane - I like the saggy boobs on yours.

Nutter - pick up your act mate, you think you can get by with that crap.

Dusty - That's a damned talented creature.

[Helzon]

Hey Nutter...thanks man!
I'm not going to handicap this horse race. In my humble I think it's impolite until voting begins...but I will say it's gonna be an absolute to try and pick this week.

My best to everyone!!...Cheers to you all for submitting something!!!

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/seamonster.jpg

A creature that will usually wait for a pod of whales to herd a vast school of fish or squid for themselves before attacking and eating the lot, the Aquae Mortis Ingens is a lazy bugger, but that doesn't mean it won't snap up a hapless shoal or lone cetacean.

[0kelvin]

Jumbo Shrimp Jelly Cocktail!
October 7, 2005: In what is being called the most important week in the history of marine biology, yet another new magnificent species has been discovered by scientists. It began as the research team aboard the USS Mysticeti sent a submersible to further study their newly discovered giant jelly (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=609696&postcount=33). They followed the jellyfish deep into the highly volcanic Tonga trench and were astounded to watch it be promptly devoured by what the scientists have dubbed the Jumbo Shrimp. Measuring nearly a full league (4.8 km) from tail to head, it has surpassed the Japanese Spider Crab as the world's largest crustacean (by roughly 1200 times). After returning to the surface and putting on a fresh pair of pants, Professor W. T. Sherman of the research team said, "This is by far the largest organism the world has ever seen, and will ever see, because anything bigger than this would just be silly. Don't even try to come up with something larger, this is the absolute limit for believable size." The Jumbo Shrimp is believed to feed primarily on the schools of hundreds of giant squid swimming nearby.
http://www.whereismyeyeball.com/images/CA/COW/COW24final.jpg
Inset: School of giant squid.
Inset: Inset: A giant squid, which last week would've been hot shit to see, but now is just kinda neat.



0kelvin

[princeofhappiness]

http://img323.imageshack.us/img323/9125/monster11vh.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

The Red Lantern Leviathan
This rare deep sea creature belongs to the squid and octopus family. What differentiates it from others, however, is that it has a lantern on its head, which is useful in navigation and feeding in the darkest of waters. The Red Lantern Leviathan is not a hostile creature. Despite its gigantic size (20 metres in length), it spends its time eating seaweed using little suckers found under its two tentacles. The two front tentacles are used to pull out plants form the earth.

[Lake]

0kelvin - holy crap, that's a whole lotta pr0n.

[S.C. Watson]

0kelvin - LOL :D :P

[sephone]

I have finally had a chance to make time to enter the C.O.W. Here is my entry. By the way everyones work is awesome! :yayca:

In the deep seas 100 miles from Hawaii there has been what looks like a new type of deep sea whale that has been discovered. Little is known about this species only that it looks like it goes up into the oceans surface and fills these giant airsacs full of air before it submerses back into the deep. Staying maybe days at a time before it comes back up for air.



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/seph001/deepsea_small.jpg

[BlkCelebration]

Another great round. Barely made it on time!


http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a242/monasterio/pescado.jpg

Luzoro:

The Luzoro, a giant deep sea dweller closely related to the common goldfish is two times the size of an adult whale. They are passive and spend their time slowly travelling accross the deepest parts of the sea. Some say their appearence is similar to that of an elderly man; perhaps explaining its slow pace swimming. They give shelter in their poisonous tentacles to smaller fish which are immune to the poison. They sometimes become its food, but the Luzoro bases its diet on plancton for the most part. They have no known enemies, hence their brightly colored bio-luminesent marks and tentacles are not a defense mechanism; they are purely for asthetic purposes.

[Yodaah]

Hi folks,

here is what I finally have to "enter the cow" >:D . I wanted to render the monster fully in a real coloured version, but just don't have the time to finish it in colours before deadline. So since black & white artwork is allowed to be submitted, I thought I might at least post the beast in black & purple, which kind of suits him (hope you like it anyway :bashful: , but I'll do a full coloured version, that's for sure.)


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b261/Yodaah/Giant-Sea-Monster-TIF.jpg


This is the Ichtyonarcoticus. He measures 17 meters long, but there are rumours that some bigger kinds of 24 meters length, have been witnessed. The arms beside his jaw are furnished with venomous stings. After grabbing his victim with his teeth he anaesthetizes it with his stings in order to paralyze it. This assures more comfort while eating. He really comes from the Deep Blue Sea, living in giant ditchs, 10 000 meters below the surface. Down there he is hunting giant squids, sharks and whales. He is not to particular in choosing nourishment, unless he comes up to get some humans for lunch once in a while...

[RES]

I’ve just got back from holiday, so I'm cutting this one fine. If fozzys not to quick closing the thread I may just sneak this one in. Here’s how it looks so far. GO GO SPEED PAINT

Ive moved my first post to my Sketchbook
Wip 1 (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=612501#post612501)

UPDATE

Thanks fozzy for the extra time

Heres my COW so far. I may come back to it later today if I have the time but for now its done.

I also need a favour form someone, my last C.O.W was too dark on other people monitors. So how does this one look let me know if it needs to be lightened

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/RES-Ryan/CW_BigSeaMonster3.jpg

The Big BOB

This titanic creature was recently discovered in the lowest recesses of the deepest known sea trench.
BOB (a nick name given to the creature by it discoverer because of it ungainly swimming motion) was first thought to be the last of a prehistoric species but on further investigation of the many ancient tethered spheres which Bob seems to care for it has been realized that these are in fact eggs containing Bob’s offspring.
The eggs appear to take millions of years to develop suggesting that BOB could be one of the first creatures ever to swim the sea and has retreated to the trench to procreate.

[Form]

how long till deadline? i havnt started painting yet, i just did some sketches. ill need about 2-3 hours to paint it up. DO i have enough time?

[Fozzybar]

i will close this tonight....so you have about 8-12 hours from now...GO!

[Fozzybar]

Architeuthis Rex Profunditatis

Amongst Crypto-Zoologist also known as "The Mighty Fright" this deep sea monster is the real merciless hunter of whales on our planet...no whaler ship is more efficient or acurate than this ancient giant of the abyss...

Once impaled its horn and digged its crawls into the whale, its victim has no chance to survive...In fact this monster also hunts for other Architeuthis and doesn't contemn any creature around as long as it's big enough...

Recently they found one specimen of this species stranded on the coast of Argentina - already dead of course...inside in its 3 stomachs they found a total of 2 common Architeuthis, 1 Physeter macrocephalus [sperm whale] and a dozen of big sharks...


http://www.kidomatix.com/ca/cow/cow_024_hugedeepseacreature_fozzybar.jpg

[Red_Rook]

!!! *gets on it!* :perv:


edit: nah forget it im not gunna be able to finish it

[tuchten]

My first, so go easy on me.
ps. Am I late?

Dark water avatar
This is not the story of a monster, this is simply the product of toxic waste humanity left buried in the dark waters.
For years we kept doing it. For decades it grew. Forever we cried

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v606/tuchten2/tuchten%20begins/cowfish.jpg

[Form]

FANTASTIC ROUND guys, well done! Glad i got this in on time...


Deep Heart

The discovery of the lost city off the coast of Chile was met with mixed reaction. While the scientific world was awash with excitement and speculation, the discovery of a huge plaque written in fragmented archaic arabic set the christian right into a blaze of outrage. Its rough translation was "The sun will disappear from the sky". Attempts to explore the ruins were hampered by religious extremists, convinced that the plaque hinted at the apocalypse.

After prolongued discussions with the UN, one expedition was approved to explore the deep city and bring back photographic record.

This photo was taken from the deepwater camera of a ROV sent to capture live feed of the exploration by the USSR Camriev. It soon became clear that the inscription referred to this mammoth beast, who blocked out any light that trickled down from the sun above.

Upon exiting the city, the creature ceased pursuit of the submersible, trailing its long body back into the labarynthine city. Upon surfacing, the crew of the Camriev were observed to be in extreme shock, and were shaking uncontrollably. Attempts to communicate verbally did not succeed - it appeared the crew had all been made deaf.

The crew's captain was handed a sheet of paper and a pen, on which he wrote:

"The sound of the beast eclipses all. The guardian of that city... the sound is like the beating of a gargantuan heart...deafening... the sound of the deep heart."


http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67/thebohemian/subf.jpg

[princeofhappiness]

nice one.....wicked storyline.

[Sniper]

Its crap form, I want MORE detail! *whip whip*

:tihi:

[Form]

why you... thinking i was in bed! and posting this behind my back!! WHY YOU! *rings snipers neck*

i could noodle at this another 10 hours... but its 3.30 am, im goin to bed! enough work for a rush job :P

nite!

[scumgrinder]

El viento - not yet classified
Discovered in 1875 it was named after the ship that sank trying to catch it. It is unknown how many of them exist and how long they live. like most large sea creatures it feeds on plancton and waste. Some scientists think it must be a relative of jellyfish with enlarged dermis to resist high pressure. The other one of its kind , a relatively smaller creature known as Dresden has an entirely different appearance yet the cell structure and number of tentacles and eyes remains the same. Scientist suggest the shape of these creatures is determined by the earth's magnetic fields.
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a232/scumgrinder/elviento.jpg

[Carnifex]

still time?

[scumgrinder]

i don't know... i hope

[Banned_User]

I don't have the time for this one..but its like madness in here, so many good entries this week.

[Lake]

Form - that reminds me way too hard of the leviathan from disney's atlantis movie.

[Fozzybar]

VOTE!

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