Welcome to the Creature Planets weekly activity! As you can see, there are 12 spots (12 weeks) on the banner to showcase a thumbnail for the first 12 winners. There will be a winners gallery showcase thread as well to accompany the first 12 weeks at their full scale and the many weekly winners to come there after. After a certain amount of weeks (to be determined) the activity banner winner's will reset to showcase a new set of 12 winner's. Perhaps at the start of the new year or sooner.
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Week #02 :: Jan. 18th 2010
Topic: Jelly Bubbled Broad Back open to interpretation.
Category: Structural Breakdown - Bones/Tissue/Anatomy Diagram
Explanation of category: Show one or more images breaking your creatures anatomy down to show us what the skull and skeletal structure might look like. If the creature isn't meant to contain a true skeleton, then break it down into tissue, organs, muscles, appendages, mouth, eyes etc. Basically show us some insight into the anatomy behind your unique creature concept. This doesn't have to look like a medical book diagram (If you want to be that precise and detailed, you can) it just needs to shed a little light on what's going on under the surface.
Deadline: Thursday Jan. 28th 2010 - 11p.m. [EST]
This will be flexible for the first week or two.
Topic Guidelines + Rules: We only need to see 1 finished creature concept and 1 image of the anatomy breakdown. You may take the silhouette of your finished design and lay it over the bone/tissue structure if you wish. You can show more than 1 additional view and imagery for the anatomy breakdown, but it's not necessary. IE; If you'd like to show multiple front, side, back, top down and 3/4 views of the skull, body, feet etc. go ahead. This isn't a model sheet turn around, you're creating an anatomy digram along with your creature concept.
Relevant links:
Reference links from the Handbook of Animal Anatomy:
High res. Animal Anatomy Images
An example of creature bone structure by Terryl Whitlatch:
Nuna creature from Star Wars
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General Activity Info: Only need to read this once.
Creature Planets is a Weekly Activity on CGHUB, covering creature design, creature illustration and creature creation of all related genres and entertainment industry venues. Though there are no obligations of any kind, I'd like to encourage participants to post thumbnails, sketches, work in progress images and final images as they move along with their entries. Please don't keep everything secret, working on your image in private only to post it at the very last hour as a surprise. The point of sharing sketches and work in progress material is so everyone can learn from each other, receive crits, compliments and improve their skills in a classroom/workshop like environment. There are no teachers and no students per say, but try to offer help to others when possible. Please be open to receiving crits, and paint-overs or mock ups of your work, as we are all here to participate, have fun, learn, grow and enjoy what each week has to offer.
Although there will ultimately be a winner at the end of the week, this isn't about competition, who's better, popularity or anything of the kind. The real reward here should be your own improvement and your own goals. Let this be more about sharing, learning, improving and building your knowledge and portfolio in the area of creature design with those who share the same interest. This activity is open to everyone, including new and old members, amateurs and working professionals alike.
Posting Info: Final Images + Voting Info Only need to read this once.
Please post all images using CGHUB's attachment manager, and keep images at a reasonable size IE; 1000-1200 pixels in width or height. Images posted smaller or slightly larger are fine, just don't get out of control. If you need help posting using the attachment manager, send me a PM or ask someone else in this thread publicly and you'll be helped. Feel free to provide a name for your creature and a bit of background information. It's not necessary, but the option to explain things further in text form is available, just don't write a book on it. A New thread for all Final images will be created. ONLY 1 image can be presented as your Final. The main reason for using CGHUB to host the image is so there are no dead links, especially when images are posted in the Finals thread for voting.