[Amaakir]

Anatomicae #26 - Human Chimera

Due Date: May 14th, 2012, 12:00 PM PST
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Challengers! Hereth lie the rules for this rounds challenge! Read on...

"A Madman's Ramblings (Introduction)"

Some of you may have wondered why the new challenge icon is shiny (No, it's not because I like shiny things) Maybe I can answer your curiosity with the following: Many Anatomicae challenges have passed, leaving blank spaces in the banner filled with great winning entries, however, the banner has been filled and past winning entries were momentarily lost. Then came the Anatomicae Hall of Fame, to keep those entries and their participants very much alive in the spirit of Anatomicae and yet, once more, here we are, with a single last spot to place a winning entry at. I thought it was time to give a little twist to the banner instead of just replacing the old entries and therefore came up with this challenge.
When this challenge is over a new banner will come to replace this one, bringing new spots for future challenges. The winner of this challenge, will not only be awarded a badge and a spot in the Hall of Fame, but their winning entry will be the protagonist in the design of the new Anatomicae banner for all to see!
This one is a big one, folks, so extra time will be granted for you to show off your prowess and artistic skills, push them to the limits and good luck!

Objectives

Challengers will be tasked to create a Chimera resulting of a combination of man and animal. The Chimera can be inspired from up to 2 different animals, but the creature must have a lot of recognizable human anatomy reference.
A study of the bone and muscular system of the Chimera is required for the final entry, it must be functional and have clear reasons for you depicting it (For example, avoid adding a lot of spikes or wings if they are of no use or will not work properly.) Last but not least, a final rendered image of the Chimera, a "Beauty shot" if you may, will also be required in order to qualify in the voting poll.

Rules and Requirements

- Challengers are required to show their WIP and Reference Materials. These challenges are an opportunity for all of us to make contact with other artists and be a part of a growing community and it would be unfair for the artists who are making an effort to share their work and ideas if you are allowed to enter the finals without participating in the WIP thread.
- Challengers are to create a man-animal hybrid creature. In the process, the challenger must depict the creature's skeletal and muscular system and give a brief description of how the Chimera's body works.

Some Tips to get you on your way...

- Studying both anatomy and animal anatomy will be of great help on this challenge. How can you successfully blend the muscle of the animal you're studying with that of the human's?
- Once you have your rough sketch, start by adding the skeletal system first and then start adding muscle and details until you get the final image.
- Knowledge is your best friend, always! Know the functions of the bones, what they are there for and how they work, same with muscles.
- Here are a couple of links of interest:

http://www.posemaniacs.com/

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Anatomy...ogy_of_Animals


Have fun, guys, and welcome to round #26!

[Luneder]

this will be the first time I am participating in one of the CGhub activities.

I am doing an Owl human chimera. the owl skull is made by crossing two different types of owl skulls to make a generic skull. The human skull is based on a anatomy tool skull I bought a few months ago.

I then crossed the two skulls to make the hybrid.

[Amaakir]

@Luneder: You, sir, are exactly on the right tracks. Also, welcome to the challenges! You're off to an awesome start, keep going, it's gonna get really interesting!

[Luneder]

Originally Posted by Amaakir

@Luneder: You, sir, are exactly on the right tracks. Also, welcome to the challenges! You're off to an awesome start, keep going, it's gonna get really interesting!

The hard part will be mixing the rest of the human skeletal system with the owls.

[Blindrat]

oh ho ho.....This I've gotta get my hands on for obvious reasons >_>

@Luneder- Wonderful start. If your concern is how to combine the skeletal structures my advice would be to take note of what vital organs and functions you want to be present. Based on that information you can build around the organs systems you want and build the supporting skeletal structures for the functions.

[TwoDD]

Interesting challenge! I have a few ideas in my head, but it's hard to create a chimera while still being original. I can think of a few chimeras that could fall into other mythical creatures, like Medusa, harpies, centaurs, satyr, and so on. Is it alright if they can be classified as such?

Also, for the animals of choice would it be recommended they also have a skeletal system? I was thinking of combining insect and human but it might end up being too difficult.

Anyways, I can't wait to get started!

[Amaakir]

@Luneder: Don't worry, there's extra time to work on this challenge and, if needed, the deadline can be extended a bit also, so don't worry about time and focus on getting some epic artwork done!

@Blindrat: Allright, Blindrat! I'd be honored to have you participate in this, man! It totally fits you!

@TwoDD: It's ok to reproduce a clasiscal mythological creature, you can also try adding elements of a second animal, like a weird crossover between medusa and a bat, maybe? go nuts! Also, you can do insect hybrids also, if you do, try focusing your skeletal studies on stuff like this:


And do a weird blend with the human muscle system, it's all really possible!

[guilhermegarcia]

Great challenge!

Coincidentally, today I've read something about the chameleon's anatomy. Very interesting!
So, why not? I'll try a half-chameleon humanoid.

Some fast studies on chameleon skulls.



A bone in the tongue.

[stace]

Oh man, I can't even remember the last CGhub challenge I did. I'm in, it seems like it will be a fun one! And what perfect timing, I'm going to the zoo tomorrow so I'll have to keep an eye out for some awesome critters. XD

Damn Luneder, setting the bar high for all of us already! :P I kid, I can't wait to see what else you do.

[guilhermegarcia]

Beginning of my chimera's skeleton.
Mixing the human and chameleon skeletons.

[Amaakir]

@guilhermegarcia: Great progress and I'm really glad to see you on this challenge! I find a couple of issues with perspective on the skeleton, try closing the skeleton in a box and, according to the perspective the box you put over is casting, add some lines following that perspective along joints and the feet, where I see the biggest perspective issue. That way it will be easier for you to keep constructing your creature from the skeleton without having more problems popping up in the future

[cerkvenik]

Hi everybody! I've been in my little world/sketchbook for a while and finally I have more time to I join you guys at the challenges!

Amaakir! - I've always wanted to paint a Gryphon, is it ok? The last anatomicae would be of HUGE help to me, but I don't know if the other guys would think that it's fair to use the other studies.

Well, If not, I'll try a different kind of Gryphon, after I heard about this challenge a read a little bit and found that there's a lot of types!

Well, here are my first studies. The 1st idea and the skeleton studies. The worst part is of course where the two types of animals join (the rib). But It'll be even worse to create the muscles!

If this one is ok, than thanks and good luck to us all!





And here are the refs: (consider along this all the studies from the last anatomicae too!) Thx everybody!



(You might wonder why there's a dino, it's because the gryphon mythology problably came from the Protoceratops fossils.


Amaakir again! If it's ok to post here, I found an awesome thread at conceptart.org about animal anatomy, I hope ours become even better!
Mentoring in Animal Anatomy and Creature Design

[Amaakir]

Originally Posted by cerkvenik

Amaakir! - I've always wanted to paint a Gryphon, is it ok?

Hey cerkvenik, the Gryphon idea is cool, but there has to be a noticeable fusion with human anatomy, meaning it can't be just all animal, if that makes any sense :P Maybe you could try doing a human-gryphon? maybe mix a centaur with a gryphon, a human torso that becomes the body of a lion and an eagle head, for example. But it does have to have some human anatomy influence.
Thnxs for the link btw! I'm sure it'll come handy

[cerkvenik]

Ummm...ok!
Won't DC charge me of doing hawkman?

The doubt came because I saw other people doing mythological creatures on chimeras not involving animals like the insect example you wrote. But ok.

Thanks!

[Amaakir]

I think I see where the misunderstanding took place, what TwoDD meant was that there are a lot of mythical creatures that would fit the brief (Medusa-half snake half human; Harpies-half birds half humans, and so on) In those examples, the creatures have a lot of human anatomy on them, and hence TwoDD was afraid of falling into doing something common in classical mythology.

I'll take this opportunity to remember everyone participating that you can use up to 2 animals in your mix, but the creature must be anthropomorphic or show a lot of human anatomy on it.

I hope this answers your doubts, cerkvenik, and sorry for any inconvenience