[soopursam]

This is my first CG challenge, also a huge fan of Avatar! So excited to participate! Here's some WIP silhouettes of my creature... not quite ready to unviel my entire model.

[johnchen]

Originally Posted by Doppelganger

Hey gang sorry I have been out of touch here for awhile. I just got back into town and the next few days will be busy but ill try for an hour at lunch tomorrow, I got a Sunday afternoon planned to just sit and go on some ideas, I cant wait.

@mayanew I like your early sketches, which one are you going for?


@johnchen I really like the sluggercrab concept, I love the spotted colours on his legs, however the slug part feels dark in comparison and the shell it self has an opportunity to be wild in its design. the shell also is a bit symmetrical. I would love to see the other bird guy creature in a scene with these things.


@Woogity Ill touch on your crit of my little pink creature I think?
the creature is an octoped were as in most of Pandora's inhabitants are hexapodal.
To your point about the nostrils, I noticed this early on in research, this is only true for the larger animals, as they get smaller their nostrils get more and more to where they are in our world (the monkey creature and black deer peacock thing are good examples) the intelligent creatures are depicted as tetrapods with nostrils where humans nostrils are, which I'm betting is what any intelligent life in 2 or 3 will have, even the banshee is a tetrapod and has very little in common with other species in its kingdom. your response indicates the creature is hard to read so ill have to go over it again so its forms are clear thanks for the comments don't be shy keep them coming (ps to all, should I make it a hexapod?)
your creature design for the crab like species is interesting, have you tried colour look dev yet?
I've noticed a few people are basing their creatures off of existing Pandoran jungle species as you mentioned in a post to me. If so then beware the sin creature. this movie is heavy handed with physiognomy in this case (beautiful meaning good and ugly meaning bad) and unless your creature is evil then it would be out of place compared to the previous film (much like 90% of my concepts lol) in fact because we do not know the rules of the new worlds were left at two points.
1. we either take existing creature designs make variations and drowned them in water( which is terrible concepting practice) or 2. we make original creatures that we just say is in that world. for example Johns slugercrab doesn't have much in common in that universe, but its a great design, however if it was seen in Avatar 2 then people would say wow that's exactly like Avatar.
Which is why I just went crazy out there and didn't care about whether it fit's the world, I just keep going till the moderators rein me back. personally though because we cant possibly know the rules for those new environments, and we only have what came before than I wouldn't try to much to make them exactly like the jungles of Pandora (unless that's your gaol then ill shut up).
If you think about it the oceans of Pandora will be as different in design to there land as our oceans are to ours.

Nice points have been raised here from Doppelganger, great to see people are thinking hard about the design of the creatures. Yes, since the brief is very open, since we are in the pre-production / look dev .

We are free to explore, but having more freedom sometimes is harder then it seems lol.

at the end of the day
- have a creature that looks cool and fits in with one of the 3 environments,
- have some sort of connection to earth animals that people can instinctively recognise. It may be very subtle but just gives that extra sense of believability. ( biology, silhouette, behaviour, environment, body functions )

I do think in Avatar 2,3 we will see some sort of arachnid like creatures, since there was hardly any in number 1 and arachnid's are generally cool creatures to have in a movie.

So I think Woog is on the money with his design so far, his textures will make a big difference between looking like a Blizzard type creature or a Weta type creature.

Keep going guys, still time left to finalise your concepts.

Challenge ends - Saturday June 30th.

[l-mo]

hi guy's im new here ..and i liked the idea of the chalange so i was exciting to begin working on ..also to practice and learn more about sculpting so here it my model so far i think critic will be very welcome

[mayanew]

Hello all.

Love your piece johnchen.

Here is an update of my creature "A" (N,O,P from original idea).
Thinking it is a bug man type character that has evolved to live underwater.
Maybe breathing though something on his back or gills.

[Pleszer]

Hi everyone !

[Pleszer]

My lowpoly concepts

[viju]

hi guys here is my Ocean Creature wip..

[johnchen]

2 more weeks! welcome to those that have just joined, feel free to post any questions you have here and your WIPS.

[carvuliero]

few ideas waiting comments and suggestion which to chose to be my final model



few fast blocking to see if work in 3d

[johnchen]

@Pleszer I like concept1, the emu like creature.

@carvuliero 1,5,4 have strong shapes. Remember your creature needs to fit into the three environments and the Pandoran theme in general from the movie.

@viju Looking on point, keep going.

@mayanew I like how you are trying to create a humanoid creature, but I think the body is looking way too much like a man in a diving suit.

@l-mo Its a nice sculpt, but I dont think this satisfies the brief of creating a creature from the Pandoran world. Looks more like a creature from Greek mythology. I would revisit the concept and watch the Avatar movie again.

Please finalise your concepts by the end of the week and work on polishing the model & surface texturing in the final week, most importantly have fun in creating your creature

[carvuliero]

what about N6 the doggy like I think can be something like a lava/rick dog/cyclop

I really like N4 can be part of a water world but to be substitution for a clouds big flying island with his own flora and fauna

[johnchen]

Originally Posted by carvuliero

what about N6 the doggy like I think can be something like a lava/rick dog/cyclop

I really like N4 can be part of a water world but to be substitution for a clouds big flying island with his own flora and fauna

hmm, I can't see a Cyclops fitting in the Pandora environment, but if you can make it work then go for it.

[carvuliero]

[viju]

hi guyes here is my Ocean creature wip file C&c Welcome.

[johnchen]

Originally Posted by viju

hi guyes here is my Ocean creature wip file C&c Welcome.

cant see anything attached Viju?