Developer’s Blog – Post No. 10

Today was FUN! we began the first stages of transition into our design unit as we got to create a sort of chimera, a mix between a couple or many creature. The one i picked was a mix between a crocodile and a Velociraptor, i dubbed him the Crocoraptor. The Crocoraptor has a crocodile head but a raptor’s body, this was to make the croc much more of a predator, as they're already very dangerous the only way i could think to improve them was to make them more agile on the ground. Below is my Sketch of my creature i designed.

After the initial sketch i then looked at the form and then the skeleton and created two separate drawings to give a little sustenance and believability to my design. These images are below.

 

The final stage to this was to show i had a full understanding on how my creature would move and is limitations. So i began to do some thumbnails of this, the whole page is below

The first one is of the creature running, the second is of him humping into the air, the third he is eating, the fourth he is bowing his head and looking and the fourth he is prowling/crouching and looking backwards. Below are close ups of each of these stances, though forgive me for the poor quality.

I really enjoyed today, and i believe it is one of the days where i produced a much better standard of work than i am used to with my drawing skills. as well as showing some understanding on how my created creatures body would move. Id like to do more of this in future and so will be sure to practice these movement studies upon each chance i get, though i am unsure if any will make it to my blog but keep an eye out.

Any constructive criticism or nice things to say please post a comment.

Thanks for reading and Kind regards

Daniel Young