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[TL Artists] Creature Compendium Collaboration

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Coagulation
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States9633 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-18 04:56:12
August 11 2012 06:30 GMT
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Welcome to the [TL Artists] Creature Compendium Collaboration


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heres a link to my private monster gallery. feel free to use them for inspiration!
http://continuum.firecaster.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=119

So what is this?
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With the amount of incredible talent on TL being in the range of mind blowing there is a huge amount of artistic knowledge collectively between us. This thread can ultimately stand as a general art discussion thread for TL that you can feel comfortable going in and talking to experienced artists of all levels about all aspects of art and design. It can be a place you can go to learn or a place you can go to teach but above all its a place you can go to see TL artists doing what they do best.


So what can I do?
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The concept is simple. Draw a creature, monster, robot, alien or flying electric death ray triangle! whatever it is that you think would be a great addition to our collection of beasts and monsters. Anyone that wants to join can contribute a creature regardless of skill level. There are three different ways.


Where do I start?
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1. Concept artists. You might not have the greatest chops with photoshop but you can draw a pretty mean squiggle and know all the right places to add spikes and claws to make that blob theoretically haunt our nightmares. Share your vision and let us know what you wanna see. post your concept picture with a name and any other information about your creature that you deem important. You will get to see your creations come to life and get all the awesome perks that come along with being the guy that just came up with the badass idea of a tentacle whale bird with laser talons.
any concept you contribute will be posted in the OP with a link to it in the "concepts waiting for rendering queue in op"

2. Graphic artists. So you got the skills to bring those squiggles and shapes to life in all their shiny 3D fireball shooting glory? Pick a concept you like out of the "concepts queue in the OP and post a fully colored finished product to add to our ever growing finished display of monstrosities and beasties that go bump in the night.

3. If you fancy yourself a master monster maker feel free to just jump right in and show off your fully rendered and colored creature concepts and they will be added to the list.


How will they be organized?
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Finished creatures will be displayed in the OP in alphabetical order by artist name with the original concept artists name and original sketch in a spoiler underneath.
If you want your name on the rendered creatures list let me know in the thread or send me a PM and I will add a section to the OP for your work. Anyone can feel free to ask for a section. I wont judge you and tell you no but Im keeping faith that people will understand basic graphic design principals if they do wish to have a spot in the op for their finished pieces. I will update this thread on a daily basis to keep everything nice and up to date. I will also work on transferring all the pictures from my creature threads in here so we already got a pretty good start.




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On August 17 2012 04:02 strongandbig wrote:
this was supposed to be "a thing" but I had my hand in the wrong position so it is titled "a tgubg"

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On August 15 2012 20:15 SymphonyP wrote:
I drew these last week/this week

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On August 17 2012 09:11 starfries wrote:
can I resubmit my squiggles from the other thread?

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On August 10 2012 06:39 starfries wrote:
lol that bat is awesome

my paint skillz
half demon half robot! may or may not be inspired by doom.

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On August 10 2012 11:01 starfries wrote:
here's a manlier option if anyone is interested
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I drew a way cooler one but then my computer decided to restart itself for goddamn updates argh. So on my second try I drew this atrocious creature.



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On August 10 2012 23:34 Brainsurgeon wrote:
Made some kind of Squid thingy. Feel free to make improvements or suggestions or whatever, if you feel like it!

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On August 10 2012 22:46 Kurr wrote:
Since no one wanted to draw my stupid little ghost thing I made a different concept :

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-Skin a mix of darker green/light purple
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-Note : Supposed to be a much meaner face than the figurine, can't actually draw so I can't show that in paint.


I hope this is a little more badass and someone wants to draw it!



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On August 10 2012 22:31 Inkblood wrote:
There are a lot of creature concepts in this thread now. But I felt like throwing another one into the melting pot.

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Unfortunately I don’t think it turned out as cool as my other one. My brain is too advanced in comparison to my artistic skill when it comes to visuals I am thinking. (Not saying much, I know.) So in the place of artistic skill I shall invoke the power of words!

The idea was a sort of gorilla like body, although with a more upright posture, and more variance in the leg length. It only has the one beefy front leg, and coming out of it’s chest around where the other leg would be if he had one are two spindly t-rex like arms, for manipulating delicate objects. Another note is it's supposed to have gray skin, as opposed to fur.

It’s face, perhaps my biggest failure, (though the t-rex arms were pretty bad, and that’s being generous) was supposed to be in a similar vein as The Silence, from Doctor Who, or that mask you see in Scream. Only with a ton of eyes.

Then it has a dark cloak over its back, the hood is optional, I’m not sure if I like it.


On a somewhat sad note, I am disturbingly proud of my ability to create the 3d effect of putting his other back leg in there.

Anyways, I’m going to take a nap, so the compendium post at the top of page 32 will probably get a little out of date. This thread is beyond awesome, btw. Huge thank you to the artists making squiggles into masterpieces, you guys are great!



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On August 12 2012 00:54 GreYMisT wrote:
Here is a concept drawing I sketched on paper. Transfering it to MS paint went well I feel.

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On August 12 2012 02:04 intrigue wrote:
WTF you guys are so good
can you make a treble clef cat look badass?
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On August 10 2012 20:14 Faust852 wrote:
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Did that with the touchpad, it's a lightsaber or sth like that, hope you can make it better :D







Final Creature Renders

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On August 17 2012 09:18 cashmate wrote:
Tortured Demon
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This is the concept art for a demon i came up with a couple of weeks ago. I was really inspired by silent hill and Pyramid Head. It will run after its prey and impale it, all while letting out a muffled scream.

I'm currently working on one of the unfinished concepts in the OP which i will probably upload tomorrow.


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Line work could definitely be cleaned up, but ... I have real work to do

On August 15 2012 18:36 Defacer wrote:
Finished Eyeball McEyebally.

BEFORE by layabout

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diks

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layabout

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On August 16 2012 00:01 layabout wrote:
This is about the best i can draw using paint
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On August 15 2012 10:07 micronesia wrote:
I can't make the 3d art but I came up with one concept.

The dude walks with his tentacles that come out of the top of his head:

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I kinda liked this idea so I gave it a shot.

The head has barely any effort put into it. lol

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On August 16 2012 14:02 seaofsaturn wrote:
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On August 15 2012 07:42 layabout wrote:
This thread is far too professional.
Concept squiggles:

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I stayed up too late doing this. :z

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On August 16 2012 00:31 veQ wrote:
Most of works here were done on pc :< Im not into that T_T
Not sure if hand drawn ones count but still
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Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Canada3508 Posts
August 11 2012 07:57 GMT
#2
are you adding the squiggles from the other thread to the queue or are we starting anew?
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United States459 Posts
August 11 2012 08:07 GMT
#3
Hah, I was just reading the Blue Robot thread when you posted this. Great stuff.
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Denmark4608 Posts
August 11 2012 15:17 GMT
#4
You guys are so talented! Will lurk vigilantly in this thread
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Sweden359 Posts
August 11 2012 15:31 GMT
#5
This is too cool.
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Canada7507 Posts
August 11 2012 15:35 GMT
#6
Awww yeah.
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Lalalaland34490 Posts
August 11 2012 15:43 GMT
#7
The new best thread on TL is here.
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United States1332 Posts
August 11 2012 15:46 GMT
#8
This is an awesome idea! Looking forward to seeing some epic stuff.
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United States1193 Posts
August 11 2012 15:48 GMT
#9
I've been waiting for this thread!
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United States6736 Posts
August 11 2012 15:54 GMT
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Here is a concept drawing I sketched on paper. Transfering it to MS paint went well I feel.

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Zambrah
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States7291 Posts
August 11 2012 16:01 GMT
#11
Heres somethin' from my ol' college portfolio,

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Its only like 2/5 of the whole picture, but its fine. :-P
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Zambrah
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States7291 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-11 16:57:56
August 11 2012 16:57 GMT
#12
EDIT: Dammit, I need to be more careful with my tabbing, SORRY GUYS. -.-
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PSdualwielder
Profile Joined April 2011
Canada77 Posts
August 11 2012 17:00 GMT
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I'm gonna throw one of my zbrush pieces in here
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Washington, D.C9933 Posts
August 11 2012 17:04 GMT
#14
WTF you guys are so good
can you make a treble clef cat look badass?
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Reactwhat
Profile Joined December 2011
United Kingdom10 Posts
August 11 2012 17:11 GMT
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An old picture i didnt finish up;

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DODswe4
Profile Joined July 2011
Sweden2157 Posts
August 11 2012 17:27 GMT
#16
On August 12 2012 01:01 Zambrah wrote:
Heres somethin' from my ol' college portfolio,

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Its only like 2/5 of the whole picture, but its fine. :-P


that looks like a spider with ultralisk hide on the back, really cool

good idea to make this thread will be a lot of nice pictures to look at
Kurr
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada2338 Posts
August 11 2012 17:42 GMT
#17
On August 11 2012 16:57 starfries wrote:
are you adding the squiggles from the other thread to the queue or are we starting anew?


Also wondering. There were a few well made ones that weren't drawn yet (not mine of course, as a 2 year old can draw better than me/be more imaginative).
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Zambrah
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States7291 Posts
August 11 2012 18:00 GMT
#18
On August 12 2012 02:27 DODswe4 wrote:
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Heres somethin' from my ol' college portfolio,

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Its only like 2/5 of the whole picture, but its fine. :-P


that looks like a spider with ultralisk hide on the back, really cool

good idea to make this thread will be a lot of nice pictures to look at


It was supposed to be some sort of spider god and then deadlines came up and I just fucking finished it, lol.

Its good to have an idea of what colleges want earlier than a month before applying to them. ;-D
Incremental change is the Democrat version of Trickle Down economics.
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Belgium1880 Posts
August 11 2012 22:01 GMT
#19
where is stompbot2000 ?
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Costa Rica2390 Posts
August 11 2012 22:06 GMT
#20
One of mine
Ill do something original for the thread
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