C.O.W. #281. Pynok Angels - WIPs Thread

[Si_Swe]

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ROUND #281 – Pynok Angels

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ROUND#281: Pynok Angels

Pynok, the second moon of Ith has opened up for limited tourism and exploration. The moon is covered in clusters of tubular rock structures which vent organic vapors from beneath the earth's crust, hinting at a massive underground network of vents and tributaries. The vapors keep the planet's surface hot and humid. With many new life forms to discover and catalogue, most of the planet is sealed off to tourists. The only animal they tend to see is far off in the distance and far up in the sky. What are called the Pynok angels are large aerial creatures of great beauty, or at least that's the impression folks have gotten seeing them so far away. The creatures reflect incoming celestial light in such a way as to seem to have a halo surrounding them, garnering the nickname. Your task this week is to design these guys.

Round Requirements:

- The creatures must be large aerial (winged) creatures
- The creatures live in a hot, humid environment with an abundance of organic vapor vents
- The creatures have some highly reflective portion of their body which may or may no create some kind of halo effect when struck by light
- The creatures should be beautiful, at least from afar

Deadline:

December 6th, 7:00pm PST (GMT -8 )

Finals go here: http://conceptart.org/forums/showthr...-Angles-Finals

[Rob Powell]

Sounds like a good opportunity to open up good old Alchemy for this one, nice topic Simon!

[aburnier]

I don't have time to participate once again, but this round sounds incredibly interesting! I can't wait to see what people come up with.

I envision a sort of half-flying half-floating creature that flies high in the air to gather air, and then sinks down into the lower atmosphere where it can rest, buoyant, on the denser natural gasses below. The shininess is a protective coating on its skin which reflects heat trapped by the dense atmosphere.

[Meteor Panda]

oooh.. l might have time for this one!

[Cloudy]

Hear are some initial ideas. Im leaning toward 4 or 8. I like the idea of the angel being beautiful from afar and hideous close up so Im trying to push that.

[humboldt squid]

Here's my work on my flying manta ray maple seed dorito so far

[ricardops]

Wow, that sound interesting lets see wht do the people, gj all and lets work!!!

[Sjuu]

Very nice subject!
Playing around with this shape... still not sure though.
Everyone good luck!

[Artka]

This an early design
I'm thinking about making the tail longer.
In my case the part of the body that reflect the light as an halo is the membrane of the head

[Whiskey Sour]

Hey hey... I gotta keep doing these if I ever want to get better, so here we go:

I'm trying to stay away from a bird or dragon design. I still have a long to go.

[Rob Powell]

some rough sketches and some silhouettes made in alchemy, I actually wipped up about 30 of them. but I chose some of the better silhos...

[Eclectix]

Great topic! I'm imagining something that would appear beautiful from afar, which would actually be terrifying up close, or at least unsettling in some grotesque way.

[Naevea]

Just some thumbs for now... Maybe I´ll do some more, not sure yet...

[Edward B]

A wip

[Doug Hoppes]

Okay, here's what I've come up with so far.

[scorge]

Holy Cow Edward! I had no idea you'd won 4 so far! Congratulations sir. You really are beginning to dominate.

[giby]

Here is a quick sketch so many great enteries

[scorge]

Had to whip something up.

[alexson]

Ugh, after seeing everyone else's stuff I really don't like mine. wip

[Edward B]

Haha thank you scourge! I dont know about dominate, Its more a case of enough people missclickling during the voting phase
Looking good already, perspective already down, that is what I'm struggling with atm with my dude.

[Sjuu]

played some more!
Here are the results, still very crude.

[Edward B]

Progress, the dude reads a little less like a giant now I hope.

[Doug Hoppes]

This is really cool, Edward.... going to have to add some environment work for my creatures.

[ricardops]

Hi guys!! there is my sketches, i want to say that im very nervious with this cow coz i have a very grotesque style (i think that you know that ), so here is, some suggestions etc... will be welcome thx alot guys lets work !!!

[fmaedal]

hi all,
my creature can cr8 2 halo .diameter of 1 halo doesnt change but the other changes according to the wings diameter....

[giby]

Lol its going ... great enteries .. lol my design is the weakest by far :p ..... went too far with the halo wil explain the concepts with the final peice

[Cameli]

Very nice stuff!
Edward try to put some clouds in front of the creature to show the size even more.

[GuesssWho9]

Edward--If you want it smaller, I suggest you put the cliff wall behind it.

[scorge]

Looking good folks! Edward, killing it! Watch out for that blue, the contrast is good, but it's starting to overwhelm your guy.

Made some major changes and added a little more detail.

[humboldt squid]

The more I work on this design, the less I like it. I'll probably have to start again from scratch.