C.O.W. - #052: Orange Sea Leviathan

[Fozzybar]

Round #052

Topic:
Orange Sea Leviathan
edit by davi: The freaking lizard is orange, not the sea.

Deadline:
Monday, 10th July 2006




- for any questions or help go here:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=37512

note: The deadline won't be EXACTLY after a week...it can last up to 24 hours more, i am human and have to work also, you know

Post your creature for this week!

[Fozzybar]

Only 8 entries last week...

So I decided to choose a topic which should reactivate the masses

Thanx to Tyranx for the topic idea!!!

[FunkytownP]

So would this be a leviathan in an orange sea, or an orange leviathan in a sea? Hmm....

[Fozzybar]

what do you guess?

[Main Loop]

niiiice... now this is a topic i can get into....

[TheDirtSyndicate]

i haven't been participating because im not very good at "ass patting"
see, at my level, i cant compete with the other participants like tyranx or mike, etc, so whats left for me to do (besides practice)?
ass pat. and i suck at that.
i have sketches from the other topics, but thats about it. never went beyond a sketch.
anyway, dont mean to be a downer. i'll try and start participating again soon, i just got a wacom tablet and im dying to put it to use.

[Bruce Jensen]

Only 8 entries last week...

could have been 9. You closed the topic several hours earlier than your usual time. I even set a clock to Honolulu time when I noticed your theory about deadlines stated here: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...0&postcount=88.

oh well. I'm off to bed then. Oh and FunkytownP, I like the orange sea twist!

[Migsta]

Yay! Orange!

[Fozzybar]

could have been 9. You closed the topic several hours earlier than your usual time. I even set a clock to Honolulu time when I noticed your theory about deadlines stated here

argh dammit....so why are you waiting for the very last minute and make me look like a liar

The thing is that i woke up like 6:30 am today because i was awaiting the workers for renovating my flat...and i had nothing to do, since they didn't come...argh...it won't happen that soon again, because i wake up like 10-11 am usually and don't have the time to set up the poll, i am doing it afternoon or evening usually...but well, shit happens...WHERE IS THE SHIT EATER???

[Fozzybar]

So would this be a leviathan in an orange sea, or an orange leviathan in a sea? Hmm....

Ok, just for the record:

ORANGE THE CREATURE HAS TO BE!!!
IF THE CREATURE IS NOT ORANGE YOUR ENTRY IS NOT IN THE POLL

phew...can sleep now

[JakkaS]

...but the sea could be orange too?









Hehehehe

[Fozzybar]

Yes!

I really would like to make a big orange splat right now in your avatar...

[Michael Jaecks]

You know they say Titan (Saturns moon) may have a sea under its ice, and its orange. One or two of Jupiters moons are candidates for that too. And although its a long stretch, some scientists believe that with the proper combination of natural antifreeze (ammonia) and the magnetic interaction with their gas giant hosts, these moons might have liquid oceans and might have life. Hmmm.

[Uziel]

WIP
That orange made me think of goldfish.

[rawwad]

Great topic! Love idea with orange creature law, haha

[AdamDillabo]

is this right.

its ok if i update my first post right? like if i paint it in ps?

[JakkaS]

WIP....

[Michael Jaecks]

Moorgoon Leviathan, Final.



The moorgoon leviathan generates a strong magnetic field and passes a bio-electric current through the seawater that sifts through its body, propelling it like a jet. Males are tuned to the planet's magnetic poles to travel in a general east-west direction, females in the opposite direction, usually. The inertia of their mass makes quick braking virtually impossible. To avoid the collision of their massive bodies, males swim much deeper than the females. Males and females spend most of their lives completely seperately. To reproduce, females must call to the males psionically. Sonic communication, typical of earth's whales, is ineffective given the depths that usually seperate the sexes. Female moorgoon leviathans come to rest and inflate the tough but flexible sac around their brains with a reserve of oxygen, activating the apporpriate neurotransmitters. The increased oxygen amplifies their psionic abilities, sending their primal mating message into the inky depths below. A male recieves the message of the female and easily locates the eggs, spawned much in the way salmon do. The orca pictured above shows the relative scale of the female moorgoon leviathan.

[JakkaS]

JakkaS: Is that... an orange slice on the leviathans head? How Rene Magritte of you.

Yes Sir!

[Ninth]

Neorepto, that is one evil looking slice of monster. Mmm!

Sketchy WIP. I'm worried it's not quite orange enough-

[Michael Jaecks]

Ninth: Why thank you. I like yours too. It looks like you're starting to work the orange out as a phosphorescent kind of function, like some deep sea critters have. Might be an interesting direction to go in, if it makes sense to do so, of course.

I image searched "leviathan" to sort of figure out what to veer away from, I guess. Lots of snakes. I considered a Clash of the Titans Kraken kind of creature that stood up out of the water, but when I got to the egg laying idea, that composition seemed less workable.

[Ninth]

I was going for some phosphorescence; I hope I won't go overboard with dodged glow effects in the end. Most of the orange will probably be from the color of the creature's exoskeleton.

...giant lobsters always seemed scarier in my mind than gargantuan octopi or overblown snakes.

JakkaS... your orangeheaded fellow is reminding me of how little vitamin C I had yesterday... kekeke.

[JakkaS]

JakkaS... your orangeheaded fellow is reminding me of how little vitamin C I had yesterday... kekeke.

hehe.

BTW, I am glad to see you here. I saw your beautiful dragons in Dragon's thread. I think I know who will be the winner in this round

[Tyranx]

Ooooo... I need to finish my LMS entry so I can do this one!

[Pixeldragoon]

HERE IS TO A YEAR OF CHOW.

I wondered why you were celebrating 50; 52 is the big landmark!

I will try to get something in.

[Capella]

Ooh, this sounds interesting, I think ill try my hand at this.
Especially with some extra time this weekend.

I love sea creatures!

[wassermelone]

HERE IS TO A YEAR OF COW.

I wondered why you were celebrating 50; 52 is the big landmark!

I will try to get something in.

There fixed that for you.

Because its been more than a year

There was a break last summer where there were no CoWs

[TheDirtSyndicate]

oh shit....hahahaha,
jakkas, i very rarely LOL, but i swear your creature made me LOL.
hahahhah

[Nexus]

Jakkas if you took your creature and squeezed the contents of its head into a glass with some vodka itd make a delicious beverage.

[Tyranx]

and a nutritious one to boot!