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Published: 2009-06-08 04:30:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 1118; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 33
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Done after looking at 's Giraboon: [link] .. I strayed somewhat from the original design, probably from playing around with 's chimerapes, but was very taken by the gait so though I'd give it a shot anyhow! I tried to hybridize it our a little more & give it more binocular vision. I ended up changing the giraffe to a camel or llama, & the camel's and baboon's teeth and face a bit. I gave it blue rump and chest patches as prescribed by !Related content
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ha! Isn't knucklewalking a fascinating concept! The hands are so tense & relaxed at the same time, like in tai chi ... ok, ok I don't really know what I'm talking about
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This creature looks like it would have a very interesting and unique walk.
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I hadn't worked out its gait, but you're right .. it'd be kind of a hobbling loping gallop .. possibly some spine flexion, like a cheetah. Kind of a tangent, but I'm really annoyed with the motion of monsters that you invariably see in movies .. the red creature on the ice planet in star trek, as an example. Totally uneconomical movement for the sake of visual showiness. anyway...
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I agree. I admire Neville Page's audacity and his willingness to create creatures that don't look like anything we've seen before, but often enough I think they don't work well on screen.
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Don't get me wrong, it's not the creatures that I hate per se, no matter how wacky and audacious they can get (which sometimes can be pretty awesome), its the uneven treatment they're given in terms of the actual animated movement. Also, thanks for the link to that secondary tutorial! I'll have to take a closer look at it ... there was a at of fine adjustment going on at the end there.
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Maybe it's my predilection for horror, but I'm always drawn to the eyes first. Very focused. Not to mention, the musculature itself is daunting. This thing is crackling with a vicious kind of energy. The potentialities implicit in the hands, those powerful rear feet, the incisors - Wow! Powerfully done, man.
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Thanks, bud! I think the eyes in particular were from memories of pictures & masks of mandrills .. those things look fierce!
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I like yours more than mine, and am pleased it worked so well for you.
maybe its just me, but this almost seems like a murderous homonid kangaroo. (large middle toes, long ears, jutting canines)
and congrats on the binocular vision - the bane of my life. good to know I'm alone in that problem.
again, great work!
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haha, you have no idea how long i spent trying to get that binocular vision right ... maybe an entire half an hour! I still enjoy your own piece very much for its own sake ... i really failed to capture the feeling it gave off, and ended up with something a little colder and meaner, of course. I'll try again, perhaps. It is fun, though, to think of a whole group of different creatures that have specialized different fore and hind legs, namely with hooves in the back. ponder ponder
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I think I heard about RL animals (extant or extinct) that have different fore-and hind-toes (and not just birds, though those are obvious extreme examples)
my friend, if that's an example of you failing, I shudder to think of how a success would look ....(probably have the same effect on me as looking at an angel or into the sun)
play with the concept all you want; I'll try to too.
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Hmm, i'll have to look into it more. Those feisty dinosaurs & birds with their limb specialization
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might just be odd- and even-toed feet 's what i was thinking of.
curse them!
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I have heard some pretty violent things about camels. This guy doesn't look much more vicious.
Yay blue bums!
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yeah, camels can be nasty creatures, and have a temper I'm told. So sayeth Zoobooks!
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That of course depends on whether they like you or not. It they like you then you are best friends. I guess. Steve Irwin loved his camels.
And does it spit Mr Whales sir?
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I should hope so. I should hope it also climbs trees & throws feces ... i should have given it longer lashes to weather sand storms.
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It looks like a screamer too.
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thankfully, it doesn't look large enough to pin you down just by sitting on you...though one *thwack* from that neck, and you'll be on the ground.
crap, you just reminded me...um, Whalewithlegs, does the cameboon spit?
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That's a good point... We'll have to ask him.
I would hate to be chewed. Something that camels are known to do. But that could the result of loading up the beast's back with bolts of silk and bags of spices. So it could be avoidable...
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Wish I could find a better picture... :/
There's something supremely creepy about quadrupeds with hands!
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That reminds me, I found a new Barlowe monster when I was searching for images of Keith Laumer's Demons:
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Looks...Roostery!
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wow, that really is crazy ... reminds me a lot of some of 's stuff. I do have to say that I'm not a huge fan of Barlowe's digital work, though ... though i suppose I tend to go over him with a fine-toothed comb out of a combination of critical monster art jealousy
Where did you find that guy anyhow?
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Yeah, I feel the same way! It's subtle, but there's a noticeable difference. I could see it in the open mouths on this guy, and the subtle blurring or diffusion along that upper left tendril thing. For me I don't think it's so much hypercriticism as just that I grew up with the analog Barlowe and that's what I know and love. : /
I guess I always wanted to think of him as the last bastion of classical "fine artists" in the non-digital tradition.
I found that guy searching Google images on, let's see..."barlowe demon." Pops up on the first page. It was from a blog called Monster Brains, which looks pretty promising:
[link]
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Also, that monster brains thing reminds me, have I ever forced you to watch "Fear Hole" ... there's an episode where the classic movie monsters become power-ranger-like
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"Domo arigato, An-a-log Barlowe..."
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Well what else are you going to carry your brains about in but clear plastic shopping bags?
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They *are* convenient, even if not environmentally friendly!
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Well if you had used the bag for your weekly shopping then technically you are recycling. That is if you don't go out and buy brains.
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I try not to, 'cuz then I just get confused.
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Well if you stopped putting your brains in bags that might not happen so often!
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Dude, this is frightening! It's the hands, I say--the simian, nearly hominid hands!!
Wicked incisors...It's like an even worse version of the killer bunny from the Twlight Zone movie!
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Fantastic work, man...May I consider it a Chimerape relative? No matter, I will anyway.
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I suppose you must, though it has no real specialization! I think the mandrill face makes it strange enough to apply for qualification, though
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Hey, if he can work the register and make accurate change, that's good enough for me.
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Ok, but he hangs out by the water cooler, distracting all other employees with inane conversation.
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He's your replacement
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I've often said a monkey could do my job!
I guess you could say this was the straw that broke the Cameboon's back (buh-doom-cha).
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