Ideas and Sketches

Ok, my initial ideas were some kind of flying creature with a different twist. After trying to think of some kind of twist on the whole idea of flying I ended up giving up on that idea and decided to look at other 3D games for inspiration. I found myself looking at the interesting creatures known as 'Striders' in the game Half Life 2. They are basically organic war machines created by an alien race.



So I have set to work creating various sketches of a large long legged creature and use the idea for a monstrous 'crab'. My initial ideas were to have the creature just walking around on flat terrain. But after thinking about various phenotypes, I decided why not create a crab like creature that is adapted to living in large narrow canyons? Using the canyon walls on either side as support it walks along the walls.

After doing these initial sketches, I found that the creature seemed quite scary, and would be perfect as some kind of frightening creature in an FPS game of some sort. Im thinking of playing on this idea and making it as creepy as possible.