Swamp Trapper - Creature Design
Personal Project.
My goal was to design from scratch and breathe life into a creature, give it a story and make it believable. To showcase a world or planet that could be built around it, or let others immerse themselves into a story where it could fit in some way or another. Maybe some eggs were sneaked to our planet by some space scientists and have become a nuisance or a pest in the wild, ruining the natural ecosystem.
I want to thank Milan Nikolic and his course at LearnSquared for pushing my ideas further, huge thanks man.
https://www.artstation.com/milancho
Main story and concept idea, this can be expanded upon or tweaked to fit a narrative
Some early general references. The Coconut crab was definitely a huge one for me, a crustacean that would strike fear into anyone crossing its path
Custom materials, painted and rendered in 3D Coat. These are directly from 3D Coat
Overpainting in photoshop, redesigning the head. Playing with ideas
Fun narrative idea..
A brief builder used very early. Such a great way to nail your ideas down in the very beginning
Biped. Sketching ideas in photoshop using symmetry
Multi-Limb
Quadruped
I one of my thumbnails and tried refining and adding more insect feel to it, later I decided to ditch the insect influence
This was the early sculpt I went with using my drawings as reference. I incorporated more crab feel to it in the end. Going back to the idea of the coconut crab and using it as a clear reference
Early 3D Coat sculpt, later ditched.
Unused early sculpts and tests in ZBrush