Creature Design 2022 - Olivia Clarke

This post contains creature designs I designed for my University Masters project during 2022 and use within my portfolio. 

Palaeontology Project

The aim of this project was to study dinosaurian anatomy, research how it is used within creature design, and design creatures using dinosaurian anatomy and inspiration, and the design conventions from two popular video game series, Pokémon and Monster Hunter that use dinosaurian inspiration within their creature design.  

a warm up exercise was created, taking the anatomy of a chicken and changing it to become more raptor like, to practice dinosaurian anatomy.

Monster Hunter Creature Design

The design of this creature started with studying the shape language of Monster Hunter creatures that use dinosaurian anatomy, identifying the design conventions used. The creature uses anatomy from Tyrannosaurus, Raptor, and Spinosaurus, for its dinosaurian inspiration with the anatomy of several shark species. Deciding how the creature attacks and behaves informed the design, giving the creature a thrasher shark like tail to preform whip attacks, and gills that can blow steam. 

Pokémon Creature Design

The shape language of Pokémon from the Fossil Pokémon group and the Pokémon art style was studied, as well as edits to Pokémon outside of the Fossil Pokémon group to make them look more like their dinosaurian inspirations within the Pokémon art style.

The creature design uses Parasaurolophus as a base, with stage one being pure water type as a nod to when palaeontologists thought Parasaurolophus was aquatic, with the middle and final stage evolutions gaining the grass to reflect that they are land dwellers.

Adaption Project

The aim of this project was to design creatures that are specially adapted to live in their respective environments. The environments/habitats used were Desert, Coast, River, and Rainforest.