i gotta admit i like the somewhat realistic guys ie Rokjaw, slicer, Thoom.. they look more like something that could actually exist and provide for itself.. tha furryball its kinda just way 2 fake looking for me.. i know its a game but there has to me some realism to the guys you are fighting or it can get lame imo.. unless you setup a whole zone of freak mobs with some ebil scientist as the boss then u can toss out some more freakish stuff like weapons grown out of arms and stuff like that..
Thanks for putting it up for us to see, appreciate the look =)
Heliosz da Iksar, Druzzil Ro

Hi Ken - Very interesting to see the creatures in progress. I paricularly like the idea of the slicers in as much as they would certainly pose a challenge to a party used to fighting one big thing - different tactics would have to be used to combat a swarm of smaller critters.

That, plus the fact that they look cute/harmless but are actually vicious, makes for a nice dynamic.

:envisions scampering slicers cavorting over the corpses of unsuspecting newbies...

;)

Fantastic stuff...I particularly like the Fury ball and the stalker..althought I'd bet the fury ball got dumped for technical reasons....ooo the polygon count...I'd also really like to see more critters along this line...the whirling dervishes have to be my favorite creatures in the whole game...them and the giant cube blobs in qeynos sewers

Also the "crested screamer" looks promising...cept mabye too many head/mouth things...(was there any influence on sonic wolves from that guy?)

....and being brutally honest....the Throom...compared to your other stuff it looks like something you threw together during lunch to meet a deadline....*ow*

and the worms...first time I saw one 2 movies poped right into my mind...Dune....and Tremors....AYE AYE AYE....

oo..also I'd like to see something sorta in the realm of that Sabulba guy on starwars episode 1...waling on his hands....holding stuff with his feet...just completely abstract stuff...a killer chicken that still stuck in it's egg shell...just legs sticking out....but I think that's been done...mabye a deadly killer accountant?........a living bolt of lightening.....a magically animated length of rope.......

basically...more elementals...more whirling dervishes...HO AH!

methinks I like Thoom the best. Would give me good memories of fighting mammoths in Everfrost. Ahh....how I miss those days.....<sigh> the others all look really neat too, kinda with a technical twist...maybe someone should lock up those tinkering gnomes, it looks like some of their creations have escaped!

hey, bumador, thanks for the comments...funny, it seems not everyone even here understands/agrees that there is a sketch stage that, hey, actually uses sketches! And, man, I would have loved to have these in game (check my site for the whole bunch at www.kenmeyerjr.com ).

ken

hey, I appreciate any coherant imput...anything particular you don't like about them? The style? The actual creatures? what?

hey, I really an grateful that anyone likes to see this stuff (especially considering some of the dopes that post anonymous mean comments on the Tunare painting of mine over on the Everlore site), thanks for the feedback!

ken here, thanks for the feedback so far, people! And, man...I think I did about 75 various sketches...I put all of them up on my site, if you want to see more (see top of thread)....hope you like them!

Thank you for the chance to see some of this !

Very interesting to see the work and input that goes on BEFORE all those modellers get to work :)

Should be getting my copy of SoL in about one hour (fingers crossed), so once todays patch is done (sigh) i look forward to meeting some of these in the 'flesh'.

Or there again, do i ? :)

Edited, Fri Dec 7 04:32:10 2001