Fantasy Unit Requests

[Zurai]

I hope you don't mind some peanut gallery input. Here's some pictures of more ornate/ferocious turtle heads:

I wasn't able to find a good closeup of the eye, but they have little spikes all around their eyes too. Those are all alligator snapping turtles, btw.

 

[aaglo]

I know how tough a tortoise can be - mine once bit me from the finger. Damn it was painful

Okay. An upgraded view of this monster - with a fiercer head and spikes with a bit different colour

 

[Drift]

Lookin' great. Bone color spikes are spot on and I love the new head.

Can't wait to see it with legs.

 

[aaglo]

Haaahaaaa.. you won't see legs on this cuddly thing. (they're flippers, I tell you. Flippers. )

...because she's a swimmer

 

[Drift]

What does Flipper have to do with this?

 

[tjedge1]

Man this looks awesome. Everytime I glance in here it gets better. Now it's a monster not a cute giant turtle.

 

[Kinboat]

Hey that looks cool... Now he just needs a long serpentine tail and some flippers

 

[subbss]

... and flames from it's mouth!

 

[aaglo]

Uhhh..
This one does not have a "long serpentine tail", but instead, her tail is one of the beaver kind (and all those groucho-smilies are forbidden! )

Here's some swim-test action. And look out for those claws too

 

[Drift]

Looks great. What's the story behind the tail? I thought turtles had small tails. It doesn't look bad, but maybe a bit strange.

Flippers (alright, alright...) and their movement looks good. Claws too.

This is turning out really well.










Nice beaver too.

 

[aaglo]

Heh... you're right about the tail (it being small). I always thought that turtles (creature that lives in water) have large tails - large like the fish-tail. I have a tortoise (creature that lives in land), and they certainly have a small tail. But apparently, so do turtles. Sorry, my mistake (I'll make a small stump of a tail instead of that flappy flipper )

[EDIT!]
BTW!
Is the size okay? It's currently roughly the same size as a frigate.

 

[Drift]

About the size, I would prefer it to be slightly bigger than the Deathfortress. Frigate size should be pretty close.

 

[Zurai]

Looks great!

By the way, Alligator Snapping Turtles (like the ones in the pictures) can actually have pretty long tails, up to about 1/3 their shell length. They're just standard conical turtle tails though, no extra flippers.

 

[Gojira54]

I would LOVE the Dragon Turtle!!!

Could you also make an alternative animation? I was thinking of him spinning, with fire shouting out of his leg holes for his run animation.

After all, you can't have a Godzilla Scenario without Gamera...

 

[Gojira54]

I could use the leviathan, too. The werewolf would be good for the Morrowind Mod someone is doing.

 

[Grandraem]

It's looking fantastic, aaglo. I think also that the tail just needs shrinking a little.

 

[aaglo]

Uhh... that Gamera has fangs! And what's with the spinning fire attack? I believe this Gamera-dude is some sort of amphibian - he can walk on land and swim the seas. Right? I mean, how would the water work with fire? (not well in my experience )

[edit]:
And as a final blow - he walks ON TWO FEET!

 

[subbss]

Since the dragon-turtle thing is an asian idea shouldn't the head look more like an asian style dragon which doesn't have as many horns and is more serpent like with whiskery things and scales. I love your work aaglo but I think the turtle still looks too much like a regular turtle (maybe a prehistoric or mutated one though). IMHO, it still needs some dragoning-up (!?) before it will look like the classic asian-dragon image or the picture Drift supplied.

To sum it up....I think it needs to be more asian-ish (!?).

 

[aaglo]

Dragon turtle isn't an asian invention, dude

 

[Drift]

The turtle is great as it is. It's being made primarily for classic fantasy mods - not for a Chinese mythology mod.