FYP 02 - The Mount

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Final Year Project
Semester 02

Self-Set Brief: 
Concept 1 character, mount and prop. Illustrate 1 environment.
Setting is a xeric shrubland/desert with influence from Chinese and Himalayan tribes.

Nomad: The Mount
These bird-like mounts traverse the desert, using their large thin ears to regulate their body temperature. Whilst they can fly, they have evolved predominantly to run with their long legs.


 I sketched up a lot of rough thumbnails (only a select few are shown here), exploring a wide variety of body shapes and animal types before even coming to create a moodboard. I ended up going with a predatory, bipedal creature since I had previously been designing a lot of herbivorous quadrupeds. Plus I love ghost bats and had wanted to use their ears in a design for a long time.

Whilst I didn't have much time to do many secondary iterations due to an injury, I did play around with the idea of a more raptor-like and scaled creature, and also with fleshy areas exposed to allow for more temperature regulation.


The final design as a turnaround/model sheet. I learnt a lot about how not to paint feathers with this haha, but overall I'm happy with how far I was able to push myself with this one.

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