The Other World Project

Both amazing camoflage

The sailfish mix cheetah ended up looking like this, I have used this as a prototype which was really useful when coming to build my final piece due to it giving me an understanding of the different pieces that I needed to create quite a small fish.

This is the ant whale after I had finished it. As you can see, it wouldn't be very noticeable in the desert and it took inspiration from the mimic octopus and the giant cuttlefish with the way they change colours to blend in with corals. Like a defense mechanism.

Due to these facts, I thought they would be perfect to mix together. I also thought that if I could make the ant/whale at a big enough scale then I would be able to show the audience and give the audience a sense of scale.. ish.. I decided to do the ant/whale in the pattern that I have so it could adapt and blend in with different environments. This is more of a desert ant but it needs some imagination to be able to see what it would look like if it was in forested mountainous areas of scurrying along the ocean floor

This was another idea based on majestic animals and yet again, how they could help each other out. I thought that adding wings to a lion would help it travel faster meaning less energy used on chasing prey but it can now swoop and catch prey like a bird of prey instead. I decided to remove the peacock feathers because it was not advantageous to the lion as it would be spotted easily with the bright colourful pattern in the desert.. Didn’t really make sense unfortunately.

The photoshopping of this took a long time to do because of all the tiny spikes at the jaws of the venus fly trap. I decided to use these animals because they both use poison to kill their prey. I thought that instead of making the best animals better, could I possibly merge animals that have a disadvantage such a the venus fly trap and give it legs in a sense to that it has more chance of catching more prey in different areas. 

As you can see, I have photoshopped the images and then smoothed them out in my sketchbook as shown here. I decided to merge the parrot and the dolphin together as they are two of the most intelligent animals on the planet. I thought that like my other spider design that is coming up in the next post, it related to this in the sense that the animals can help each other out. 

From my work, I was searching for animal crossbreeds to see if I could find anything that could help me with ideas for my animal crossbreeds. I was actually quite happy with what i found and gave me some ideas to look at defense / attack and adaptability. I want to show that my animals were able to adapt  to the worst of situations

These are a few animals from an animated TV series called the legend of aang that I was shown quite near the end of the project. I thought that it would be quite important to show these on my blog as they gave me ideas of how I could subtly change animals to make them obvious without taking away from the other animal. 

I do recall seeing this weird looking tentacle plant correctly named 'devils fingers' whilst floating through facebook. The plant was found in the new forest, u.k and is actually a mushroom believe it or not. When the mushroom matures, 4 tentacles unravel and can grow between 2-4 inches long and stinks of flesh. The tentacles are covered in this dark green glue like substance called gleba which is there to catch flies. I believed that this would be good to evidence in my blog due to it possibly being useful later on if I decided to pursue the adaptation of animals etc.

Ant has progress, the whole rear of my ant has been made apart from legs. Hopefully I can get it smashed out as soon as possible. In the background, the concept of what I'm making. An ant mix whale

Armoured ground crickets eat flesh of baby birds that are left alone in nests whilst their mothers go and search for food. The crickets infiltrate the nests to eat the baby birds. If the mothers come back and pull the crickets out of the nest, the crickets will fight back squirting some foul smelling blood into the mothers eyes. If the crickets don't manage to deter the mothers from pulling tem out of the nests then they will fall to the ground. After they hit the ground, they may still be alive but that does not stop the other crickets from becoming cannibals and eating the damaged cricket alive.

I have given the Cheetah a sail which could help it increase cornering speeds and aerodynamics but giving it more stability whilst chasing prey. I am thinking about giving it different fins so that it could hunt underwater as well. 

I have decided to merge these two animals together on photoshop to create a super fish/ super cheetah. The concept behind it is that in 1000 years when the sea and land has been all destroyed because of radiation and toxic chemicals flowing through the oceans, rivers, lakes, streams and watering holes. How will they adapt to survive?