Real Worlds - Responding to Mantic's Feedback (14/03/25)

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Responding to Mantic's Feedback

I spent my time going through the feedback I received in yesterday's meeting. I got a lot of design feedback and wanted to start off exploring the suggestions made for my Nightstalker! I spent today exploring pterodactyl anatomy and how to apply it to my Nightstalker.

I started off by doing a simple shape study looking mainly at a model to see the head at different angles as well as looking up the skeletal structure of it. I then traced over to look at the simple shape and eye placements on the head. I then attempted to draw this without tracing and attempted to get the proportions correct using guidelines.

I had some difficulty trying to fit the eyeball into this structure without it looking off or stiff. I did multiple sketches exploring where and how it would sit in the head. I copy and pasted my quick sketches of the head at different angles and then continued to explore how the eye would fit inside the head. I also briefly experiment with the idea of giving it eyelids.

As I was still struggling with this, I asked Sam for feedback on these sketches. We had a conversation about how the lower jaw bone stick out the bottom more and that a lot of the shape below would mostly be flesh (like a pelican). This would mean that I would have quite a lot of extra space for the eye compared to the space I had in my sketches. To demonstrate this, Sam did some sketches to show me what he meant.

Sam's Sketches

He also point out that the neck would be further back and bent which is another reason why my sketch most likely looked off. He suggested that the eye could sit on the top of head rather than inside the mouth but I preferred the idea of keeping it in the mouth. It would have to close it's mouth to peck at it's victim leaving it blind when attacking it's prey. This would allow for moments where the enforcer could sneak past it more easily as well as giving them a brief window to attack it before their death.

Sam's Sketches

I mentioned that one of the members from mantic mentioned making the tail longer (though the other one said he thought it was ok). I thought that even though one was ok with the idea, it was worth investigating what a longer tail could do for the design. Sam suggested making it longer and turning it into a weapon to help stab at his victims. I mentioned that it sounded similar to how the xenomorph (INSERT REFERENCE) attacks in alien. We both decided that it would function similarly but the shape would need to be changed. This led to Sam suggesting to turn it into a stabbing spoon like structure so it's able to use it to attack as well as scooping up it's victims guts to feed itself. I need to make sure I think about how the spine of the tail will look with the bat skin on top of it.

Sam also mentioned that to save time not to re do the entire turnaround but to draw the posed design similarly to the Bloody Cardinal example given to us in the NOW.


References

Alien, 1979. [Film]. Ridley Scott. Los Angeles, California: 20th Century Studios. [Accessed 6 February 2025].


Pterodactyl Skeleton, 2023. [Youtube]. Fab 365, 18 May. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twlFpO0nc1k&ab_channel=FAB3653DPrinting [Accessed 14 February 2025].


Tariq Ali, 2023. Pterodactyl Skeleton [online image]. Fab 365: Tariq Ali. Available at: https://fab365.net/items/414 [Accessed 14 February 2025].

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