Wings & Scales

Under this wing folllows a selection of creature designs I did within the past two years for various film- or tv-productions with their different requirements.
Dragon-study for scales and wing-buildup

With creature-concepts or -design I think less about personality or chracter-traits as for character design.
Attitude seems still an essential thing to show in any type of creature, but with more weight on the physics;
As with dragons, one's most popular references are lizards, who by nature don't emanate much personage. However there is some sort of character associated with each animal-reference that can help creating somewhat unique; as maybe lions and other feline creatures or e.g. a wolf as in Ghibli's "Spirited Away".
















The approach depends on wether there is realsim to be achived or maybe rather some fairy- tale-like setting to be met. In the movie "Reign of Fire" the dragons' design was enormously realistic, just real-life and very convincing, as they looked, moved or spit fire, everything had a natural reference like bats or spitting cobras . I find this kind of work very interesting, in a pop-sientific fashion maybe; on the other hand there is a lot of liberty to enjoy in a fantasic setting where it is about creating atmosphere with more generous restrictions believability.












Fairy dragon

Lindworms are technically no dragons and also those turned out to develop into a more humerous direction than was thought at the beginning. Influences and references were the famous velociraptor, the moray eel and the catfish, chicken, "Tremors", even pollywogs and at some point the red nosed reindeer .