Predation is the short film I made in its entirety. Both of my creatures Armatus-Corunta and Xenooculi https://www.artstation.com/artwork/R3ErEe began with concepting hundreds of different creature possibilities. I knew from the start that I wanted to present my creatures similar to how National Geographic presents wildlife. After concepting I began sculpting both in clay (study) and in ZBrush and later began procedural python rigging in Maya. Mari was the main software I used for texturing. The animation was completed in Maya and the groom was completed with xgen. Rendered in Redshift.
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The Xenooculi is a six-limbed creature that soars the skies and being related to both rays and sharks this apex predator traverses all terrains including the deep ocean. The Xenooculi often lay eggs on land near large rock formations. As a result of their size, sharp claws and poisonous bite they dominate the ecosystem in which they are living. Their bite has similar toxic proteins to that of the common Komodo dragon but where the Komodo’s bite may take up to 3 to 4 hours to kill the Xenooculi’s bite, depending on where bitten can be anywhere from an instantaneous death to 10 minutes.
scales look very realistic too.