Deepdive into Creature Design

Don't know how to start designing a creature? Good news you've found the right video! (I hope)
This is a video for all the other beginners like me who didn't know where to start when doing this stuff and I didn't want this video to reach 30 minutes unlike most out there so if any of ye have questions or suggestions just drop em in the comments :D
I hope this helps in any way! Gonna do more stuff in the future hopefully.

(Most of the video is the process I swear I didn't mean to make it this long)
The title is a little clickbait-y I know but we gotta please the algorithm somehow

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Timestamps for rushers!

0:00 Empty
0:05 Intro
0:47 A
3:26 B
5:37 C
7:26 Mistakes
9:47 Clarification on Mistakes
10:11 Process (Important)
16:23 End Credits and Bloopers! (Also very important, much more important really)

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Music used in the video
Tavern and Adventure by Alexander Naranda
Alvae by Adrian von Zeigler
Misconception by Mkyuu
the cat of ipanema by j1gggs
Lord of the Land by Kevin Macleod

#art #creaturedesign #worldbuilding

[sketchiest_sir]

There seems to be alot of people going to this video with ALOT of questions! And thats great but unfortunately I can't answer all of them so please consider joining the discord!

[breadybeans]

"crabs are the one true lifeform" is my favorite line of text in this whole video

[harpoonlobotomy]

Of the last creature, the tail and wing style make me think of it as more batlike, wrapping its prehensile tail around branches to sleep or wait then letting go and flying after prey to hunt. I imagine them in small colonies; think of walking through a forest at dusk and looking up to see clusters of odd, shiny sap-like growths on a tree limb, then one of them suddenly 'wakes up' and comes streaking towards you with a shrill shriek.

[theever-presenteye]

This is exactly my type of content,

As someone who builds monsters and creatures on a regular basis and thus researches a lot - I think your video might be one of the most informative, well structured, and complete ways of constructing fantastical creatures; the final product is very organic and feels more real than many of the designs made by professionals.


Thank you so much for this video, it was such a pleasure watching it and I hope you make more.

[unfaircatt]

I do love how you included that a design being simple doesn't always mean its worse. I feel a lot of people think like that overly complicated designs are better and it causes them to not appreciate the well thought of simplistic designs. I personally enjoy the more simpler creatures designs even though many think not. This was a great watch and is helping me gain some more knowledge and inspiration for my personal creature designs. Enjoyed this, its a very well put together video!

[alex-razvanrobu]

I love how you can change so much about a creature's behavior just by changing it's size, like if your creature is 8 feet i would see it hunt in groups of 2-3 but if it would be like 8 inches i can see it hunt in packs of 20-30 individuals.

[emeraldmage]

as a artist beginning in sifi/horror creature designs this is amazing thanks

[ashtrooper]

Only a minute in, I love the usage of the Monster Hunter sound effects for a lot of your graphics animations and transitions. from that alone i know its quality.

*Edit* two minutes in and we actually are using MH for references YESSS also legit good design info.

[ViviButter]

This Video is so well made!
All the Examples you displayed are great and I loved hearing the sound comparsion. Your Avatar that is changing with (e)motions is so cute and it's nice to have a face to relate to when listening to a technical topic like this. You explained your method really well, while being open to other solutions. You put your heart into it and it really shows.
Educational and entertaining, glad I'm already subbed!

[catergamer]

11:37 ICE AND FIRE AMPHITHERE SPOTTED I LOVE THIS CHANNEL ALREADY

[vduffy]

This channel only has 1 video, this one, and it was made 4 months ago, but I don't care and I'm subscribing just cause of how helpful and informative this was. Love the little face down in the corner, and the design you came up with looked amazing and felt believable! I'm busy with school, but if I ever get around to finishing my own concept I'll describe it in a reply to this comment

[Namenlos]

The Monster Hunter sound effect gave me a whole another level of nostalgia🥰

[Chuppyup]

monster hunter is such a good example for this, i am very glad you love it as much as i do!

[mogusisfunny]

Once upon a time, 6 giants lived in a black abyss. Their names were Gimby, Gomby, Gumby, Gamby, Gemby, and Gymby. They were bored, but one day, they got an acorn. It grew into a giant tree and the giants decided to go live on it. Sometimes, roots would break off and rot, turning into soil. They wanted to fill this tree with life, so Gomby shaped the soil into a dragon. Gimby gave life to it, and she almost died doing it. This was not a fire-breathing dragon, though. This was long before the dragons were cursed. No, this dragon breathed life. Knowing Gimby would not be able to give life to more creatures, Gomby would shape more creatures and give them to the dragon who would bring them to life. Eventually, the dragon decided to start making its own creatures. It made fantastic things, like raptors and sheep, ostnakes and horned falcons. I could fill a book with many of the dragon's creations and it wouldn't be all of them. But one fateful day, when the dragon had given life to many creatures, the wolves and wizards, the goblins and mastodons, even the sky and the sun, the forest and the ocean, he gave life to fire. He believed that the creatures of Amongusland could be trusted with the power of the sun, but he also had mistakenly given life to chaos. Harm was inflicted onto every living thing and many creatures died. Gamby was hired to be the war-stopper, and the giants cursed the dragon and all his brethren to never breath life again, only chaos; fire. Gomby, in an attempt to save the creatures from their now limited life-spans, invented parenting. I don't need to explain to you what parenting is because, well, I think you know. Anyway, it worked, but chaos still ensued. Gimby was given the job of looking after the births of all creatures, Gomby just kinda did his own thing, Gamby did the whole stopping wars thing, Gemby would guide dead souls to the afterlife, Gymby also did her own thing, and Gumby also also did his own thing. One time an evil wizard king, named Plonky, tried to conquer all the goblins and enslave them. Then a legendary [goblin] hero, by the name of Gerangouf, defeated Plonky and saved all of wizard and goblin kind, as well as all the other creatures. Right after that though, strange little fluffy things appeared on a strange silver bird. They called themselves the gurbalshnirbs, and were a peaceful race. They wanted to make friends with everyone across existence. The gurbalshnirbs were welcomed with open arms and everyone lived happy lives. For thousands of years, everything was happy, until bees came from who knows where. They were evil bees, and conquered Amongusland. A good amount of gurbalshnirbs escaped, though, and looked for help all across the universe, because they loved Amongusland. But a lot of people were caught up in their own problems, so they went to the last planet they could think of: Earth. They had befriended monkes long ago, though they may have forgotten. They crash-landed in a sixth-grade classroom in Utah and everyone was confused why they kept finding pom-poms with googly eyes. We never actually got the chance to help because we're kids and the authorities probably wouldn't believe us, so I took custody of them for a while before realizing my dad would probably kill them like he did Tartar sauce the tapeworm. I sent them to my friend to live with him and they remain there to this day. We have no idea what happened to Amongusland, so, yeah, that sucks.

[MonsterUnderYourBed.]

By watching this video I realise how many mistakes I have made when creating monsters and how I could improve. Thank you!

[KsnypsAdventures]

Quality content right here. Not only very good tips that one should take note of when doing creature designs, but also very good editing, which is quite rare for a smaller YouTuber. I like how you used different points of reference, like Monster Hunter, Avatar, Horizon and obviously real life. As someone who loves creature designing and speculative biology, I can say that I use almost every tip from this video, though I approach some steps of creature design in different order.

This channel has great potential if you want to continue with it

[nicknugget]

Absolutely Great Video. The audio, the tips, the art, the editing, etc. Perfect. Would love to see more from you. The other video ideas you showed off already sound so fun and interesting. You just got a new subscriber.

[friendlyneighborhoodfp]

Educational and very informative, would try again

[Putet-wxhx]

I'm starting a fantasy story with my bf as a potential thing to publish. We've got a way to go. This video really helped me get started with the creatures we're planning to make. Time to make him watch this too!

Subscribing because I want to see more from you!

[RaraDYoutube]

I have watched millions of videos of videos about designs of all sorts of things and this is the best one and no one can say otherwise.