Tim Morris' Art and Project Blog

Hello again, it's been a hot minute, I have been eager studying the evolution of Cephalopods recently, and it motivated me to dig out all of these old Cephalopod concepts I had from a failed project. These are all fictional, speculative species that could exist on an alternate version of earth.    A giant, deep-sea Cirrate Octopod whose body is round, flabby and gelatinous. The beast itself is similar in length and girth to a small car.   A deep-sea relative of cuttlefish, that stands on the abyssal sea-floor using its modified mantle and arms. Its habits and method of predation resembles that of the tripod fish.   A giant Cranch Squid, similar in size to a Colossal Squid but much more slender and elongate, with specialized arms and tentacles.   An enormous, transparent pelagic Octopod, as long as a grown man. It feeds in the upper pelagic zone at night, using its glassy body as camouflage.   A small Cranch squid which inflates its body as a defense, and is...

 Hello again, it has been a while.  For you today I have a one-shot concept that I had been thinking about. The idea came to me when I noticed that both the Na'vi of Avatar, and the Gelfling of The Dark Crystal, are a humanoid race but descended from more typically animalistic ancestors. This brought me to briefly consider the characters of the furry fandom. I have disdain for the general lack of creativity inherent in these characters. The formula seems to always be - the cutest aspects of a popular animal, plus the sexy aspects of a human (male or female generally), given original and sometimes poorly chosen colors and backstory. My disdain for this stuff is purely on a creative basis, people are free to create what they want and find community spirit as they like. But the two aforementioned subjects sort of galvanized an idea in my mind, a vaguely anthropomorphic sapient species, that evolved from an ancestor that would give it more of an "animal" appearance. Then I th...