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...