Bug Design Sketch WIP Hexagon 3D project by Digimon

2D • Creatures • posted on Jul 02, 2006

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I was recently inspired by a very talented young man Teyon, who is also a mod for the Hexagon forum here! I have been sketching this beast over the last week. I want to do an animation, too big to post here (Plus I want sound!). The concept is ala Starship Troopers, marines fighting a bug race, on their home planet, the top of the sketch shows the main critter, in front of a hive dome. This bug would be at least 4 stories tall, and could take out a grav-tank with one of those long claws. If it were a creature in a video game, it would be a "Boss". Yes I know, this is a ROUGH sketch, it was never meant to share, nor do I consider it art on it's own, but if you ever wondered (Yeah right) how I come up with some of the strange things I create, well they all start with rough sketches like this. Here you can see my thought process, things scratched out, variations.... I was inspired by Teyon's wonderful work, hopefully this will motivate me to take this project all the way. Hope everyone is having a great long weekend!! ; )

Comments (32)

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shutterb

5:39PM | Sun, 02 July 2006

Cool ... Love the 4 eyed lady bug.... Wish we could see the final

Hopalong

5:45PM | Sun, 02 July 2006

You gottah someah nice lively lines there, DR. D. Ball point pen or one of them liquid jobs. Concept ready to fly, er, pounce--great comic book cover on the top. Starship Troopers yes--Buenos Aires, right? And the movie is one of those really first class, very stylized, excellently conceived and executed flicks that never got the critical kudos it deserved....Got a NAKED BROAD QT QB too, hehe. Never understood the appeal of the t'other one. Annette Funicello syndrome?

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Digimon

5:52PM | Sun, 02 July 2006

Quite right Professor! Many people missed the humor in Troopers, when it opened with the old WW2 style "News from the war" bit, I knew it was going to be a hoot. Then famous lines like "They sucked his brains out!". Many missed the fact that it was a satire of sci-fi movies of that time. Also the body bouncing of the shuttle windshield! Good times...good times....

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robotalk

5:58PM | Sun, 02 July 2006

when you finish the project with sound --up load it to Putfile -You Tube -Zippy Video or any number of new sites that allow HUGE files...then put a reminder as to where you plopped the 'the pasty resistance' so we CAN see the final.. so there...I betcha ....by gum !

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Brian S.

6:05PM | Sun, 02 July 2006

Wow, if you can model that it's going to be awesome!

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jjean21

6:41PM | Sun, 02 July 2006

Oh lordy yes, put it somewhere where we can find it, this is going to be SO awesome...and I actually liked that movie..go figure.

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kimariehere

6:55PM | Sun, 02 July 2006

OHH I LOVE when you draw or sketch so much !!! FANTASTIC !!! you are a real talent Eric almost wrote EWOK!! HAHA ( my brother in law his name is Eric too we call him Ewok lol) ..

Lorraine

6:55PM | Sun, 02 July 2006

oh way cool.....creepy crawly...creepy crawly....

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jif3d

8:43PM | Sun, 02 July 2006

my favorite tool...well for 2Dee ! I prefer BLACK ones...they go 20% faster ! interesting character design and that was the funniest movie I have ever seen, well almost, it also had some decent 3Dee FX, looking forward to your 3Dee version, Cheers

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skiwillgee

9:33PM | Sun, 02 July 2006

You're sure multi-talented, Eric. I'm one of those disappointed in the flick. I read about all of Heinlein's books and shorts and looked forward to the movie. I was disappointed in the "campy" slant the movie took. I thought the book was awesome.

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wizardangel1

10:30PM | Sun, 02 July 2006

Wings can model it easy !! As to what program you animate with ==my choice is bryce 5 . would be cool as a animation and most of my stuff starts crappy sketches also. Trick to it is model whole critter as once but DO NOT COMBINE any moveing parts.Name each part as you go and any duplcated parts slightly change a tiny bit as well as it's name with each dup. Kinda got a crawdad/scorpin flavor about it. Cool concept --Peace!!

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2Loose2Trek

10:59PM | Sun, 02 July 2006

Hey! Didn't that guy have a starring role in "Men In Black" with a stint in "Starship Troopers?" It'll be cool to see how this develops. Yeah, and as Robo suggested, upload it so we can all see it. :-)

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DennisReed

12:21AM | Mon, 03 July 2006

Cool sketch work, got me thinking about a Movie called "Naked Lunch"! Bravo!

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Cosme..D..Churruca

4:17AM | Mon, 03 July 2006

This promises... go on please !

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oscilis

6:39AM | Mon, 03 July 2006

Yes please, put it on YouTube and let us know when. I love to see inside people's sketchbooks so this is really interesting. Go to YouTube and type in "Matt Harding" in "videos". You have to see him dancing even though it has nothing to do with this!

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Mea

9:05AM | Mon, 03 July 2006

Keep us posted. Would love to see how this li'l epic project progresses. BTW: are you going to segment the long thin one or are you going to have it move like a worm? Just cuirous. :) Hav a good 4th!

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chimera46

11:23AM | Mon, 03 July 2006

This would look really cool if you could pull it off, good luck with it.

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TwoPynts

11:33AM | Mon, 03 July 2006

What an awsome teaser, it is a pleasure to view your brain scribbles in their earliest development!

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Richardphotos

3:05PM | Mon, 03 July 2006

I have hexagon but have not created anything worth a hoot. also sitting on Carrara. excellent drawing and I look forward to the animation showing at neighborhood theaters

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gabrima

3:28PM | Mon, 03 July 2006

this does me dream: that when the quantistic microprocessor will be sold in the supermarkets we will be able to create with the immediateness of a sketch and some cheap hardware the our living dream...

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Svarg

3:32PM | Mon, 03 July 2006

Shades of ILM! Looks like a great project! I'd love to see the final result, sound and all.

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lemonjim

4:00PM | Mon, 03 July 2006

oh man, can't wait to see it wherever it gets posted.

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SkyeKat

2:05PM | Tue, 04 July 2006

Great sketches - those are going to be some rather frightening creations when you're finished - extremely predatory, and quite spectacular!

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jocko500

2:36PM | Tue, 04 July 2006

guess I do things backway. I cannot draw and I got no ideal what to do[most the time] when I start doing things. Most of it is off the wall and The ideals just comes to me so I do them. I do write some down for I can not do it at the time but then I loss the paper lol. So I have to relay on menory at that time. these look super to me

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Forevernyt

2:57PM | Wed, 05 July 2006

Troopers was in line with Robocop. Both movies were new and cool for their time. I really want to see this when it's finished, then you can give it to me to render. :) Keep at it!

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Margana

1:08PM | Thu, 06 July 2006

Loved that movie,too!Can't wait to see the finished result,Eric.I know it will be awesome.Thanks for sharing!-M :^)

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Burpee

7:40PM | Fri, 07 July 2006

I love this peek inside your demented mind ;) Your creatures are interesting and, like above, I would love to see the final. Bug lady looks deadly....would be cool to see her in action.....please :)

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Li-An

4:43AM | Sat, 08 July 2006

Great sketch work Eric!

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butterfly_fish

7:20AM | Sat, 08 July 2006

Hon, your "rough" drawings are better than anything I could come up with if I worked on it for a month. lol. Didn't see Troopers, because the book bored me to death. But I'm with you on the coolness of Teyon. ;-) Good luck with this. I'll be waiting to see how it turns out! :-D

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