That's right, friends - tonight is the opening of the ETHEREAL DARKNESS exhibition at Opiate Gallery. It's going to be an amazing event...and I wish I could be there to see all of the sanity-obliterating art created for the show.
Since we can't all make the journey to Colorado, I've held off sharing my contribution to the show until today. Here you'll find the final reveal of the Angelus Chimaera piece I created especially for this event. Older WIP photos and additional images of the final design are available HERE.
Sound the trumpets and fire off the pyrotechnics - we've reached the end of AlphaBeasts!
Well, almost. I still have one more missing beast to finish, but the overall project is at an end. For 26 weeks, monsters of all shapes, sizes, and origins have appeared across the Web, and I'm quite pleased that my designs have joined this expansive catalog of creatures.
Z is for Zoanoid.
I've finished off the 26th week with a beast very near and dear to my heart. One of my first experiences with painting large-scale figure models began with the Bio-Booster Armor Guyver series of Zoanoid model kits. And when I discovered Steve Wang's interpretations of the creatures from the manga/OVA in particular (used in the westernized, live-action film) my young mind was blown completely apart.
Zoanoids (獣化兵 Jūkahei) are Cronos' monstrous humanoid soldiers, created via genetic alterations. Initially, most Zoanoids encountered are members of Cronos, but the Corporation is also experimenting with ways to involuntarily transform humans into Zoanoids without their knowledge. It is safe to assume they erase the memories of these people of their being processed. They can be activated from a distance by any Zoalord. These humans come under the Zoalords' telepathic mind-control techniques as soon as they transform, giving the organization an unquestioningly obedient army of super soldiers. These Zoanoids are genetically programmed to obey the orders of Zoalords.
You can watch STAR WARS' Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) transform into a Zoanoid below:
This is it, friends. We're down to the final two creature designs for the AlphaBeasts! art project! I expected to create a second papercraft beast earlier in the event, but didn't feel any of the earlier monsters I'd chosen felt right for the treatment. I'm cutting it close waiting until the end, but I feel like the wait was worth it.
Y is for Yurei.
I love yurei. I do. There's something so exotic and alien about the way they're presented in Japanese art that keeps me coming back to them for inspiration. Some are depicted as vaporous beauties. Others are presented as hideous spirit-wrecks drifting between the fiery tendrils of hito-dama. A quick image search will produce a wonderful assortment of terrors recorded from the days of ancient Japan and rendered with a quality that only heightens their unnerving sense of presence.
ATTENTION: Do you want to piece together a yurei of your very own? Are you looking for the high-resolution file? You can find it on my AlphaBeasts archive page HERE!
Sound the trumpets and fire off the pyrotechnics - we've reached the end of AlphaBeasts!
Here's the final sculpt of my contribution to the ETHEREAL DARKNESS show taking place at Opiate Gallery in May.
This is it, friends. We're down to the final two creature designs for the AlphaBeasts! art project! I expected to create a second papercraft beast earlier in the event, but didn't feel any of the earlier monsters I'd chosen felt right for the treatment. I'm cutting it close waiting until the end, but I feel like the wait was worth it.
