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[Miko Galvez]

I know there isn't a limit to what we can imagine but not everyone can imagine such designs for creatures such as the amazing ones you have just made. Exactly WHY is the imagination world producing such things? I think they should be uniform as well. I'm not really a fan of the first one of the newest batch you just posted. The one with the teeth without the yellow parts and the dress. That didn't seem to blend well with the others. Unless that one belongs in a different world or some sort. Anyway, I still love the progress This requires some great ass creativity which you got man.

[shao]

Some classic monsters.

[Angrymatter]

Some classic monsters.

Classic? I dont even know half of these. They're still awesome.

[Azure Lazuline]

I recommend playing through (or at least watching) some games in the Earthbound/Mother series. That's pretty much known for having cool/creepy/weird monsters.

[YellowLime]

Your game is just too pretty to be scary!

Obviously, if you go for disgusting you need an organic feeling, and that isn't going to happen with those highly stylized designs. You can't have them be so featureless.

Same with scariness, the symmetry gives a sense of balance, and fear is about, among other things, not knowing how the dangerous creepy thing is going to act or move towards you.

But maybe both of these suggestions are at odds with your chosen artstyle?

tl;dr: Symmetric and featureless does not equal gross or scary  

Anyway, your second try is definitely better in the creepy department.

[eyeliner]

Like stated, creepyiness can be explored with the way they move but also with the sound they make while interacting.

One of the most freaky creatures I encountered were
The spiders and the Hunters from RE1. The spiders because of their silent movement and the hunters because of their sounds and speed.

Most recently are the enemies that cry in Dead Space, the Guardians, when they moan before the attack. Freak me out, alright.

I didn't even pay attention to the Guardians' design, just their cry put on alert. Later I look at one and found it mildly disturbing visually, but their cry stuck to me from the first encounter.

Again, in Dead Space the impaler (The Hunter) proved the dementia of the designers because it is fairly normal, but when he attacks and eventually kills Isaac, you can never be allowed to say that you are not disturbed by the vision.

You don't need to make disturbing designs, but make them act disturbing.

Do you remember the first encounter with Ridley in Super Metroid? He doesn't do anything when he awakes, but you know you're done for when he moves...

[Kramlack]

Ah, I was meaning to post this in here awhile ago. It's the method of monster creation in Silent Hill 2. It hammers home the point eyeliner made about movement.

[eyeliner]

Good watch. The part on Maria's detail, going to her belly to reinforce her personality is genius. Quite amazing, that part.

Thanks for the link.

[strazt]

An Earthbound look seems to fit the bill.

Anyway, neat enemies so far. I like 'em.

[Quinn]

I'm really digging the style MadWatch. Definitely a project I'll be keeping an eye on.

[FK in the Coffee]

I love everything about the aesthetic this game has.  Please keep us posted about its progress in DevLogs or something!

[MadWatch]

Trying different color styles.

Black and white like the character.


Black and yellow, more visible.


White and red, creepier I think.

[laserfire]

Negative Man from Mother 3 was pretty weird.

Wrong kind of weird?

[Rykuth]

I agree that the white and red are creepier, but I think I prefer the black and yellow mainly because it's easier to distinguish between the player and the enemies. The others might be better in motion, but from the stills I think it's too hard to make out what's going on at a glance when the colors are the same as the player. That said all three look great. If you're still needing to make more enemies something you might want to try (it's one thing I've been doing to make alien enemies for my game) is to draw a field of random scribbles and try to pick out anything that looks like it could be a creature. It can result in some very otherworldly creatures.

[Bandages]

Could we see more examples of each color-scheme outside of game?

I think red+white is a nice idea (purity+blood=whoah) but in the screenshot, one of the monsters is kind of... blurry? and the others are out of frame

[laserfire]

But seriously, you should check out

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It has weird creepy crawly things that may interest you.

[Quarry]

Check out Patapon bosses, really interesting stuff there

[Eigen]

Nature is your best bet. Look at some images of insects or weird creatures. Grab a random one and play around with the shape and things. You could end up with something like this, maybe:



or this:



Here's the original

[Chromanoid]

yeah, nature!






folklore is also very inspiring
http://www.matthewmeyer.net/blog/tags/a-yokai-a-day
many deadlinks http://home.comcast.net/~chris.s/myth.html
http://www.pantheon.org/
http://www.obakemono.com/
wikipedia...

edit:

First off these look amazing.
Second, is there any reason you couldnt use multiple pallets for enemys too match the mood of the current area?

I second this (forward quoting )

edit2:
your enemies remind me of the enemies in the game "Heart of Darkness "

[zez]

First off these look amazing.
Second, is there any reason you couldnt use multiple pallets for enemys too match the mood of the current area? I feel like the black+white does a really good job of creating a general uniform ambience that could work really well for more exploration driven areas (zen platformer?) well the black + yellow would be wonderfull for action heavy sections, and the red and white could communicate that it is time get the hell out of there. Coupled with the right pacing and sound, it could be atmospheric gold.