CHALLENGE: The Creatures Noah Forgot

This week you're challenged to create both a male and a female from your own fictitious species. You may create a background if you wish, but it is not required. Place your male in the left box and your female in the right box.

Only your own original creatures. This means no Pokemon, no existing animals, etc...

No humanoid creatures.

Information about sexual dimorphism (physical gender differences within a species)

Canvas Size - Use Template:

Colours - Unrestricted.
Transparency - No.
Animation - No.

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CHALLENGE RULES

• Participants have until this upcoming Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) to submit their entry (strict). Don't forget to check the 'Submit to weekly challenge' checkbox.
• Only new pixels allowed.
• Open to all members.
• Posting WIPs in this thread or in new threads in the WIP section is highly encouraged, but ONLY SUBMIT YOUR FINAL ART.

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CHALLENGE JUDGING

• Every Sunday at midnight (12AM Pacific) the previous week's entries are judged.
• Every week a new voting poll will be posted for previous week's entries.
• Winner announced the following week.

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CHALLENGE PRIZES/GOODIES

• Top three finishers will receive an award displayed in your PJ gallery profile for all to see and envy.
• Top finisher gets to call the following week's challenge...sweet.
• 'Participation' ribbons will be given for all who enter.
• No matter what happens you get challenged :)

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CHALLENGE VOTING

Vote now for your favorite pixelart in this week's challenge!

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CHALLENGE AWARDS

The The Creatures Noah Forgot pixel art challenge is complete and we have three new champions. This week's challenge awards go to the following pieces:



Thanks so much to all who took the time to vote and participate in the challenge!



Edited by skamocore - 18 May 2009 at 8:54am

I think you have to use those boxes provided to draw your creature in it, but you may add a background WITHIN the boxes if you wish - that's what I understood from the rules.

that's what i've done until now, but i have absolutely no idea what i can do for the female character XD
i will think about it later (maybe ...)

this is a toughie

what a good idea !
thx

i don't know if it'll work, but it could be nice

I have a question about this... you said no humanoids, so that mean nothing human inspired at all.... only animal looking type of creatures basically... why? most of the coolest original races are humanoid based imo... well, I'll participate, I just want to make sure I know and understand exactly.

thx for your ideas !
but i think that braindamage's idea could be really refreshing and unexpected =D
so i'll see what i'll do :p

and i've finished my male character

and @Arrow, in my mind it's not some kind of spider, it's more like a crab which would live into monkey skull :D
so don't worry and just do what you feel :)

this system is sure well-know, but to make it realistic and surprising is my job so thanks for the help, i begin to have some good ideas thanks to you all !
this thread is sure helpfull, it's the first challenge i do, so thx for your help

@hordus: We're here but to help ;D

@nether: Looks awesome, NOW PIXEL IT!!!!!!! ;D

@Nether, that's brilliant ;D

I may aswell leave it like that,but i'm not so great at pixel art :D
I hope at the end I'll feel happy with it (this is my first challenge)

Stupid me pixelated my creture sketch outlines although I should be doing something else instead. Here's the result:



Oops. Just realized they are in the wrong slots. Too lazy to correct it here. Male is supposed to be the one with lots of hair and tentacles.

This is my entry "Aros", a lizard of the desert approximately 80 centimeters.
The male has a distinct pair of horns and red skin.
The female is green.

Suggestions?

UPDATE:

Edited by dpixel - 19 May 2009 at 8:42am

DO IT >(

wah ! but it could be considered as humanoid XD (just joking) your monster does look like parts of the human body =D
the background is just beautiful !

Jal, that wins hard.

I wish I could join this one... But I have been really out of time lately :/

This is precisely why Noah forgot this species. He couldn't tell they were a pair.


Not really some snakes and bugs look nothing alike at all. As I was going for humor with the testicles v. uterus - male/female it seemed feasable :/

dunno... you do have a point...Its only Tuesday.

Blueball Crab (Vulvatestis Crustacean)

Description
The male Blueball crab is 4 inches long.
Males travel in schools are are often victims to premature death.
Female Blueball Crabs, also known as the Vulva Crab, is an elusive creature and often vicious to the male.
They are almost eight times in size of the male and when carrying eggs will be as much as 2000% bigger, after birth females usually remain big and fat.
The female comes in many colors and sizes.
The mating dance includes a lot of cuddling and even then timing is crucial.

The male crab will often lose its limbs in the tight spaces of the female, their limbs never grow back and its rare to see males with limbs.
Without limbs mating is even more difficult and males will often turn a blue purple color from the frustration.

The genus Vulvatestis Crustecean are not edible but it is not unknown for this to happen occasionally.
In some cultures it is considered a delicacy and highly sought out.
Some cultures simply prefer to suck on them for the juices but not eat the actual creature.


*Disqualification is now complete, I'm off to make an iso scene


Edited by jalonso - 19 May 2009 at 12:31pm

Jalonso, that entry is the whole package. It's a marvellous piece. And with that, I'll take my leave.

In all seriousness, it's a very nice piece of work. Unfortunately I can't see a winner coming over that unless they go the whole hog and including a background.

Well, dpixel, it looks nice, but I think we all would much rather love to see something new for one of the sides. It doesn't have to be a new creature by any means, but a different pose, and not just a rotated, and slightly edited one.

The background doesn't really seem to help anything at all right now, it just kind of hurts the eyes. Hope you'll improve it though.

Start refining. Keep up the good work.

@dpixel, Don't let any entry stop you from your own, k.
I find the BG dominates the creatures a little too much. Maybe a shadow beneath them will add enough difference for them to stand out.
Another thing is that using white like you have on the teeth and nails never quite works well. Try a grey or blue-grey. This goes for blood too, often a purple or wine colored red works much better than RED.

Here we have the pixellus:



What we are observing here is the natural habitats of both the male and the female pixellus. The male is an extremely shy creature, but if you look very closely you can see him hiding in the corner of the image. He may be hard to spot at first, but that is because of his excellent camoflage; he can hide amongst any colour background, as long as it's blue.

Now on the other hand, we have the the female pixellus. She is the complete opposite to the male and comes in a wide variety of pinks. She will jump at any chance to get right in front of the camera. As you can tell in this image, she has jumped at the chance to get right in front of the camera. There are also 9 fluorescent disco elephants dancing in the background, but alas, you cannot see them as the pixullus is standing right in front of the camera, sigh.

@skamocore, you'd get my vote ;DD