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Season 2 Monster Concept Design translated by AFKalmighty[/SIZE]
Mabinogi Heroes Developer's Note
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Hello, I’m 카나벨룸 and in charge of character concept illustrations.
Season 2 will show various islands and monsters with differing concepts. We would like to give a brief introduction of the new season 2 monsters. In season 2, there will be a new area with several shipwrecks put together out in the sea making up an island called the
Tomb of Ships.
Within the Tomb of Ships you will encounter
Octopusmen,
zombie pirates,
Kraken and
many more hideous monsters. The keywords for the basic concept are shipwrecks, graves, stormy seas, and death. In order to create a matching image, we took notes of other images with these concepts and designed the monsters from these observations.
Here we would like to show some early works. Instead of going all out from the beginning, we made several rough drafts and decided which ones to go with during meetings. You can look forward to the kind of battle style these monsters will display.
[SIZE="3"]Zombie Pirate Sketches[/SIZE]
[Image: http://file.heroes.nexon.com/_uploads/bbs/20/2012/05/24/20120524111524906.jpg]
Shows the process of picking facial features and the finalized concept.
(some quotation: 'only the captain with a hat' 'peg leg-check with animations' 'a good balance between flesh and bones')
[SIZE="3"]Crab Monster Sketches[/SIZE]
[Image: http://file.heroes.nexon.com/_uploads/bbs/20/2012/05/24/20120524111846718.jpg]
[some quotation: 'large signature right claw' 'bio luminescence' 'mouth moves separately(during foam attack)' ]
[SIZE="3"]Octopusmen[/SIZE] (or maybe I should translate it to’ Octopus people’)
[Image: http://file.heroes.nexon.com/_uploads/bbs/20/2012/05/24/20120524112046640.jpg]
[some quotation: 'as scary as possible, fat lady' 'let's avoid these kind of things(pointing at the shell bra)' 'human torso octopus legs' 'similar legs with the kraken' 'bumps on the skin' 'octopus hat' 'final image(on the right)]
[SIZE="3"]Facial Features of the Octopus quintet[/SIZE]
[Image: http://file.heroes.nexon.com/_uploads/bbs/20/2012/05/24/20120524112229765.jpg]
[SIZE="3"]Kraken Facial Feature work and Final Result[/SIZE]
[Image: http://file.heroes.nexon.com/_uploads/bbs/20/2012/05/24/20120524112520203.jpg]
We had alot of tough decisions to make while designing the Kraken. Designing monsters based on real life animals are challenging but making a totally new type of creature is very fun and interesting.
I remember eating webfoot octopuses and suddenly coming up with the idea of the Kraken.
Since the Kraken is based of an octopus, we placed it’s radula to show on the front of it’s face and gave it a rock-hard skin with 6 barely noticeable camouflaged eyes.
[SIZE="3"]Kraken Promotion image[/SIZE]
[Image: http://file.heroes.nexon.com/_uploads/bbs/20/2012/05/31/20120531102212812.jpg]
Season 2 will show more monsters with varying concepts. We will do our best in making amazing arts for them, please look forward to seeing them![/spoiler]