Original looking creature.  Interesting justaposition, with some 
intiguing possibilities.  Waiting to see where you take it.

The Silicoids from Master of Orion comes to mind, or life forms with 
elaborate camoflage, but neither is really a fit.

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Mike Raiford escreveu:
> Creature I created in Spore and exported, then applied a glass texture.

wonderful.  Without blurrying it'd look like a boring hard-edged 
low-poly glass statue.

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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Creature I created in Spore and exported, then applied a glass texture.

Final rendering (for now ...)



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You know what's bothering me with this creature's face?

The whole body indicates that this is a vegetarian animal, with need to 
protect itself from predators.

But vegetarian animals don't have forward-looking eyes. That's an 
exclusive feature of predators.

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clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> You know what's bothering me with this creature's face?
>
> The whole body indicates that this is a vegetarian animal, with need to
> protect itself from predators.
>
> But vegetarian animals don't have forward-looking eyes. That's an
> exclusive feature of predators.

Two words: Giant Panda :-)

Cheers,
Edouard.

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> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>> You know what's bothering me with this creature's face?
>>
>> The whole body indicates that this is a vegetarian animal, with need to
>> protect itself from predators.
>>
>> But vegetarian animals don't have forward-looking eyes. That's an
>> exclusive feature of predators.
> 
> Two words: Giant Panda :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Edouard.
> 

Originaly, giant pandas were predators. It's only through dures and 
survival obligation that they converted to a vegetarian diet.
Their ordinary preys seems to have disapeared, other potential preys 
where to strong, fast, nimble or small to serve as a viable food source.
They still have the digestive system of a carnivorous creature, their 
dentition is also closer to that of a carnivore than an hebivore.


Alain

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Edouard schrieb:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>> You know what's bothering me with this creature's face?
>>
>> The whole body indicates that this is a vegetarian animal, with need to
>> protect itself from predators.
>>
>> But vegetarian animals don't have forward-looking eyes. That's an
>> exclusive feature of predators.
> 
> Two words: Giant Panda :-)

Well, that's obviously a predator that refuses to eat meat because of 
ethic reasons, after having come into contact with asian religion :-)

(No, really: They've only very recently in their evolution become so 
picky as to only eat bamboo.)

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"Edouard" <pov### [at] edouardinfo> schreef in bericht 
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>
> Two words: Giant Panda :-)

The other way round (Predators with non-stereoscopic view):  blue whale and 
sperm whale  ;-)

Thomas

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Thomas de Groot schrieb:
> The other way round (Predators with non-stereoscopic view):  blue whale and 
> sperm whale  ;-)

Yeah, sharks too.

But as for blue whales, I'd rather consider them "grazing" animals, sort 
of. It's not like they actually /hunt/ anything - they just open their 
mouth and eat...

Another thing about those animals is that they don't have particularly 
large eyes (due to the fact that they a lot on other senses). Neithe 
does the giant panda. But that "crystal monster" has disturbingly 
/large/ eyes.

... it /definitely/ wants to *EAT US ALL! GOD HELPUS! RUN!*

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> Another thing about those animals is that they don't have particularly 
> large eyes (due to the fact that they a lot on other senses). Neithe does 
> the giant panda. But that "crystal monster" has disturbingly /large/ eyes.
Binocular vision is usefull as well if you eat fruits, live in trees and 
want to jump from one branch to another.
But I agree that obviousely this animal lives on or under the ground

The poor little cute creature need to see through the night the small 
insects it catches

>
> ... it /definitely/ wants to *EAT US ALL! GOD HELPUS! RUN!*

or merely bite your toes :-)

Marc

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