Ambassador Mooey of the Avarr

This is just a breif introduction to one main character in the story out of 3 im working on. ( I will be choosing one to go through with the modeling on maya during closer to when finnishing all the cahracters that we may choose from)

Anyhow This was a quick breif concept sketch of Mooey a senegal parrot avarr (Kinda baised off one of my pet birds.)

He WAS origonally going to be sentinel since it was close in saying a senegal XD though i could see him being more the ambassador type.


I pictured him being a trpe of little beady eyed bird dressed all fancy since he is a spokes person for the avarr race, though this is just my first basic idea of him which i quite like but i will work through a few more designs on him to see if I rather stick to him being this way or change him a little.

Heres a little about the character ive listed so far (NOTE - it may change since this is just the starting point of him)

* Stubborn
* Cowedly
* Quite greedy in terms of wealth
* Vain
* Snappy
* Dislikes being wrong

Getting around

Ok so this is a crappy lil thing I doodled when I was sat with Dave thinking what i could draw for vehicle ideas lol.

We kind of looked at the thought of using horses with medievel style of armour over them or make them slightly harf cyborg? Im not sure but i think horses are going to be one of Daves main sorces of transportation for his humaaaaannnsss but since im going to be the one whos strongly focusing upon the concept designs i'll most likely be looking at maybe gryphons and carrages, perhaps any other form of transportation thats likely to fit into this environment and style of land.

Ok so enough about that rambles and on to what this guy is XD
He is what i call a twilight Wyvern because of his colours. The gold thing around his neck is a gear by the way XD so ya its odd looking. Im sorry I will post up better designs when I draw them properly lol.

Anyhow he has odd lil anntenna thingies that glow blue, you propably cant make it out frmo how ive scribbled it down and coloured over it roughly, But its suppose to look like its glowing.
The silvery dots are just shinny bits of scales and its suppose to be in water.
Thats a breif look at him, I guess i'll go in more detail about these when i get to working on vehicles and transport properly but since then its just going to be more random birdy people :P

Why do birds have teeth?

Ok so this was a smaller design sheet for the corax versions of the avarr.

Not much to really write about on this one as the previous design sheet except to explain about the small little features these guys have.

This Design sheet cover TWO main features that the characters have which i felt needed explaining because ive had people ask me things about the design which kind of got annoying.

First of all the feathers. The Avarr have feathers of course since they are AVIAN types of creatures. The feather colours can range from what ever species of Avarr they are, mainly the corax versions will have black feathers with shiny hints on purples and greens when the light shines on them, where as other avarr of say parrot kind are more vibrant in plumage.

The avarr DO also have hair. It wasnt one of the questions I got asked alot on but they have hair aswell as feathers because its just how they are designed.

The main problem I got however with people pointing out is why has it got teeth aswell as a beak? well ok i admit at the time i thought it would just look totally random for what ever reason :P .... because I like random things XD,
Anyhow I thought about it for a bit, and this could most likely cover why they have fur/hair but I figured since the Avarr are fairly Humanoid it would make sence for them to have some humanistic features added to them so why not give them teeth and hair? I felt that would be a good enough explination that would make some kind of sense anyhow. So now you all know why birds have teeth.
The bottom part of this design sheet breifly tells you this. The other part that also tells you about the teeth of Avarr just cover things like these are the only Avarr species to have those teeth because it just suited the design more, unlike the others.

They have long narrow type teeth that curve to one side slightly, The colour of these teeth do not normally match the colour of the beak, however I was looking over the Three facial designs in my previous post and the middle one kind of had a good beak going on even though it still looked like apart of the beak. Im still not sure wether I should use that Idea still or go with the curved, narrow teeth?

Anyhow that about covers this post ....and thats why birds have teeth :P

Corax Avarr - Raven Designs

Well I decided to change the spelling of the name a little and call em Avarr Since I wasnt to sure if I liked how the name was before.

Anyhow, Due to feeling a little unwell last week I havent been able to post much stuff which ive done on the project so far so I'll post the others in small bunches so it doesnt over complicate what the images are of.

Anyhow this be one of my main work sheets that i started a while back. This just explains the facial features of the Raven Avarr forms which 3 examples are on the left.
The Faces where just rough drawings of what they could possibly look like, from teeth, hair and plumage as well as the facial structures.
How I saw it was the top one had a sort of elder look to it with its long beard and fewer teeth, the eye also made it have a softer look to the character.
The Second one looked a little menacing and probably the one i liked most out of the three. This onle looked slightly younger and i liked the add on of the ear which i may use on all of them, was not to sure about the teeth though , they blended in more as the beak so i may keep the teeth used in the third design.
The Third design i didnt like so much but it did show the race in another sort of body structure. This one was made slightly puffed up with feathers which made it look a little chubby ..lol XD
though I thought id leave it in as part of the design because I would expect them to have different body builds.

The corner bit on the work sheet just explains the eye structure and design. The have a feline like pupil just so it makes them look a little preditorial and feirce even though most of them are big over sized softys XD, and they are usually quite narrow.
They only have TWO types of eye colours. These be yellow and green because they went better together with the fur colour than any otthers. ALSO I thought the yellow was best because they'ed seem the type to glow in the dark. I may add more to this, im unsure yet.

Anyhow that about explains what ive done so far here, More of course will be posted on further developments of the Avarr. Im still expecting to do another few designs that aint just ravens :)