There are many facets to world building in a fictional universe, and one of those is of course designing the animals that live there. While Save Point starts off, and for some, finishes off, on earth, many will travel to other places and encounter a variety of animals unique to the franchise.
Some will be analogues for commonly known animals, filling their place in the natural order, some will be horrific monstrosities, and some will be pets.
I'm starting this thread to have a place to put the concept art/designs for these various animals, so people can look at them, give feedback, etc.
There have been many concepts already created, but for the sake of organization, I'll upload entries one at a time.
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Torps - a small furry animal frequently kept as a pet by families across the galaxy. Torps are found in forests and fields, and feed primarily on vegetation.
Their six legs give them extraordinary balance and climbing abilities, useful for leaping from branch to branch in the forest canopies, or accessing difficult to reach human food while their owners are gone at work.
While many torp bear a similarity to domestic earth rabbits, genetically, they are closer to half Scottish fold cat and half Dutch rabbit.
A unique aspect of the species are it's unusual color patterns, which vary widely from one subspecies of torp to the next.
Torps have a special defense mechanism to ward off predators. When a torps hair touches any other torps hair, the colors quickly change to match, creating the illusion that the would be predator is facing one large enemy, rather than multiple small ones.
The behavior is common, and citizens encountering torps in the wild frequently come across large numbers of the animals at once.
When isolated, torps can use their chameleon like fur to simulate a second face, sometimes effective in convincing a solo enemy that it is outnumbered.
Torps have an unusual maturity cycle, in that babies are born with no ears, then grow a single ear in adolescence, and finally a second ear in adulthood.
Some will be analogues for commonly known animals, filling their place in the natural order, some will be horrific monstrosities, and some will be pets.
I'm starting this thread to have a place to put the concept art/designs for these various animals, so people can look at them, give feedback, etc.
There have been many concepts already created, but for the sake of organization, I'll upload entries one at a time.
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Torps - a small furry animal frequently kept as a pet by families across the galaxy. Torps are found in forests and fields, and feed primarily on vegetation.
Their six legs give them extraordinary balance and climbing abilities, useful for leaping from branch to branch in the forest canopies, or accessing difficult to reach human food while their owners are gone at work.
While many torp bear a similarity to domestic earth rabbits, genetically, they are closer to half Scottish fold cat and half Dutch rabbit.
A unique aspect of the species are it's unusual color patterns, which vary widely from one subspecies of torp to the next.
Torps have a special defense mechanism to ward off predators. When a torps hair touches any other torps hair, the colors quickly change to match, creating the illusion that the would be predator is facing one large enemy, rather than multiple small ones.
The behavior is common, and citizens encountering torps in the wild frequently come across large numbers of the animals at once.
When isolated, torps can use their chameleon like fur to simulate a second face, sometimes effective in convincing a solo enemy that it is outnumbered.
Torps have an unusual maturity cycle, in that babies are born with no ears, then grow a single ear in adolescence, and finally a second ear in adulthood.