Beyond Anatomy – Believable Creatures vs FrankenBeasts

Beyond Anatomy - Believable Creatures vs FrankenBeasts

Using a myriad of images from her work across the Entertainment Industry, Terryl Whitlatch will explore what it means to design creatures and creature characters that can stand on their own as believable species, regardless of aesthetics, rather than Frankensteinian combinations of various animal parts.

The topics to be covered are:

• Understanding Duality to achieve Believable Creature Designs via anatomy and observation of life
• Understanding Forensics to reconstruct Prehistoric Species
• Naturalism and Anthropomorphism
• Character Contrasts
• Variances in Aesthetics
• Caricature

After the lecture, Terryl will do a demonstration wherein she creates a speculative, biologically plausible creature, followed by paint overs of participating student work.