Designing DEAD gODS - Dragons in context

Wait THIS IS THAT MATT RHODES?! YOU'RE THE TELLURION GUY! I had not put the name together until you mentioned that. Delighted to see you work!

Are all the dinosaurs in this created by the watchers or just specific breeds

can the dragons breathe fire (i assume not)

Dude your skill at craft and storytelling is phenomenal

Will you expand on the serpent like watchers?

Old comics are a salvation, I specially like stuff like the Mercenary be sagrelles and stuff like the savage sword, specially the Maroto or Alcatena.

What app do you use

hey just wanted to let you know that i love the vampire/nephilim design, so much that im gonna incorporate a simmilar aesthetic into my own writing xD

dinosaur in civilization contexr

Need just a little fire breathing

I like the concept, but standing in awe of a dragon would be a crack in my own armor, much worse: a hesitation.

looks at fossils sitting on desk that are yet to be reassmebled and published, and the heaps of clutter to organize in the workshop
I got enough hesitation as it is.

Wish I could draw my worlds like this but I can only write about them.

Aaaaah, but there was still something very nice in the first sketch of the human sacrifice scene, the relaxed, passive posture of the two nephilims. For them the sacrfice of a bunch human is not something worthy of them standing up and managing directly. It's a tuesday like any other of enjoying eachother company, with the added entertainment of the casual murder of yet another cohort of the filthy rabble. I found that particularly despicable of them, which I imagine was a part of the intended effect.

I love that "spell that makes us believe that the world is just stuff" concept 😁

Your quote about "line" completely scratches my thoughts about my personal favorite art to see. Great videos, keep it up!

What is the lifespan of antideluvian dragons?

At the end of this video, you said you wanted to help put a crack in disenchantment so that someone could go to the museum and see the bones for those of dragons-- You succeeded.

Watching your creative process has been so therapeutic and is really helping me with the disconnect I'm having in my own story at the moment.

It's also a great reminder that no matter how skilled someone is, they always seem to be their own worst critic. A double edged sword, pushing and pulling your own progress. In other words I find everything you make simply enchanting, so I hope you can see through my lens for a minute.

Also there's something startling about how your imagination with this world clicks with my own and its pure magic to see it so easily put to paper, so to speak.

Keep up the great work and Thank you for sharing your magic with us 💕

This is giving strong Conan Hyborian age vibes and I'm loving it.

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Maybe you should design some of the pretosaurs inspired by the gryphons making them look part bird and lion

I am immune to the disenfranchisement spell. DRAGONS ARE REAL!!!

I thought there was a big opportunity to tell Game of Thrones-like stories set in the pre-Flood world using dinosaurs. I think you’re onto something!

Nice. I like to draw something ancient as well. I will also support your work as well.
Happy new year

I would suggest bringing in some Lovecraft inspired "otherworldly geometry" into Watcher architecture. Could be a nice, subtle, yet unsettling device. :) Love the Blender usage!!!

Cool!

if you are going with biblical inspiration, I find there to be 3 types or 4 if you count the Revelations dragon.
Leviathan the water dwelling
Behemoth the land dwelling
Ziz the flying
I think that fits quite well to the ecological spaces dinosaurs lived in. well, every other animal too.

"Painfully aspirational" is a perfect word mix

Can the final one breathe fire?? Just wondering because the Nephilim looks burned

your quote at the end made me tear up sorry if thats corny but like this has been my belief about dinosaurs for years and youre bringing it to life good job man ill be around to see where you take this

Love your work❤

Great stuff man! Love to see everything developing!

You are so correct! Dinosaurs have just become something for children while they are so cool and mysterious that adults could easily enjoy them too!

:D

Love your quote about dragons and children! Reminds me of a short snippet from the OG Dinotopia about the sight of children.

I like the concept and the idea, but...no. Dinosaurs are pretty damn good already.

Honestly I'm kinda surprised that these dragon and giant designs aren't crazier

Dinosaurs never existed. That's what kids are realizing. The fraud of paleontology. "The Emperor Has No Clothes."

Also, I absolutely need this setting as a TTRPG, goddamn.

In your first Dead God video you talked about what the expertise of centuries-old humans would look like and how the shepherds would appear to have almost supernatural abilities in everything related to their job, so I tried to imagine how a 700 years old warrior would fight and I think that they would have reached an insanely optimal degree of mathematical perfection in literally every combat-related micro-action due to sheer centuries-long repetitions of the same move in so many contexts and situations we can't even imagine it.
They'd be able to do stuff like shattering their opponent's skull with a light tap of the finger, simply by hitting it at JUST the perfect angle with JUST the perfect speed on JUST the specific spot, which would lead to the total collapse of the skull with minimal amount of force. They'd be so experimented in fighting that a single glance at every minute twitch in their opponent's muscles (which would appear completely still to us) would inform them as to how he's going to move and they'd just have to position themselves so that their foe impale themselves on their blade without them having to expand any energy. They'd dodge strikes by such minuscule margins that they'd appear to be almost completely still to observers. They'd put subliminal messages in their every micro-movements to lead their opponent to attack just the right way so that they can avoid the swing with a barely noticeable side step.
That kind of stuff.

Cool ideas as always. It's really cool to see your techniques evolving. The use of Blender to create a baseline is really clever

i love Dragosaurus

i thought that was the jp 3 spino

Everything you say is the coolest thing I’ve ever heard

Viserys targaryen
The idea we control the dragons is an illusion

these drawings and the vibe of the world look like concepts for older 2d animated Disney movies and i love it