[Oddish]

Humans on Oddworld, wow. It's unbelievable that Fangus could of been made by oddworld. When you first look those concepts of Fangus, you would never they could of come form oddworld, because form the looks of it, it doesn’t seem they are oddworld creatures at all. There is nothing wrong with designs, the costumes and stuff are nice, that character looks cool, It's just that not in Oddworld! Oddworld is supposed to have creatures which are odd, strange, and look very unusual to us, but this is like taken form Earth.

Can anyone seriously imagine a Mudokon standing next to these characters without it looking like some sad fanwank of shipping Muds to Earth?

I thought the same thing, it's hard to imagine. Back in the days of MO, if someone says there's going to be human like characters, no way anyone would believe that.

I can see how oddworld is drifting from what it's supposed to be another planet with odd content, to more humanoid, ending up with Earth's inhabitants. It's no suprise why older fans like Abebabe is loosing interesting in oddworld, because in a way the oddworld is fading away, well not completely... I hope. Sure OWI might say it's an oddworld creature, but oddworldian style is going. But these are only concept work, so it isn't that shocking.


But what I like about this is the dark tone it has, the atmosphere I likw very much.
The guns on Silvios website are slightly different Fangus ended up holding. The ones in his hands were more designed, have of a style, and I think they can fit in oddworld. Alot of the hardware (except the gunes) and machinery are pretty cool, except the helicopter. It's not bad, but it could have more of an oddworld character to it, maybe. As for the environments, they look good, some though might look like that it could of been on Earth. However some remind me of the interiors of Rupturefarms.

Well, Xav said that there'd be more to come. Let's just hope that we see a shift in the later designs that tilts towards him being less human.

I think there is more, because there one which showed a copyright belonged to oddworld, which appears to be a city!

Why is Silvio still designing characters? His vehicles are the best on Oddworld, and his illustrations bring real life and depth to everything, but his characters are consistantly the least inspired in terms of body design. The only three characters I saw on his website that I would let onto Oddworld without any niggles would be the first two ‘wildlife’ creatures (not the boar) and the hunched-over bird.

Oh yeah. That bird like Doctor looked very cool (reminds of a vykker, including the teeth) that leggless baby mudokon look-alike was great too. These sorta stuff are what we want to see in oddworld.
Oh and I think every designer get's a turn to design the next main character.


Anyway, Fangus didn't end up being a human, but more of a cheetah humanoid, which isn't as bad.

And great work Xav!