Monday, June 21, 2010

Miniscule Mass of Musical Monsters

A habit I'm developing is randomly thinking of monsters/segments inspired by music (mostly game music) and then drawing what they make me think of. Almost all of Enemy's original concept/character designs were sparked by The Invasion From Within.

So I colored my first batch and decided to upload them here, ramble a bit about what I thought of them, and link the song they were inspired by.

Name: Slabulous
Inspired by: Crimsonwood Keep Party Quest
I imagined this being the main menace in a sort of temple escape/advancing wall of doom scenario, where some characters entered a temple and took the treasure, causing all the defense mechanisms to activate and causing a forced scrolling segment past whirring sawblades and thrusting spears and whatnot as Slabulous slowly crawls along after them on its many fingers, smashing through anyone and anything in its way with its constantly-chomping jaws. It's actually a biological monster with extremely rock-like skin, like rock-type Pokemon.

Name: Tankenstein
Inspired by: A song I made in WarioWare DIY.
This is just a straight-up boss monster. His entire torso can flip back to shoot enormous laser beams redirected by small satellites.

Name: Cactus Sanchez
Inspired by: Sunset Heroes
Cactus Sanchez is a man among men. He has infinite grenades and a rocket launcher in his poncho, and rules the desert with a kind yet prickly fist. He's not very kind to strangers.
Name: Love Machine Mk. 3
Inspired by: Sweet Nightmare
There's really no appropriate description or backstory I can cook up for this thing. It's a boss monster similar to Tankenstein. It loves everything, and expresses this by grabbing things and nuzzling them against its heart-shaped face (which unfortunately sprouts spikes when Love Machine is feeling affectionate). It also shoots fireballs and homing hearts from its codpiece by pelvic thrusting.

This is the sort of frivolous shit I think of and draw all the time, so there'll probably be more random monsters/ideas that will never happen in any context ever coming soon.

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