bestiary

visdev artist and monster maker. I will mostly post my personal works here. @ossuarium is my personal blog.

[oroborian]

Introductions

My name is Ori, I am a creature artist with a love for horror and dark fantasy art. Hoping to make a new space here for personal art.

I have been working professionally for about 6 years, most recently as a visdev artist at Netflix and previously as a freelance concept artist/illustrator for MTG, D&D, and others.

My portfolio and socials can be found on my Linktree!

The blog's Art Tag is here.

Thank you for taking a look! 💙

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its the year of the horse! 🐎

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Herald of War's little minion kit! These are re-animated war engines made out of the crushed remains of their former crews, organic matter mulched and reformed to create the musculature woven through their remade mechanical bodies, pairing deadly firepower and the ability to move about under the command of their demon herald overlord... This one had two versions: A standalone "hellhound" and one with a pose, on a battlefield-debris base.

Process talk (a lot of this is "notes to self" but might help other fellow kit-making newbies:)

This little guy gave me quite the runabout with parts not fitting, but Lessons Were Learned and it made the other kit designs come together more easily (though I still had some oopsies on the final prints, with the armor shrouds (the "ears" haha) not fitting right as they were not common between variants.... this is where folder/file organization is important, oh my god Part of the issue was making those part keys BEFORE I did the posed version, and the right front leg of the posed figure interfered with the shroud....so don't key any parts on "variant kits" until you have all that sorted. Also, bridging between Blender and Zbrush gets crazy. My solution: I do all the boolean setup and tolerance offsets in Blender, but then do the actual operations in Zbrush since its boolean engine is completely insane If you are a messy modeler like me: Zbrush hates N-gons, triangulate all those before bringing it into Zbrush or it will have a conniption

Also: the morph brush is amazing for allowing me to "paint in" projected details. I had to re-project/re-import fixed so many times, but it was very cool that I could project the battle damage of the messed up part, and paint it back onto the new part with that history-state brush instead of redoing the battle damage each time (the posed fella has some of that, I left the symmetrical one "clean")

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Photoset of some of the minion kits related to Herald of Death: the "Timekeeper" ! Process rambling under the cut, for those interested:

Parts-assembly-wise this one went together very smoothly compared to the War minion (which was the first kit, so I encountered all my problems on that one hah) but the real challenge on this one was the god-dang clear resin parts! Which is why this kit was a limited edition one (unless perhaps I farm out the red resin bits, they took way too much time to clean up and finish - tons of sanding, and clear-coating at the end) The issue: transparent resin, especially in this shape, can create lensing effects that distort the curing light coming through, and can cause for some heavy banding and pretty big tolerance issues... The other issue is that the hollowed shape acted like suction cups, which made the hourglass-halves unprintable until I added adequate venting (you need a hole at the base and somewhere at the top, the latter had to be placed carefully so it would be obscured by the rest of the sculpture upon assembly.) Just some things to think about, if anyone reading this is attempting anything similar! A little tip if you are trying to print hollow transparent resin: it WILL become frosty, thanks to the layer lines once you clean off the uncured resin, and it's very difficult to clean up the inside unless you have some two-part system. Initially I had the little skull set inside, but decided to smear it against the side of the glass in sort of a reverse effect as those cut-gemstone sculptures, which made the "skull with its soul getting sucked out" effect readable again. Clear resin was an even bigger mess than this red - the pigmentation probably helped scatter a little less light, but it is tricky to work with. I will need to run some tests sometime if more solid objects have less issue, as I want a transparent sculpted base for another project in the works! A bit funny to me that the main sculpt assembly went together without a hitch first shot off the printer, buuuuut I spent a few weeks problem-solving the clear-resin part! You never know what will bite ya

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The last Herald in the Caminus collab with @mechmonster-art . Source inspo re: the Four Horsemen is a bit nebulous, in the end it was decided to do a spin on the theme of 'Conquest'.

This Herald is a corrupted statue of flesh and metal, the closest to 'angelic' or 'heaven-aligned' in appearance at a distance.

The daemon's character is being a Control Freak in contrast with the wild chaos of the War Herald. Chosen creatures of Conquest are embedded with the spores and "mycelia" the Herald hosts inside its body, enthralling them.

This one was a tough one to resolve, I'm still split on some design choices revisiting this guy. I'm in the midst of some more development for ✨future✨ paintings.

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The Swarm Queen

Some behind the curtain sneak peeks! For the 'Herald of Famine' painting, I blocked out shapes and lighting in Blender to make a base to be painted over. This model is quite rough but can be finessed into its more final design.

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The buggy corner of the Caminus Infernalis/Four Horsemen collab with @mechmonster-art. The Herald of Famine was imagined as a 'Queen of the Swarm' type character, surrounded by clouds of locust-like biomechs that chew up everything in their path.

For the theme, I imagined a prominent maw with teeth of industrial machinery, and some hollowed out anatomy and hive elements to hint to her never-satisfied hunger.

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Painting of the "Herald of War" for the Caminus Infernalis collab project! Had so much fun designing this guy and his pack of "hellhounds," I def need to at some point upload some other angles though, since the whole "war train" centipede-like body isn't shown with this particular angle. Stuff for an artbook/process sketch book sometime I guess

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The daemon "Herald of Death" - this one was an interesting one to approach, since there have been so many iterations of the concept of "Death" (and a lot of similar depictions with the scythe and everything) and I didn't want to do anything too conceptually similar, but still have the character be recognizable.

I decided to go with something that was more of "Death" in the context of Time, the inevitability of it (and the ability to twist it to suit his needs, captured subjects and souls preserved in eternal undying limbo.) So, hence all the clockwork elements.

The secondary inspo was the classic "Totentanz"/ Dance of the Dead, and a bit of Beksiński, specifically in how he captures that sense of chaotic motion in some of his paintings

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Oh man I blink and it turns out this is the last day of 2025! I should post some of the projects from this year before I forget to do this again - it was my first time tabling at Monsterpalooza with the very cool @oroborian with a collaboration project we cooked up (and more to come for Monsterpalooza 2026!) Anyway, for now, have a Critter If you want a preview of what we were up to earlier this year, I've hosted both of our model kits and the main paintings on my site: [LINK]

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This year was a whirlwind but working with @mechmonster-art was easily a highlight of it! Some bonus sticker graphics from the infernal mechabeasties project.

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back in my sea critter comfort zone (cetacean dragons anyone?)

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Take 2 on Carnage with a side of Extra Creechur

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unicorn inspired by gerenuk shapes. will return to this to paint up sometime

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lioness warmup

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Princess Mononoke 4k resurfaced a lot of feelings about this movie.

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schedule has been nuts lately but had time for a bit of SCREAM for fun

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Mini paintings! Pretty happy with a first venture back to traditional painting with these artist proofs for some upcoming shows.