#httyd redesign

[kirran906]

Stormcutter

[talldren]

Okay, this isn't typically smth I post, but I'm really proud of how this project of mine is going rn, so I'm gonna share some of it while it's in its wip stage. Hopefully some other people will appreciate it lol

Essentially, a while back I realized that one of the big reasons I don't think the light fury's design meshes well with the rest of the httyd (again, one of, I'm sure there are more) is that I don't think they really based her off of real animals, the way the other dragons were. Most dragons are designed after real animals, like Toothless being based on cats and bats, and these inspirations bring a natural quality to their designs; it makes them feel more real, like actual species that live in particular environments and exploit particular niches, and that natural feel really built a unique feel for the franchise as a whole. In comparison, I don't think the light fury started in the same place— instead, it started with Toothless' design, and then they changed traits around so she'd look like... well, the "girl version." They needed a girlfriend design, not a species design, so I feel like they didn't really prioritize the idea that this dragon was supposed to be an animal. (Ironic, since she's supposed to represent a "call to the wild" for Toothless)

But anyways, after I had that thought, I wondered about trying to redesign the light fury— a very original idea, I know (/j)— and try to reverse engineer the light fury into a dragon which could realistically be its own species (so basically a redesign/lore overhaul, which is, again, unoriginal of me but I also had fun so I'll cope).

To start, I did a mockup of the head's profile. Since this IS a night fury subspecies, I had to start with the general shape of Toothless' head, but once I began to deviate from that blueprint, I think I actually managed to make it look like a night fury without just being a recolored night fury. Here she is!

You can probably already see some of the inspirations, here; orca, beluga, porpoise, and seal were all creatures I drew from. This is because,

1. Despite it not being the art team's intention, I've always been fond of the headcanon that the light fury species is semiaquatic, because so many of her existing features would work for that lifestyle. Therefore, I decided to lean even further into that idea

And

2. Cetaceans like orcas, belugas, and porpoises echolocate and are highly intelligent, which are two traits this species could share with night furies. It makes them seem more related to each other; they each have similar abilities, but have evolved to use them in different ways

Her rounded head is hydrodynamic, and her big ol squishy forehead is a "melon", for producing echolocation sounds. She is still fairly smooth, but I think it comes across better here, with the added context of her being aquatic.

Here are some rough body sketches!

She's a bit bigger than a night fury; stockier and almost blubbery, to be precise, and has more muscle mass from swimming. However, her legs are shorter due to a majority of her time being spent in the air or in the water, and so they are clumsy limbs best used as steering tools while swimming. Her tail is incredibly muscular, because it's what allows her to propel out of the water and into the air. Taking off from the water is vital, because with her stubby legs and massive wings, she basically needs a running start to get into the air (you ever seen a video of an albatross taking off? It's like that).

Speaking of wings—

Hers are REALLY BIG. Again, albatross inspiration. In my version, light furies are always migrating over long stretches of ocean, and hardly ever stop on land. They are designed to fly and swim for long distances in constantly migrating pods, and can even lock their wings and sleep on the air. Though these traits can make them clumsy and uncoordinated on land, they are just as graceful in the sky as a night fury, and have a similar affinity for the sea. The wings also have a sort of mirror effect on the underside, which helps light furies blend into the sky from below. This is ofc based off of the canon light fury's ability to turn invisible, which I like, but couldn't figure out how to make work the same way for an aquatic dragon (hot scales + ocean = cold scales again, unfortunately).

I might work on it more later, but I just wanted to share these rough concepts in case I lose interest lol. And because I'm really stinking proud of them so far (small changes will ofc come soon tho)

One last thing, I want to say thanks to @myuniverseinabox ! Your design of adult Toothless based on movie 1's design was not only a major inspiration for this little project (as was your albino night fury OC), but also a reference I used for the ideal Night Fury so that I could make my version of the light fury a plausible subspecies. To me that design is CANON and I am mad that it isn't lol

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birdchaser, one of my light fury ocs. while i'm not the biggest fan of canon light furies, i think they can be neat if you change their proportions a bit etc. and give them actual unique traits/abilities! like seriously why did they have to give night furies cloaking too......

(also like with nfs in my au there's multiple species of lfs and she's meant to be a different species than the hidden world/canon lfs anyway lol)

[kt2tn]

featherhide?

Stupid Feathers gif changing colors

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HTTYD Flocking

today on Paleostream we drew HTTYD dragons!!!!

closeups and design explanations/descriptions below:

terrible terror and monstrous nightmare: you'll notice all the dragons arent hexapods, deliberate choice on my end, not much has changed about the terrible terror tbh, it just only has four limbs now, less spikes, longer feet, and a more crown-like horn arrangement.

but ooh the monstrous nightmare lmao, i decided to shrink it down and remove a lot of its spikes, i wanted to make it a sorta chihuahua of dragons, small and feels like it can pick on everything. but relies on its projectile venom to save it. instead of lighting on fire, it lights its enemies eyes on fire by spraying venom from venom glands along its neck, back, and tail at the enemy

for the hideous zippleback, i decided to give them beaks (cause i felt like it) and make it so the double head is an illusion caused by the smaller sessile male who's constantly attached to the female, the female has a smaller crest and horns which makes the male's smaller head but larger features balance out the silhouettes. the male rides on the female's back everywhere being held in place by his claws and her wingtips, i also made the female cursorial because i felt like it again

the rumblehorn, i went for beetle-like wings and elytra-like display feathers, and for the funny i gave it a rhinoceras beetle head, and two toes on each foot

the razorwhip is a really cool design, but i was thinking that it would be a sleek and efficient killer, so i gave it smooth and dark scales that are incredibly reflective, and a parankylosaur macuahuitl. i also gave it bottom tooth-like projections on its bottom jaw

for the whispering death, i made it a derived ray-finned fish because dragons are anything you want them to be (also inspired by Wyatt Andrews' Rodan design). i replaced its eyes with two white bioluminescent display features, and put its eyes where its nostrils usually are and gave it a gulper eel mouth with a loooot of gill rakers to replace the rows of teeth

the red death, i decided to keep its size large, i took a lot of sauropod inspiration from this one. airsacs replaced the posterior two eyes, and i gave it a tail club and tooth-like keratin projections on the lower jaw

we ended with the shellfire, even as a kid i hated the design, at this point i was on four hours of sleep and had been awake for about 12 hours, so i just made an over-sized placoderm with spurs on the side of its head, cause dragons are anything you want them to be

[evildenako]

The Screaming Death

Lifespan: 1 – 9 (months) (The oldest one ever was about 18 months old) 

Diet: Anything that moves, that isnt its "own" species

Fire type: concentric rings of fire 

Closest relative: Whispering Death 

Predators: none (mostly because it doesn’t live long enough to be hunted down and there aren't many predators underground anyway) 

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The Screaming Death is a heavily mutated Whispering Death. Screaming Deaths can only be born under extremely specific circumstances and will usually have one or more deformities or genetic mutations. 

For a Screaming Death to be born two Titanwing Whispering Deaths have to breed. This almost never happens as it is quite unusual to see more than one Titanwing in a colony. Therefore, the birth of a Screaming death only happens about once each century. 

The Screaming Death (from the show) has albinism, polycephaly and other less noticeable deformities, such as abnormal tooth growth.  

This dragon is extremely aggressive and will lash out towards anything that is not its own parents. The juvenile is scared and in pain, those being the two biggest factors contributing to its behavior. Its body is slowly shutting down due to its mutations, the polycephaly being the main cause. 

There are many dragons that have evolved to be polycephalic naturally (Zipplebacks, Seashocker, etc.). The difference between those and the Whispering Deaths is the length of their neck. Whispering death are not anatomically built to have enough space for a second head to fully form, therefore causing major problems to any offspring that might be born with it. 

(Instead of being a little obstacle for Hiccup to fight, it’s actually more of a lesson on how he can’t save everyone and everything. As hard as he tries to get it somewhere safe with its family, he has to come to terms with the fact that the dragon will slowly die even if it isn't even fully grown and there is nothing he can do to save it.) 

[furyofthemist]

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Am I sort of disappointed that Midnight Wrath and Dazzling Ire are just recolors of a basic Night/Light fury that only only exist in a mobile game as a cashgrab and are the only sort of extension of Night/Light fury lore we get? Yes sort of, so I just expanded on the concept.

Midnight Wrath and Dazzling Ire but they are ancient ancestors of Light furies and Nightfuries.

Midnight Wrath: an ambush predator, she can sit still for hours at a time and attack with explosive power, grabbing prey, then thrashing and rolling about. She is most active at night, feeding on fish, birds, crabs and just about anything unlucky enough to be around

-ranging from 16 to 35 feet long, normally only black and yellow in color but the yellow can range but deep orange to light amber

-dwells in swamps with high vegetation and is able to survive in bodies of water that are poorly oxgenated, while most others suffocate

-can emit electricity like that of an eel which can stun unsuspecting prey and attackers

Dazzling Ire: while not as powerful as the Midnight Wrath, what she lacks in power she makes up for in stealth and speed

-seemingly plain in appearance, Dazzling Ire normally appears in colors ranging from dark grey to bright white and is only about 15 to 20 feet long

-has the ability to rapidly change color using photoreceptors embedded in the skin, allowing her to confuse prey and camouflage herself from predators

-normally found in bodies of freshwater, inside caves and feeding at the bottom of riverbeds on crabs and fish, most active during the day

-lifespan can last over 100 plus years if conditions are right

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I made HTTYD Dragons in Spore! 🦋

[Part 15, Modded Game]

Today's Dragon Is: the Songwing! + Redesign

The Songwing in Spore is based off the Canon Design, the Redesign was for a HTTYD Fangame that is being made! [Dragons Of Berk by Wickerseas] It was later decided not to include dragons from Rescue Riders (not even redesigned), so this concept was scrapped...

However! I managed to change the design enough (basing it on my redesign instead of the canon one) that it became a different, new dragon species I then called Melodious Enchanter, which is officially going to be added instead and it's currently in progress and will soon have a 3D model!!🤩

I made a Spore Version of the Melodious too, so I'll show it to you in a future post, but I might rework it a bit first, since it's based off an earlier version of the design💗

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Other HTTYD Dragons & Other Shows Characters in Spore:

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