#keptos

[tidypachiderm]

Something I threw together quick for a client using some models I already had lying around. Wyvern Rex and Keptos, two extinct concept creatures from Monster Hunter artbooks now resurrected as fantasy paleoart with a confusing diegesis.

Both monster models are my own creation; the ground assets are some random photoscans I had lying around from somewhere.

Based visually on a piece of 2D art who's original source I unfortunately cannot seem to track down, but if anyone recognizes what this is referencing and can give me the artist's contact info I'd love to have it!

[tidypachiderm]

The ancient Keptos (or Keputosu, there's no official anglicization), a fish eating monster that appears in some Monster Hunter concept artbooks as a hypothetical prehistoric stem bird wyvern but which has never actually been in a game.

Until now, hopefully - I was commissioned to work on this by a mod team who's looking to insert it World at some point, although there's still a lot of work before that can happen. Still; the model is game ready and optimized for a real time environment so a lot of the foundation is laid.

This was a really complicated project for me; unlike a lot of my previous monster rebuilds I've done Keptos only exists as a pair of sketchy and contradictory thumbnail concepts from an artbook made during a very different era of the franchise; its functionally an original monster beyond the broadest outlines of the design.

Quite satisfied with how it came out though; and I got to reference a lot of little bits from many of my favorite looking monsters across its design.