Laying Down the Bread Crumbs:

/ 28/04/2013 / No comments

As I begin my newest foul looking creature design, the shuffling Suwauuz, I have also began to further enhance my online presence by expanding the roll Twitter has to play in conjunction with this my main blog. Now alongside notifying followers about new blog posts and recycling old posts from the archives I have begun to use the social media giant as a tool to track the development of my designs and thought processes I have throughout. So if you are interested in reading about how I work and where I get my inspiration from please follow my Twitter feed and feel free to ask any questions you my have. Sadly my day job can often halt the progress I would often like to make, but I am endeavoring to spend far more time on this very special and personal hobby of mine, a hobby I would encourage everyone to take up.

Thank you

Fiddzy

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    Hells Oasis:

    / 07/02/2013 / No comments

    Although fresh from Photoshop this newest piece, the Puppet Leech, is infact the oldest design featured to date on this blog, not in terms of completion but in the appearance of creature itself. This demotic mummified totem is a reimagining of a creature I actually first drew way back in my early teens, a creature that for reasons unknown has just stuck around in my mind waiting to be redrawn.

    Puppet LeechPuppet Leech

    One of the many myths that surround the Puppet Masters is that they can never feel fear for they are fear personified. This would appear to be true as a Puppet Master uses fear as its primary weapon to attack the mind of its victim, mentally breaking them apart layer by layer so as to ensnare their bodies and pull them into their dimension to feast off the energy that they used to exist. However unknown to anyone but themselves there is one thing they truly do fear, the Puppet Leeches. A cult of renegade Puppet Masters who remain in our dimension and instead feed off the essence of their Puppet Master brethren. However just because they’d rather cannibalise their own kind does not make them any kinder to us, infact their psychopathic nature makes them far worst.

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      Invasion of the Zombie Space Crabs:

      / 06/01/2013 / No comments

      While watching a natural history documentary detailing the extraordinary life cycle of a parasitical fungus which infects ants, I became inspired to revisit my recently completed creature design, the extremophile Qulucpode, and combine it with its own parasitical nemesis, Hollow Rot…

      Qulucpode "Zombie"Qulucpode Infected with Hollow Rot

      Hollow Rot is an extremely deadly plague that specifically targets the Qulucpode, and has been likened to a zombie outbreak. While it can spread with the speed of a virus, Hollow Rot is in actuality a fungal infection, spread through the intake of its spores. Like the Qulucpode these spores can survive in the extreme environment of space and can lay dormant in lunar soil for hundreds of years. When infected Hollow Rot immediately targets the brain, first preventing the immune system from attacking and then numbing pain within the infected areas. It then spreads symptomless and undetected throughout its host, feeding off the host’s least vital organs, while constantly tricking the mind that nothing is amiss. Once the fungus nears a critical mass it takes full control of the Qulucpodes body, triggering amnesia and forcing the host to move into high or well ventilated areas. Once there the parasite finishes consuming all non-vital mass, including the eyes, then triggers a pressure build-up that forces its host to explode into a cloud of billions of new spores. Early in the Qulucpodes industrial age the infection became so wide spread that it almost wiped the species out, only thanks to improvements in ventilation, filtration systems, medicine and the dark and drastic actions taken on known infected individuals, that the spread was eventually halted and long thought exterminated. However due to the resilient nature of the Hollow Rot spores small outbreaks are occasionally reported in the poorer outer colonies of Qulucpode space.

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        On the Shores of Lunar Seas:

        / 04/01/2013 / No comments

        Hello and a happy new year! As promised here’s my first new piece of 2013 (even though I technically started working on the majority of it last year). Inspired by the amazing eyes of the barreleye, a type of deep sea fish, for this new creature I wanted to design an extremophile, something any naturalist would look at as a true wonder of evolution.

        QulucpodeQulucpode

        The Qulucpodes lunar homeworld of Ooderim has such a thin atmosphere that for the vast majority of its orbital year it’s practically non-existent, shaping its inhabitants into one of the galaxies prime examples of an extra-atmospheric species, able to live the entirety off their lives in the harsh vacuum of outer space. Able to tolerant the extreme cold and deadly cosmic radiation the Qulucpode have evolved organic liquid metal for blood, powered by a “heart” which acts as an organic battery, charging itself via their own leg and arm movements, or for a quick charge boost by rapidly rotating their large spherical eyes. They are able to do this as their eyes are not physically connected to their brain via an optic nerve, instead they “wirelessly” transmit data via contact with specialist nerves that line the backs of their sockets. This has allowed the Qulucpode to evolve compound eyes completely covered in highly detailed receivers, with different areas designed to view light at different wavelengths, which thanks to the added ability of being able to rotate each eye individually lets the Qulucpode combine different wavelengths for a truly advanced view of their hostile surroundings. These adaptations make the Qulucpode ideal workers in vacuum environments such as asteroid mining and orbital ship construction, yet become useless on planets such as Earth where without a vacuum and under higher gravity their heavy bodies become completely immobile.

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          Snow & Lights:

          / 26/12/2012 / No comments

          Seasons greetings! While getting into the festive spirit I could not resist taking a short break from my current project, (that I aim to upload within the new year) and instead design something more fitting for this chilly and wondrous time of year.

          Reulan Winter WispReunilan Winter Wisp

          The Reunilan Winter Wisps from the traditionally chilly world of Reunila are a small but numerous species composed almost entirely of energy. Living for just under two Reunilan years (425 Earth days), the wisps spend the majority of their lives underground attached to the tree roots of Reunila’s northern forests. There similar to a fungus they feed off decaying matter, breaking it down into nutrients for the trees themselves. It is only when the wisps “flower”, during their second and final winter that they actually become visible, leaving the soil as floating balls of energy surrounded in a thin silken shell, which has the appearance of glistening crystalline ice. In this stage they live for no longer than three days as they “dance” in any available ray of light within forest clearings and over frozen ponds and marshes, searching for a mate with which to breed. Their floating bodies are extremely cold, so much so that they can actually chill the air around them, creating beautiful ice crystals that glimmer in their wake and deterring all but the most specialised of predators. There a fables that tell of times of when they was once so numerous that they turned night into day and dragged winter into spring.

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            The Bacteria that Blocked Out the Moon:

            / 17/11/2012 / No comments

            Ah feels good to be drawing again, and to shake off the rust this first piece was all about experimentation in colour, lighting and form. Drawn pretty much on the fly its not exactly turned out how I originally envisioned, yet I am still very pleased with the outcome regardless. So here I introduce you to the Star Egg…

            Star EggStar Egg

            Many a spacer will tell you the legends of the Star Eggs, colossal beings so rare and illusive that almost nothing is truly known about them. With a central core of over a kilometre in diameter, it was long thought that the Star Eggs where some form of biomechanical space probe spent out by an unknown civilisation, however in truth they are actually living creatures in their own right, infact trillions upon trillions of individual organisms living together as a single symbiotic lifeform. So far with the few poor quality samples collected over five thousand individual species have been detected to comprise the collective form of a Star Egg, with estimates speculating that their could be well over double that in total. composed of an extremely diverse collection of mostly microscopic multi and single-celled organisms, no as of yet discovered individual symbiont has been bigger than a centimetre. What’s even stranger is that no single Star Egg appears to have the same composition making their study even harder. Based on the documented behaviour patterns the general consensus is that the comprised intelligence of a Star Egg is that of sentience, however all attempts at communication have failed. Despite this rumours of the Star Eggs showing interest in other lifeforms is common, with reports of them mysteriously scanning and even hacking lone spaceships and stations, although whether their intentions are merely out of curiosity or potential hostility remain unknown. How they evolved, where they come from and even how they traverse space with such ease and speed are all still unknown, along with countless other questions.

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              Alt, Ctrl, COMPLETE!

              / 15/11/2012 / No comments

              Phew! *Collapses into chair* What an overhaul, an overhaul that I can now happily say is complete, and has really freshened up my site. So what’s new I hear you scream?

              • A new more contemporary theme that has really helped tidy up the sites appearance and is also phone compatible.
              • The “About Me” and “Contact Me” pages have been combined into a single page, with a complete and far more in-depth rewrite of what FiddzyDesign is and how I work.
              • All tags have been reworked and reassigned, with a wealth of new options included to ensure a far more in-depth filtering system.
              • All posts prior to the upgrade have been reworked and tided. Several have been restructured and others combined to ensure a more fluid flow with minimal clutter. While a couple of images have been removed because of this, one previously missed out creature design has been included, the gelatinous Jelloop.
              • Almost all designs have gained a greater wealth of insight into both their creation and their fictional backstories, particularly within the older posts that originally lacked any explanation. Some of the strongest examples of this include the Valleeshan, Psittacodu & Jeepeg, Mikoogrupp & Ruur and the Puppet Master.
              • All of my older images have been remastered and re-uploaded, with newer load friendly file sizes and scales, sharpened appearances and for some images mild ascetic touches, helping to breath new life into the more dated pieces such as the “The Abominable Leech” and Poala.
              • A new fictional backdrop called ‘Universe 77′, used to help unite and further evolve the characters and creatures I am designing. Giving them a single title and mythology to connect with, linking them together within the same narrative.
              • All new social networking support, including a dedicated Twitter account. So please don’t forget to follow me @FiddzyDesign.

              Now lets get on with the show…

              FiddzyDesign, The infinite designs of an infinite universe.

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                Downgrading For The Upgrade:

                / 27/09/2012 / No comments

                While my head is consumed by ideas and my sketchbook overflows with unfinished designs and fragmented concepts, its about time I consider and partake in general site maintenance and restructuring, thanks in part to the realisations of many of my blogging noobisms.

                • Image re-sizing on many of my ancient drawing relics, re-uploading them to become more viewer and loader friendly.
                • Improved categorisation, tagging and planned themed grouping. Several designs fall into signal conceptual universe (or universes), a personal fiction which I am planning to distinguish and build upon.
                • Merger’s of some old posts and more in-depth connects between the existing.
                • A bit of rewriting and editing, giving some of the aforementioned relics some deeper design insights and fictional backstories.
                • A visual makeover won’t hopefully be frowned upon either.
                • Add Twitter connectivity.
                • Oh and most importantly new work. (Lets hope this revamp will inspire the transformation of memories and scribbles into graphite an pixels.)

                Ok! Focus Fiddzy, lets focus…… after a good nights sleep that is ;D

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                  Animal, Mineral, Vegetable?

                  / 17/05/2011 / No comments

                  This whimsical pot clad creation came from a simple sketch drawn while thinking up new idea’s for future Calci golem designs (Bone, rubber, stone), and my own personal interest in the biology of the Portuguese man o’ war, a colonial organism made up of not one individual species, but several, known as zooids.  It was this idea of a symbiotic relationship among two distinct species, as well as a species relationship with an external non-organic structure, as seen in my Calci golem designs, which lead to this alien oddity, the Klingting.

                  Terracotta Klingting

                  The Klingting is not one, but two drastically different species living in a symbiotic relationship that together form a single colonial organism. The two creatures that make up an individual Klingting are, the Kling, a bulbous fish like animal with two arm-like eye stalks, and the Ting, a green gelatinous slime mold decedent.

                  Both species survive together in a perfect state of mutualism. The Kling provides all the benefits of a complex organism, such as, sight, the ability to communicate and in the case of the Kling, sentience, all of which is shared through a neural bond between the two. It also provides the Ting with food in the form of its waste and a special sugar it excretes. The Ting in turn provides the Kling with a liquidity home, a means of terrestrial mobility, a boosted immune system and further protection from its ability to form inorganic shells. If separated both will eventually die, although the Kling can sometimes survive if it finds a body of suitable water.

                  The Klingting communicate with each other by drumming on their inorganic shells, hence their onomatopoetic name Klingting.

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                    Reanimated Rubble:

                    / 12/02/2011 / No comments

                    The Stone Calcibus, is not a new design but rather a re-imagining of a golem design done well over a year ago when I first started this blog (Conjurer & the Conjured). The spark which triggered this re-imagining was from my more recent golem inspired creations, the Rubber Golem & the Bone Calcibus, plus my desire to see just how far my skills have developed since them early sketches and what areas still require improvement.

                    Stone Calcibus / Rubble Golem

                    The Stone Calcibus, also known as the Rubble or Stone Golem, is the final hive mind form of Calci (a gravity altering race of colonial microscopic entities) found inhabiting the ancient ruins and dungeons of their homeworld, Cheljm. Typically taking on the form of a humanoid consisting of broken statues and stone, the Stone Calcibus can bear a remarkable resemblance to the mythological golems and as such these mysterious creatures have acquired many myths of their own, most famously that they are the ancient guardians of hidden treasure’s and temples. This has lead them to gain another more whimsical name, “The Bouncers of the Past”.

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