Shrikes kill mice by repeatedly biting the weak point at the base of their necks.
These guys are called butcherbirds because, in addition to THAT, they impale their dead prey (insects, lizards, small mice, etc) on thorns or barbed wire. This is partially to store it out of reach of thieves, partially so they can keep it on the thorn and pull it apart to more easily swallow it.
continuing my Porg trend I took a crack at redesigning the Fathiers/space horses from TLJ!
There are a lot of ways I could have taken this (and I might do some cat-like alternate designs), but I wanted to lean into the plant-eating aspects of the creature: resolve the leg anatomy, find precedent for stubby ungulate faces, etc.
Sometimes you need to reduce your size and eyeball/arm count when you have to go through the trouble of telling people to worship you when striking fear into their hearts with your real body doesn’t work.
Its like a mix of things kind of. The head of a bird, mane of a lion/babboon, feet of a tapir, body of a dog, and a bunch of other small details. My intent was to make it its OWN thing. So not just mixed animal parts. But that’s really hard to do without making something completely alien.
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