Om Nom is the product of many hundreds of years of nuclear and chemical waste. "She" (and I say that loosely), is a massive monstrosity, a deformation, a creature totally out of place. Her massive size makes her constantly need huge amounts of food.
Before the attack on the city, the Leviathan is just a legend- a sort of futuristic and much scarier Loch Ness Monster if you will. People talk about it, and it's a story used to scary children into behaving, but no one has ever seen it and brought back hard proof of her existance.
Right, so to design this I realised that I would have to make her look like she belonged on earth, and wasn't just dumped there, or looks the way she does cause it's pretty.
I looked at a lot of existing Leviathan concepts, and disliked many that I saw, until I came across a more whale based design. So Om Nom became a giant, mutated whale. Yeah.
(Click image to view larger...same with the image further down).
The above image is the initial head shot design I did. It was to get a basic feel of her head shape and structure, her colouring and also the textures. As she lived for years and years so far down, she'll be covered in barnicles. She has developed gills, as well as a lung system. Also, just because she's the biggest, baddest thing in the sea doesn't mean that her prey doesn't fight back- she's covered in battle scars, and has chips and knocks in her plated armour.
After the design was approved by the rest of the group, I went on to design her body structure, and provide Cat with a turn around of Om Nom so that she can model her.Yup...that tiny little whale along side her is a Blue Whale. I'm not sure yet as to whether that this scale is realistic really...if it prooves to be daft then I'll scale her down.
Also, those tendrils are very much like the lure an Angler fish uses to draw in its prey. Om Nom has control as to how much they glow, pulse or flash, which can cause varying degrees of stun. Being so large, she's no where near as swift and agile as her prey, and so has to use ambush methods in order to ensure a meal is gained.
So yup; this is Om Nom. Once Cat has modelled her, I'll be doing (or rather attempting) the texture map to give her colour and what not. Yup....
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