Alpacas are such ridiculous looking creatures, they are quite photogenic. They tend not to have very large teeth in the top of the their jaw, but giant crooked teeth protruding from the bottom lip. I tried to play off of that.
Wall-e is a very cute robot. Unfortunately Pixar has already used some of the main design elements from Johnny 5 (short circuit), which I loved as a child. I'm trying to go a different direction to see what crops up.
These robots were created by an artist called Idiot Apathy on conceptart.org. He does mostly environments, but I found these as well and really liked them.
I played with the idea of spider-like legs, which would give us a lot of room for creative animation and differing postures with the same robot.
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Just out of curiosity, where did you find this alpaca with the teeth? And, since you apparently have little experience with the critters...a little education for you? They have no teeth at all on top in the front portion of their mouths. It is a hard dental pad. The teeth on the bottom grow for their lifetime, and in their natural habitat, a very rocky mountainous area, these teeth are ground continuously as they graze in the rocky ground, plucking vegetation as they can find it. When in a situation where the teeth are not ground down naturally, the teeth are trimmed by a vet or experienced owner to assure the animal good health and a sufficient nutritious diet. This poor animal has been neglected and probably has difficulty feeding itself. Most alpacas are anything but "ridiculous looking". Don't get me wrong--I thoroughly enjoyed your characature sketches--very humorous! I just thought you should know that this neglected character is wa-a-a-a-a-ay out of the ordinary (thank goodness).
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