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CAP 38 - Art Submissions

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hi i'm excited abt the extension and when i saw the type+stats+moves had a neat idea i wanted to iterate some designs for!

here's some kind of earthly astronaut!

plants can be parasitic and actively harmful to other flora, with these kinds of plant a lot of times being pale with no chlorophyll, a real poison-y virus-y sorta deal. the flowers here specifically resemble the parasitic American Indian pipe plant and also lilies of the valley, which aren't parasitic but of course are known for being poisonous.
this whole idea pairs well of course with the whole trope of freaky aliens taking over or impersonating daring space explorers, think ridley scott or The Thing or amongus. like a lot of pokemon theres some sort of symbiosis at play here, or likely a more dangerous combination.

something with the bulk of a faux spacesuit but seems fast and floaty with those flowery jetpacks... i quite like that direction for the given stats! the thrusters also serve as trope-y alien ray guns, which works super well with the giant special attack and some of the special moves like sludge bomb, flamethrower and ESPECIALLY Meteor Beam, having a fake space theme and all :]
 
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MAIN DESIGN

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Design Progression
Link to an animation of my progress from sketch to finished artwork:

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Inspiration and Description

I call this an Oleander Skunk, and the essence of the design is a skunk that smells good instead of bad, but the flowers that smell good are actually poisonous.

I decided to use Oleander flowers because they are one of the most toxic ornamental flowers in the world, and they have a distinctive look. Also, since many people are unaware of the toxicity of oleanders (unlike nightshade, etc) it fits the personality of this pokemon, which I wanted to be cute and unexpectedly dangerous.

I imagine this as a friendly pokemon, something like its pre-evolution would be found in the grass on Route 1 or whatever. It plays in the grass and likes to approach others (unlike real life skunks that prefer to ward others away) and enjoys spreading its pleasant aroma, even though it is toxic to almost everyone else. When others realize the danger, it is too late. ;-)

Many of the traditional typing clues for Poison are heavily biased to "badass" or "dangerous" designs, and from the outset I wanted to make a design that runs counter to that. Ultimately that led me to this counterintuitive interpretation, that turns upside down many traditional assumptions and design clues associated with skunks and flowers and poison and all that.

Although I call it a Skunk, and I obviously used skunks for reference, this design also has a lot of influence from Striped Polecats (also called Zorillas), which are often mistaken for skunks, because of their look and their smelly spray. Because I knew this mon would be very fast, I used polecats for reference since they are leaner and quicker than most skunks. I also referenced squirrels a little bit for morphology and posing, to help give it a "faster" look.

I hope you like it!
 
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Mountain Laurel jellyfish!

Upon seeing the typing, Ability and stat spreads of CAP 38, I had a feeling of wanting this mon to be somewhat alien (dunno why tbh, probably cuz I was thinking of Eternatus, who knows :V). So I was browsing for poisonous plants/flowers for inspiration. Eventually, I found one that caught my attention: the mountain laurel. Its spherical appearance and its stamen reminds me of the shape of a jellyfish.
Initially, I have 2 versions for this idea: the first one is a land anemone/mountain laurel fusion that uses the petal as a wedding dress, with the center of the flower being a wedding ring (land anemone flower central part looks like rings!) But it soon dawned upon me that the idea was pretty difficult for me to realize, so I decided to stick with this one.
The stingers and the "eye" part is based on darts and dartboards (mountain laurel can shoot out its pollen with its spring-like stamen, hence the dart stingers). I didn't want the dome part to be opaque since it will obscure the eye part so I made it transparent to emulate the appearance of jellyfish.
And with some refinement, here we are! My CAP 38 submission!!

Big thanks to friends in CAP Discord for giving me inspirations and motivation to finish creating jellyfish!!!

EDIT 1: Second support art added

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A corpse flower plant imitating a peacock! It’s large petal tail is sticky and emits a foul rotting meat smell (just like a corpse flower) that attracts its prey: bugs and birds, to get absorbed into nutrients for the body. Bones erupt from the physical tears the petal takes as response to any damage it takes, utilizing every part of the body it eats.
 
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Will final sub this render if i don't manage to get refs done.

Godspeed everyone!
EDIT: thumbnailed it somehow lol whoops
EDIT2: Changing this to Final Sub, if i make it in time ill add ref thumbnails to this post before deadline!
EDIT3: Quick ref showin wing arms - cant fly but can glide a lil.
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Final Submission
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My final witchy wisteria! Its inspired by a mystical tree being strangled by a controlling wisteria vine. Wisteria is a very poisonous flowering vine, which was my attempt at fitting typing and ability. I wanted to do a tall design like a tree for high HP, middling defenses, and I uprooted it so it can fly around at high speed like a darkrai. I also wanted to do a powerful looking design that could be legendary/mythical if stats went that way, which ended up happening- if you want a proper mythical/legendary origin, then the vine is the serpent Nidhogg strangling the world tree Yggdrasil.
Good luck everyone!

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It came from the swamp! It's grandpa puppeteer, and he's maybe not completely in control... or is he? Nobody knows! I was thinking of the swamp thing from Avatar Season 2, Episode 4 alongside vague Gepetto/nutcracker designs. I think I've managed to make him look not really all that Ghosty? I did enjoy this process, which is something I haven't had in a while for CAP, so... here's hoping.

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(Feller, I've checked. He's definitely base speed 131!)
 

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Those who try to tame the unknown tend to find themselves the ones tamed...

Our CAP here's unorthodox stat spread and use of Meteor Beam made me think of something space-y, and a fun mix between sci-fi and plants is the idea of a poisonous parasitic lifeform, like the indian ghost pipe, a kind of poisonous parasitic plant that grows pale, droopy, flowers, or an unknown alien, that hijacks an astronaut's brain!

The main tree-trunk figure here has a bulky cosmonaut frame, but floats ignoring gravity, and can go jet-fast with that flower "jetpack" that keeps it afloat with pollen, fitting well the high HP, high speed stat concept. This design fits well a Special Attacker too, as it's main method of attack is blasts with alien beams from its flowers! The giant flower growing from this CAP's head serves as a sort of alien sci-fi cannon, and is the main way it shoots out Meteor Beams and Sludge Bomb, although the other flowers can also be used for firing shots, including Flamethrowers or Mystical Fire using that pollen fuel!
Now lets take this poisonous invasion to the stars!!

Supporting Art (full sized render and flavor sheet) below! Thank you for reading this far <3
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Cactus bandit snake riding a mount made of its own roots, which it fires poisonous blasts from and stores flowers/misc trinkets it steals.

San Pedro cacti are poisonous (which this is based on), and cacti roots in general are extremely large, branching, and weird. I also really liked the idea of the design itself shrouded by a snake with flowers all over it (Flower Veil). Also meant to vaguely evoke a lasso.

So, hopefully, this overall does a good job of evoking high speed and hp and the grass/poison typing in a bit of a different and charming way!

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Final Submission
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Witch made out of plants commonly used and associated with witchcraft, such as Nightshade and Scotch's broom. The Sleeves and Necklace are made of the flowers and berries of Deadly Nightshade respectively. Like its name implies, Scotch Broom was commonly used to make brooms, and as such, it makes up the flying broom part of its body, which doubles as a skirt. It flies by bursts of seeds and pollen. Scotch Broom is also a pyrophyte, meaning it relies on fires to spread its seeds.

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MODERATOR ANNOUNCEMENT

With a few artists still rushing to try and get their art done, and because of mod availability this evening US time - we are going to extend the art deadline to tomorrow, Tuesday, November 10th at 12 noon US Central Time. Hopefully that gives everyone a little extra time to finish up their renders and supporting art, etc.
 
Final Submission

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FINALLY! (Special thanks to Emsh for helping resize the first render, what you’re seeing right now is the second one! Hope it’s not too crusty, but you can check the full version down there if ya want some crisp chartreuse.)

This freak is based on the Mari Lwyd, a Welsh Christmas tradition where a hooded flower-crowned horse skull hag rap battles you to break into your kitchen and eat your food. Not making this up. So I figured for something with 600 BST, I may as well combine it with the horseman of famine as well... alongside parasitic mistletoe plants and a slime mold cloak to create an avatar of decomposition! High speed from an arsenal of feral wooden hooves, high special attack courtesy of its slime mold colony and accursed mistletoe puppeteer at the back... and high HP from a never-ending hunger, its body forever pulsating internally with gross pseudopods and all manners of parasitic vines. For Meteor Beam and Mystical Fire, you can thank the forbidden horcery embued within this beast's aposematic arcane carvings!

Right next to the full render below is a big ol’ reference sheet showing this emaciated horse in action. Typical horse things, like singing in the woods or trespassing on Magcargo’s property after torching a Calyrex alive with occult rituals. They had it coming.

Specimen is a withered fixture of slime molds and aged wooden carvings derived from the toxic bark of a horse chestnut tree. Its wooden skeleton has atrophied beyond its ribcage and decomposed into a dense slug-like foot of pseudopods entangled within a gown, which allows the specimen to both hoist itself upward in a vaguely humanoid stance and gallop forwards like a feral gastropod-centipede freakazoid. The head and back are cloaked with dense veils of dead plant matter, wrapped tightly amidst verdant green wreaths boasting toxic blooms of mistletoe berries. The consciousness of this rotten beast traces back to the parasitic mistletoe at the skeleton's tail, piloting the beast from behind. This parasite often rests within this gown for protection amidst the horse's "ribcage," and curls inwards like the tail of a seahorse when not displayed outwards for spellcasting/luring. Apparently it can jingle within the ribs to produce a xylophone-like melody, as a possible invitation for the decay corroding all living things to rejoin its body...

Seriously thank you to everybody who helped me on my first CAP, this has been unforgettable and quite educational! Win or lose I'm just happy that I got to do this :)

Special thanks to DrifbloomCF for help with submissions + getting used to CAP rules, Mimi for helpful feedback on my OG messy sketches, Emsh for resizing the first submitted render with a cool line-smoothing algorithm, and everybody else here who I've had the pleasure of chatting with! Y'all have such sick designs and have been so nice to both talk to and learn from!

Guess that's a wrap for now! I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse- wait OH now I get it!
Let the rot consume!

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