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Showing posts with label Cyclopes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cyclopes. Show all posts

Friday, February 27, 2009

The Cyclopes and the Hekatonchieres

The Cyclopes and the Hekatonwhatnows?



These are two of my favorite designs from Zeus: Father of the Gods. The Cyclopes you probably all know, but history has largely forgotten their monstrous brothers, the much harder to pronounce Hekatonchieres, which means, incidentally "the hundred-handed ones". In addition to the aforementioned 100 hands, each Hekatonchiere (there were 3) had 50 heads, so, while I was really happy with the solutions I came up with in designing them, I really didn't feel the need to put them into too many scenes.

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Tough love from the Cyclopes




Yet another finished piece of black and white art from Zeus. Here, after traveling to the depths of Tartaros to free his uncles, the Cyclopes, from bondage, Zeus is gifted by those same uncles with his birthright. It looks kind of painful, doesn't it?