Wayne Barlowe – Daggerwrist

Wayne Barlowe - Daggerwrist's

Two more samples from Wayne Barlowe’s fantastic Expidition Book (Published 1990).

The “Daggerwirst” is an alien predator indigenous to Darwin IV, a fictional (or yet to be discovered) planet in orbit around a binary star system very close to our own. All evolutionary design, of course, is hypothetical.

These creatures, of roughly man-sized proportions, communicate via sonar pings and swoop on their prey from the trunks and branches of huge extraterrestrial trees.

I posted a previous feature on the expedition book back in July last year, as I mentioned then it’s basically a grown-up version of Ricky Gervais’s Flanimals books, though of course predates them. In fact I wonder if Ricky referenced Wayne’s work?

Anyway read a little bit more about the Daggerwrist and Darwin IV’s other exotic species via Wayne’s official site: http://www.waynebarlowe.com. The book is also available via Amazon.

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7 thoughts on “Wayne Barlowe – Daggerwrist”

  1. I had the pleasure of meeting Wayne and sitting in on a talk her gave over at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects. It was a great session, amazing work.

  3. Yeap it is indeed Colin, both from the Expidition Book – did you know it was made into a CGI pseudo documentary ? here’s a link via to it on imdb.com http://is.gd/kAGK << mixed debate on this though personally I enjoyed it... Definitely it is amazing work, am envious Eric you got to meet him and attend his Lecture - the perk's of living and working in LA !

  5. Hey, yeap I absolutely agree… i definitely recommend tracking down a copy of the Pseudo Documentary too…

  7. I agree, I actually thought the Skewer was originally – but I think the is even better – the proboscis and the head are separate but join together… weird

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