Reflection

Time to take a step back and reflect on how things are going.

Well. So far, things are going okay. Not great, or brilliant, but okay. I've thought hard about what I want to design in terms of a character, but to be honest, I've not got that much pre-existing material in terms of research from other artists to influence my own.

Yeah, I looked at 'The Incredibles', but that's pretty much it. Due to a few things (using old laptop that can't handle anything apart from the research stuff, and sickness) I am slightly behind on schedule. I haven't even finalised my character yet.

Why? A combination of the above. Simple as that really, also, I need to look into the characteristics of the insects / creepy crawlies I'm using, what how I can use that apply them to the character of which I am creating.






Chimera:
"A chimera is an animal that has two or more different populations of genetically distinct cells that originated in different zygotes involved with sexual reproduction; if the different cells emerged from the same zygote, it is called a mosaicism."

As the quote says, it is infact, CLEARLY, DIFFERENT, cells from different species, combined.

"In biological research, chimeras are artificially produced by physically mixing cells from two different organisms. Chimeras are not hybrids, which form from the fusion of gametes from two species (like a donkey and a horse) that form a single zygote that will develop as much as it can (in this case into a live mule if the parents are jackass and mare, or a hinny if the parents are stallion and jenny); in comparison, chimeras are the physical mixing of cells from two independent zygotes: for example, one from the donkey and one from the horse. "Chimera" is a broad term and is often applied to many different types of mixing of cells from two different species."

In reference to my comment above, and as the quote says, this does NOT mean that the two animals will fuse together, merging the characteristics and physical form of the two species as one. Instead, the separate genes from the individual species both grow as much as possible how they should, as if they were a single gene.

Snake: Agile, quiet, stealthy.
Ant: Insanely strong, organized.
Spider: Venomous,6 to 8 legs.
Dragonfly: Wings! (pretty up close actually), scaled slender body, ability to fly.
Beetle: Hard shell.