Insectoid character design.

Final insectoid design

Through my initial sketches and research, i found that the praying mantis was the most interesting of the insects that i was looking at and i decided that i would adapt my main design around that insect, combining assets from the other insects that i researched such as the rhinoceros beetles horns and dragon fly wing pattern.
I have called my insectoid, the Mantis Guardian. Sacrificing its claws, it equips dual scythe rifles which are fed ammunition from the poison sac on the guardians back which would usually be feeding into its claws, instead is now processing the poison into bio-bullets inside the rifles inner mechanism. When the need for melee combat arises the guardian will charge in at great speed provided by its wings and headbutt its opponent with its helm, if the initial blow wasn't fatal enough the disoriented target would then have to fend off the guardians swift attacks from the scythe rifles blades.

First steps in physically creating my 3 minute level

Monster project

For this project my theme is going to be creatures with extended arms and some what of a natural exo skeleton, I'm going to obviously experiment with a range of different ways to design them but these are going to be my key elements to my monsters.

Concepts

This is my favorite of the three, the idea was that it would be a parasite that takes over the body. Its main purpose to infect more and more humans, by mutating the humans ribs, forcing them to burst out of their chest taking the form of legs, which the parasite then uses to walk around and infect others, by impaling them with their spiked legs which have deposits of parasite eggs on them. 

Parasite monster silhouette concepts

Final monster design

A parasite that infests itself inside the human bone marrow, taking over how bones are formed forcing the hosts rib cage to break out of there chest and transform at a rapid pace into sharp spider like legs. These legs come to a point at each end that's sharp enough to impale a human, and thats just what they are build for. The strange growths half way down on the spikes are full of the parasite in its beginning form, so that when the spike is impaled through a host, the parasite can spread to create another one of these monsters.