#Subnautica concept

[maximilian-mori]

An old design I made back in 2021 of a subnautica fan leviathan I'd come up with. I call it the Kratos Leviathan, and it also has a model I've made and fully rigged. I just can't for the life of me figure out how to animate a 3D model hahahaha Drawn on my phone using my finger because apparently my drawing tablets don't work anymore

#Subnautica #Subnautica below zero #Subnautica concept #Subnautica fanart #subnautica oc #subnautica leviathan #alien #oc #original character #fish #sea creature #aquatic #for you #for your page #foryou #foryourpage #foryoupage #fyp #fyp2023 #Leviathan #subnautica art

[alexriesart]

The Titan Holefish for Subnautica: Below Zero, and concepts for its protective symbiotes.

#subnautica below zero #subnautica #concept art #creature design #alien #fish #alex ries #my art

[cyliph]

Post- Below Zero outfit concept

I wanted to make an outfit more befitting a maze-like homeworld. The PDA draws from locally available materials after all. I think this Robin is a bit more serious than what we see in SBZ.

Design Notes:

This outfit is designed with terrestrial travel in mind. While I do think a two-piece would be more practical, every subnautica protagonist and several NPCs wear a body suit. Being on an alien planet I feel she still prefers the practical safety a reinforced suit like this provides. Push comes to shove she can wear a tank and tie the upper portion around her waste.

Went with purple and green for two reasons: We see past Robin wearing purple, and they are Al-An’s colors (to imply his role in designing it).

Most promo art depicts Robin with her blue and red wetsuit which looks quite heroic and serves to illustrate her strong will. I think it’s fun to think of those colors as likewise symbolizing her conflicted relationship with her sister. Sam wears exclusively blue from what we see, Robin always strives to be her opposite. Red is the color of passion and aggression, a pretty fitting for the ideal Robin holds for herself as Sam’s opposite. Red is also the most notably characteristic of bird robins, which I think is just kind of cute.

In my headcanon purple symbolizes Robin when she’s at peace with herself. It’s a mix of red and blue, symbolizing that shes not as estranged from Sam as she sometimes believes. We see her wearing purple at her most comfortable in the picture with Augstrobite. A muted purple is also useful in showing a Robin that’s more reserved following the trauma of 4546B.

The diagonal lines also serve to reference her alliance with Al-an. Her most notable wetsuit is constructed with bold horizontal and vertical lines, very squarish. Diagonals better suit to illustrate a character that is “off-balance” so to speak. Being on an alien planet thousands of light years away from humans after losing possibly your only family member is probably enough to shake most people’s sense of balance.

I also think that because Robin kept her hair long during the events of 4546B that she probably just likes it long. Imagine how impractical it would be maintaining long hair on an oceanic planet for months on end. Not to mention, at least type 3 hair (Sam seems to have type 4, but it’s not exactly clear what type of hair Robin has. In game she either has braids or locs it’s hard to tell. Either way, not a low maintenance style.) I just think it’s a pretty good symbol of her character, I also think she would let it continue to grow during her time on 4546B and beyond. At some point it’d start getting in the way even in a ponytail. That’s why I think she would start putting it in a bun. A changing hairstyle as a symbol of a maturing character my beloved.

(It also gives me an excuse to draw her hair down in the future >:3c)

#subnautica #subnautica below zero #robin ayou #fan design #concept #fan character #fanfic #how we feeling lesbians

[splitfoxe]

Ryley headcanon ref!!1!!!

He really said drip or die fr

I love my skinny lil protein man

#art #artists on tumblr #digital art #subnautica #headcanon #ryley robinson #subnautica below zero #character design #outfit #outfit design #techwear #tactical #drip or die #trashion #subnautica hc #tactical gear #concept art

[rebuilding-the-garg]

Updated Design & Info

More research is still needed on its evolution and adaptations, but this is what we’ve got so far!! I even gave the big lad a scientific name, Anguillae gigantes, meaning “eel-like giant.” The Gargantuan Leviathan is only known from two specimens, the front 1/3 of an adult, and the skull of a juvenile, leaving a lot of this creature’s form up to speculation. The fossilized remains of several other extinct species have been found in the area, showcasing a diverse range of megafauna that once swam through Planet-4546B’s prehistoric oceans. It’s unsure what exactly this beastly behemoth would have fed on, but its teeth suggest a piscivorous diet, feeding on smaller Leviathans and possibly cannibalizing its own kind.

Measuring approximately 1,100-1,500 meters long (3,608.924-4,921.26 feet, for my fellow Americans), the Gargantuan Leviathan is longer than the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, measuring at 828.1416 meters (2,717 feet). The terrain this animal would have lived in would be vastly different from what we see in either Subnautica games. It likely would’ve lived in the open ocean, due to its immense size, and lived in extreme depths where there is little to no light, such as the mid-lower Bathypelagic Zone. It could have also dipped into the Abyssopelagic Zone, but I doubt even a creature this massive could survive the immense pressure. We should be thankful this behemoth went extinct long before the events of both games, this Leviathan would be a nightmare to deal with.

#my art #speculative biology #speculative paleobiology #speculative marine biology #subnautica #gargantuan leviathan #creature concept #concept art

[transingthoseformers]

i was not gone for nothing, may i present what I've been working on

Here would be a reworked version of that one Subnautica leviathan i said i made a while ago! In the initial sketch, it's labeled as "Prefroxina", so I'm gonna roll with that

Here's the initial sketch it is vaguely based on from at the very most 2018, look i don't remember the exact year but i know it was before HS

#original drawing #subnautica #... kinda. #i like to imagine it's like the squidshark where it barely eeks out leviathan class #having an extendable throat and stomach is like. top tier deep sea fish trait #okay at some point i realized i misplaced the n and it went from ''prefroxnia'' to ''prefroxina'' but i like option two better #i imagine it as a smaller and distant relative to the sea emperor and sea dragon leviathans #yes the original concept sketch came from a creature in a dream that was only ''on screen'' for like five seconds lol #but the moment i woke up i was in full spec bio mode #spec bio #xenobiology #art tag #art

[toytulini]

did anyone else think we would have more advancements in breathing underwater by now when they were a kid

#toy txt post #bro i thought we'd have full on artificial gills by now. why dont we. why the fuck are we funding so much stupid bullshit like the police #sorry rebreather in subnautica got me thinking about rebreathers irl and like. fantasty/scifi things where they seem to just have straight #up full on artificial gills or smth. and i vaguely remember seeing smth about it in a science magazine and thinking it was such a cool #concept

[wealmostaneckbeard]

Merfolk Survival Simulator

You scavenge for resources (rocks, wood, bones) along the shoreline and sea floor. You then use those resources to maintain the kelp, oyster, and crab farms which feed you and your tribe. Your tribal land is on an undersea hill at the base of an island, just off the coast of a mainland. Your tribe will help you as you smash urchins feeding on the kelp, recover escaped crustaceans, and arrange oysters for maximized breeding potential. Your tribe also trades with other merfolk who are nomadic and use cetaceans to haul cargo up and down the mainland coast.

If you go out into the ocean, you'll find bigger fish to catch and mysterious ruins where you can learn spells, but it will be more dangerous. There are mundane threats such as sharks and giant Octopuses as well as supernatural enemies like undead drowned sailors and The Deep Ones. Also if you swim to the surface too quickly you'll take damage from the sudden pressure change.

You can also stick to the coast and trade in rare resources you find (pearls, big fish, deep ruins relics) to surface dwellers for useful equipment like spear guns and utility harnesses. The surface dwellers will offer you training for various undersea industrial jobs you can get paid for.

The surface dwellers recently had a big naval battle with each other over the local trade port so there's a lot of shipwrecks to salvage and machines that need fixing. It should also be noted that the people living on land are not all human as some of them are steampunk automatons and furries.

After earning enough money, you'll get approached by other merfolk laborers who have unionized. If you join them, you'll get support doing riskier operations in the deeps but you'll have to attend protests in the trade port harbor and fight off scab divers from the wrecks you are working.

There are two end game scenarios:

The first is that you gather the components for a magical ritual that will annihilate the surface trade port with a tsunami. This results in massive amounts of loot (and corpses) being washed out to sea for you to collect. But combat marines from the surface will attack your tribe everyday in greater numbers and with better weapons until you are dead.

The second scenario is that you join a scientific expedition lead by scientists from the surface to investigate a large, mysterious, floating object far out at sea. The object is revealed to be a partially mechanical organism capable of manipulating gravity and it starts attacking the expedition vessel. You work with the scientists to fight back in a multi-stage final boss battle against the alien organism.

#game idea #lovecraftian #thalassaphobia #mermaid #merfolk #merman #undersea #subnautica #d&d #raft #concept #scifi #fantasy #underwater #deep sea #ocean #survival #horror #marine biology #Deep Ones

[ruthlesslistener]

...okay now I'm haunted by "what if the planet in Subnautica is in the process of developing its own indigenous sapient life after the Sea Emperors' deaths... and it's the reaper leviathans"

like the scanner calls them basically all brawn no brains but the fate of the Degasi suggests they recognize 'one of their own' and react to avenge/defend it, and their circling behavior means they're basically taking their sweet time sizing you up before they attack. They have dexterous appendages that could be easily adapted to tool use.

...And now I have a stray plot bunny because this thought is running into "if the warpers talk to each other using sophisticated protocols the radios can pick up, they're undeniably sapient themselves and their behavior patterns attacking you reflect this" and just imagining like. a reaper leviathan beginning to develop telepathic communication, trying to eat a disoriented warper who's lost their connection to the others, warper cuts reaper's mouth to get it to back off, and they end up in a standoff that ends up a conversation.

I mean just imagining a reaper leviathan as an early-sapience protagonist is very funny to me. My mental image constructs a teenager who lucked out genetically and got big faster than her neighbors so she thinks she's hot shit but is understimulated due to lack of a challenge, but whose primary emotional cope for basically anything she can't rip to pieces is to just Yell At It until it realizes how big and scary she is and backs down.

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Oh my god you have no idea how much I'd adore an au like this. While I love the Architects as dearly as anyone, one of my biggest disappointments with Subnautica was that the intelligent species native to the planet got kind of left to the endgame/shuttled to the side, and then cut from the sequel when the main writer for Below Zero left. Like, I kind of get it, they wanted to have it be a big lead up in the og story and they had troubles in the next, but I want!!! More intelligent fish aliens!!! ESPECIALLY since the Sea Emperor has a concept of reincarnation, implying a philosophy and belief system that is unique to their species and doesn't require hands to maintain.

Though honestly, I think there's a solid enough baseline for that plotbunny already- Planet 4546B has recently undergone/was in the grips of a mass extinction event due to the bacteria plague, which means that there is not only a good deal of resource scarcity compared to the bountiful sea life that the ancestors of the current-day Reapers experience. Paired with that, the Sea Dragon Leviathans- known predators of the Reaper- have dwindled in number to only about three active individuals, which means that there's a lot more Reapers around to compete with. Assuming that intelligence is tied to adaptability, and that the Sea Emperors and Reapers share a common ancestor with the trait that formed into telepathy in the Emperor species, and you have a setup where natural selection is prioritizing Reaper leviathans who are not only mature strong enough and fast enough to outclass the other Reapers, but are also intelligent enough to outwit them. Size and quick maturity might have been a confounding factor in human evolution, but in terms of an egg-laying species, we can perhaps have them experience a longer incubation time, which results in a bigger hatchling. The increased size allows the baby to outcompete other juveniles, which in turn gives it the calories needed to help build that big brain that becomes a necessary tool once it becomes large enough to be seen as competition by adult Reapers. And as for the telepathy, being able to potentially settle territorial disputes and gather huntsmates, leading to less energy and risk wasted on members of the same species, and more being aimed at taking down more prey. It's a totally feasible fictitious evolution path, especially since the leviathans themselves are so mysterious

(Also, animals always tend to be more intelligent than people expect them to be. If the PDA was scanning for brain size in relation to muscle mass for the Reapers, its very well likely that it assumed intelligence based off of that, which we know from birds is not an accurate judgement.)

BUT ANYWAYS I'm also incredibly fond of this concept because ngl it also reminds me of how I write young dragons (especially from a specific tribe) where young female adolescents go through this big period of teenage badasseryhood where they essentially try to act like they're hot shit to try to intimidate potential rivals and test the waters to see which of the older females are starting to go soft so that they can go on ahead with their territory-claiming. For this specific Reaper, I can easily imagine a scenario where she's got an advantageous new mutation that lead to her outclassing her peers, but being in that awkward spot where she's just not quite big enough yet to challenge any of the older reapers, so she instead spends a good deal of time mucking about trying to work on looking Big and Scary, which involves a lot of tearing shit apart with her mandibles, roaring, and trying to stun prey into silence with her telepathy, which makes her Very Loud but also Very Good at Being Loud with her thoughts.

It would also be interesting to delve a little into Warper telepathy- the Architects bioengineered them into what they are now out of a probably-extinct species, and are thus likely responsible for giving them the ability to interact with computers and teleport, but since telepathy already existed in at least the Sea Emperors, the ability to communicate could either be natural to the species they modified, or implemented because they themselves did not think that they would be capable without being networked. What makes this so interesting, however, is that the Sea Emperor mentions that the Architects were incapable of hearing her (most likely because they were all networked; Al-an makes a very big deal about that, so they were probably closed off to outsiders and attuned only to other Architects), so it could be that the Warpers were ignoring this very loud new baby up until one got disconnected from the rest (perhaps due to mechanical failure?) and thus ONLY has Large Screaming Teenager to talk to. Which sets up a very interesting potential partnership between a very old, very exasperated, and very aware-of-vulnerability-Warper, and a very bored teenage Reaper who only knows violence and yelling, but is letting this particular Warper live because she's so bored out of her skull that the intrigue of helping them is better than tearing up the reef and getting tail-smacked by her elders for the nth time. Maybe the Warper can teach her how to use her telepathy better, and talk to her about the Architects and their purpose while they travel to find new parts to fix them with.

Fuck, that's a really good story prompt actually. I'm weak for accidental mentorship or adoption stories, doubly weak for inhuman apex predators being dumbass teenagers, and the potential language differences between two types of telepathy could be really fun to play with. Plus there's the advantage of getting to write about intelligent aliens that don't craft like us or built societies like we do, which is something that I personally think is severely underrated in sci-fi

#like my seawalker species was specifically inspired by me wanting an intelligent tribe indigenous to subnauticas world #that just kinda got outta hand #subnautica #ganymedesclock #but seriously i dont think i can reiterate just how interesting of a concept and a story dynamic this is #like holy shit this is really really fucking good #gonna be chewing on this one for weeks #reply

[robot-appreciation-posting]

The 042-series Alterra Submersible Cave Exploration Droid from Subnautica.

This guy was scrapped in the end and remained purely a concept, but it would have been an automated probe deployed by the Cyclops sub to investigate caves (relatively) risk-free.

Here it is encountering the (also unimplemented) "Cave Thing" (likely an early version of the also scrapped Grabcrab) from the player’s perspective. Evidenced by Ryley’s reflection, this guy would’ve been pretty small.

The droid has the unit designation "6872" on its side. Unlike the Camera Drones this machine would’ve been fully autonomous.

#subnautica #concept art #unknown worlds #robots #artificial intelligence #of the day #daily #robots daily #robot #droid #automaton #droids #UUV #sci fi #6872 #unimplemented #just a tiny lil’ guy

[do-you-read-me-00fu]

So for fun, and possible will be included in later parts of the fic, some new Subnautica animal concepts designed by both of us and drawn by me (mod Gwen).

I have learned, designing alien animals is actually really fun and there will definitely be more to come.

#subnautica #do you read me 00fu #dyrm00fu #concept art #alien animals #digital art #doodles #mod gwen

[geomimetry]

I just discovered AL-AN and I? love? hes just so neat? girl help?

#please someone talk to me about alan like #why is he so 😳😳 #hes just so soft spoken and polite and i dont wanna spoil but got dang #those who know know #also the angst potential dont get me started #i do feel robbed of the opportunity to learn more about architects and their culture #it feels weird that robin #a xenologist #wouldnt have endless questions about him and his species #i know they cut a lot of lines from early access for some reason #but at least we have those #no i am not saying this entirely for the reason that i want to hear more of our alien mind roommate's voice #i also love the concept of someone sharing ur mind actually #reminds me of venom #subnautica #subnautica below zero #al-an

[alexriesart]

An (unused) and rather pugnacious fellow I designed for Subnautica: Below Zero.

Inspired by stonefish, the extinct acanthodii and a dash of mantis shrimp.

#my art #alex ries #subnautic below zero #subnautica #concept art #creature design #alien

[cyliph]

Was trying to test my skills at designing with a pre-ascendant architect. It didn’t look right until I gave him clothes, now look at him. Look at this absolute microorganism of a scientist

#He’s so gooby #subnautica #Sbz #al an #wip #concept art #au #Precursor #or is it postcursor 🤔 #Architect

[rabbitshat]

I got really fucking inspired by @wythmoonie 's subnautica sun and moon fanfic in ao3

So have my Subnautica Sun and Moon Leviathan concept designs! (They are most definitely subject to changes -especially pallet colors-)

#artists on tumblr #fanart #traditional art #sketch #art #leviathan headcanons #sunny #moon #sun and moon #fanfic #subnautica #subnautica leviathans #concept sketch #Fanf #five nights at freddy's #fivenightsatfreddysfanart #security breach #fanf security breach #fnaf daycare attendant #security breach daycare attendant

[anonymouseal]

Alien birds

The original design is from Alex Ries, the alien developer of the games Subnautica and Subnautica: Below Zero. The art is mine.

#subnautica #subnautic below zero #alex ries #alien #alien art #alien bird #bird #colibri #nature #concept art