#emperor sea strider

[ninebaalart]

Emperor Sea Strider

I love Wayne Barlow's Expedition, the creatures he created for Darwin IV are so unique. The Emperor Sea Strider towers as the most memorable entity for me though.

[sanktpolypenbourg]

Don't know if I posted the Sea Strider Nymph yet, so here we go

Few things illustrate the SCALE of Darwin IV's megafauna as well as the fact as this little bugger being the size of a small airplane... making it a ludicrously tiny, plankton-like larval stage to the adult form!

[general-kalani]

Like/comment on this post if you’re interested in interacting with the Emperor Sea Strider (Expedition)!

[thomastapir]

Deeply personal iconic conflation of imagery and music circa 1990—Emperor Sea Strider skull from Barlowe's EXPEDITION + Andy LaRocque's "Insanity" instrumental from King Diamond's The Eye.

Your mileage may vary, but mine never will.

Expedition, Wayne Douglas Barlowe Insanity, Andy LaRocque

[evergreen-femme]

i read expedition by wayne douglas barlowe at such an impressionable age of course i grew up to be an ecologist

speculative ecology goes so hard. subnautica is a good more recent example. i’ll always be thinking of emperor sea striders, the amoebic sea, sedge sliders, and eosapiens tho.

[codenamejudas]

620 feet for the Emperor Sea Strider.

I will not apologise for Judas being tiny against it.

"That doesn't count!"

[quartings]

Improvemonth Day 6: The Emperor Sea Strider

Today I drew one of my favourite aliens from the amazing speculative documentary Alien Planet! Seeing this lighthouse-like monster gracefully walk across a purple sea was one of the most iconic moments of my childhood.

Drawing all that detail on such a dark-colored creature was quite a challenge, too!

[talonabraxas]

Emperor Sea Strider by Wayne Barlowe

[robinwaaaaa]

Night on Darwin IV Ike continues his voyage as Emperor Sea Striders feast on the amoebic sea beneath him.

[icypolargirl78]

Species Headcanons: Hermitcraft

Xisuma: Void Walker: Usually African Honey Bee; others include Green Sea Turtle and Strider

Evil Xisuma: Void Walker: Usually Normal Humanoid Form but sometimes Snapping Turtle

Scar: Neko/Cat Hybrid: Norwegian Forest Cat

Oscar (BadTimesWithScar): Neko/Cat Hybrid: Burmese

Bdubs: Human

Keralis: Bornean Slow Loris

Cub: Snake Hybrid: Egyptian Cobra

False: Human but has metal wings fused to her spine

Doc: Creeper Hybrid: Human/Creeper: Has cybernetic prosthetics 

xB: Scorpion Hybrid: Human + Emperor Scorpion

Hypno: Shark Hybrid: Tiger Shark

Beef: Llama Hybrid: Human + Alpaca

Etho: Enderian: Human/Enderman Hybrid

Wels: Bat Dragon: Vesper Bat + Wyvern

Hels: Bat Dragon: Vampire Bat + Wyvern

TFC: Dhampirs: Human/Vampire Hybrid

Cleo: Undead: Zombie specifically

Stress: Druid

Iskall: Human with cybernetic enhancements

Mumbo: Vampire

Grian: Avian: Human + American Kestrel

Tango: Blaze Hybrid: Human + Blaze

Impulse: Dragon Hybrid: Human + Drake 

Zedaph: Sheep Hybrid: Human + Bentheimer Landschaf 

Jevin: Slime Hybrid: Human + Slime 

Joe: Human? No one really knows

Ren: Werewolf: Human + British Columbia Wolf

[sanktpolypenbourg]

Emperor Sea Strider! Biomechanically impossible, but what a sight to behold!

[general-kalani]

Emperor sea strider? More like emperor seat strider. Get perched on, excessively tall creature.

The Sea Strider has made angered noises. How dare you perch on it!!

[moonzerotwo]

Emperor Sea Striders - Wayne Barlowe

[dragonthunders01]

I was doing a little more work to settle the SE Alien Size Chart a little more and I couldn't think of anything better than completing the Darwin IV duo with the Expedition's Arrowntongue with its Alien Planet documentary counterpart, while also doing the Emperor Sea Strider since I had previously made its version of the book. Before people start saying the Arrowtongue form the doc looks very small and not "roughly the size" of a tyrannosaurus, I have an explanation... I saw the documentary again to have references of the shape of both since they seem to have some modifications of the Barlowe sketches (The Arrowtongue of the doc has a more robust and rounded head, also hooves a more bulbous body, and the emperor has a different head shape) and also have an idea of its true size since something that I have noticed in spite of the fact that mentions of their magnitude based on similar things is not really established the actual measurements (with the exception of Groveback and the Emperor since they are referred to as being several stories high and the skewers with their 50 foot wingspan). At the beginning I was going to use the probes as a base since they are the ones that interact with all the species, and I went to the wikipedia page where they are set at about "12 meters" in length, however I could not find back up of this exact estimate, I even tried to see if it could match the size of other species, the emperor become a major key to scale since briefly "Ike" one of the probes is aligned with a footprint left on the Amoebic Sea, which their already established size gave me a probe of about 7 meters in length, if the probe measured 12 meters it would make the Emperor about 40 meters tall (which I think would be impressive but too imprecise from the description) Based on the emperor I got the probable size of the probes and ergo the size of the predatory bipedalien being not that T. rex sized, of course if the documentary narrator didn't mean size in length but in mass.... I wish somebody confirm me that the probes are actually 12 meters long so I could edit them, but canonically they are mentioned to be the size of a Dumptruck and those can vary in size which 7 meters are accurate as well.

[cluboftigerghost]

Emperor Sea Striders - Wayne Barlowe https://ift.tt/2Yn4mbA

[cjcroen1393]

prehistoric planet got me binge watching speculative documentaries and ever heard of one called alien planet? like it makes its aliens really weird and there's like a jelly ocean and a giant creature with mouths on its feet that eats the ocean as it walks

Yes, actually! I watched it a while back, I believe when it first aired! It was based on a book called “Expedition” by Wayne Barlowe.

The Emperor Sea Strider is the creature you’re describing btw!