The team behindGod of War: Ascensioncontinues their behind-the-sceneslook at Kratos’s next adventure by showing us how Lead Concept Artist Izzy broughtthe Elephantuar to life. Izzy worked on a ton of different animal Minotaur crossover ideas, such as bears, rhinos, boars, and even a dragon. Eventually Izzy settled with the elephant, and he used a past experience with the creature to fuel his design.
Izzy details in the blog update that he had a bad run in with an elephant in Thailand that thought it would be hilarious to dunk him in the river Kwai multiple times. Izzy used this encounter to draw from his “suffering and humiliation to really make [the Elephantuar] an evil bastard.”
The blog also has some concept art of what the Elephantuar looked like before Izzy settled on what we saw during the PlayStationpress conference at E3.
I don’t know about you, but I wantGod of War:Ascensionto be filled with just monster versions of animals now. It’d be just likeThe Island of Dr. Moreau, except instead of teaching them to be human you’re just kicking all their asses.
