Great One Axis Deer

[twin spindle]

Everyone’s been talking about it; a lot of people really want it! So I thought I’d make some concepts for it.
I’ve applied previous criticisms from my elk G1 I submitted a while back to this concept, making more realistic furs and antler types. Much like the mule deer, the goal is for the antlers to be able to be found on any of the coats in this concept. I don’t have any fun lore backstories and stuff for the coats and racks this time, though.

1. Speckled Coat + Typical Rack
2. Deep Roan Coat + Spider Rack
3. Silver Coat + Double-Tine Rack
4. Stonewarden/River Stone Coat + Saguaro Rack
5. Faun Coat + Palm Rack
6. Golden Coat + Valentine Rack
7. Guardian Coat + Rune Rack
8. Ancients Coat + Driftwood Rack

Art is by me.

@shadow yew

[shadow yew]

OH MY GOD?

[finite sapphire]

I- holy peak

[balmy cradle]

beautiful work

[urban jetty]

I really like those, but to me they look more like barasingha than axis deer. It might be the artstyle fooling me a bit though, very beautiful drawings nonetheless, you have some talent there

[twin spindle]

It’s probably the face :)

[urban jetty]

Yeah i think so

[frank mantle]

I already made a post about this a while ago: https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1370523609130471476 I mostly put more realistic ideas but these would be great for more fantasy variations!

[twin spindle]

… Seriously.

“Please go to my post. I put more realistic ideas… but yours are still great for fantasy variations.”

You know, I’m all up for criticism on my suggestions and such, but including your feedback link and going “oh I already did this” is not sitting right with me. If I was misunderstanding, I apologise.

Thank you though. I’m glad you like it

Please don’t do this in the future though. It did feel incredibly rude.

[minor heart]

None of these seems Great One esque to me

This suggestion includes actual suggestions for a possible axis deer Great One

[twin spindle]

Their suggestion is good too.

While it’s hypothetical and the images are just reference for what they’re talking about, it gets the point across.

[shadow yew]

Dont lissen to him/her/axis your suggestion is AWESOME

[drifting salmon]

I’m really not a fan of the weird fantasy GOs we’ve been getting as of late.

Axis deer almost always have 6 points. On very rare occasions they may have 8, but an 8-point axis would be the very pinnacle of trophies and what I would expect from a GO of this species.

When you have a pink deer with 10+ points it’s no longer an axis deer.

[twin spindle]

Okay 🥀

Which deer would it fit best in your opinion?

(Which one is pink? Or are you talking about the petal puff mule deer as an example)

[drifting salmon]

This isn’t hate btw, your art is fantastic. I just feel CotW is going in a weird direction away from the kind of gameplay I personally prefer.

Most of the player base seems happy though and these designs (as much as I dislike them) are always well received by the community.

[twin spindle]

I feel like the point of the great ones in this game is for them to break the laws of what’s considered normal though; drives a bit more incentive. A Great One’s level is even “10-Fabled” and the word “Fabled” is defined as being “Mythical/Imaginary”. I see where you’re coming from though.

[drifting salmon]

The ancients coat is my personal favourite as it is closest to real-life and I genuinely just think it looks cool. Silver and guardian look great for an albino/leucistic and melanistic look. Speckled is the one I find a bit too unnaturally pink much like the recent GO mulie we got recently, the pattern itself is quite nice though.

[twin spindle]

OOOH! Yeah, I get it. I think I forgot to tone that one’s saturation down like I did the others. I usually paint in bright colors so they’re easy to tell apart, then I adjust the color’s value and everything. It’s meant to be more tan

[drifting salmon]

My standards for great ones were less fantasy and breaking the laws of nature, and more a real-life animal that may have multiple rare traits that can occur in real-life.

The GO white-tail for instance was simply a non-typical white-tail deer so I thought that was the direction that EW was heading, rather than adding non-typicals in the same manner as in Classic. That was a long time ago now though so easy to see why they changed direction 😅

[twin spindle]

Yeah! For many, since it simulates real life hunting, they don’t want to feel like they’re in an RPG but are actually in a hunting experience. I know fantasy-looking (but still kind of realistic even if they cross barriers) can kind of disrupt that immersion

[frank mantle]

I wasn’t meaning to be rude, I think your concepts are amazing, I was simply trying to add to the post

[twin spindle]

You… added your post to… my post? Why?

[jade girder]

because now in the rules of the discord of The Hunter call of the wild, you have to see if the concept exists and if it exists instead of making a new one, you have to put your idea in the one that already exists, this makes the work of the moderators easier if I understood correctly, and this makes the discord easier to read and does not fill it with the same idea. but these rules are quite recent so if you are new to this discord this is probably normal

[twin spindle]

Their post is from several months ago… and mine is still my own because it’s original art and original concepts. It would be different if I went and grabbed pictures off Google like they had.

[frank mantle]

That’s kinda what I was trying to do, differentiate between the posts to justify the existence of both

[jade girder]

Of course, I'm just warning.

[twin spindle]

They can both exist, because they’re different ideas… nothing needs to be justified.

[lunar hemlock]

This is correct and has been in place for a bit!
All concepts and thoughts should be posted under one thread (regardless of age) to prevent duplicates where possible

[lunar hemlock]

I completely understand where you’re coming from with any frustrations to the original post being old / outdated but the posts can be filtered by recent activity and continue to gain upvotes!

Your concepts and artwork are absolutely wonderful , please please showcase them in #🖼️︴fan-art as well if you haven’t already! but they do fall under the existing thread of the concept of “adding a GO Axis deer”

[twin spindle]

So is my idea just…. Going to be wiped out.

(One of the things I was worried about)

[lunar hemlock]

Not at all!

Your idea and concepts you’ve created are genuinely awesome but they do still fall under the original thread , I totally understand the feeling as a fellow artist myself , but trust me with the recent activity filter on people will continue to see your lovely work!

[finite sapphire]

It’s simply the amount of posts in feedback is massive, making it hard to actually get feedback without it being repeating. It makes it harder to actually see what people want, and drowns out other ideas, it’s why bumping was outlawed too

[twin spindle]

Alright.

[twin spindle]

Okay, um… do you want me to paste my thing on the other person’s submission?

[lunar hemlock]

That would be great! Any thoughts and media would be awesome , I’m really sorry for the hassle 😔 We’re needing to crack down on duplicate posts , it allows a single concept to gain more and more traction and shows interest to the devs 👀, please know that your wonderful work will still be recognised and feel free to continue discussing it over there!!

[twin spindle]

Okay! I gotcha.

[twin spindle]

I’m sorry I got upset with you.

[twin spindle]

I went ahead and threw it over there. I don’t know what you want to do with this thread, I’m sorry I was upset ♥️

[lunar hemlock]

Hey ur okay!! No worries at all! ☀️ We’ll probably close it in a day or so to allow anyone else to move over as well , go Great One Axis Deer nation mwehehe ! 🙌

https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1370523609130471476 Thread link! If you loved these concepts make sure to go throw some love, thoughts (and upvotes !) in this thread

[twin spindle]

[frank mantle]

Don’t be, you made some beautiful concepts that definitely need to be seen, and I now realize that though I didn’t intend to, my earlier comment did come off as kinda rude

[minor heart]

Imo this one is much more thought out, and should be used as the main thread for the concept.
I completely dont agree with the making one thread per concept. Different people can have different ideas for a concept that could clash and cause conflict

[twin spindle]

It be what it be