Visser Three seemed to have an uncanny attraction to large lethal and monstrous morphs. Only once do I recall him resorting to doing one of a minuscule stature AND on the basis of fleeing.
I'd like to read people's views on the extra-terrestrial animals he turned into. I think K.A.'s imagination was really pushed at some of them. Not so much on others. Though I tend to think of the latter as being a Ghostwriter's input. Like, how many tentacled-creatures can you come up with!?
That said, on
DeviantArt and on the
Hirac Delest's website, I came across this wicked fanart by a
Monster-Man08. I'd like to commend his artworks by posting his drawings here. I think the artist did some pretty inspiring and kewl depictions of these creatures I only imagined in my head and he succeeded in making them recognizable!
The best I've come up with for the Visser's morphs are lame scribbles for line drawings on the subject.
First, I'll pick
The Antarean Bogg he depicted on both top lefts. Ironically, I actually think this is not his strongest concept of the animal. I think because I imagined the Antarean Bogg resembling more of a dinosaur, kinda like the Hork-bajirs but even more mean-looking and of course on a bigger scale. Not a cute pudgy thing. NOT that I would want to cuddle a real-life manifestation of these depictions he did.
Even the name holds a reptilian 'resonance' to me. It's actually quite an epic morph of the Visser to imagine, because it was his first one we got to see in the series and it was also the one with which he ATE Prince Elfangor. So the name becomes synonymous to the cruel bloodthirsty villain of the series, and that's why it needs to be more gut-wrenching thought-provoking in looks, me thinks.
I don't think
the fire-breathing creature with a predilection for the number 8 was ever named on #1: The Invasion. But I liked how it was used again on #47: The Resistance.
Monster-Man08's depiction reminded me how I pictured the creature as something out of Greek Mythology. It was said that the Hydra was a fire-breathing serpent whose head would double everytime it was chopped. Which lead me to wonder WHAT would have happened to the Visser HAD one of his 8 heads been pulverized by, say, a Dracon beam. Would THAT head have been the one containing his consciousness or whatever and eliminated him?
I like the
Yeerkbane Vanarx . Looks pretty cool. Though I don't imagine it being that big an animal if it feeds on Yeerk slugs. More like a leech-like serpent with a 'hand-held vaccum-cleaner, round pink-gummy shark-like' mouth.
Also in these pictures are depictions of that
Rock-creature from #2. I like the carapace-feel he gave for the creature. Preferring the arms he did on the depiction of the 1st page than to the 2nd one, in which he looks more like The Thing from the FF4.
PS: I always assumed this rock creature was from the Mak Homeworld. (Don't ask me why!) Here's me dreaming, but I always pictured the Maks being a species from a planet rich in mineral resources and of extremely heavy gravity, somehow anchored to it, and as such were limited to the use of the Empire (an explanation for the enslaved race not being shown in the series?!) But these creatures, the animal Visser Three acquired, were the raw power ones from their Homeworld.
I imagined
The Lebtin Javelin Fish having a more 'stingray' look when not inflated. And I would always get the name of this animal confused with the morph Alloran acquired from one of the Andalite moon,
the Mardrut.Yes, I do imagine the acquisition of
the Mardrut morph (depicted below on the first picture page) may well be from the times before Alloran's infestation. Same with the
Kafitd bird, inspite the plot device for making Ax a bit paranoid in #18: The Decision. It just doesn't convince me how Ax got paranoid about the Visser doing the Kafit, but he didn't get the same reaction previously when he did the Mardrut.
Also in the above picture page, a
Lerdethak vine-creature from the HBajir-HWorld,
Sea Serpent in #15: The Escape,
Pterodactyl-looking beast he used in #17: The Underground
A
Dule Fansa was the morph Marco described as looking like the Flinstone's Barney, I remember this well, because it made me laugh. But Monsterman08's depiction here seems to have discarded an aim to resemble the character, but the Animorphs reader can still recognize the animal creature in him.
PS: I just remembered here once there were these concept images done for the PC Game.
The Vissers's Dule Fansa had been designed with smoke coming out of his head???????????????????
Also depicted on this page here are: another animal of the Hork-bajir's Homeworld
Galilash (pretty kewl depiction), an acid-drooling
Kaftid, an eery and scary eyeball-creature (I imagine it's the one he used in #29: The Sickness).
PS: I cannot identify the orange one mid-right.
His depiction of the
Tar-looking Muck morph from #37: The Weakness, reminds me of one of them random pokemons from the cartoon show. And just as I well pictured it, I admit. Maybe without having a face, though.
Bievilerd was used in #45: The Revelation, but we didn't really get to see much use of in that book.
With the Visser's
Crab-creature he morphed on #35: The Proposal, I actually imagined it being more literally like the crustacean. Not another creature with humanoid characteristics.
The Luminar is, yet, another fire-breathing creature one could say was ripped from some sort of mythology. But it is not hard to picture an environment in outer-space where such creature would thrive. BUT it is humanoid in physical shape, which leads me to wonder, why is
I am shooting 80% of these alien creatures appearing in the series are physically humanoid. I once read somewhere that imagination is linked to a thing called The Circle of Closure of each individual. For eg:. an elephant couldn't imagine an alien being without a some sort of a trunk. And the same seems plausible here with a human for an author.
Below are some more depictions, (he even did the 'jelly' morph he used on Rachel in the Cryak fiasco!). But this is all I have time for writing for now...
