Surface (NBC) creatures

Surface was originally called Fathom, and I was hired by the Pate brothers, two nice men, and Michael Corenblith, who I had worked with before on both Apollo 13 and Alamo, to design some critters for the show. Here's a trailer of sorts:

And there's the creatures I designed. First an egg:

Then a seal. This was was rejected:

They liked this next one. I thought it was too cute.



This is the big beastie it grew into: