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Ahuizotl Otterby *ChuckWalton

Traditional Art / Drawings / Illustration / Conceptual

This was concept art that I did for a table top & miniature RPG called “Warpath: Going Native” produced by Paymaster Games. I had fun working on this design called a Ahuizotl Otter from the Mesoamerica Aztec legends. It was one of the Spirit Beast illustrations featured in the successful Kickstarter for this upcoming game.

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The Aztec Triple Alliance War Party Starter kit features the Ahuizotl Otter as the Spirit Beast.

Cryptozoologists believe the Ahuizotl Otter was once the largest Otter that has ever lived in North America and was native to the lakes and streams of Mesoamerica. According to the myths of the Aztecs and the other groups in Mesoamerica, The Ahuizotl Otter had a hand on its tail and often attacked and drowned people that wandered it to deep water. According to the logs of Christopher Columbus, he encountered one as it attack and killed a rather ill-tempered Spanish boar.

When I tackled this design, I referenced it and discovered various chimera aspects form monkey like hands and feet to the tongue and maw, as well as the ridges and of course the signature tail with the hand at the tip. I utilized the Giant Otter (Pteronura Brasiliensis) as my basis since they are one of my favorite mustelids and are native to South America, I felt confident that the Giant otters would be a solid base for creating this spectacular Aztec creature.

The planned size of this beast is about 20mm to 25mm at the withers and will be mounted on a new style 40mm round base.

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~Azuris Jan 21, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Such an awesome design

*ChuckWalton Feb 13, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

Thank you so much

~iris2501 Dec 13, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Wow!! More work is beautiful!! *U*

*ChuckWalton Dec 24, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

Thank You so much. Definitely will load more soon

~mattermore Dec 11, 2012

You got my brain dizzy with the hand on the tail, and the anatomy involved do you think that would be cartilage mostly with some sort of loose bone mesh over bones in the tail's hand with some sort of sub-dermal bone plates over the metacarpals? He has to have a very flexible tail and he has to swing that thing at targets with some intense speed, so I can't vision it being solid bone all the way... given its length and that it looks like an finely articulated limb in function... dang it! See my brain is spinning heh. Its all good because I the stuff looks like it could be real so it challenges my brain to figure out how it can be, so you are definitely doing it right! Looks fantastic!