Ant

Overview The Lance Ant — a venomous, stinger-wielding mutant insect straight from the uncanny valley of early arcade nightmares. This terrifying enemy crawls from the shadows with aggressive animations and a glistening chitinous texture that says: you should not have entered this cave. You can view or purchase the asset on the Unity Asset Store. Check out live 3d models in Sketchfab https://sketchfab.com/alienated/collections/lance-ant-71954487c81d4700a0bdf06b074d37aa Concept and Design This character is loosely inspired by the “lance ant” archetype — a memory from the early ’80s era of surreal game monsters best left forgotten. It has since been reimagined for the modern Unity engine with grotesque precision and multiple material variations. ...

A few years ago I had completed a fairly large project - 10 unique and detailed monsters. One of them was the lance ant. https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/characters/creatures/lance-ant-morbidly-scary-game-enemy-186822 I decided this one needed a good texture update. Now there are 5 different versions. You can find them on the Unity asset store or Sketchfab. &list=PLudU__BG5BNs4uTbsMbuWNJT0cd3bHIds ...

Available here: /product/giant-ant-lance-ant-morbidly-scary-game-enemy-unity-3d-turbosquid/ This giant red ant monster was inspired from an old retro game enemy: The Cave Needle from altered beast. The giant red ant monster can run, jump, attack, etc, in the included animations. This is a truly strange creature, and not entirely from my own imagination. It really demonstrates the originality of the early game designers from the 80’s and 90’s era, when they had nothing but simple sprites, art, and pixels to work with. Imagine what those same authors could do today if they had the same artistic and story telling freedom. ...