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The feral predator reflects the setting and the protagonists like most of the other films do. It's not something I think a lot of people really pay attention to who might not be from a design background - when you're creating something from scratch, you find inspiration, or a jumping off point by observing the elements provided by the script.
In this case, his skin tone is more a gradient of earth tones, rather than a banana in the jungle like the jungle hunter.
His hair is long and without the rings - it mimics the long, dark human hair of the native protagonists. The head is more proportional to a human's proportions, but with a hunched posture.
From the waist up there isn't any armor, and the gauntlets follow swooping blade shapes and are secured by neatly cut leather straps of the same uniform thickness. His loin cloth hangs low in the front and and has a kind of fury/tasseled silhouette. His helmet, while having tech, appears as a skull - serves as a centerpiece or focal point like first nation art is accustom to doing. All this is referential to the protagonist's dress.
Jungle hunter's armor was designed off of firearm and modern military decoration and shapes - his tech jammed tightly together like a cockpit console. As mentioned before, his skin is banana colored. The mask they used is described as "tribal".
It's all sort of subliminal stuff you don't tend to recognize outright.
I know the deep set eyes and the higher "snarling" upper edge of the mouth/mandibles is intended to be more cromag, but in my estimation, there's no great design reason they couldn't have done something more like city hunter with his lower mandibles looking like a mammalian jaw. Mess with anything else, just not his pretty face!
In this case, his skin tone is more a gradient of earth tones, rather than a banana in the jungle like the jungle hunter.
His hair is long and without the rings - it mimics the long, dark human hair of the native protagonists. The head is more proportional to a human's proportions, but with a hunched posture.
From the waist up there isn't any armor, and the gauntlets follow swooping blade shapes and are secured by neatly cut leather straps of the same uniform thickness. His loin cloth hangs low in the front and and has a kind of fury/tasseled silhouette. His helmet, while having tech, appears as a skull - serves as a centerpiece or focal point like first nation art is accustom to doing. All this is referential to the protagonist's dress.
Jungle hunter's armor was designed off of firearm and modern military decoration and shapes - his tech jammed tightly together like a cockpit console. As mentioned before, his skin is banana colored. The mask they used is described as "tribal".
It's all sort of subliminal stuff you don't tend to recognize outright.
I know the deep set eyes and the higher "snarling" upper edge of the mouth/mandibles is intended to be more cromag, but in my estimation, there's no great design reason they couldn't have done something more like city hunter with his lower mandibles looking like a mammalian jaw. Mess with anything else, just not his pretty face!