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What do you do with this middle pair of legs when basically there’s no place to go? The same for the wings because you have two pairs of them. He is not very long, but he has six legs, so you need to find room for all of this. It was very demanding to do this because Morris is a very condensed creature. We looked at references of bears and wombats–from all these kinds of creatures–but also puppies, to work out why we see them as cute. Once we had all of this defined, we started early motion tests. They are not as swift and elegant as a cat, for example, but they are fun to look at. Marvel, after some tests, some early sculpts and some design proposals, went for a plantigrade creature, because they are generally a little bit more droll and fun to look at. Do we have two pairs of back legs or two pairs of front legs? The next thing we needed to decide was if this was a digitigrade creature, walking on its toes, like a dog or a cat, or if this was a plantigrade creature, which is basically like a wombat or a bear, walking on the flat heel on back legs. When we received the first concept art from Marvel, it was somewhat undefined how these legs were configured. Marvel started off conceptualizing a few Morris alternatives and this is what we used as a starting point.ī&a: What were you doing in terms of any kind of early motion tests?ĭominik Zimmerle: We needed to go back a little bit to the anatomy. So it is actually depicted in some illustrations as we see it in the movie, but there’s also completely different illustrations where he’s much more menacing. It’s a creature called a Hundun, a primordial God of Chaos. I’m guessing it was a fun one to do, but where did you start?ĭominik Zimmerle: This creature is based on Chinese mythology as far as I understand. Ninetales was also based off of the Huli Jing creatures, so their comparisons to the "Shang-Chi" creatures make sense.B&a: Morris is really interesting because TRIXTER does such great character work, and here’s a character with no face and these wings-it’s just such an unusual character. The "Shang-Chi" creatures specifically appear very similar to the white-furred, shiny versions of Ninetales that can be found in "Pokémon Red and Blue" and "Pokémon Sword and Shield." Incidentally, it also looks remarkably like the Pokémon called Ninetales, a Fire-type Pokémon with yellow fur and nine tails. They make a brief appearance in "Shang-Chi" but seem much more benevolent than their man-devouring origins. In the text, Huli Jing are described as shape-shifting spirits who eat men and have cries that sound like babies.
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Huli Jing are nine-tailed fox spirits that were first described in an ancient Chinese text called the Classic of Mountain and Sea, which is at least 2,000 years old.
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One in particular, a majestic fox-like creature, is known as Huli Jing in Chinese mythology. Both the "Shang-Chi" creatures and the Pokémon Ninetales were based off of the Huli Jing.