The 'Torpedo Fish'...

Completed design

This week i have created a 'battering ram' or Torpedo Fish, once again developed from silhouette this creature has a solid reinforced head, face and spine a streamlined muscular body and a powerful tail propelling itself forwards into its unsuspecting prey. The solid grains engraved into this solid head structure increases chances of breaking the skin of its prey causing fatal injuries. In the disturbed waters of the islands shoreline it blends, patrolling in wait for its victim, spotting it at a distance it prepares gaining speed and slams the prey unexpectedly causing confusion and sometimes paralysis. After this blow the Torpedo fish can return for a second hit or begin to feed tearing its prey with shark like teeth and bone crunching jaws.

It is not uncommon to see these creatures hunting in groups of up to 8, in which case they almost appear to play with their food before feeding, passing and charging down the prey as part of a team.

These creatures can also bee seen launching themselves from the water in an attempt to remove pilot fish clinging to their bodies or show off to others hence their name, Torpedo Fish.

Progression phase

This design took a little longer that others as i changed my intentions during the development process which i do not believe is a bad thing as a result i believe the design is stronger for it. At the beginning i pictured a small coral fish with a solid beak for breaking off and feeding upon corals. However it was decided that the head looked much more solid and appeared to belong more to that of a predator. From that point the design transformed into a streamlined solid predator.