Adaptation: Creatures Ideas

For this project I have decided to focus on character creation for an animation. I have been researching and have found some interesting creatures that I could adapt to this unit from the Greek mythology.

Greek Mythology

Medusa: was a young girl who was so beautiful that Poseidon wanted to have intercourse with her. Poseidon transformed into a horse and made contact with her in Athena's temple. The goddess (Athena) was so furious about the incident that happened in her temple that unable to fall out with Poseidon lashed out to the young girl and transformed her into an ugly creature. Instead of hair Athena gave the young girl snakes and made her so ugly that everyone who was looking at her was being petrified. 

Medusa by Caravaggio (1595).

Sirens: were three women that were associated with water, love and death. In Greek mythology they are being described as sea demons. They had human feminine head and the body of a predator bird. According to the myth they were Persephone's escorts but when Persephone was being abducted by Hades Persephone's mother Demetra gave them the body of a bird in order to help her with the research of her lost daughter. They never found her and they stayed in an island in which they were attracting sailors with their heaven song and afterwards they were killing them.

Sirens depicted in an ancient Greek vase.

Charyvdi: was a sea creature that was whirpooling the water of the sea and the ships of the sailors who were passing from it's way. She was living in the asian shore of the strait in Bosporus. Another sea creature was living also there who was also killing sailors with their ships named Skyla. Charyvdi was the daughter of Poseidon and Gaia's. Charyvdi is being involved in the myth of Odyssey where Odyssey succesfully passed from the place she was with minor losses. 

Painting of Henry Fuseli (1794) depicting Odyssey passing from the passage where Charyvdi and Skyla was.