Ascendant Infinity: Tracker Gland

Had the pleasure this past year of working on Ascendant: Infinity and am going to post some of the stuff I made there.

The tracker gland was supposed to be an organ recovered from the bodies of one of the game's more dangerous fauna - the gorlizard. When thrown, it would attach to a surface and inflate, and when a player goes near, would burst into a cloud that marks the player and makes them trackable.

Had a great time really trying to come up with the gross, organic look without being too gory about it. Jellyfish, the more niche internal organs and fungi fruiting bodies where the inspiration. A particular challenge was what the thrown/undeployed version would look like. You can see some of the ideation sketches have it in a sample jar - an idea that was discarded here but used elsewhere.