Originally Posted by
Madkill
With the creature design, its good that you take an already thought-of concept but you could do more than just change the animal (bear? WTF?!) or do more than change the colour (Hey look! Its the griffen from tribe stupid).
Make the wings skin, its beak made out of hard-flesh and thick skin, its eyes jewls or beady and red, its got odd places of tatty feathers, its stained with odd and ancient markings of some kind.
anything
The bile demon and Horned Reaper have to be two of the more original game monsters I've ever seen, imagine an entirely new DK based game with such creatures.
Take an existing concept and modify it into something completely different from it by changing various aspects.
I like the name of this creature the most to be honest.