Cave Thing is painted with a diver’s mask at the edges, hinting at Subnautica’s first person nature. On right right, a small vehicle of some kind if shining lights on to the evidently bemused creature. Small vehicles will be pilotable (or this one an un-manned drone, supporting the swimming player?), deploying from ‘mothership’ style larger vessels (See Exterior Sketch for more about this!).
"And the Cave Thing is, like, THIS BIG"
Most importantly, this little encounter is taking place in a cave. Steve has been working hard on procedural terrain generation techniques that result in cave formations. Caves are also likely to be a regular feature of artist-created pre-fabricated areas, some of which might feature a create like the Cave Thing…
Mr. Crabs!
Nicely done concept art as always. (^_^)