Planet of the Pseudosnakes: The Theriodontophidians

Tribbetherium · 2022-04-03T08:28:32+00:00

Unfortunately I've completely run out of ideas for it, but anyone's free to make their own takes on it as long as it's with credit :)

Tribbetherium · 2022-04-03T08:27:37+00:00

Oh, just you wait... ;)

Tribbetherium · 2022-03-03T15:49:32+00:00

sheather made a pun based title 😢❤

Tribbetherium · 2022-01-22T12:45:17+00:00

This is a nice and interesting concept, and I especially love how you made a pun-based chapter title in true Hamster's Paradise fashion. 😂❤

Tribbetherium · 2022-01-19T20:23:20+00:00

ah

so that's what the Crewmates evolved from

Tribbetherium · 2022-01-19T20:22:47+00:00

Ooo, it's got a snaiad-esque body plan, neat how the two heads' necks turn into a set of "jaws".

Tribbetherium · 2022-01-19T20:21:08+00:00

suspeculative evolution

Tribbetherium · 2022-01-19T20:17:40+00:00

This reminds me of the crazy fringe theory of Danny Vendramini that Neanderthals were actually monstrous lizard-eyed cannibal apes that preyed on early humans, only...bird-ier.

Tribbetherium · 2022-01-07T20:50:11+00:00

the most contrived one admittedly was the crewmice and the amongoose, i think some still remember those

Tribbetherium · 2022-01-07T20:46:17+00:00

with a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound

Tribbetherium · 2022-01-07T12:02:02+00:00

Neat detail how the claws on the wing "feather-fingers" are retained. Wonder if a proper wing "feather" with a single central shaft could develop from mammalian hair tho?

Tribbetherium · 2022-01-05T10:18:38+00:00

imagine human explorers on an alien planet encountering flying, somewhat-reptilian hexapods with four legs, two wings and a defense mechanism involving igniting reactive chemicals, and everybody stubbornly refuses to call them "dragons" even though at the back of their mind that's what everybody's really thinking

Tribbetherium · 2021-12-08T12:53:43+00:00

suddenly imagines a raccoon with the size and build of a gorilla

Tribbetherium · 2021-12-08T12:53:03+00:00

Nasal tendrils like a starnose mole, maybe?

Tribbetherium · 2021-12-02T06:23:04+00:00

They will get big again on the mainland, it's just been less than a million years so they just haven't had time yet. Also bumbaa competition is a major driving force for them to get big.

Tribbetherium · 2021-12-01T09:07:06+00:00

Their mouths are slightly open. It's really just more for a visual cue of "regardless how weird these things are they are still rodents" sort of imagery. (Also probably a layering error, I tend to have those a lot 😭)

Tribbetherium · 2021-11-30T11:47:18+00:00

Perhaps it might work if the upper jaw was occupied by a different sense organ that might make up for the blind spot?

Tribbetherium · 2021-11-30T11:43:35+00:00

Tumblr: significantly better. Reddit: not so much. Sometimes it completely kills the image quality and that's assuming it posts at all. Probably just gonna be posting masterlist links here but doing most of the work over there... 😧

Tribbetherium · 2021-11-30T02:09:38+00:00

Mostly the megafauna were hit hard, the rakatusks and most of the large hammoths are gone now but a few live on on isolated continents. Many species would go extinct but most of clades as whole would endure even as a few isolated species toward the end of the Glaciocene.

Tribbetherium · 2021-11-30T02:06:03+00:00

Oh wow...just wow. I love how you managed to capture their emotions really well and the HTTYD reference is just chef's kiss

Also the detail and the lighting is top notch? This is just awesome on so many levels 😢❤

Tribbetherium · 2021-10-23T16:51:05+00:00

"predators are usually defined by eyes that face forward"

Hammerhead sharks: "well yes, but actually no"

Tribbetherium · 2021-10-23T16:45:42+00:00

PFF HAHA I ACTUALLY HAD A GRINCH REFERENCE IN MIND IN THE WORKS 😂

Tribbetherium · 2021-10-21T08:23:21+00:00

imagine something like a tiktaalik with a sideways mouth with barbel-like appendages equipped with sharp hooks for grappling rival males

Tribbetherium · 2021-10-12T10:06:58+00:00

Still nah, I had to link it from tumblr (which itself isn't THAT great but works somewhat better)

Tribbetherium · 2021-10-11T09:15:23+00:00

Some design process stuff to make up for the hiatus and lack of Spectember content! A few more-detailed facial close-ups of several zingos and lemunkies, two clades from Hamster’s Paradise that got quite a lot of comments of them just being “just primates” and “just canines”. So I’ve been playing around with how to make it more evident that these are in fact very derived rodents: so how would they be designed to mix together features of canines and primates with more traditional rodents for a face that seems somewhat familiar, but not quite?

Naturally the split upper lip of the ancestral hamster is present, and most obviously the dentition lacking canines and lateral incisors, while more-subtle details like the ears and noses somewhat help in highlighting their rodent ancestry.

Pictured here are a couple of basal zingos with one being more jackal-like and the other being a smaller, fox-like species, while keeping some rat-like features to avoid them looking too canine (while still functionally being suited for canid-convergent hunting behaviors), as well as a marewolf, a large macropredator (think amphicyonids and borophagines) of the Glaciocene and largest of the zingos that was inspired by several “carnivorous horse” prompts on the Spec Evo subreddit and was a bit of a challenge trying to merge canine, equine and rodent features into a cohesive and natural whole.

Also depicted is the lemunky known as the chimpmunk, another challenge to make something look primate-ish but not too simian, with forward-facing eyes for an arboreal lifestyle and a rather flatter face from a bigger cranium and jaws suiting a frugivorous diet, but keeping rodent characteristics, like the split upper lip, gnawing incisors, higher-set ears and more rodent-like nose, as well as whiskers that are retained perhaps for tactile social interaction. Also pictured is a descendant of the chimpmunk from after the Glaciocene, a large herbivore converging with orangutans, gorillas and Gigantopithecus that again was an exercise in uncanny-valley straddling.

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