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@TheNewArtistGR D
There’s not really a good living model to my knowledge as it a lot of muscle attachment in front of its battery teeth and a teeth+beak combo
I suspect more flesh than PNSO model to protect face as it chowed down on the fibrous vegetation available at low levels
had to surface sow a bunch of expensive seeds (required light to germinate) i specialty ordered and day later there was the first hailstorm i've seen in over a decade
@biggestjoel I stand by Synder’s greatest work is adaptation of Ga’Hoole (a series of novels about owls by a Jewish author) but he fucked up with that one too the baddies are a metaphor for nordicism with an internal shade-based hierarchy
And he made the Big Bad dark-feathered…
it's amazing how much easier it is to draw on a cintiq holy shit lmao now im motivated to not be terrible at digital
@FENRISCOPTER Reminds me of that one bully dinosaur from the land before time sequel lol or one of those uncanny valley transitional synapsids
@tinycatfriend this is 5+ years old lol but Tanya Darobti from my alternate Earth maniraptoran pplstory, true heir to throne (1st to break eggshell)of a nation spanning basically Ethiopia to Algeria But Ableism Happens
&Taylor uses them in some timelines but cane more
https://t.co/qZXLA3y0xi
Threw together quick restoration of the European Oligocene hummingbird Eurotrochilus inexpectatus for a talk, speculative plumage mostly based off extant basal hummingbirds (genera Florisuga and Topaza)
Pic of fossil from Louchart 2008