I want to take it one step further.
And no, I don't care if there's good reason to believe that Tyrannosaurs weren't fluffy like owls, I still want a decent artist's depiction of a T. rex with owl-level fluff.
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A giant murder sparrow would be horrifying as fuck, ngl.
Horrifying AND cuddly.
Anyone who thinks feathered dinosaurs are somehow less terrifying need to be locked in a room with a cassowary
Or just look at depictions of terrorbirds. They actually coexisted with early humans.
They still do if you're antipodean
Came for this, not disappointed
They might’ve really had feathers! It’s funny how Jurassic Park colors our perception
Artist's depiction =|= AI slop
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Neeeeerrd
May I marry you
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I should warn you my wedding dress will have spiked shoulderpads with Warhammer style spikes
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Feathered tyrannosaur of Asia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yutyrannus
Feathered tyrannosaur of North America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanuqsaurus
Hippos will absolutely fuck you up, though.
Yeah pic 2 is just an artistic depiction of their inner selves
Inside all of us there are two hippos...
Hey, that's not fair, I've really been trying to lose weight.
And it shows! You look like just 1.8 hippos now!
Take your upvote
It’s like that is the hippo’s Slayer form from Baldur’s Gate 2.
But they have a Bruce-Banner-esque secret… they are always the Slayer.
Fun fact, the reason some dinosaurs are depicted with lips is because the asymetrical wear on their teeth doesn't match with modern equivalent's that have exposed teeth, meaning they had "labial scale" lips.
Image owned by Mark P. Witton
The reason for the stretched skin look for dinosaurs initially is because of the comparison to lizards, who do frequently have their skin stretched on their bones except in a few places. Unfortunately things like that have momentum, so changing it takes even longer than it took to catch on.
I'm still pissed at Jurassic World cowardly going with the old designs when they could have shown the current knowledge, much like the original movie has.
I haven't watched Jurassic World, but wasn't that kinda explained with the frog DNA? I heard something to that effect. Meaning that they knew they weren't like the original animals.
yes, henry wu even says something along the lines of that.
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Eh, in universe it fits the continuity. They're not dinosaurs, they're lab created animals that fit an inaccurate public perception of dinosaurs . Corpos keep corping, why mess with a winning formula
An interesting book on why many dinosaur depictions are wrong and what they may have looked like.
The hippos teeth peg it as a mostly vegetation, so depictions would favor that line.
Holy shit, this is exactly this book:
All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals
There was a great podcast that pointed me to it: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/welcome-to-jurassic-art-redux/transcript/
I think that's it. I've already done more searching than I intended to get the name of the book. You're on your own.
I wanted to be an archeologist when I was a kid because I loved dinos. This book speaks to me.
To whoever likes this sort of fantastical speculative artistry, one of the authors C.M. Koseman also wrote and illustrated All Tomorrow's, which is a similarly speculative view of humanity from the fictional perspective of a paleontologist in the unfathomably far future, after humanity spread to the stars and experienced an apocalypse that leads us down countless evolutionary paths. Content warning: Body horror, cosmic horror, but presented in an academic way.
I wish I was one of the snake people. Look at him. He is at peace with his Sock and Juice.
The term "artist" here is being used kind of loosely. They're doing the bare minimum you need to turn a skeleton into a living creature. Good artistic representations require a lot more imagination, beyond what we scientifically know. You can get clues by looking at already existing animals and how they relate to their skeletons. Which gives an idea of how much not bone material those creatures might have. No you won't know exactly how much they did, but that's not really being represented by skin wrapping either is it. Better to try and go for something believable rather than the bare minimum.
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Does that hippo have a beard?
It has a badly shaven mustache, so the beard is likely
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