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Today's friday general-audience pic : an attemp at drawing an evolution of the T-Rex. More massive jaws with specialized teeth, total binocular vision, reinforced upper skull, more compact body, almost no more arms, more muscled legs, bigger feet, no more spur (I forgot it in fact ^^''' )... Well, I failed to render the ideas I had in mind but the result is not so bad anyway so here you are.
Also, "corrected" because my original version had a head 25% smaller and it was awfull ; I corrected it under Photoshop and I defy you to track down the seams in the neck area !!! ;D
Also, "corrected" because my original version had a head 25% smaller and it was awfull ; I corrected it under Photoshop and I defy you to track down the seams in the neck area !!! ;D
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The TV series Primeval could use someone like you! :3
(If you haven't seen it, its about a group of scientists who discover that rifts in time are opening all over the world to various times in pre-history. And... in the very last episode of the first series, the future. Fair enough the creature that comes through isn't an evolved T-Rex, but it still seems like the kind of thing you'd be awesome at! ^^)
Observe the awesomeness. Past vs Future. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxUxCbCKWFc
(If you haven't seen it, its about a group of scientists who discover that rifts in time are opening all over the world to various times in pre-history. And... in the very last episode of the first series, the future. Fair enough the creature that comes through isn't an evolved T-Rex, but it still seems like the kind of thing you'd be awesome at! ^^)
Observe the awesomeness. Past vs Future. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxUxCbCKWFc
"More massive jaws with specialized teeth"
Okay... there may be a Problem... the evolution of birds never had any very specialized teeth in them... just a reduction.
the heterodont jaw was not develop by reptiles. (and Birds)
So don't worry, when you had failed on this aspect... it is better that way.
Okay... there may be a Problem... the evolution of birds never had any very specialized teeth in them... just a reduction.
the heterodont jaw was not develop by reptiles. (and Birds)
So don't worry, when you had failed on this aspect... it is better that way.
I beg to differ : venimous snakes DO own specialized teeth to inoculate their venom :) Also, therapsida, though not directly related to dinosaurs, got also such teeth and even more visibly, and more and more during their evolution, not to mention the herbivorous dinosaurs whose teeth did specialize to an incredible range !! When I was talking about "specialized teeth" here, it was just small curved ones at the front to grip and bif, almost straight ones at the back to cut and crush. Nothing too delirious to imagine for a reptile, nothing compared to mammal ones :)
BTW, I didn't want to propose a really scientific specimen, just my own thoughts about it - just like I imagined once dragons having evolved from big theropods...
BTW, I didn't want to propose a really scientific specimen, just my own thoughts about it - just like I imagined once dragons having evolved from big theropods...
Hmm... my bad. I meant that there are no "different" teeth in the overall form. Every teeth have the same basic shape in an reptiles jaw.
You don't find molars or something like that together with canines.
I just thought, that you wanted to draw an jaw with different types of teeth in them... like mammals.
So-> Global misunderstood.
You don't find molars or something like that together with canines.
I just thought, that you wanted to draw an jaw with different types of teeth in them... like mammals.
So-> Global misunderstood.
Magic of Photoshop !!! ^^ ^^
Yes, of course the scan makes a VERY cloudy sheet, every time I have to modify the balance of contrasts and luminosity to make it look better - not to mention a long workcorrecting all the dark spots, and the edges of the paper that look always "dirty". The most difficult is to find the right balance to have the maximum cloud effect removed, without having the tiniest lines share the same fate. Here for example, as in all my pics where I decided to keep rough lines, I couldn't set contrasts as much as needed, and thus you can indeed see if you look closely that there still are many "cloud effects" everywhere - I just wasn't brave enough to try removing those areas with the eraser tool.
Yes, of course the scan makes a VERY cloudy sheet, every time I have to modify the balance of contrasts and luminosity to make it look better - not to mention a long workcorrecting all the dark spots, and the edges of the paper that look always "dirty". The most difficult is to find the right balance to have the maximum cloud effect removed, without having the tiniest lines share the same fate. Here for example, as in all my pics where I decided to keep rough lines, I couldn't set contrasts as much as needed, and thus you can indeed see if you look closely that there still are many "cloud effects" everywhere - I just wasn't brave enough to try removing those areas with the eraser tool.
I got quite a good result by applying two adjustments to the picture you have uploaded here... Look: http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/.....62/testny3.jpg
I used Hue/Saturation correction and then Brightness/Contrast using Lab colorspace. Lab is the best one for image correction purposes.
I used Hue/Saturation correction and then Brightness/Contrast using Lab colorspace. Lab is the best one for image correction purposes.
Maybe... Maybe not, who knows ? Squales for example are far older than dinosaurs, are still alive now but as far as I know, they do not have specialized teeth, even if some developped some interesting features... Looks like carnivorous species don't need really specialized teeth contrary to herbivorous and above all, of course, omnivorous.
like the song says: "what you waiting [...] what you waiting for?" :D I guess you show us only very little part of your creations... explain yourself!!! David my dear you should show us more not only furries I'm sure everybody would be glad to see some other pictures :) at lest I would hehe
There are two major problems.
1/ I show almost all my furry works, but as you guessed, most of my works, the oldest ones weren't at all. And if I very occasionnally post non-funrr artwork here, it would annoy me to upload all them because this site is not made for that. And I haven't have any other now, and I REALLY don't want to post anywhere else
2/ The time. It would require me at least an entire month of scanning and cleaning. I don't have such time ahead, all my weekend are already very busy, and I haven't got the material to do that on weeks, working and living far away during that time from home.
Believe me, it somehow does frustrate me too.
1/ I show almost all my furry works, but as you guessed, most of my works, the oldest ones weren't at all. And if I very occasionnally post non-funrr artwork here, it would annoy me to upload all them because this site is not made for that. And I haven't have any other now, and I REALLY don't want to post anywhere else
2/ The time. It would require me at least an entire month of scanning and cleaning. I don't have such time ahead, all my weekend are already very busy, and I haven't got the material to do that on weeks, working and living far away during that time from home.
Believe me, it somehow does frustrate me too.
Mouais... Je me demande vraiment si les dinosaures auraient évolué comme ça... En particulier le T-Rex !
Celà me rappelle le bouquin de Dougal Dixon : "Les Nouveaux Dinosaures". =>
http://www.dougal-dixon.co.uk/
Le type s'y connait certainement bien mieux que moi, et c'est un grand illustrateurs (enfin, si c'est bien lui qui dessine ses bestioles)...
Mais, rien à faire : je ne parviens pas à trouver ses créatures complètements convaincantes !
En plus, je suis persuadé que les bestioles d'une évolution alternative seraient encore plus extraordinaires que ça...
Celà me rappelle le bouquin de Dougal Dixon : "Les Nouveaux Dinosaures". =>
http://www.dougal-dixon.co.uk/
Le type s'y connait certainement bien mieux que moi, et c'est un grand illustrateurs (enfin, si c'est bien lui qui dessine ses bestioles)...
Mais, rien à faire : je ne parviens pas à trouver ses créatures complètements convaincantes !
En plus, je suis persuadé que les bestioles d'une évolution alternative seraient encore plus extraordinaires que ça...
Deux choses à ce sujet : au sujet de la morphologie, à part certains petits détails qui ne se conservent généralement pas (trompe, prolongements charnus divers...), on connait désormais celle de beaucouop de dinosaures quasiment parfaitement, ceux-ci ne nous sont finalement pas si étrangers que ça, ils suivent les lois classiques de la construction des êtres vivants au niveau des os, muscles, etc.
Maintenant, à moins d'un témoignage exceptionnel qui survive des dizaine de millions d'années (c'est arrivé, c'est arrivé...), leur véritable aspect extérieur au niveau de leur coloration par exemple nous sera à jamais caché, on ne peut faire que quelques comparaisons logiques et évolutives (les lions sont jaunes pour se fondre dans la savane, mais comment deviner les motifs d'une giraffe ou d'un zèbre, ou encore pire, d'un okapi ?!!)
Donc, tout étant affaire de spéculation et d'imagination, eh bien tout est possible et toutes les représentations se valent.....
Maintenant, à moins d'un témoignage exceptionnel qui survive des dizaine de millions d'années (c'est arrivé, c'est arrivé...), leur véritable aspect extérieur au niveau de leur coloration par exemple nous sera à jamais caché, on ne peut faire que quelques comparaisons logiques et évolutives (les lions sont jaunes pour se fondre dans la savane, mais comment deviner les motifs d'une giraffe ou d'un zèbre, ou encore pire, d'un okapi ?!!)
Donc, tout étant affaire de spéculation et d'imagination, eh bien tout est possible et toutes les représentations se valent.....
.. Ce qui est encore plus vrai au niveau de leur évolution possible au-delà de leur extinction........ Qui aurait cru qu'un petit mammifère de un mètre au garrot ressemblant à un tapir donnerait naissance au plus grand mammifère marin qui ait jamais existé, la baleine bleue, avec ses plus de 30 mètres de long ??!!!!!
Note que je n'ai jamais dis le contraire : tout celà n'est jamais qu'une affaire d'imagination !
C'est juste que ça me semble rarement crédible...
Celà me rappelle cette vision que l'on avait de l'humain du futur, sensé être doté d'une grosse tête (le cerveau grossissant au fil des siècles) et de 6 doigts à chaque mains !
Cette vision, je me demande s'il y a encore beaucoup de gens pour la prendre au sérieux !
C'est juste que ça me semble rarement crédible...
Celà me rappelle cette vision que l'on avait de l'humain du futur, sensé être doté d'une grosse tête (le cerveau grossissant au fil des siècles) et de 6 doigts à chaque mains !
Cette vision, je me demande s'il y a encore beaucoup de gens pour la prendre au sérieux !
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