Commission for HobbesTiger on Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:by.....iej7k4iqpap7os
based on his Hominids prehistoric story - these are the villains in the story - a Dinopitheus, a crowned eagle, a Meganteron and a Deinotherium - it's been fun drawing all these different animals, especially the prehistoric ones! 😄

Here is some information from HobbesTiger from the descriptions from the characters he sent. :D
The main villain of the story is a Dinopithecus, a large prehistoric baboon that may have preyed on our ancestors. He doesn't have a name for him yet, but he acts as an evil counterpart to Spark, the main hero. While Spark represents the best of humanity, this baboon represents the worst, showing nothing but cruelty and selfishness towards anyone he sees as inferior and representing what humanity can become if we aren't careful. His goal is to appropriate the hominids' ability to use fire so he can dominate the grasslands.

One of his minions is a female crowned eagle, which we actually have evidence of preying on our ancestors. He named her Taung, in reference to the Taung child, an australopithecus child who shows signs of being killed by an eagle. He was thinking about how some raptors in Australia will carry and drop flaming branches to catch fleeing prey, and I included something similar.

His second minion is a Meganteron, a saber-toothed cat genus related (and possibly ancestral) to the more famous Smilodon that also preyed on our ancestors; though it was smaller, about the size of a jaguar. He named him Dirk, and like many man-eating big cats in real life, he's be too old and injured to hunt prey normally, so he resorts to both stealing prey from other predators like a coward, and hunting hominids. He's blind in one eye, one of his saber teeth is broken, and he's lame in one paw from porcupine quills.

Last but not least, he wanted an aggressive herbivore character who deconstructed the notion of herbivorous animals always being friendly. He debated on a hippo or buffalo, since those are both animals known for killing people in real life, but then I decided to lean on a Deinotherium, a large primitive proboscidean distantly related to modern elephants. While there's a separate elephant character in the story who acts wise and honorable, this Deinotherium will be portrayed as a dumb aggressive beast in contrast, who enjoys stomping on things smaller than him. He was also thinking about giving him reddish-brown coloration similar to Pumbaa or Tantor (both characters were inspired by warthogs and elephants getting covered in red dirt in real life) to further contrast the gray elephant characters we often see.