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A cartoon Hallucigenia climbs down a rocky shelf in a Cambrian sea, near a geothermal vent. Two Pikaia swim overhead.Photoshop and Graphire. Rough here: [link]
Inspired by [link] and [link]
deviation song:
kinobe - having a moment
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wow, so inspiring. The Hallucigenia looks like it's getting a first feeling of the land outside and the dream that someone will set their feet on this land in a far away future.
Definitely worth a short story.
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Beautifull Hallucigenia! ...& in the right orientation!
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Thanks! I still took some artistic liberties with the spines though, they would be straight and not so curved, and maybe the frontmost tentacles wouldn't so much resemble a cartoon caterpillar
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I'm not sure she's a true animal. Pheraphs Hallucigenia is only a part of a bigger animal... Anyway... She's so pretty!
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YOU ARE G-D DAMN BLOODY AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @_____@!!! OMG! I am seriously like, such a huge Burgess Shale nerd, IF ONLY THERE WAS A WIWAXIA!!!!!!!!!!!! *cries* (my all time fav) OMG, this is instant fav. So cool and graphic-awesome.
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Thanks! Burgess Shale is the illest. There IS a Wiwaxia in Mondo Exotica...
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I know but he's sooo small!!!!!!!!!!!
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Not quite- Pikaia were 40mm long, still twice the size of Hallucigenia.
The sense of scale is exaggerated in my pic, since it's the pov of a very tiny creature.
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What was the largest animal in that time period?
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Not sure offhand, probably some species of Anomalocaris.
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How big/long were Pikaia? I heard they were the size of sharks.
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Pikaia were about the size of those dried anchovies you buy in Chinese supermarkets.
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On another thing: from whence came the notion that Hallucigenia has antennae-like tentacles on its head?
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This was meant to be a more cartoonish than realistic portrayal. Also, modern onychophorans all have antennae, and the Hallucigenia fossil doesn't seem perfectly preserved to me, so I speculated a little.
Also cartoon Hallucigenia are cute, and cute worm-like things need antennae
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You know, this is something you never really see artists create...cambrian and precambrian critters. Not only is this compositionally orchestrated beautifully, but the hallucigenia and pikia are wonderfully stylized (again, paleoillustration is generally so analytical, this really gives a good twist on something so scientific...something not many attempt). I would love to see more works of [pre]cambrian creatures in this style, ie. anomalocarids, opabinia, and other dinocarids, perhaps some polcheate worms?
Great style and keep it up!
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Thanks! Just used Photoshop for this one, actually.
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That's nice and pretty original, Matt. What are the gray critters above?
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Those are Pikaia>, the early chordate. Inspired by this thread [link] , you could say
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