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Published: 2010-06-14 20:25:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 31418; Favourites: 302; Downloads: 311
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"-But what use would a mind have if no force in nature could hurt you?""-Well, it always helps to remember... and never forget!"
Aside from just being cool, I drew this intelligent sauropod to illustrate one of my educated suspicions about these great animals - namely, the presence of soft-tissue display organs on the skull and (maybe) the neck. If you look at the level of pneumaticity in a sauropod skeleton and observe some of their weird skulls, there is no way something weird WASN'T involved in the whole structure.
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Man, this really floored me both in concept and execution, but then i'm entirely out of the loop of what dinosaur has what on its face now, haha. All I can say is: [link]
My favorite and probably too-oft-used question: how long do you think this took you to finish?
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On-and-off, about 5 days in total. I first made a big drawing on paper, scanned it and drew over it in photoshop.
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oh, really! This looks like a vector ... I imagine that it was much less of a hassle to actually draw by hand, however.
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Well, you can also make this into a vector pretty easily - there's an automatic way to do it in photoshop.
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ah yes, I always forget about live trace & such.
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Is he playing golf?
Anyways, nice work! My favoruite of your sophont dinosaurs.
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That's a pipe, but that doesn't mean these guys can't play competitive sports.
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I wasn't 100%ly serious on the golf part, but thanks for clearing it up.
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Somewhat stupidly I thought it was holding a golf-club, but mind you, something that big would have a pipe about that size.
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I'm afraid I can't find a word to express of just how much I love your exectuion of the inteligent sauropod concept.
You truly poses Midas touch.
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I'm flattered, thanks!
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I'd love to see what you would do with one of my unfinished sketches - I too have a sapient (unfinished) sauropod. I went with the braincase in the area between the scapulae.
This guy, however, is ROCKIN'.
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Skull between the scapulae? That would be like a... a frog child!
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You say that like it's a bad thing... ^__^
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looks like it should belong in one of those paleontology books
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Thanks, I tried to make it look as realistic as possible.
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The prehensile tongue made me laugh, but the notion that brontosaurus could develop such an odd developmental display when nearly all other Cretaceous fauna used color seems a bit unorthodox, but that doesn't mean it cant be right though
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Or what game does he play with that golf-club, was my question.
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if a species is intellectually capable of it, it will find something to smoke
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Nice, but given their limited numbers due to the scale of the creatures in Question, they would be unlikely to develop technology and civilization.
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I agree, I don't think we'd see an industrial civilization with these guys. But they could become pastoral nomads or agrarian tribes.
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Even still its gotta suck for the spceies, they might well be great at mathmatics and capable of doing incredible things if given the chance, but the poor bastards can just mill about at a technological level at best comprable until a major natural disaster whipes them out or an alien conquest fleet comes by.
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I dunno. People seem to have done all right for +- 1 million years without any significant technology whatsoever. If anything, technology might be more likely to wipe intelligent species out than natural disasters or UFOs.
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Though I'm rather skeptical of the possibility of a sapient sauropod, this is awesome! I like the feather-like edges of the scutes on this guy!
How big is he?
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I think he's about 14 meters long, but more than half that is taken up by the tail.
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You are my favorite person ever right now. Can you do some sort of sophont last supper?
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Well, there is already the Sophont Parade?
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Yes, but a scene with them all interacting, a veritable culture clash if you will, would be fascinating and comical.
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Haha, maybe... I wish I had more time!
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Beautiful artwork all always, and I love the pipe. xD
I'm skeptical (but not completely opposed to) about the presence of display structures like that (at least the nose one) but I can't argue, having not looked at the remains my self.
Hmmmm....
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Thanks man! I don't think they would be as exaggerated as these ones, but the skulls of diplodocid sauropods are so weird if you study them...
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Wow, I wish I could see one up close and hold one (well, actually just a cast of one; there's no way I'd feel right about holding the ACTUAL fossil skull of one) so I could examine it.
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You can google for pictures - even looking at drawings tells you something weird must be going on.
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to be perfectly honest, at a first glance at least, it looks more like something out of snaiad
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It has only one head, and a completely different musculature. But I guess I have a certain style when it comes to ponderous, weird animals.
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like i said, at a first glance; but you are right, the most un-snaiad feature of it is definitely the fact that it has only one head
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Starting to push the realms of beli- is it holding a paintbrush?
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It's just a smoking pipe
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Ah, well, that's much more reasonable. I like this guy already.
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This is really cool, the display organs really make it unusual, so does the prehensile tounge. This kind of unusual is my definition of awesome, good jom, it is fantastic. The overlapping plates give it a real archaic, alice in wonderland-ish appearance. It suits it.
How smart is this guy? And what size is he?
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I think he's a little over 14 meters long, but half that length is the tail. He's about as smart as a child.
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So he is smart enough to make primative tools?
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