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we need the website again! THIS IS PRETTY DAMN COOL!
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any clue if we were going to see info about this planet and its lifeforms again?
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I probably prefer the colored version, but even this is more than amazing, the shading is exquisite!
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Nemo, I intrigo with something. There are "vertebrates" in winged Snaiad?
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Nemo, I intrigo with something. There are "vertebrates" in winged Snaiad?
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old, this is amazing is an excellent vision of life in another world continues to create more creatures so
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Right, well, I have a serious doubt regarding Snaidi animals. The link doesn't seem to work do well and to be honest (laughs) I actually knew about the Jetocetes and cardiocetes through a Snaiad Wiki page, but then, let me ask you one thing;
if those things are, like, I dunno, jet-propelled, could they jump out of the water like a dolphin?
Like, say, can Torpedichthys do it? He seems like...orca-sized or something, in fact.
Get to me if you can.
And would you like my own little concept for a new kahydront family for Snaiad? Made it up meself, heh-heh!
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A small question regarding the proliferation of Snaiad's major fauna (...Bicapans, I guess would be a proper moniker?). If the grand ancestor of all of these creatures was a sessile, buried-in-the-ground creature (which explains the reason for the seperation of the heads), what compelled this primeval Snaiadite to burrow itself out and wander about on land? Was there a mass extinction where it was simply the most widespread group left?
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I guess a Permian-style mass extinction, maybe something even bigger. Snaiad is twice as old as Earth - more time and more room for weird evolutionary accidents to get amplified.
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I could imagine it'd be weirder.
And with that in mind, the logic behind a burrowing animal rising up as the dominant terrestrial species now works; it didn't mean to, but someone had to fill those tetrapod shoes.
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you should make walking sycle animations to show how they move
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If only I had the time...
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alright so do you picture your animals walking more like mammals of reptiles or... something els.
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More like mammals than reptiles, I guess.
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I simply love how you used a basic alien template (the whole confuseing body parts thing) and followed it throughout your creatures, and yet they all look so diverse and real.
Tis simply amazing.
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Thank you! I basically tried to emulate what is already gong on with earthly organisms.
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Well you did a very good job of it.
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I think I can understand some of the shared evolution of the species, like those giant... Things, coming out of their chests.
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I've always been a fan of your stuff, and I'm just wondering, will there ever be a book? You know, like Barlowe's expedition? Some sort of coffee table book, with landscapes and ecosystems, as well as some of the more technical stuff, would be awesome.
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One of the coolest websites and art projects I've seen in years.
...But have you any imminent plans to add entirely different phyla to Snaiad? Earth is shared by creatures as wildly unlike one another cnidarians, insects and echinoderms. I bet there's no end to the fascinating anatomical rules you could come up with and diversivy
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Thanks! We are cooking up some new phyla at the moment. Check the Snaiad forum!
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Holy kanoogle, these are some freakishly cool beasties
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I know this is really late, but congratulations on the page. It have been a pleasure to surf through it, and read about your creatures... lots of fresh ideas!
Snaiad is now out... I think you have released a monster that will live on its own! and thats definitively to be proud of 
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Ok, so this is the question of the hour for me: What is sprog exactly? I understand of course that its a vegetal groundcover/understory ... are there any specifications you can give me other than what it just looks like (that would be good info too).
-Is their a wide variation to Sprog, as in is it somewhat totally analagous to plants/moss/fungi/etc?
-Does it range the whole planet (roughly), etc? If so, is comprised of many separate instances or is it one large organism or strain?
-From the descriptions I've read around it seems to be porous ... is it spongy or does it support weight? Both?
-How high does sprog grow? Is it a low groundcover, is it shrublike, does it extrude specialized parts, fruit, treeforms, shoots, runners, etc?
Anyhow, sorry for the inundation. Just curious!
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Wow.
The Snaiad animals are by far more impressive than anything i've ever have done.
Keep up the good work!
Nice to see something of this quality and to see dedicated creators.
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I a bit curious: What are the origins or the 'Sea Serpents' to briefly brought up in passing back on the Snaiad page?
Are they a clad within the vertebrates, or perhaps a sister group? & do they share the 1st head/2nd head morphology of the ' proper' vertebrates?
I'm asking because I started pondering aquatic morphologies (such as aquatic animals who's evolution lead to a dominance of the 2nd head & reduction of the first head, er go their 1st head/ second head development is the opposite of that of proper vertebrates whose 1st head are the dominant structure (i.e. it's importance stretches from reproduction, receiving external sensory stimuli, feeding (though not actually used in ingestion of food), communication, and possibly housing the primary 'brains' of an animal) & the 2nd head has been reduced to an organ of feeding (and possibly communication & manipulation of objects).)
Thus could it be that the Sea serpents have 2nd heads developed for not only feeding, but also communication, manipulation, some level of sensory reception, possibly respiration, depending on how the issue of breath in an aqueous environment is solved, and most importantly, housing the ' primary' or 'Dominant' brain(s). This would make the first head reduced to an organ or reproduction & possibly sensory reception... or this could even lead to a mashing of the two heads together...
...dang, this all came out sounding very confusing, I'm sure. 
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Actually, the Snaiadi Sea Serpents are all "fish-like" arthrognathans (imagine overgrown descendants of this creature: [link]
This phylum of animals is called arthrognatha, and they dominate all aquatic biomes with a huge variety of species.
But of course, there are no reasons why there shouldn't be any snake-like "vertebrates" either...
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Ah! Cool... Ok, thank you.
That info really helps.
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i is wondering if you have an eta of when more animals might be added -- and again you is great
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Thank you! I'm shooting a movie right now, so probably after August....
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Just a taxonomical question you may or may not be able to answer:
If you have some orders in a class ending in a suffix like "formes", do all the orders in the class have to have that suffix? Birds come to mind...
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I really didn't think much about this - some just sound better as -formes and some don't.
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I love this picture! It's now my desktop!
I mentioned Snaiad at my forum.
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I really like the new whale creatures you added
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i noticed you left several animals out of the update such as rollpigs and goldenbulls ect. i was wondering if you're planning on readding them in the near future with related species involved as well?
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That's right, I'm waiting until the full composite-paintings for all those lineages are complete...
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I'm pretty sure he's going to post them once he's done the whole group of animals they're related to. I can see the golden bull in this pictures.
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Amazing! Now there's an update worth waiting for.
The big whale-animals look particularly interesting.
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What's going to happen to the titan airlicker now that the project's been revised?
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The airlicker was infeasible and looked like a Barlowe rip-off. It's still there, but it lives as a branch sweeper now...
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