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I hope you can get some info from the picture
These are just some ideas how to make different body plans for the "squish" species
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Very complex for suck a simple looking creature
you're doing a very fine job!
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Thanks so much! I probably like the head the most on the sea scarf, because it doesn't look incredibly fish-like, like in my other "fish" concepts I've done so far.
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Yes it looks nicely alien.
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Many thanks! I try to sneak some oddities in my creatures, so I'm really glad it works!
I have some more ideas for marine critters, I'm just scanning one of them, and then I'll edit it, but it's very "busy," sketch, so I'll probably need to draw it again... I will probably "spam" your deviant-watch today though!
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Not a big deal
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Awesome i like the sea scarf and sea ribbon a lot very good stuff pete
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Thank you! these fellas shouldn't take "horribly long" to do in Sculptris, so I'll try to do at least one of the body plans at the weekend and play with colors to show you how colorful they can get, but I have some interesting echinoderm-like creatures in my head right now, gonna sketch them fast before I forget!
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I am just editting the picture. They'll be uploaded soon!
That picture is just one type of them, I plan to do two more basic body plans for that type of creature.
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later today! and I have some odd ideas for other reel-living "squish" species, other than the sea ribbons and sea scarfs. They'll be pretty odd fellas too!
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Well i look forward to seeing them
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Thank you!
I'm just sketching the "echinoderms" but they're taking more time than I imagined, they'll need a "special" idea, and I'll have to wait 'till the right moment to finish them.
The "squish" species are a different story, I only need to draw a bunch of clean sketches and they're free to go in my gallery!
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Cool cant wait to see em im planning a reference sheet for the slug things yet to be named. Probly call them Eskaga or some thing that sounds like the french word for snails i dunno yet
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Sounds nice! Good luck!
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Were do you get such an incredibly original concepts?
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Thank you! I'm relly glad you like them! I was worried if they're "enough" original actually! they are, in fact, just eels!
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Really cool!
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I don't know! They are oblong, with prominent eyes... I can see the resemblance actually!
I still yet have to flesh out the sesile reef organism in greater detail, especially the "reef-building" ones, I picture the reefs full of crevices and holes and also full of creatures that protect their bodies by secreting a hardenned tube or bulb, and the "sea ribbons" would be quite similar to the butterflyfish and angelfish and they would use their beaked "trunks" to pull these small creatures out of their homes, while the "sea scarfs" would be much like moraena eels, they would feed on other "squish" species and other larger reef-living creatures.
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That sounds really cool! You should actually take the time to make a coloured picture of the reef and some of its inhabitants!
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I'm planning to do it actually!
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Great! I can't wait to see it!
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Thanks! It will still need a lot of work to be done before I'll be able to produce a "believable" coral reef though
You might be interested in these: [link] Those "worms" are the main reef-builders on my planet, but there are some major changes ahead. I decided to not make them externally "segmented" and I will most likely change their external anatomy altogether, I just got an idea, but I'll probably scan it tomorrow, because it will take some extra time to refine, and I'd also like to include a more detailed internal anatomy.
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That's really interesting!
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well they have "houses", right? They're connected to the inside of their "vase" and cannot live without it. I'm actually working on a completely new body plan for them to make their lifestyle more "convincing"
How do they build a reef? Similarly to corals actually! one generation reproduces (massive numbers of them squirt their gametes to the open water at one time, where the "ovi" ("ovum" this is right, right?) get fertilized and the zygotae become part of the plankton. the larvae become growe to a semi-mature "nymph" stage which descents and becomes sessile, growing its own vase on top the vases of the already existing colonies of their (oftenly dead) predecessors or become a foundation of a brand new colony and this cycle repeats for millions and millions of years. does that sound even remothely plausible? I hope it does! I don't want "miniature >>shelled<< anemones" on my planet, I want to have something "different" and a sessile (oftenly minuscule) "shelled" filter-feeding worm didn't seem to be a bad idea...
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That sounds really similar to my Xenofungi, although they're terrestrial! I'll upload a new description in the coming weeks if I have time. In there I wrote a big part about the terrestrial reefs of the Xenofungi!
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Xenofungal reefs are cool! I love them!
I was thinking of making a not-so-prominent ancient lineage of "colonial plants" which would be a cluster of different individuals adapted for different functions, but I don't know it this idea will "make it" to the "final" project.
I already have a great ammount of symbiotic "man-o-war style" marine creatures which fill various niches, but I still yet have to branch off the diversity of different body plans.
I tend to do "darwin finches to the extreme" kind of think whenever I come up with a new anatomy, and I tend to do as many spin offs of it as possible, but I think the sea is so huge that it can offer a niche to countless phylla of animals (yeah, I tend to forget the plants more than they deserve) and the sea is strikingly more diverse than the ecosystems on dry land. Dry land has arthropods, molluscs, oligochetes and vertebrates on dry land (at least these are the most "prominent" phylla, while in the sea you have an overwhelmingly higher number of species than on dry land in those "terrestrial" phylla, and you have polychetes, echinoderms, cridarids (jellyfish, anemones and kin) and poriferans in the sea, and god knows what else I forgot to mention!
Man! I really need to make some ecinoderm-like and sponge-like organisms too, but I'd need to make them visibly different than anything on earth...
Wow! How much I wish I had an idea now... XD
Poriferans and echinoderms have always been a kind of secret to me, I never seemed to have learnt enough about them to "really" understand their "inner workings," which is what I'd desperately need right now.
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Yes, enchinoderms and poriferans would indeed be interesting candidates. 
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Wow that's a great idea! I'll see what I can come up with! I never thought of such combination! 
What would you say on giving these "echinoderms" a "conodont aparatus" for their oral organ? =B
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Thanks a lot!
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Wow thanks for your nice words!
I'll now try to sketch some more of the "actual" fish of this world, I have some odd ideas in my sleeve right now, you'll see them soon!
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You're welcome!
I look forward to see them!
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