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Published: 2016-08-15 20:16:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 13847; Favourites: 607; Downloads: 67
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Now that sabertooths are somewhat trending, I just wanted to help you avoid the most common mistakes I see.To do that, I abused the hell out of Wikimedia Commons and, not proud of that, even of Mr. Antóns beautiful Smilodon head reconstruction for proportions. Go buy his books, they're the best thing there is on sabertooths!
And of course, species differences apply, but the general trend is true for most of them.
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ah, thank god i found this, cause I was wondering about the lower canines <3
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Thanks! These days though there's a 6th one that I see more than most of the others, and that's people bending the saberfangs outwards like the tusks of wild boars or something. Nnnooooooo
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naw, you're kidding? why would they ;____;
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That the skull and snout, especially in homotheres, was extremely long and unusual looking to our eyes ^^
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This is awesome, love the name lol. Thank you for making this.
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X) No problem! If I could, I'd go back and add one now: don't bend the fangs outwards like boar tusks, that's one that a lot of people do for some reason.
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Maybe they're emulating The Croods? At least that movie had an excuse sort of though, all the animals in that movie were funky hybrids.
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Ah, but what if someone wants to make a monster/creature based ON a smilodon? Then would it not be ok to make those mistakes for the sake of artistic innovation?
Also, smilodons are trending?
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Yup, trending a lot!
Fantasy art really has no rules I guess. Depends on if you want an anatomically sound creature or just one that looks hardcore.
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Huh. Ya learn something new everyday, right?
That's true! And this is still a good tutorial regardless!
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They've also discovered that smilodon fangs don't have certain proteins that would allow for them to be tusklike (walrus and other tusked mammals have a certain protein in their tusks that makes it so that they can handle weathering) so even though they look significantly sillier, saber toothed felines likely would have had absurd jowls covering their fangs!
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Mark Witton actually talked about that in his latest blog post. He isn't convinced.
markwitton-com.blogspot.co.uk/…
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Aaaah alright that's fair
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Not absurd jowls, more likely a sheath
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Nah, the last word on this hasn't been spoken by far. Right now, it's only a new idea, like the 60s idea of sabers needing squashed noses in order to breathe while biting. Once this gets submitted as a scientific paper and thoroughly discussed, I'll roll with whatever result it yields. ^^
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It's still very likely their teeth were in sheaths or under large bowels when their mouth was closed. There aren't any modern carnivorans with exposed teeth except for Walrus, as said above they have certain proteins for this.
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Yes, it's an interesting hypothesis, but I wonder why people get so borderline preachy about this all of a sudden. That's unusual.
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Love the artwork, Tacimur!
By the way, I call BS on the jowled canines, because they're an impractical model, and not a valid counterexample to the traditional way sabertooth canines are portrayed.
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Aaaaahh I thought it was a Fact woops that'll teach me to trust tumblr posts at face value (it was just such a cute idea that I loved it)
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Yay, glad you think so!
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Just from a historical side this is so nice lol also helpful
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I'm glad you think so, thanks!
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Ah, interessant!
Am meisten überraschen mich da die Zähne.
Die hätte ich wahrscheinlich auch eher wie bei standartmiezen gemalt.
Aber dass die so zackig sind ist ulkig. Da haben die Ice Age Leute das voll richtig gemacht
Is'n cooler guide
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Danke!
Wenn du dich in Sachen zackige Zähne richtig abschießen willst, dann google mal Bilder vom Schädel von Xenosmilus.
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Thanks for this! I definitely don't mind some extra pointers on drawing the great saber-cats (I've been guilty of the non-banana-head one just a tad). x3 Luckily I haven't really seen many other mistakes on anatomy like that. Who draws the saber-teeth backwards? o.O Just yikes.
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The backwards fangs pop up a lot, especially when people don't draw straight side views and get confused by the perspective, so they just curve the fangs around the muzzle somehow.
Haha, at first I had a hard time embracing the banana shape as well, but if that's how nature was, I wasn't going to argue with it. ^^ I don't think there's anything wrong with designing 'cuter' sabertooth cats, as long as you know that you're entering fantasy territory, weakening your kitty's bite and don't claim to represent an actual species (the latter being more of a pet peeve of mine). 
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Thank you for this great and insightful tips sheet
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Thanks!
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That forward-curving tooth...XD what the heck. I won't claim to have the best anatomy-knowledge, but...even I know the teeth don't curve forwards. XD
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by 'banana head' though...
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The forward curving tooth gets drawn so often o.o especially when people get confused by the perspective.
What I mean by 'banana head' is that their heads were long and straight generally, even more than in any of today's big cats. Some were so straight that they almost have an inverted curve. Here's some more extreme examples: prehistoric-fauna.com/Homother… s53.photobucket.com/user/Tiger… pikaia.eu/wp-content/uploads/2…
These, however, are all homotheres.
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Its actually pretty possible that sabertooths also had big ol jowels covering up their teeth! Saber saint bernards basically.
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I'll just wait until that gets made into an actual scientific paper and gets the discussion it needs. If it's accepted, then I'll accept it too. Until then, I'll just stick to the traditional way, the look of the saint bernard ones freaks me out a bit.
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