what if there was a dinosaur @plural-bees - Tumblr Blog

about the blog and blogger

hi! we’re chao (he/they/it), and as the URL may suggest, we’re plural

on here you may find:

bees

dinosaurs

rat, perhaps

and many others!

formerly, we were developing a mod called mesozoic ecosystems, which aimed to be yet another mod adding dinosaurs to minecraft. we got way too ambitious, way too fast, and kinda burnt out; the project is no longer in development, but you can still find further information on it here: (link)

list of relevant tags under the cut:

#considering we have Followers now i thought itd be good to get a pinned post up

coughs. wheezes. Okay so dinosauria episode eight (Monsters Down Under), huh

#read: it's re-activated our artistic drive and we MIGHT get a model finished before it runs out. i hope.#problem is we have like three different ideas and they all sound very good right now #the hive is buzzing

raingerr

doing a little jig

#as an apology for our silence we're showing you all this. OK? ok? look at it.#it's really good right. you like looking at it #doing its little jig #i know We like looking at it

confetti-critter

environmental storytelling

brightgoat

minecraft steve!!! and her best friend 'Wulf'

#Waow...

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deinonychus antirrhopus - a roughly dog-sized dromaeosaur from mid-cretaceous north america.

restored here without sexual dimorphism, in non-breeding (image 1 (left)) and breeding (image 1 (right), image 2) plumage. the non-breeding individual is intended to be displaying agonistic behaviour.

model based on reference material from scott hartman and matt dempsey.

texture inspired by the luzon bleeding-heart, assorted hawks, and fred wierum's deinonychus.

#reblagging this again #although apparently we never self-reblogged it on this blog??#anyway. project's not dead we're just figuring out what we want to do next #and working up the motivation to throw ourselves at it #we've got too many good options for our next move... it's a Problem...#(project as in the Art Project of Having Dinosaur Models...)

deinonychus antirrhopus - a roughly dog-sized dromaeosaur from mid-cretaceous north america.

restored here without sexual dimorphism, in non-breeding (image 1 (left)) and breeding (image 1 (right), image 2) plumage. the non-breeding individual is intended to be displaying agonistic behaviour.

model based on reference material from scott hartman and matt dempsey.

texture inspired by the luzon bleeding-heart, assorted hawks, and fred wierum's deinonychus.

#palaeoart #paleoart #deinonychus #deinonychus antirrhopus #dinosaurs #Improvement upon the old days: we are now appropriately citing our sources because it is Polite and Good to do that.#also yeah the cropping's dire it's. Yeah. could fix it by ordering the images differently but uh...#then you get... image 2 taking up a wild amount of screen space for no good reason #This is the less annoying solution.#the hive is buzzing #the hive delivers #<- ? art tag? i wanted something to do with honeycomb but. egh. couldn't think of anything that sounded great

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Poll For Ye Who Remain

so. mesozoic ecosystems as a mod Is Not Happening. we're still making models, though. they're in the minecraft style but have no real attachment to minecraft beyond that, and this is allegedly a minecraft blog.

Cast Your Vote.

Post new models on our main blog

Continue to post them here

Make a new blog specifically for the models

Nuance/Bald

Voting ended onSep 13, 2025

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FTR whether a consensus is reached or not, we do currently have a model ready to post. jangling keys on the stage of a near-empty auditorium. Do you want these

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well. we have Results!

the siren song of a new blog is tempting but considering Two Out Of Three Voters would prefer the models stay here, And making a new blog means re-building a following and shit. yeah we'll just brush the dust off this one and keep using it i think

#model will be posted... sometime today? might write up the post now and draft to proofread later?

plural-bees

Poll For Ye Who Remain

so. mesozoic ecosystems as a mod Is Not Happening. we're still making models, though. they're in the minecraft style but have no real attachment to minecraft beyond that, and this is allegedly a minecraft blog.

Cast Your Vote.

Post new models on our main blog

Continue to post them here

Make a new blog specifically for the models

Nuance/Bald

Voting ended onSep 13, 2025

plural-bees

FTR whether a consensus is reached or not, we do currently have a model ready to post. jangling keys on the stage of a near-empty auditorium. Do you want these

plural-bees

Poll For Ye Who Remain

so. mesozoic ecosystems as a mod Is Not Happening. we're still making models, though. they're in the minecraft style but have no real attachment to minecraft beyond that, and this is allegedly a minecraft blog.

Cast Your Vote.

Post new models on our main blog

Continue to post them here

Make a new blog specifically for the models

Nuance/Bald

Voting ended onSep 13, 2025

plural-bees

FTR whether a consensus is reached or not, we do currently have a model ready to post. jangling keys on the stage of a near-empty auditorium. Do you want these

#this poll is very much ''well i gotta post this but where do i even post it now that it's not really. Minecraft.''

i feel like we were approaching burnout before the whole C Drive Got Bricked thing, but that sudden inability to develop it while waiting for a replacement combined with the apparent loss of progress was kind of the nail in the coffin. like. we got it back but we'd lost all our steam by then because we thought we'd have to do it all again, y'know?

and looking back on it, i think if that hadn't happened we would've fully burnt out on our own time. coding wasn't fun, animating was only sometimes fun - we remember working on models and thinking "god, i should be animating my other models, not doing this". that's not healthy!! we were tying our Thing We Do For Fun to things we had no fun doing! Bad idea!!

#i admire our past ambition but honestly the game was rigged from the start. this was Not gonna work out.#the hive is buzzing #bit of a downer but we find it important to reflect on this. and it offers a further explanation for why we went quiet #and suddenly came back going ''OK guys. we are not doing the mod LMAO''#(the reason we're back is because dinocon inspired us to get back into the fun part of it. it's not all sad!)

Poll For Ye Who Remain

so. mesozoic ecosystems as a mod Is Not Happening. we're still making models, though. they're in the minecraft style but have no real attachment to minecraft beyond that, and this is allegedly a minecraft blog.

Cast Your Vote.

Post new models on our main blog

Continue to post them here

Make a new blog specifically for the models

Nuance/Bald

Voting ended onSep 13, 2025

#the hive is buzzing #legitimately have no idea how many active followers this blog still has. are there even enough of you to form a consensus?#well. if there isn't we'll just follow our heart #we just wanted to make this a poll in case there ARE still people left here who have opinions on this matter

alrighty.

changelog:

last remnants of DNI removed

pinned post updated to reflect the cessation of development on mesozoic ecosystems

mesozoic ecosystems information page updated to reflect that we regained access to the old models, but have also ceased development

age updated

good god.

#the hive is buzzing #<- text post tag. if the blog's bee-themed we might as well get bee tags

plural-bees

feeling a little bit bad abt having started projects, talked abt them, and not completed them, and then proceeding 2 start and advertise(?) yet Another project

then again, this one’s entirely based around our life-long special interest, so honestly i’d be shocked if we abandoned this lmfao

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coughs

#um. Yeah it's not happening as a mod. it IS happening as a general art project however so it's not fully abandoned #also it's been 2 years since we last updated this blog i think. do excuse our dust. might clean it up soon