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I always want to give updates because I don't want to leave y'all in the dark as I develop things! I am planning to get some modern plant groups art soonish. This is for environmental purposes and also because, in my opinion alien plants are just as cool as the alien fauna (:
Also out of curiosity, and because I will likely do this anyways: anyone interested in official SOHS Dionysus Pattern space suits, habitats and other such things?
I always want to give updates because I don't want to leave y'all in the dark as I develop things! I am planning to get some modern plant groups art soonish. This is for environmental purposes and also because, in my opinion alien plants are just as cool as the alien fauna (:
Change! Dionysus now has 2 percent c02. Mainly because I forgot I put 1 percent and I think 2 is more fun.
Once I move everything to the site when it's finished enough things like these updates will be implemented.
More concept art! I've been practicing creature drawing. Lots of studying stuff, like cm kosemens art and animal stuff.
A bit of experimentstion and practice with the great sieve snout Aeropsid!
It's not anything new yet but I I am working on figuring out the future forms DW.
Some basic concept art for y'all!I am very much working on stuff and am trying to work up to modern day life.
Some stuff is likely getting renamed when I put the site up for reasons, but it won't change anything large I think.
I haven't posted in a bit! I've been working on the Thrysus Project site, that and trying to figure out how to do concept art and the such worth posting here for y'all. Hopefully I'll figure it out soon.
I'm not very good at spec evo concept art, but a concept of an extinct animal (I'm still way back in the second paleontological era, but I'm working on it.)
Let me know if y'all would prefer to see me go through the ages first or just wait until I'm on modern day! Either way I will get illustrations going up but if preferred I can absolutely put getting to modern day dionysi animals first.
And finally, the last ancient animals- and image I have for y'all of this batch.
I will be sketching concept art for later creatures as I write them, and will eventually have more finished pieces commed!
But for now...
I bring you the Ossids.
The sister clade to Aeropsids, this clade is took a different approach to the stressors of the planet- instead becoming slower, heavier and armored. Ossids benefit from the bouyancy of the dense atmosphere, but they're less efficient than the Aeropsids, and less suited for an active lifestyle. They also seem to have taken their mouth in a bit of a different direction- gaining a whisker-like adaptation around their mouth, which instead of moving to the front and becoming beak-like, has at least for now simply modified the three plates of its ancestor's mouth, and utilizes a small pair of sensory appendages, as I say again! True jaws never evolved on Dionysus, resulting in a variety of mouth adaptations within this phyla.
(art by Illeusea Studio)
While on the topic of Aeropsids I wanted to post this skeleton I drew for them!
Mytids don't have spines. They are endoskeletal invertebrates. The "tube" that runs through their skeleton is a carbon/cartiledge rod originally evolved for shock absorbtion in their old aquatic ramming ancestors from a structure, comprising of. Though it is used a support and is a site of great muscle attachment now, it is not a notochord, and isn't believed to contain nerves.
Mytid skeletons are comprised of an opal composite with traces of magnesium, you can also see the attachment site for the top of the "beak" to the skull, and the two lower mouth parts, which connect to the skull via muscles and are not jaws. (This image kind of makes them look like one piece, but they are two. The "skull" is made of various plates which grow together hence the seams, though unlike a vertebrae skull, it is more akin to a shield in looks than a braincase.
The skeleton as a whole is made to support the body and limbs without a central spinal attachment while working for the environment they evolved in. ( I will likely get art for a more in depth diagram later though!)
From the scleridomorphs- such as sclerotoma, is when the evolution truly diverged again.
Much like the line between synaspida and sauropsoda, the Aeropsids and Ossids would separate based on two different skeletal strategies.
While current xenopaleontologists are unsure of when exactly Aeropsids began, the Sieve Snout is considered one of the earlier members.
Aeropsids evolved pneumatized bones (not unlike birds.)and air sacs, helping them be much lighter, and grow larger while moving quickly, while their three part mouth parts further evolved into a beak-like structure.. Paving the way for the beginning of their high energy lifestyle. It is believed this is around the time mesothermy may have begun to arise in the clade as well.
Their chemoreception appendages also began to develop more- experiencing an atavism, and becoming much like tentacles of old- filled with cartiledge muscle and membranes, these external organs would flick from a groove set in side of the skull to taste or smell the air.
(art by Illeusea Studio!)
Another Mytid!
These creatures were extremely ancient- anamytads are the closest animal to earthly amphibians- and has quite a similarity in ways to them too.
This specific mytid is thought to be the ancestor to all fully terrestial mytids. You might notice their distinct lack of jaws- this is because Dionysus as of currently never really developed jaws proper.
(art by Illeusea Studio)
You've seen all the invertebrates! Now it is time for the mytids.
The phyla Mytidoria was named mainly after the spear-like structure that defined their early ancestor. Though it's been modified, and changed- and it was slater discovered some members of this phyla don't even have it, changing anything major like that I'd always a fight- though some maintain it should be called something else.
Pictured here is the dorygnathan predecessor of all land vertebrates- and two Teutognathans. Basal mytids who never quite changed their form so extremely.
Dorygnathans are characterized by their head armor- and spear derrived from ossified appendages. Their 8 fleshy- almost akin to love fins- limbs are for cutting through and rowing in the dense water of Dionysus.
A fun fact here! Mytids have bones made of opal! It is a silica biogel. These bones have traces of magnesium and silica within them- as well as a carbon lamination over them. Their spinal structures are also, not quite like ours, characterized by a cartelidge tube, some carbon cushioning and line of floating disks. This is an extremely flexible and compressable structure.
(art by Illeusea Studio)
An update on the Thrysus Project website!
I've created a wireframe of the UI and have a good amount of the database coded. :)
I am currently prototyping the design and working on details to really make it seem like it's been made by the SOSH.
Hopefully, soon I'll be able to begin testing more, figuring it out and creating entries for it.
Names after armadillos- this creature was a mega herbivore which had convergently evolved with earth isopods. Though these creatures have gone extinct, they were fully billateral unlike some Rotapods and were at their time, a very successful clade.
(art by Illeusea Studio)
Like insect wings, the pteropod has membraneous wings- very much unlike insects, pteropod wings are more akin to bat, or pterosaur wings, being membranes stretched over their back three legs. They use this not only for gliding, but flying through the dense atmosphere.
(art by Illeusea Studio!)