#citysaurus

[iamthekaijuking]

Oh shit @bighugefrog’s amphiterra turned 10 a few days ago!

Happy birthday frog world!

[monster-creator-12]

Favorite Spec Evo Project: Tumblr addition! part 1, reposted

Athyrmagaia by Batterymaster01

Hamsters Paradise by Tribbetherium

Amphiterra by Citysaurus

Sagan 4 by Hydromancerx/Sagan 4 Team

Birgworld by Iguanodont

Runaway to the Stars by Jayrockin

On Beyond Holocene by Zhejiangopterus

AESL by Sina-Man

Voting ended onOct 8, 2023

[zaritarazi]

citysaurus replied to your photo: finally,,,,, a man

is that cinderella’s son chad

it is in a lot of ways

[iamthekaijuking]

I was doing warmup doodles to get back into drawing while thinking of amphiterra and my hand slipped

[iamthekaijuking]

Curious on this if I may ask, what are the reasons that you like the Amphiterra Project by @citysaurus-art? I also like it too, and would love to eventually see new clades, expansions, and revisions to the project as a whole, stuff like the Salamanders or other lineages

So my love for amphiterra actually goes way back and starts with early highschool kaijuking.

Back around 2016 I found the spec evo forms, and while I never joined them and only officially joined the internet in 2017 when I made this tumblr account (dear god don’t go digging for 2017 kaijuking I was a much different and cringier person than I am now), I liked surfing through the forms even though the website was broken and being abandoned. It was a good time killer when I was stalling in class.

Through that I found Warren Fehy’s Fragment (writing a review of which is next on my to do list so I should probably get started on that), Trollmans’ Diyu, and amphiterra. Diyu is among one of my favorites, but Amphiterra grabbed my attention since it was colorful, had a website, and was the most in depth spec evo project I had seen at that point. It offered not only descriptions and illustrations for creatures but anatomical diagrams as well which just tickled my not fully formed teenage brain. I also just liked the designs.

So I was a pretty big fan of the project from the onset and not long after its inception too, way before Curiosity Archive’s video on it. I think I actually even made the first amphiterra fanart on the internet too… which has aged like sour moldy milk because it was a “dat boi” meme reference. I actually personally asked Citysaurus to not put it up on the fanart section of the website. God I feel old.

I would definitely love to see the project revived and maybe we might get that in the future. One day.

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Also did you know that citysaurus made some illustrations and concept art for Fall Guys?! Crazy right?

[iamthekaijuking]

Is amphiterra still updating? I remember there was a concept of salamanders also being in the project but it hasn't gone anywhere so far.

I’m actually unsure myself. I think the latest update was the inclusion of literal flying squids in one of the almost real zines that wasn’t immediately obvious it was part of that world until you see an arctic fraggon at the bottom of one of their pages, but I think citysaurus considers the project more or less complete or has no intention of continuing.

They do have a tumblr (citysaurus) and Twitter (BigHugeFrog) so you can ask them.

Funnily enough I think they’re a concept artist on fall guys now of all things.

[iamthekaijuking]

Since you’re the speculative evolution guy and I’m new to speculative evolution, can you tell me some good beginner speculative evolution stories?

I wouldn’t call myself the speculative evolution guy, but I guess I am more speculative evolution focused than most in the circle of blogs I’m associated with.

A good one to start with is @citysaurus’s amphiterra project. You can read it here! It’s filled with colorful frog creatures, and they’re all very cute! (To me at least)

The Amphiterra Project

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both” -Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken We set the scene 252 million year

Another good one is the Diyu made by Trollman.

[Member Project] Diyu

A mining expedition in the Yunnan province of China accidentally unearths a hidden cave via blasting undiscovered by mankind. A group of min

Dougal Dixon’s books are considered the founding works of the genre, and while they’re outdated they’re still fun reads.

If you want an action packed speculative evolution story with vibrant horrifying creatures then you should read Warren Fahy’s books Fragment and Pandemonium.

All Tomorrows by Nemo Ramjet is a good read as well.

The Future is Wild can be found on YouTube, and so can Alien Planet.

[iamthekaijuking]

If you’re in the mood, please fill up my inbox with creature ideas.

It’s for my other blog @creatureprompts. I can generate concepts for organisms on my own pretty well (on a good day I can come up with an entire new organism every 2 hours), but I want to see what other people come up with.

I will give credit to you when I post your prompt.

I know a few people who might be interested, so I’m tagging them. @a-beepbop @theload @dinosaurana @ask-drakos @skies-and-stars-and-shit @serpentking456 @cyberneticfamiliar @godzillakiryu91 @mari-ca7 @citysaurus @tyrantisterror (those last two are probably busy so it might have been a bad idea to tag them.

No holding back, I want every idea. Go ham guys.