#daedon

[datgreenmonstah]

Realized I never posted my overall animation wip

I’m planning to get back on this project and get this guy up and running

[roosaurusrin]

Non-dinosaurians from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

For those who haven't seen them yet: we turned my retro formation designs into shirts as well now =)

See more on @252mya

More are in the works!

[gutterclan]

Boy howdy is this post kinda late. Year six timeline for The Sanctuary Pack is now complete! Another turbulent year for Sanctuary's wolves.

Misc notes under the cut:

-Verand and Kit's decision to go back to Sanctuary is 100% motivated by a desire to redeem themselves, but Uno (rightly) worries that they're just being reckless in a different direction now, and might bring humans back to the pack's new hiding place, too.

-Uno discovers Kit and Verand's plan because Radun snitches; she's glad that Verand and her made up, but suspicious about the timing of the conversation.

-Rover and Maize have a close but somewhat tense relationship. Rover, too frail to really be scouting any more, understands some of Maize's frustration with being too physically weak to have 'a job' in the pack, though the two often butt heads (they're both strong-willed, stubborn wolves, and Rover is often condescending or awkward with Maize).

-Maize is not suited to being a pupsitter, and does not enjoy it. She's been shuttled into the role because she's not really capable of hunting, scouting, or foraging, but it's an awful fit for her. Finch, her father and a longtime pupsitter, tries to help reconcile her to the role, but the two usually just end up fighting.

-Dace and Eight are split up when the pack divides into groups, and Dace is like unbearably mopey about it even though they're not technically mates (with her friends-- as a leader she does her best to put on a serious, untroubled front).

-Dace and Verand become close friends, Dace taking on something of an older sibling or mentor role. She knows some of what Verand is feeling right now, trying so hard to prove herself.

-Jumper is very nice but kind of useless. He agrees to help with hunting but he's almost comically bad at it-- and similarly bad at scouting, foraging, and pupsitting. Everyone's baffled by him, wondering how he got so big and survived so long as a loner when he's this bad at everything.

-Cairn and Carnassial, tossed into the same splinter-group, become good friends, both of them having a slightly offputting reputation that drives Carnassial to take Cairn under her wing.

[mcblackneck]

"The Final Blow" Two Enteledonts have successfully chased down Poebrotherium. Screw shrinkwrapped-hell-pig depictions and bring in the chubby-hell-hippo depictions.

[datgreenmonstah]

The final animation for the camel gate on daedon, the gate is based on their foot anatomy/their relatives of hippos running at full speed, this gate isn’t uncommon with a lot of ungulates and I’m layer going to be using a Buffalo and camel for the full run due to their huge neural spines and padded feet, but for now we get the quick little jont.

Planning for this to be a full animation via a full stop, to walk, to canter, to gallop, to run, and then slow down and stop, and start again.

[datgreenmonstah]

Because someone was talking about entelodonts

Daedon and archeotherium are the two most known, though daedon is much larger than their smaller archeotherium cousins which give me peccary vibes while daedon given me hippo

I’m still working out the nasal and cartilage structure and looks at more muscle structures on the jaw and face of these two

Both closely related to hippos and cetaceans more so than most bovid

[datgreenmonstah]

Was playing around with daedon again(forgot to take a pic of the skull before drawing over it)

It’s hard to find a shot of the fossil facing forward(did my best)

My tablet is broken so sorry if this is all pencil sketches. I was too lazy to scan them.

Enjoy these wide faced beasts