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Topic Started: Sep 19 2013, 08:09 PM (414 Views)
Archipithecus
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Can you tell something about the bristle Pig?
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About six feet tall at the shoulder, this successful omnivore lives in the woodland, between the plains and the jungle. They dig up roots and borrowing creatures, and will scavenge smaller predators kills.

Every year, they gather in the lush undergrowth to mate. The males compete for the females by smashing heads together and fencing with their beaks. To show of and try to scare away rivals, they raise their spines and shake them around, making an unnerving rattling noise.
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The body of the tickpicker seems awfully round, and the limbs and patagia seem rather short for an animal that is adapted to glide . Further more, the neck, which seems to be exceptionally flexible, concerns me. When flying, that neck would have to be held rigid to keep from disrupting the trajectory of the animal and causing drag (although, I could see how the neck might be adapted to serve as a form of anterior steering by being slightly flattened and tilting itself in the presumed direction it wishes to change). When landing, it will need to be able to steer well such that it can (a) land on its feet and (b) not hit it's head by accident against the surface it wishes to land on.
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I just realized: When this animal needs to land on a vertical surface, since its head is so far from its body, and thus it's legs, it will need to begin to change it's body orientation sooner so it's head doesn't ram into the landing surface.
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Great dissection Affexian. I think you also really need to describe your concepts, Archipithecus. If you're going to exhibit your art, specifically art that concerns speculative organisms you really need to explain yourself and the creatures in question.
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Oct 4 2013, 10:19 PM
Great dissection Affexian. I think you also really need to describe your concepts, Archipithecus. If you're going to exhibit your art, specifically art that concerns speculative organisms you really need to explain yourself and the creatures in question.
Second. If anything, adding a good description with your creations (maybe a paragraph at least) can really help to flesh out and create depth to your subjects. Illustrations are great, but without a good context they're just pictures without any real story behind them.
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That's what you mean, right Armakee?
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Yup, that's exactly what I mean ;)
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Many of your animals seem to possess reduced limbs ('reduced' in size, not function). I was wondering why is this, because the two I'm looking at (the brush horse and greater long arm) also seem to be carrying objects. Are these eggs? Young?

The giant long arm, also seems to have a beak and a prehensile tongue, which is interesting.

It also seems to have stalked eyes (am I interpreting this correctly?) That, with the markings, the plumes on the back of the head, and the dewlap suggest a very visual animal.
Edited by Affexian, Oct 6 2013, 05:02 PM.
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