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Cynognathus
Another, another very old illustration for my Cynognathus Assemblage Zone project in permanent stasis. This is it, Cynognathus itself, a wolf-sized predator (about two metres in total length) of southern Pangaea during the Early Triassic. This would've been the main character, following a pair o...
Skuascraper (juvenile) (WIP)
The last skulossus juvenile (so far, at least). The most aberrant skulossus has what may be the most aberrant growth as well. Starts off more as a bungalow before growing into a high-rise.
Dwarf Skuggernaut (juvenile)
By far the smallest skulossus species, the dwarf skuggernaut is a native of the distant Trang Island, and by far its largest endemic denizen. Although the smallest species, and with the smallest young, weighing less than eight pounds at birth, it bucks the trend of largest skulossus species having l...
WWD: Acheroraptor temertyorum
This is a replacement of Dakotaraptor since new information (informally) has come to light suggesting the animal may not actually exist. It seems likely that it is in actuality a mixture of bones from various different animals rather than a true taxon (it was already established its supposed bones c...
Greater Skuggernaut (juvenile)
The growth pattern of the skuggernauts mirrors that of the original skogre, with a longer legged terrestrial juvenile stage which evolves into a more aquatic and heavily armoured adult stage, although even more exaggerated with a further ten millions of years of evolution. As adults in the polar bas...
Greater Skuggernaut (juvenile) (WIP)
Juveniles of skuggernauts exhibit the exact opposite growth pattern of the true skulossi, beginning as long-legged animals that become more squat and heavy as they mature (which is closer to the ancestral condition of the groups' common ancestor, the skogre).It does not have a slit eye, it has a...
Regal Skulossus (juvenile)
As a very close relative of the monarch skulossus, the juvenile regal skulossus bears a very strong resemblance to the juveniles of this related species, which shouldn't be unsurprising as they only diverged from a common ancestor about five million years. Their growth patterns are also similar,...
Regal Skulossus (juvenile) (WIP)
Juveniles of the regal skulossus and the monarch skulossus are almost identical (which shouldn't be surprising because they only split off about 5 million years ago), so this shows an even younger life stage, before the body proportions start to elongate (early juvenile vs late juvenile).
End of Serina (real)
Rough concept art of the sophonts of Serina leaving to colonize deep space, an inevitable fate when the death of their world looms near. Escaping to the stars and worlds beyond in vast generation ships, each over a mile in length, holding tens of thousands of travellers, and the gene banks of numero...
La Carcargne (Concept Art)
Some unfinished illustrations for a redesign of the alien condor kaiju from The Giant Claw. I thought it would make a funny (and high-effort) April Fool's entry, but I can never quite get the design exactly right, getting that balance between different, nasty, and retaining some of the inherent ...
FOM: Deuterious/Deutalios (Concept Art)
This was the design of Deutalios that was used in the "Firebombing of Davao" illustration. The design is of course half-rat (probably a stowaway on a shipwreck) and half fish, probably something deep-sea, like a coelacanth, or maybe a ratfish (just for the pun). I didn't include an entry...
FOM: Maguma (Concept Art 2)
A coloured conceptual art for Maguma. This one looks a little less grotesque, but the detail was a lot cruder, due to all of the kaiju being drawn to scale in the coloured sketches (well, some of them like the Mokele-Mbembe and Nessie were done later).This might be the only design that actually used...
Monarch Skulossus (juvenile)
Adult monarch skulossus are one of the largest animals to ever walk Serina's surface, but they start out as pudgy chicks weighing only about thirty pounds at birth. Of course, emerging so small, a gigantic adult female can produce between twelve to twenty chicks per litter. Chicks are born heavi...
Monarch Skulossus (juvenile) (WIP)
Sketch of a juvenile monarch skulossus (about the age of an elementary school student). The first part of a sponsored commission for the juvenile stages of every skulossus species seen so far (so five juveniles total).For each species, the anatomical changes, growth patterns, and ecological niches o...
FOM: Godzilla (Concept Art 2)
This was the initial design for Godzilla back when the idea of the redesigns was more visceral and Shin Godzilla-inspired. I didn't end up finishing the tail texturing, but you get the idea. Initially, the umbilical cord organ curled around the tail, but I was talked into making it more subdued ...
Serina: Ogre Calacarna
With the melting of Serina's icecaps has come the return of an environment which disappeared during this period of intense glaciation: the ocean depths, so far deep that sunlight does not penetrate the countless layers of ever-deepening blue. On Earth, this is the ecosystem which takes up the mo...
Ogre Calacarna (WIP 4)
The snarkfall of a long-dead kraviathan, the largest creature in the sea. Even a beast as large as this may eventually succumb to age, illness, or the forces of nature. Its gnawed remnants the legacy of one of the most powerful predators to have ever lived on Serina. It utterly dwarfs the smaller og...
FOM: Gorosaurus (Concept Art)
Coloured sketch of Gorosaurus, King of Mondo Island.For nearly two-hundred million years, the Earth was ruled by reptiles. Not since the primordial nuclear age did life proliferate at such immense scale, for they were only surpassed in might by the grandest daikaiju of old. All of the lands of the a...
Ogre Calacarna (WIP 2)
The background is just a placeholder; the full illustration will be a scene with more animals.
Ogre Calacarna (WIP)
Sponsored commission for a species of large, deep-sea oceanic calacarna; this is the most common large predator of the floating forest region (although it is not strictly endemic and usually dwells far beneath the seaweed layers) and the apex predator of the abyssal depths.(This will be part of a mu...
Serina: The Skulossi
And now, after posting all of them individually, here's every 290 MYH skulossus species (so far) posted together in one image for scale (along with the brontocorn, since, as previously mentioned, it was originally meant to live at the same time). They're seen from profile here so it's no...
Serina: Weedy Calacarna & Sea Pony
The vast oceanic habitat of the floating forest is a veritable undersea jungle, harbouring hundreds of unique endemic species living in close proximity. Many relationships between different animals have developed over millions of years as the environment grew and evolved. Those of predator and prey,...
Serina: Skuascraper
One of the most aberrant skulossus species is the forest-dwelling skuascraper, only weighing about five tonnes, but able to crane its head over thirty feet high to browse into the canopies of trees. This animal spends the summer months gorging itself in the nightforest, when the midnight sun fuels r...
Sea Pony & Weedy Calacarna (WIP)
Preliminary sketch of a sponsored commission for a scene including a species of floating forest-dwelling sea horse and a species of small, facultatively symbiotic calacarna which often associates with the sea horse.
WWD: Death of a Dynasty (Redux)
And the sixth and final compilation is complete after a couple months of intermittent progress, showing every single animal that appeared in Walking with Dinosaurs (with the exception of insects) in as cohesive a manner as possible, including those which appeared in The Ballad of Big Al and the dist...
WWD: Triceratops prorsus (adolescent)
I completely redid the Triceratops to more accurately represent the individual in the episode, specified as being a "young" Triceratops (so about medium rhinoceros-sized instead of mega-elephant). Exactly how young is left ambiguous, but I thought this was a good opportunity to show the onto...
