Troll_Man

FOM: Red Moon & Erabus (WIP 2)

FOM: Red Moon & Erabus (WIP)

FOM: Red Moon (Concept Art)

A long-delayed commission still in progress, but now with something tangible to show at least, the Folly of Man incarnation of Red Moon (and Erabus, pending).

Although this may seem like a radical departure, almost nothing is known of Red Moon's appearance, as the original script gave few details beyond a scary face with one eye, and wings. It's not even known if Red Moon was actually sup...

FOM: Ebirah (Concept Art)

Coloured sketch of Ebirah. 

Hundreds of millions of years of violent tectonic movements and volcanic upheavals have long fractured the Skull Isle landmass, resulting in the creation of a strange and alien environment known as the chasms, foul caverns where all the rot and runoff from the jungles and mountain highlands spills, and it is this noxious brew that feeds a grotesque menager...

Serina: Dwarf Skuggernaut

The last skulossus species thus created (unless someone chooses to sponsor another one), this is the fabled insular pygmy species. I'm sure everyone could've seen that coming from the name on the family tree. That said, it's still quite large, because the landmass it inhabits is no Far Side island, it's the quite large Trang Island, where it is by far the largest endemic beastie.

FOM: Maguma (Concept Art)

Maguma was also one of the earlier kaiju designed for the project, drawn back in April of 2018. Funny that Gezora, which was done much later and used the initial design virtually unaltered ended up being one of the most popular concepts in the project yet while Maguma, which had a much longer development process, was just alright. Many Maguma redesigns merely make it a giant pinniped, but that ...

Serina: Bowel-Lord Gutsucker

Snarks have diverged into countless different forms, ranging from burrowing worms only a few millimetres long, terrestrial forms waddling upon four tetrapod-like legs, up to vast pelagic hunters larger than a school bus. But perhaps what is most extreme in their ranks are not what they have advanced to, but what they can lose and still function, in an environment unlike that of other lineages. ...

Gutsucker (WIP)

Crocosaurus

One of the animal designs for the Surviving Dinosaurs project, done back in early 2018. This animal was the apex predator of Australia, usurping the native dinosaurian hunters during the continent's aridification (the title is not its actual name), when their lower metabolisms made surviving on far scanter prey more easy. It's a giant baurusuchian convergently resembling the ancient rauisuchian...

Serina: White-Beaked Calacarna

This is the species of calacarna which appears in the background of the Oceans scene chasing the school of escardines. It didn't have a description written yet so it didn't actually appear in the compilation, unlike the kraviathan.

---

During the hothouse age, the rising sea levels flooded the fringes of the continental shelves, it created a series of warm, shallow seas which now co...

Serina: Jumbo Flapray

The most diverse and speciose variety of snark is one which is not often considered, for it is often overlooked or elusive. This is the niche of parasitic snarks, which occur in untold thousands upon thousands of species, accounting for nearly half of all living snark species. This may seem unbelievable, but it has to do with an incredibly fast rate of evolutionary radiation accounting for the ...

Pancake Snark (WIP 2)

Pancake Snark (WIP)

For the record, I wasn't consulted in the creation of this species, but I'm sure no one will be disappointed by the creation of more snark species. And well, there's a lot of parasitic snarks that need to be made anyway...

WWD: Giant of the Skies (Redux)

All of them together now; this is the weirdest episode from a modern perspective consider how poorly the story and the science behind it aged and so quickly. You got the North American Polacanthus re-established as Hoplitosaurus even before the episode aired, Iguanodon as a genus imploding into a dozen other genera, Utahraptor resembling a scaly, enlarged, Os...

WWD: Scheenstia mantelli

For consistency, there's a fish here also because I included the fish in the last episode and the pterosaurs eat a couple fish in this episode. You may know this fish from when it used to be called Lepidotes and it was always seen being eaten by Baryonyx (which really should have appeared in this episode instead of Utahraptor). 

Although they sort of resemb...

WWD: Sachicasaurus vitae

This is the pliosaur which appeared for eight seconds in the episode as the Ornithocheirus crossed the Atlantic. It's identified in supplementary materials as Plesiopleurodon, but there's just one problem with that: the episode is set in the Early Cretaceous, 127 million years ago, while Plesiopleurodon lived during the Late Cretaceous, 98 million years ago. I assume ...

WWD: Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis

One of the many species once considered to belong under the umbrella of Iguanodon, it was freed from the tyranny of lumping and placed in its own genus in 2007 (although a number of species have also been lumped into it). In the episode, there were two species of Iguanodon featured; it was, after all, easy to have two species of the same genus, because all you had to do was re...

WWD: Iguanodon bernissartensis

The very second non-avian dinosaur to be scientifically named, this dinosaur was subject to some of the most infamous wastebasket taxon dumping ever. Over the course of two centuries, roughly twenty different species ranging from the Late Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous from three different continents have been assigned to the genus, although as of writing, most are now either reassigned to the...

The Original Kraviathan

Before it ultimately ended up being used in Serina, I originally conceptualized the kraviathan for a nebulous no-K/Pg project which never really got beyond the preliminary stages (at one point it swapped to a more complex concept also involving dinosaurs, but the basic idea was a bit too convoluted so I didn't have the drive to keep at it).

The original idea for the kraviathan ultimately ...

WWD: "Polacanthus" sp.

This is the North American Polacanthus species equivalent, which in the show has since been reclassified as Hoplitosaurus. Since this revamp cuts out the North America segment and sets it entirely in Europe, it's been replaced with a different polacanthine. 

In this case, there wasn't much to go off of. This is a taxon known from scrappy fossils in the Urbión Group...

WWD: Vectiraptor greeni

The Walking with- franchise is a bit infamous for playing a bit fast and loose with what lived where and when, but one of the most notorious examples of this was the aptly named Utahraptor in Europe. There's no way they did this accidentally when where the animal is known is spelled out like that, nor does the species have the excuse of a wastebasket like many other misplaced ...

WWD: Polacanthus foxii

This is another one of those wastebasket nightmare taxa which plagues the series,  although it's not quite as bad as Ornithocheirus or any of the "Cruel Sea" species. The episode presents two species of Polacanthus, an American one and a European one, but the American species is now considered a different genus known as Hoplitosaurus, which was largely synonymize...

WWD: Iberomesornis romerali

The small bird that appears in one notable scene mobbing the Ornithocheirus. Because the journey starts in Spain now, I suppose the scene would happen a bit earlier in this version. This was one of the earliest known members of a group of avialans known as enantiornitheans, which were incredibly widespread and diverse during the Cretaceous Period, but became totally extinct alongside a...

WWD: Caulkicephalus trimicrodon

The taxon which represents the generic, unnamed pterosaurs which appear in the episode (which I think might be recycled from the Quetzalcoatlus model in the last episode). You see a flock of them cruising over the waves and the Ornithocheirus steals a fish from one of them. They didn't really get to explore the full spectrum of pterosaur niches beyond "eats bugs" and "eats fis...

WWD: Europejara olcadesorum

So, in moving the locale to Europe-only, I have the main character starting his journey in Spain instead of Brazil (not impossible, as indeterminate "ornithocheirid" remains are known from the area at the time). Therefore, the tapejarid has been changed from Tapejara to Europejara. Or well, it was never really Tapejara, for the species featured in the episode has been...

WWD: Uktenadactylus rodriguesae

This is the episode which will change mostly radically based on what we know now versus what we knew then. I think based on what we know it's the episode that showed its exact age the fastest. The explanation will be stretched out over the numerous various species, so let's start with the title character, the giant pterosaur Ornithocheirus.

It's fairly well-known now that the " 2023-05-16 09:02:17 +0000 UTC View Post

FOM: Gaira & Sanda (Concept Art)

Coloured sketches of the Gargantuas; these were one of the more difficult kaiju to design owing to their restrictive and humanoid designs. The first iterations were so hard to piece out and rather ugly (partly because they were drawn on a very small scale), so I completely redid them both for a second go around, giving them much more defined and acceptably distinct and not-totally-hideous appea...

Serina: Starlight Mothfish

One of the most common varieties of snark during the hothouse era is a subgroup of deepwater escardines known as the mothfish, named for their broad and expansive front fins. Although small, never measuring over a foot in body length, and having only a few dozen species, they exist in utterly vast shoals that can number in the hundreds of billions or even into the trillions. However, their shee...

FOM: King vs. King

Concept sketch for the eventual encounter between... well, use your imagination.

(spear is constructed from Skull Devil bones)

FOM: Titanosaurus (Concept Sketch)

Extremely old initial design for Titanosaurus, drawn in April of 2018. The idea for the design of an ichthyic amalgamation was developed early on, including the crustacean pincer for a mouth. The aesthetic of the reimagined universe might have gotten less body-horrory, but I was particular over that detail remaining regardless.

The idea for incorporating the anglerfish-style fusion of mal...