I occasionally -- very occasionally -- do line art, and thought I would share one of my favorite recent pieces. It's just a quick RPG visual aid/character sketch that turned out good enough to polish up, but I like it.
I wanted to design the saber-toothed cat to end all saber-toothed cats, the ne plus ultra of raging paleofeline death, but I didn
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I wish these guys were real. I really do.
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And, well, yes, in an abstract sort of way. I certainly wouldn't want to meet a live one. *laughs*
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Lions and so forth are bad enough, when you start reading about how dangerous and destructive they are. Because we mostly know animals from movies, and movies shortchange animals on a regular basis, we really don't have enough respect for the furry, carnivorous nightmares we already share the planet with.
I am almost inevitably disappointed in movies that have real animals as monsters. The only exception that leaps to mind is The Ghost and the Darkness, which is fantastic.
Don't get me started on the stupidity of the Narnia movies, in which Reepicheep is unstoppable but the larger animals are apparently completely incapable of doing a goddamn thing.
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I was thinking of them having a SIZ of about 30-34, which would give a weight of 700-1200 pounds. Even the little ones would dwarf modern lions, which top out around 500 lbs. Of course, Arius was SIZ 40, which means he weighed somewhere in the neighborhood of 1800 lbs. In other words, roughly the size of a Cape Buffalo - a BIG Cape Buffalo.
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They're tall and built heavy in the front, so big males could easily hit a thousand pounds. Arius was just a monster, which was the whole point.
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If you don't have The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives (text by Turner, art by Anton), you need to get it. Basically 200 pages of text and anatomical drawings. Immediately what I thought of when I saw this.
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