#australian dinosaurs

[oorionjeann]

Mythunga camara, oil pastel on wooden panel.

Mythunga is Australia's only named pterosaur! I had no idea we were so lacking in flying reptiles until doing some research for this drawing.

I tried to go for an inverted colour scheme beyond the diagonal lines, no idea if it's the right colours lol.

#paleoart #dinosaurs #pterosaurs #australian dinosaurs #oil pastel #pastel painting #crayon art #traditional art #art #drawing #original art #animal art #my art

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Sure, Aussie magpies are scary when you get swooped, we've all been there. I've been there. But consider: you can befriend them. Whistle to imitate their song, slip them some delectable tidbits, and voila: you have new friends, who are birds. This is good.

Here's the secret: if you're careful and respectful and learn how to interact with them in a way that shows you're careful and respectful, you can befriend *any* bird on that list. Heck, any bird at all really. *this is not an endorsement for people just getting into birds' personal spaces or feeding wild birds or anything utterly ignorant and destructive along those lines

before y'all say impossible for cassowaries, I will remind everyone that they were tamed, domesticated, and reared as farm animals on Papua/Niugini/Niu Gini/New Guinea

#birds #dinosaurs #animals #cassowary #australian magpie

[thylacines-toybox]

Major shelf shuffle! I decided to swap the long standing Dino Zone with my Australian animal collection, giving them more space to spread out, and changed a lot of displays on this half of the room.

Really happy to see the Aussie animals more on display, and it's nice to have them right under the thylacine shelves! It's funny how the Tassie devil corner is just a dark shadowy place too lol. Synapsid space is down below them! You may spot that one dinosaur managed to stay on this shelf, because she is Australian too.

Since I also decided to get rid of my fish tank (don't worry, all fish had lived full lives and it was vacant for a while) I had more free space to the left side too. So I decided to move the little set of drawers up there (full of bones and such...) and make a nice skully naturey display on top. Not much of a theme to the animal figures in front, just a few I like!

And off to the left of that, Pawface is getting to hang out by my galaxy projector light and some tiny drawers of rocks and trinkets. Ink (the black, one eyed creature) is out to play for the first time in a while too!

The dinosaurs and other prehistoric guys are doing fine and only a few needed to be put away! They've got the two lower left shelves, and the lowest shelf even has a bit of a rainbow going on.

#toy collection #australian fauna #dinosaur #prehistoric #Pawface #plushie #toys #bones / #skull / #animal skull / #bugs #cool moon lamp I found in the recycle shop

[carionto]

It's Rewind Time!

The three Humans on the "Dinosaur" station were... perplexing, to say the least. Academically, all brilliant geniuses, they're even becoming experts on xenobiology despite us only recently giving them all kinds of information on the numerous species that are part of the Coalition. We wouldn't want them to gather it in a more... direct way. Mentally, we seem to have to worry about every Human we converse with.

One of them was showing us a lab with numerous avian creatures locked in small but seemingly comfortable habitats. One of our own who had been in turn studying Human and Earth biology noted that the environmental settings were more extreme than the creature's norm would demand. Heightened oxygen composition for one, and the provided nutrients were far more than the enclosed creatures needed.

Then the stimulant was released. A small drone, mimicking various animalistic behaviors, was deliberately provoking and agitating the creatures, almost as if trying to get them to attack it. We looked to the Human, Everie Jackobson, who was deep in thought and jotting down notes of his observations. He explained:

"Unfortunately, it is extremely hard to acquire DNA samples of creatures from before the Cenozonic Era, it's just been so long and the few samples preserved in amber are all incomplete. Henrietta is working on those, trying to piece together what's missing, while Gieverne is cooking up a mix, splicing together existing DNA to make an approximation.

Meanwhile, I am working with the direct descendants of dinosaurs - birds! Specifically, I am trying to recreate the conditions of prehistoric Earth and sort of... nudge them to evolve backwards into the big ones.

The results are mixed so far, but I did manage to get these swallows to be 20% bigger in only two generations, and look at that beak - it's around 12% sharper and tougher! If this keep up, soon they'll be able to dent the drones!"

He put his writing utensils on a desk, and with a deep penetrating stare looked at his notes, then the birds, then us, and spoke with unshakeable determination:

"I don't care how long it takes, even if I have to be cryogenically frozen - I WILL live to ride a dinosaur!"

#humans are deathworlders #humans are space oddities #humans are space australians #humans are space orcs #humanity fuck yeah #carionto #dinosaurs in space

[elbarkla]

hanging with my favourite dinosaur, ❤ MINMI ❤

Minmi paravertebra was small (2.5-3m long) and lived in Australia like me. Perhaps in another life we could have been friends. At least I can draw him having a fun eating apples

#paleoart #dinosaur #australian animals #minmi paravertebra #ankylosauria #art #illustration #elbarklaart #ankylosaurus

[dry-gold]

Links in lieu of propoganda. Kadimakara, a triassic archosauromorph reptile

Kalisuchus, a triassic archosauromorph reptile

Kambara, a cenozoic crocodile

Kimberella, a precambrian bilaterally symmetrical animal

Kolopsis, a cenozoic diprotodontid marsupial

Koolasuchus, a cretaceous temnospondyl amphibian

Kronosaurus, a cretaceous marine reptile

Kunbarrasaurus, a cretaceous armoured dinosaur

#please reblog #feel free to advocate for your favourite #palaeoblr #australian fossil alphabet thing #dinosaur #megafauna #kadimakara #kalisuchus #kambara #kimberella #kolopsis #koolasuchus #kronosaurus #kunbarrasaurus

[psie-smutki]

Too busy listening to Neverhood OST to pay attention (it scared me more ok)

#dinosaurs #path of titans #lambeosaurus #maip #australian hours you dont expect to see other players at this time fr

[raventroll80]

Dinovember Day 7

Styracosaurus + Opposom

#boy I sure hope the prompt list didn’t mean the Australian possum #dinovember #dinovember2023 #my art #dinosaurs #paleoart #< kinda but only the top one

[benk625-blog]

Terix

Humans, often unpredictable, abandoned all reason on deathworld Terix. Initial surveys noted the planet’s apex predators were predominantly reptilian. Galactic Union declared it a deathworld and it was largely forgotten. Human researchers had been poring over uncolonized planet reports. Their aim had been to find places they could settle where others couldn’t.

Within weeks of discovering Terix several privately sponsored bio engineering expiditions descended on the planet. None of these had been sanctioned by the United Earth government. In all previous settlements humans fully complied with interstellar regulation. This was just the beginning of the irregularities.

After acknowledging the illegality of unsanctioned actions, the human government forces declared Terix to be vital to military research. Galactic Union bureaucracy was slow to respond. As political committees debated, humans dissembled and filed appeals in interstellar courts.

Whispers and rumors thrived in the absence of official narrative. Low resolution videos depicted smooth and scaled bodies dealing unspeakable violence to each other. Unverified reports were difficult to distinguish from popular human entertainment. Stories of unethical experiments and last stands against ravenous hordes flooded the feeds and channels. Some were hoaxes, most were sensationalist and exaggerated.

Eventually patience with the humans ran out. Tensions reached the point that many feared the outbreak of war. Abruptly, delegates from Earth government agreed to open the planet up to inspections from any and all comers. Government functionaries, media, academics and august personages turned out in droves. The alleged horrors were nowhere to be seen.

It appeared that the humans were planning to develop an amusement park on the deathworld. The natural environment was hardly changed. There was evidence of illegal genetic modifications. Natives of Terix had been significantly altered to resemble various extinct native species of Earth. The results were terrifying. Something had to be done to stop this madness.

Representatives of human government, military and private finance were prepared to pay fines in recompense for the unethical nature of early experimentation. Questions were raised regarding the rumors of death on the planet. Humans asserted that the only deaths were human, and that compensation had been dealt with.

Objections remained. Protestors demanded that the experiments be euthanized, humans removed from the planet, and be subject to heavy sanctions. A riot nearly broke out. Deafening screams pealed out from the sky above. Winged reptiles the size of lower atmosphere aircraft circled above. Humans sat astride their gargantuan necks. In defiance of biological science these monsters released gouts of flame from their mouths.

“Did you really think we would go to the trouble of making dinosaurs and not make dragons as well?” An anonymous (possibly apocryphal) human quipped.

#humans are space orcs #humans are space oddities #humans are aliens #humans are confusing #humans are deathworlders #humans are silly #humans are space australians #dinosaur #dragon

[paleo-cafnir]

whats your general work flow in zbrush to make your realistic dinosaur textures, im still trying to figure out how to make my dinosaur textures look realistic ;w;

Hey, thanks for the ask! I saw your edit where you meant substance painter instead of zbrush so I will do a breakdown on my texturing workflow in there.

I find the key to realism is a lot of contrast, noise, variation and randomness!

I always start with just the base colours where I remember the above keys and fill in the patterns on the animal. Some colours are also just easier to make look realistic on dinosaurs than others! I find browns just about always look good while blues as an ex can be much harder to make work.

Using my Tarchia as a reference this is how it appeared after I painted just the colours, which I did using mostly the default dirt brush and a few other dot, mold, dust and other dirt default brushes. Afterwards I also go over with a few dirt and noise textures set to overlay to add more variation.

My next step is to add in ambient occlusion and curvature generators. I usually do 4-8 set at different colours, balances and some at multiply and others at overlay. This automatically puts in any ambient occlusion and natural fading to the scales that helps in final rendering.

During this process I also add lots of variation in the roughness maps! Keratin especially should have a very shiny base and then have lots of dirt generators over the top to add sharp variation while between the cracks have little to no reflectivity, which I also apply to the scales.

Now my final and favourite part... Cement das conk creet baybee!!

I literally just put a cement dirt generator over the top of the colour and as a high roughness. I don't always do this but usually I find it helps give the appearance of dirt and dust that's gathered in between the scales. a lighter colour brings more attention to the individual scales and a dustier appearance instead of just blending into the shadows and AO. It also adds extra noise detail for when you zoom in that is basically impossible to achieve at such high detail in the sculpt alone.

Extra things that can help are adding a specular map on top of the roughness with lots of noise breakup. If you're doing close up shots, UDIMs and splitting the head and body can help too like I did with my Tarchia. Most of the texture quality comes from the colour and normal map in my experience.

Best of luck! And remember good lighting can make even the least realistic textures look real!

#leave my spelling alone im australian its right in my country #my art #paleoart #art tutorial #i guess #me talk #3d #3d art #dinosaurs #palaeoart

[grison-in-space]

anyway for a little dog some threats are apparently more exciting than others

#matilda #australian cattle dog #7 months #she did not give a shit about the dinosaur #but the photo is extremely funny #this is btw just in someone's yard #there's a street near my house where two people have bigass T rex statues like this one in their yards and one has a bigass fiberglass shark #this is actually the smaller rex #taken by coffee-mage on a walk without me but I gotta take Tilly up that way more #less for her own sake but more because it sparks great joy for me #fuck I love living up north in Minneapolis sometimes #this is the kind of thing you can do if you don't go in on fucking HOAs

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

trick or treat !!!!! :)

Australian Raven!

#australian raven #raven #dinosaur #bird #halloween

[hatkuu]

I am gonna give you an off topic question.

Where is the nearest airport in Florida

i am but a humble aussie who has never travelled abroad. i have NO clue where any airports in florida are and the only way i **MIGHT** be able to identify the state is because it kind of looks like italy???

#gdam amuricans #get off my blog /j #florida is like the broome of america... pretty sure u guys have alligators and not big ass salt water crocodiles though #i love crocodiles #and i love australia sm. i love all my freaky lil creatures :) including the LITERAL dinosaur beasts that infest northern australia #i read terri irwin's biography and sobbed. steve irwin had such a passion for crocs and his death was so tragic. americans/anyone who does— #—not know of the AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL TREASURE that was steve irwin pleaaaseee watch one of his interviews from the early 2000's #hashtag: i am a PROUD australian im patriotic in an admiration sort of way ... i love SOME parts of our culture (drinking culture #—work culture #the general concept of mateship) #i know of some americans that have moved to aus that are SHOCKED at how friendly/nice people are??? do you guys not have that???? #smiling and asking people how their days have been is like. the norm here. not even a weird thing to do. i just know if i went to america #and did that i'd be treated like a predator or something bhwfjalfJHSA #(sorry for this tangent guys. if you made it here you're a REAL one. *kisses you sensually*) #kuuskylarposting

[vivsemporium]

!!!!! ROBO DINO !!!!!!! Bad boi is up on my Etsy store, link in my bio!! Flame is removable Lol that's it, that's the pitch

#artists on tumblr #art business #small business #australian artist #dnd #dungeons and dragons #dnd miniatures #etsy shop #etsy artist #etsy store #etsy small business #small art business #pro painted #dinosaur #robo dino #mech mini #raptor #ttrpg #ttrpg community #queer artist #aus creator

[carionto]

I think I want to add Dinosaurs

I am easily influenced and manipulated by what I see and hear. Literally listening to a podcast about not-dinosaurs and it mentioned dinosaurs and now I'm thinking - I don't think I've encountered the idea of using space tech to bring back dinosaurs in any of these, I'm sure there's plenty I just don't know of them, yet. I know some have things like dragons and other monstrous creatures. Warhammer 40K has space elves riding dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are cool.

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Hailing from a Deathworld, Earth's flora and fauna, including Humans, are quite sturdy and potent. Unfortunately, it is as a result of a seemingly incomprehensible mix of hundreds and billions of organisms, evolutionary necessity they call "survival of the fittest", and, sometimes, just sheer willpower. Not something easily replicable for the majority of species within the Galactic Coalition.

So when we learned one of their stations is purpose designed to revive long extinct local species called dinosaurs - a very loose term that encompasses millions of wildly different and unrelated species across a greater time span than even some of the most ancient galactic civilizations, let alone a relatively infantile one such as Humanity, we were, once again, worried.

These creatures were massive beasts of pure power, teeth, claws, bulk, even organic armor and certain kinds of naturally evolved weapons! Most Humans have nothing but respect, fear, and awe towards them. And they want to bring them back. We're already getting too used to hearing this response, but still we had to ask why.

"It'll be so cool! Dinosaurs!! In Space!!!"

"Just imagine - a giant 3 meter tall T-Rex, kitted out with a dragon pattern armor plates, twin mini-guns mounted on its sides, friggin' laser beam goggles!, me riding it with a energy sword, holding Earth's flag and being all - Fuck yeah!"

We thought these experimental science stations housed the brightest minds Humanity had to offer, paragons of knowledge, creativity, invention, and progress. Are our translators working right? Or is Humanity just... crazy?

#humans are deathworlders #humans are space oddities #humanity fuck yeah #humans are space australians #humans are space orcs #carionto #dinosaurs in space

[yuckdotcom]

May 2022

#dirtcore #australia #weirdcore #cursed image #australian gothic #liminal space #roomcore #dinosaurs #museum #natural history #Perth