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BACKGROUNDS FINALLY
I tried more pixel art ;v; The idea was “Inelly has her own game” and shes fighting her rival Olesya! This took about 7 hours, i’ll be uploading the speedpaint later~! ;v;
Hey everyone! I’m Autumn, also known as candy5hark and I’m opening commissions on pixel art animations!
Prices as shown:
Busts: $9
Full-Body: $15
Animated square avatars: $3
Prices may vary by complexity.
Things I especially like to draw:
Aliens, Angels, Demons, Monsters! But I will draw humans of course.
Things I won’t draw:
Anything NSFW or otherwise “Adult Content”.
PM me if you would like one!
Thanks!
Anonymous asked:
What is Tawa (dinosaur)
drawingwithdinosaurs answered:
Tawa hallae is a pretty nifty little theropod from the Late Triassic! For starters, we’ve got a couple fairly complete skeletons of it to work with, along with several bones from other individuals in the same quarry, so it’s anatomy is well known:
But Tawa is significant though not just because it’s complete, but because it appears to be intermediate in shape and anatomy between earlier diverging predatory dinosaurs like herrerasaurs and Eoraptor and the ‘proper’ theropods like coelophysoids at the base of Neotheropoda (the ‘core’ theropods, if you will).
See, Neotheropoda is a pretty consistent group, all the major clades within it (e.g. coelophysoids, megalosauroids, allosauroids, coelurosaurs) are agreed to belong together and their relationships are considered pretty solid.
Triassic dinosaurs like herrerasaurs, Eoraptor and so on are less stable and have been more prone to jumping between positions at the base of Dinosauria because of how “primitive” they are, for a lack of better word. Eoraptor for instance has hopped around as an early sauropodomorph, theropod and outside those two all together:
(Source, Scott Hartman. Again.)
Tawa has some of the characteristics shared by neotheropods (at least initially), implying that Tawa is a close relative of them, branching off before the common ancestor of neotheropods acquired all of their traits. Other traits however are more like those of the earlier predatory dinosaurs, so it has a weird combination of ‘primitive’, ancestral traits and some of the ‘advanced’, derived traits found in neotheropods.
In that sense, it’s an intermediate between those early predatory dinosaurs and the neotheropods, both in terms of its anatomy and its evolutionary relationships. As much as the term is discouraged, I’m going to describe it as almost a textbook example of a transitional fossil, a species that diverged during the process of the evolution of a new group from an ancestral stock with a series of intermediate traits between the two.
(Source, originally from Sues et al. 2011)
The cladogram above shows herrerasaurs, Eoraptor and Daemonosaurus (misspelled with an ‘i’) and Tawa as successive branches on the line leading to neotheropods.
As is the way of things though, a lot of the early predatory dinosaurs have continued to bounce around. If you’re familiar with The Befrickening that was Ornithoscelida, you’ll know how that analysis found herrerasaurs to be related to the sauropodomorphs, rather than a true theropod, for example. But in each case, Tawa has consistently remained as the closest relative to neotheropods, so its relationship to them seems like a solid deal.
Tawa demonstrates then that neotheropods probably rose from this stock of early predatory dinosaurs somewhere, albeit if we’re not quite sure which ones yet. It at least means that it’s very unlikely the early predatory dinosaurs represent a totally distinct group of dinosaurs from the core theropods, which in the mess early dinosaur relationships currently are, is major step forward!
(Hayden Quarry dinosauromorphs, by Donna Braginetz for Issue 5836 of Science magazine.)
Tawa is also very interesting ecologically too! The fossils were discovered in Hayden Quarry in New Mexico, part of the Late Triassic Chinle Formation known for the likes of Coelophysis, Postosuchus, and Placerias of Walking With Dinosaurs fame. At this time of the Triassic, it was presumed early relatives of the dinosaurs, dinosauromorphs like Lagerpeton, Marasuchus and silesaurids, and early dinosaurs like herrerasaurs were already extinct, wiped out by their more advanced relatives. But Hayden Quarry has several of these older, ‘primitive’ groups living alongside more derived dinosaurs, including Tawa.
Tawa co-existed with Chindesaurus, a predator typically grouped with herrerasaurs, and coelophysoids. So the ancestral stock, intermediate ‘transitional species’ and the ‘advanced’ descendent forms were all still kicking about at the same time as each other. It tells us that the evolution of predatory dinosaurs, as well as dinosaurs as a whole, wasn’t as simple as the ‘advanced’ dinosaurs out competing their older, less successful antecedents, but that they lived alongside each for millions of years.
There’s plenty to say, but I think I’ve prattled on about Tawa for long-enough of a post, but I think that about covers the gist of it! Yeah, Tawa hallae, very lovely little theropod.
LETS TALK ABOUT OCS
Ask meme to get you to talk about your OCs to your followers!!
Section 1 - About:
- Briefly Describe your OC: Appearance, personality, role in a story, etc..
- Briefly describe their backstory/childhood
- Describe their family life and friends.
- What is the world they come from like?
- Are they original or exist in a certain fandom?
- Are they an introvert or extrovert?
- Greatest fear?
- What’s their sense of humor like?
- Favorite pieces of fiction or genres they enjoy?
- Favorite music genres?
- Describe their vision of a perfect spouse, if applicable.
- Largest regret?
- Something your OC would say?
- Whats their morality like?
- Would they live in a city, rural area, or suburb?
- Which actor would you like to portray your OC? (Or a voice actor)
- Sexuality? Gender Identity?
- What inspired you to make this character?
Section 2 - If…
- If they existed in another decade, what would they wear? (Asker can choose what decade) (Bonus points if you draw them!)
- If they were in a RPG, what would be their class?
- If they received a large amount of money no strings attached, what would they use it for?
- If they competed on a competitive TV show, how would they approach to winning? (the “mean” one, the one who makes friends, the one who’s there for fun)
- If they could change one thing about their past, what would it be?
- If you met them, what would they do?
- If your character exists in another series’ world, what would they be doing/look like?
- Ask your own!
Section 3 - Other:
- What other OCs would they get along with?
- What’s their singing voice like?
- Take a personality test as the character. Post results.
- What would be their fighting style in a fighting game like Mortal Kombat, Super Smash Brothers, or Street Fighter?
- What are some mannerisms/quirks?
- Describe their favorite meal.
- What do they do when they’re bored?
- How do they express love/affection for someone?
- Most embarrassing thing that could/has happened to them?
- Make a portrait sketch of them!
A few fake-perspective background mini-builds for the museum/zoo planet. I’m probably not gonna do too many of these since they rely on paint colors, and it’s rare that anything outside the grays look right this way.
Now. To figure out how to make the animal enclosures. And I’m sad I gotta rely on Pet Tethers for this, as I’ve still not figured out how to make monsters auto-spawn at set points. This means I can’t place certain monsters I’d like to be able to display since they can’t be captured as pets…
