One more of these before the year is through! As I suspected, I was not able to consistently answer questions (or do much of anything else recreational) during school. I'll do my best to churn them out at a regular pace over the holidays though.
-Has Savape caught any crocodiles or sharks?
-Is Dinky friends with any cuckoos?
-Has Ebeff ever tried to hang from trees by his claws?
-What can Zahavi tell us about Deinocheirus?
-Would Ostrom mind if another Deinonychus visited the museum?
-Why don't the characters have cheeks?
-Thoughts on shrikes.
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Tumblr Roundup 9/5/13
This marks the first time I've done one of these posts without having answered all the questions currently in my inbox. This is in part due to me having a busy week, but it's also because I've been receiving more questions than before, including some that may take more time to answer than usual.
-Thoughts on shrink-wrapping and bubble-wrapping dinosaurs.
-What does Savape think of human babies?
-Does Ebeff like peanut butter?
-Thoughts on cassowaries.
-Does Zahavi like waffles?
-Savape tells a story.
-Are there other maniraptors at the museum?
-Does Skull like penguins?
-Has Ostrom met any whales?
-What does Remex think of Predatory Dinosaurs of the World?
-Thoughts on ornithomimosaurs.
-Have the characters met any ravens?
-Greeting Ssaartje.
-Zahavi is asked to do something.
-What if the characters were superheroes?
-Does Savape like porcupines or armadillos?
-Have any of the characters been to Japan?
-Have the characters met any stegosaurids?
-If the characters each got to meet their favorite person, who would said person be?
-Have the characters dealt with bats?
-Have the characters encountered domestic cats?
-Has Savape caught any pigs?
-Have the characters had problems with being preyed on by ceratopsians?
-Thoughts on spinosaurids.
-Have the characters met any proboscideans?
-Thoughts on sloths.
-Have the characters directly encountered pretty human females?
-Can the characters talk to humans in-universe?
-Has Savape caught any humans?
-Is Ebeff not very bright?
-Do the characters have favorite cartoons?
-Thoughts on dogs.
-Thoughts on dolphins.
I have a feeling that there's a high interest in how the Raptormaniacs cast interact with other species in the museum.
-Thoughts on shrink-wrapping and bubble-wrapping dinosaurs.
-What does Savape think of human babies?
-Does Ebeff like peanut butter?
-Thoughts on cassowaries.
-Does Zahavi like waffles?
-Savape tells a story.
-Are there other maniraptors at the museum?
-Does Skull like penguins?
-Has Ostrom met any whales?
-What does Remex think of Predatory Dinosaurs of the World?
-Thoughts on ornithomimosaurs.
-Have the characters met any ravens?
-Greeting Ssaartje.
-Zahavi is asked to do something.
-What if the characters were superheroes?
-Does Savape like porcupines or armadillos?
-Have any of the characters been to Japan?
-Have the characters met any stegosaurids?
-If the characters each got to meet their favorite person, who would said person be?
-Have the characters dealt with bats?
-Have the characters encountered domestic cats?
-Has Savape caught any pigs?
-Have the characters had problems with being preyed on by ceratopsians?
-Thoughts on spinosaurids.
-Have the characters met any proboscideans?
-Thoughts on sloths.
-Have the characters directly encountered pretty human females?
-Can the characters talk to humans in-universe?
-Has Savape caught any humans?
-Is Ebeff not very bright?
-Do the characters have favorite cartoons?
-Thoughts on dogs.
-Thoughts on dolphins.
I have a feeling that there's a high interest in how the Raptormaniacs cast interact with other species in the museum.
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Tumblr Roundup 8/18/13
Fewer questions this time, but as long as they don't screech to a halt I don't find that a bad thing. I don't want to be too overwhelmed.
-Have the characters fought any hippos?
-Would the characters rather receive fan mail or a crate of small rodents?
-What would Skull do if he succeeded in taking over the museum?
-Have the characters gotten visits from a certain Canadian alvarezsaurid?
-Do the characters like roast beef?
-Can Savape run on water while flapping?
-Ground up or trees down?
-What does Dinky think of Ostrom?
-Have the characters fought any hippos?
-Would the characters rather receive fan mail or a crate of small rodents?
-What would Skull do if he succeeded in taking over the museum?
-Have the characters gotten visits from a certain Canadian alvarezsaurid?
-Do the characters like roast beef?
-Can Savape run on water while flapping?
-Ground up or trees down?
-What does Dinky think of Ostrom?
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Ostrom and the Dinosaur Style Meme
Oh man, it's been years since I said I'd do this! That is probably for the better, as this meme is easier to fill out using digital art.
The original blank meme is by Pred-Adopts.
I went with Ostrom for this one. One of my self-imposed rules was that I'd base each style off the closest relative of Deinonychus I could find that was present in each work.
Personal - Not much to say here!
Jurassic Park - Considering that the Jurassic Park dromaeosaurids are based on Deinonychus, this was a no-brainer. If I haven't been amply convinced that Jurassic Park dromaeosaurids look hideous, drawing this certainly did it. (That's not intended as a slight on Jurassic Park as a movie, which I enjoy.)
Chibi - You want cute? I'll give you cute. This one was quick, as I wasn't bound to the style of a specific work.
Fantasia - This one is interesting. Fantasia came out long before dromaeosaurids had seeped into popular culture; in fact, Deinonychus had not even been discovered then. I wondered if I should base this one on the generic-looking small theropod present, but then I saw that there were a few shots of what is evidently intended to be a protobird in the short. As expected for the time, it's more lizard-like than dinosaur-like, but close enough.
The Flintstones - Found as many bird pictures from this show as I could and made the best of it. Cartoon bird ankles working like knees, ick. I referenced Dino for some of Ostrom's more stereotypically dinosaurian traits such as the long tail.
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story - I wondered if I would have to use that goofy-looking tyrannosaurid, then I remembered all the talk about the crows in this film and it was all good.
Another DeviantArtist's style - This was hard. Most of the paleoartists on here who I look up to have styles that are too detailed for me to imitate well. Fortunately, there was a clear solution. I went with StygimolochSpinifer, the master of striking the balance between simplicity and accuracy, bar none. As a matter of fact, his newer works strike that balance so well that they were still nearly impossible for me to mimic; this one is based on his older stuff from Ask a Velociraptor. I haven't come close to doing justice to his style here, so go watch him if you haven't already.
Disney's Dinosaur - Whatever this movie's other faults, these are some of the least hideous scaly dromaeosaurids I've seen, at least. They could almost pass off as hypothetical real dinosaurs. Almost.
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs - Based off the Archaeopteryx that has a quick scene, naturally. Lots of typical tropes from lack of understanding of protobirds, including a scaly face, wristwings, and sparkleraptor coloration.
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs - I was so relieved to see an Archaeopteryx on the poster for this game that I forgot to look up whether there were any dromaeosaurids in it. I can only stand drawing so many scaly dromaeosaurids, after all. Not that more typical protobird paleoart tropes aren't just marginally better.
The Land Before Time - I had to turn to one of the dreaded sequels for this one to find a eudromaeosaur. (I've read that another one of the sequels actually has a feathered dromaeosaurid, but it's a microraptorine so it's less closely related.) Rather hideous, all lumpy and rubbery-looking.
Another artist's style - I momentarily considered turning Ostrom into a My Little Maniraptor (though under my own rules I'd have had to base him on a bird from that show rather than a pony) for this one, but I remembered that I hadn't had the chance to use Archeops back when I did the avian style meme (which had a Pokémon slot), so I figured I'd fix that.
The original blank meme is by Pred-Adopts.
I went with Ostrom for this one. One of my self-imposed rules was that I'd base each style off the closest relative of Deinonychus I could find that was present in each work.
Personal - Not much to say here!
Jurassic Park - Considering that the Jurassic Park dromaeosaurids are based on Deinonychus, this was a no-brainer. If I haven't been amply convinced that Jurassic Park dromaeosaurids look hideous, drawing this certainly did it. (That's not intended as a slight on Jurassic Park as a movie, which I enjoy.)
Chibi - You want cute? I'll give you cute. This one was quick, as I wasn't bound to the style of a specific work.
Fantasia - This one is interesting. Fantasia came out long before dromaeosaurids had seeped into popular culture; in fact, Deinonychus had not even been discovered then. I wondered if I should base this one on the generic-looking small theropod present, but then I saw that there were a few shots of what is evidently intended to be a protobird in the short. As expected for the time, it's more lizard-like than dinosaur-like, but close enough.
The Flintstones - Found as many bird pictures from this show as I could and made the best of it. Cartoon bird ankles working like knees, ick. I referenced Dino for some of Ostrom's more stereotypically dinosaurian traits such as the long tail.
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story - I wondered if I would have to use that goofy-looking tyrannosaurid, then I remembered all the talk about the crows in this film and it was all good.
Another DeviantArtist's style - This was hard. Most of the paleoartists on here who I look up to have styles that are too detailed for me to imitate well. Fortunately, there was a clear solution. I went with StygimolochSpinifer, the master of striking the balance between simplicity and accuracy, bar none. As a matter of fact, his newer works strike that balance so well that they were still nearly impossible for me to mimic; this one is based on his older stuff from Ask a Velociraptor. I haven't come close to doing justice to his style here, so go watch him if you haven't already.
Disney's Dinosaur - Whatever this movie's other faults, these are some of the least hideous scaly dromaeosaurids I've seen, at least. They could almost pass off as hypothetical real dinosaurs. Almost.
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs - Based off the Archaeopteryx that has a quick scene, naturally. Lots of typical tropes from lack of understanding of protobirds, including a scaly face, wristwings, and sparkleraptor coloration.
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs - I was so relieved to see an Archaeopteryx on the poster for this game that I forgot to look up whether there were any dromaeosaurids in it. I can only stand drawing so many scaly dromaeosaurids, after all. Not that more typical protobird paleoart tropes aren't just marginally better.
The Land Before Time - I had to turn to one of the dreaded sequels for this one to find a eudromaeosaur. (I've read that another one of the sequels actually has a feathered dromaeosaurid, but it's a microraptorine so it's less closely related.) Rather hideous, all lumpy and rubbery-looking.
Another artist's style - I momentarily considered turning Ostrom into a My Little Maniraptor (though under my own rules I'd have had to base him on a bird from that show rather than a pony) for this one, but I remembered that I hadn't had the chance to use Archeops back when I did the avian style meme (which had a Pokémon slot), so I figured I'd fix that.
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Tumblr Roundup 8/4/13
Thus far my experiment with Tumblr has been working fairly well. I've been receiving a steady trickle of questions without them being overwhelming. It remains to be seen whether I can keep this up when school starts again.
-How do the characters all get along?
-Does Skull think Edmontonia is cool?
-What does Skull think of tyrannosauroids?
-What would Skull think of a tyrant flycatcher acting like a tyrannosaurid?
-Why is Skull the only character that isn't a fleshed-out body?
-Have the characters encountered modern raptors (birds of prey)?
-Would having a full body help Skull in taking over the museum?
-Greeting Featheryraptor.
-Could Skull borrow the body of Linheraptor?
-How does Savape feel about the uncertain phylogenetic position of archaeopterygid-grade paravians?
-Should Skull get a Utahraptor model made to aid him in his quest?
-What does Zahavi think of Gigantoraptor?
-What does Remex think of the museum's Allosaurus?
-How does Remex keep himself sane with his knowledge of phylogenetics?
-Who is the "boss" among the characters?
-Have the characters seen a female Rahonavis named Rahona?
-Are there pterosaurs at the museum?
-How do the characters all get along?
-Does Skull think Edmontonia is cool?
-What does Skull think of tyrannosauroids?
-What would Skull think of a tyrant flycatcher acting like a tyrannosaurid?
-Why is Skull the only character that isn't a fleshed-out body?
-Have the characters encountered modern raptors (birds of prey)?
-Would having a full body help Skull in taking over the museum?
-Greeting Featheryraptor.
-Could Skull borrow the body of Linheraptor?
-How does Savape feel about the uncertain phylogenetic position of archaeopterygid-grade paravians?
-Should Skull get a Utahraptor model made to aid him in his quest?
-What does Zahavi think of Gigantoraptor?
-What does Remex think of the museum's Allosaurus?
-How does Remex keep himself sane with his knowledge of phylogenetics?
-Who is the "boss" among the characters?
-Have the characters seen a female Rahonavis named Rahona?
-Are there pterosaurs at the museum?
Thursday, July 25, 2013
The Raptormaniacs Tumblr
In an effort to make myself do more with my web comic thing, I present my new extension of it, the Raptormaniacs Tumblr askblog, where readers can send in questions for the comic characters. This format has several benefits over my previous convention, such as the fact that I probably won't have to use as many panels most of the time. I don't plan on crossposting every individual Tumblr post I make to this blog, but I will post "Tumblr roundups" here once a given number of posts has been put up or a given amount of time passed.
Thursday, July 18, 2013
I get fanart again!
The above is courtesy of John Turmelle, also known as classicalguy on DeviantArt, who, in addition to producing this artwork, said a lot of kind words about my comic/blog/thingamabob in his artist's comments. I love it. I love that Remex is holding Tet Zoo the book, I love Zahavi maniacally holding a mallet, I love Skull being Skull. Words cannot express how happy and astounded I am that there are people who like Raptormaniacs this much, so I'll just provide a .gif instead. (I'd link to a clip of that scene but I can't find one on YouTube.)
Oh yes, I hinted earlier that I'd be making another announcement about the comics soon. Fear not; it really is coming. I just need to get something else that I've been working on out of the way first.
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