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Drake E debut
Topic Started: May 27 2009, 03:55 PM (763 Views)
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I've been lurking around this site for awhile reading threads but I didn't want to join until I was done with this video. I wanted to have it in my first point to establish my seriousness. Drake E is a planet I've been working on for about 5 years but hadn't gotten serious about until this year. This video is set 450 million years ago on Drake E. It was made in anim8or. Any other questions you have I can answer I'm just not sure what to say.

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Hi, glorfon! Welcome to this forum! :)

I watched your video. I like how you described the solar system and the life. I liked the hexomatus (spelling?), but the eyes on the back of the rust crab would not work as well, unless there are ganglia below each eye that process information. Also, do the vibrioas (spelling?) get energy by kinetic energy or by moving? If the latter, than they are losing energy more than they are making it.

But still, great job!
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Hi glorfon welcome to the forum and have a nice time.

I think the video is well done and that you did a good job describing the animals though the above problem are probably still valid. I think these animals have alot of potential and i hope to see more of the planet.
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Are you plausible?

One of my favorite things about this movie is the narrator! So David Attenborough!

I really like the creatures too. You did a really good job of giving them recognizable personalities of a sort.
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Great planet. I quite like how you described the simple multicellular life rather than making outrageous complex monsters that most people are used to. Great job, I hope you go further with it.



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May 27 2009, 04:32 PM
Hi, glorfon! Welcome to this forum! :)

I watched your video. I like how you described the solar system and the life. I liked the hexomatus (spelling?), but the eyes on the back of the rust crab would not work as well, unless there are ganglia below each eye that process information. Also, do the vibrioas (spelling?) get energy by kinetic energy or by moving? If the latter, than they are losing energy more than they are making it.

But still, great job!
For the record, Hexarmatus and Vibroius.

The idea with the rust crab eyes was that they bulge out to get some directionality but can't form a clear image. Also, how did find out they were called rust crabs. Did you watch my older video or did I mess up the narration in my new video?

Regarding the vibroius the idea is that what ever process generates motion in animals by breaking up ATP and putting out kinetic energy works in reverse in the vibroius (potentially a fairly simple mutation originating in flagellated microbes) When the organism is forced to move by water currents, it's cells are deformed such that pressure in them is used to bind chemicals together to make ATP.
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Very interesting I like them alot now.

Are you planing on showing info on other creatures or ages?
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Yes, in time I will. Another video like this will be unlikely for a long time. But, my next big project is to make a series of sketches, renders, and descriptions for 300 species from this era. I intend to do this over the coarse of the next year. After that project is complete, I would like to move onto the next era, 300 million years ago.
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Awsome sounds like a great plan I hope you keep updating.
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