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The Grand List of Paleoart Cliches!
Topic Started: Jan 23 2011, 09:15 AM (970 Views)
SIngemeister
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Limbs in general.
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Ook
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not a Transhuman
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birds with feathers!
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Jan 23 2011, 10:07 AM
It's new, but it's a trend. It's starting a whole array of cliches.
I´m going by Cephylus´ definition. Like the “Azhdarchids eating baby sauropods” example he mentioned I mean things like a new discovery which quickly spreads on the blogs and DeviantArt and everyone suddenly draws or talks about that thing (like the Boar-Croc Kaprosuchus and true-colored Anchiornis).

Further examples would be Balaur bondoc (as “Double-blade raptor”) and Concavenator.
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Life itself.
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palaeoart is cliche
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Dinosauroids.
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Non-ediacaran animals!
I do art sometimes.

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Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs.

Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes.

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Megalodon... Thats a cliche.
Projects and concepts that I have stewing around
Extended Pleistocene- An alternate future where man died out, and the megafauna would continue to thrive (may or may not include a bit about certain future sapients)
Inverted World- An alternate timeline where an asteroid hit during the Barremian, causing an extinction event before the Maastrichtian. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and notosuchians make it to the present, along with a host of other animals.
Badania- Alien planet that has life at a devonian stage of development, except it exists in the present day.
Ido- Alien world where hoppers (derived flightless ballonts) and mouthpart-legged beasts are prevalent.
Leto- Life on a moon orbiting a gas giant with an erratic orbit; experiences extremes of hot and cold.
The Park- ???
Deeper Impact- a world where the K-Pg extinction wipes out crocodilians, mammals, and birds; squamates, choristoderes, and turtles inherit the earth.
World of Equal Opportunity- alternate history where denisovans come across Beringia and interact with native fauna. Much of the Pleistocene fauna survives, and the modern humans that end up crossing into North America do not overhunt the existing animals. 10,000 years later, civilizations exist that are on par with European and Asian societies.
The Ditch- Nothing is what if seems..
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Coprolites.
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aNYTHING. Just drawing is cliche.
I do art sometimes.

"if you want green eat a salad"

Projects:
Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs.

Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes.

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