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Galagoo — Hesperornid Cetus - Bird Whale
Published: 2009-07-26 07:08:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 5849; Favourites: 73; Downloads: 27
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This piece of art is made entirely with my tablet (
) and GIMP. Took several hours - and layers - but it was fun.The creature depicted here is a squid-hunting Hesperornid Cetus, a bird whale. Not a combination of the two species, but a bird that has evolved into a whale-like creature. An idea pretty often used when imagining the fauna of the future.
The idea, inspiration and the design of the creature came from a concept work by , [link] . Credit for him, therefore.
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Not really, they taste like cardboard.
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Depends on how thy're cooked, of course.
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I love this style and detail as well as the concept .....and yet again I think I made my idea to late with my cetavian deep within my gallery.
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Thank you, and thanks for the watch, too!
By the way, what do you mean you made your idea too late? I don't understand that sentence (I know, I fail), didn't you make the work last year in November?
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Your welcome. You are a good artist after all. By chance would you like a support stamp?
Wait I was being stupid. Finally I made a good idea before finding out it was made already!
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I'm no artist, really, just a guy messing around. :]
A support stamp might be neat, but I don't really know a good object right now. However, if I sometime come up with a good idea and don't fancy doing it myself, you're the guy I'll contact.
That's the problem with all the good ideas; they're made already.
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You are an artist I can say that much (your art is far to amazing to not be)
Yes sir!
That is why you must think out of the box. I made a demented flying penguin but he needs alot of work on him (the wing configuration is impossible at the momment)
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The concept was for a "modern" descendant of the aquatically adapted Hesperornis [link] The were already more aquatically adapted than penguins, so I see no reason why they couldn't have eventually convergently evolved cetacean-like features, becoming the dominant marine vertebrates, like cetaceans are for us.
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Ah, I see. Indeed, had they not died out, the Hesperornis could be the current king of the oceans instead of whales.
A similar chain of evolution is set in Dougal Dixon's book After Man: A Zoology of the Future ([link] ), but there the penguins are the species evolving, taking the niche of cetaceans. Pictures here: [link]
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Cool this should used for something in the Star Wars Universe like Kamino!
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Thanks, mate.
Yeah, on Kamino this might look rather good.
Or perhaps on Tatooine?
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he he..unless there is an unground ocean on Tatooine.
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