#dinosaur tutorial

[dianamations]

Oml i keep forgetting to post this on here but February 21st marked the 4th anniversary of the creation of one of my ocs so I made a dumb little silly tutorial for him :,D.

[aroaceloverofgarlicbread]

Hello, please tell me: How do I make friends with a real live dinosaur?

Ok, so to make friends with a live dinosaur, there are a few steps you have to do. First, decide what dinosaur you want to become friends with, such as T-rex, stegosaurus, velociraptor ect. Then, choose how you want to get to said dinosaur, here, I would recommend one of two options: either, you revive said dinosaur, or you time travel to a time when they were alive. There are a few other ways such as traveling to a parallel universe, but I would recommend one of the first two options I said. If you want to revive a dinosaur, I’d recommend following a tutorial on how to do so, the best rated one I could find was Jurassic Park, but any tutorial for this should work. If you want to do it through time travel instead, then there’s a lot of different ways to do it, the one I’ll use here is that time = money, so all you have to do is temporarily give all your money to someone you trust to give it back later, and then also go in debt to them, which will make time reverse if you just go in enough dept (Make sure to do this with someone you trust to just let you not pay this debt cause otherwise you’ll go into a LOT of debt) if you don’t wanna use this time travel method for some reason, then there’s a lot more, but I won’t go in depth on them here. Now that you have either brought a dinosaur to you or brought yourself to a dinosaur, you just need to do the actual befriending part, which is surprisingly simple, most dinosaurs will become friends with you if you just feed them enough.

[fastman27]

PSA on drawing feathered dinosaur wings

If I made any mistakes in this post, please let me know and I will correct them

[ppaleoartistgallery]

a guide to the exoparia

the presence of the exoparia doesnt actually change much for the way we reconstruct most dinosaur groups, however, it changes some minor things for two of the most well known dinosaur groups that should be taken into account:

link to paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joa.14242

[datgreenmonstah]

Here is part two of the paper mache mask tutorial for those interested

[aniriteron]

not with the intent to change anything or 1 up capcom. this is my attempt to make sense to the anatomy. free to use, this is really for future notes.

idk how they fly and im not gonna put the special shoulder to wrist wing tendon idk the name of there rn

these types of arm can still provide your seikret with 25mph (40kph) of running speed, while the current estimate to the non modified seikret is 28mph (44Kph), thankfully not a significant loss.

[makenna-made-this]

Forgot to post these simple little chicken hacky sacks/heat packs i made for my siblings for christmas. 100% cotton and filled with sunflower seeds (the chickens did NOT appreciate me borrowing from their stash but i was out of rice) so they can be heated up for hand warmers or to ease aches and pains

(or for balancing it on your head i guess)

[warmfuzzyanimal]

How do you get that grainy texture on your art? It’s very nice!

thank you!! i love art that's soft and fuzzy...

i generally do it a handful of different ways, but i tend to bounce between a color noise filter layer in soft light mode, between 30% and 50% opacity,

... or i use something from my wide array of paper textures, and usually set the layer to overlay and play with opacity till i'm happy with it

......oooorr i do a combination of the two! which i did in the final version of this piece, which i Also added a gradient map to to make the colors a lil more ✨Dramatic✨

here's where i got (most of) my paper textures and here's a rainbow color noise texture (that i don't personally use but looks rlly similar!)

[alex-fictus]

A little tutorial on how I did most of my Bones series process! It’s clipping masks and reference layers :D

[deepdreamnights]

Making a Monster - A Midjourney/Photoshop Tutorial

Today, I'm going to be breaking down how I use Midjourney for character design.

I've recently figured out what I want to do with my joust at the Poke/Digi/Rancher-of- Mon type concept. A lot will be coming from that soon, I don't have a name yet, but the mathematical formula is:

"oops, all Gardevoirs" multiplied by LadyDeviMon + the square root of MOTU over Bluth.

A couple of BioCritters are getting ported over to this new concept, specifically the Waifusaurus evolution branch:

Which was itself a parody of pokemon that are essentially just ladies anyhow, so its probably more accurate to say Waifusaurus spawned unnamed LadyMon Project.

I made most of the first BioCritters in Dall-E3 through Bing Image creator, and Bing makes finding old prompts a pain, and while Straifu, the Lois Griffin parody form, is the subject of today's process, they followed the same prompt format I used with the Flintstones-inspired base Waifusaurus form:

vintage animation cell, a slender dinosaur-anthro housewife on flinstones, resembles humanoid dino the dinosaur, blue dinosaur-lady, purple tigerskin housedress, holding rolling-pin-made-of-rock 1963, in the style of 1960s hanna-barbera TV animation, character cel on white background, posed in a determined ready fighting stance

However, I have a specific look for this new project in mind, so its time to evolve the design.

Step one was to start with basic prompting. I built a new prompt that described what I wanted:

fullbody original production cel, white border all around, vintage animation cel, lavender humanoid woman-creature with large t-rex legs and tail, fan of feathers at the end, wearing teal button up blouse, bob haircut, clawed hands, lois griffin as a pokemon, female character design vintage cartoon screen capture (1993) by AKOM and TOEI , white background, beautiful variable-width black line art with cel shaded vintage cartoon color, painted backdrop, official media, UHQ 1996, official media, UHQ

I ran this in Niji 6, using the style moodboard I'd made for the purpose: --p m7298241701452185637 - largely a mix of full body character designs I'd generated in the style I wanted and 1980s animation model sheets. Moodboards are an expanded version of style prompting, which I outline here.

Examples from runs that produced nothing remotely like what I wanted. I could spend some time tinkering with the prompt to get closer but character prompting is right there, why not just load the original design in?

Yeah, Midjourney/NijiJourney cannot, as of v6, grok abstract cartoony art styles, and character reference always pulls at least a bit of art style as one of its limitations, so the general grotesqueness of its interpretations of these designs leak through.

Now, there's still several things I could do here. The easiest would be to take the straifu on the right and use a combination of in-painting and gradually swapping out the character prompt for a mix of "closer" options over a series of variations until it became something relatively close.

But around about now, I started getting ideas on how I wanted her to look. I liked the idea of a sort of "dinotaur", so I rendered up a regular rex, and combined it with one of the first-wave prompt-only failures and a recolored head in the style I was going for in photoshop.

This was a Q&D mockup, only intended for prompting purposes.

Using a combination of the mockups, the original design, and various results from their iteration-chain, I was able to get very close to the basic concept, only to run into two major issues: One, the huge lower body effect wasn't coming across as intentional (either disappearing into standard thicc-cartoon milfness or looking like AI screwups) and two: the design was boring when divorced from its bug-eyed cartoon aesthetics.

Now, you can do a lot with a flawed design, but a boring one means you need to start re-conceptualizing.

Which begins under the fold:

Straifu is a parody of Lois Griffin. In the broadest sense, that brings to mind the nasal voice, and in a battle-monster genre setting that means sonic attacks. Sonic + dinosaur means parasaurolophus to me.

Above, I mentioned I could have in-painted one of the cartoony results. I had actually done that, using the mockup face as a character prompt, and one of its results was interesting, so I started refining based on that:

You can use edit to zoom in with Midjourney, it's just you can only do it horizontally or vertically in any given go. I zoomed in using this method, and redid her eyes in the process.

I did another mockup of her with a crest and in-painted, then iterated in the in-painting result.

I did a lot of iterations at this stage, some as basic variations, some as full strong variations, but eventually by combining various results into the character prompt, I got the variation I liked best.

My initial thought was to restore the "beak" from those earlier versions but her duckbill face was too perfect to pass up.

I then attempted to get her a full body via outpainting.

I didn't have much luck, once again the results were either too ai-fuckup-like or too basic.

The idea that came to me to solve the problem was to make her a full on parasaurolopus-taur, forelimbs and all. Midjourney wasn't going to cooperate on that, really weird designs aren't well understood by the current character reference.

Omnireference is supposed to fix that, but to paraphrase 'Oh Brother, Where Art Thou': Well ain't version 7 a temporal miracle? Two weeks from everywhen!

Now, it was time to do things the old fashioned way. With editing.

I went through a lot of attempts to make a base dinosaur:

Eventually landing on this fellow, and this torso forming this rough-cut:

Now, there's one thing to note, the line quality on the two is completely different. Fixing that means getting at the lines.

The best way to do this in photoshop is by upscaling the image 200%, and using a fill bucket set to around 10-25% (anti-aliasing on) and white to make any dark colors gradually lighter so threshold can drop them to pure lines.

From there, I selected individual sections of thin lines and duplicated them, using a combination of 1 px strokes and nuding sections a pixel in any given direction to match the line width without it looking like a coloring book.

Which I then re-colored using your basic comic coloring process. I went with what is largely an inverse of the original colors because I already have a purple/lavender parasaurolophus character in DynoGuard.

Then, I started doing this tutorial, and realized one of the early versions shirt had formed a sort of plastron, and I went in and painted all that over on top.

I could go into more detail, but I'm out of images and this is already novel-length.

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The gif at the start was made in Vidu, using the subject reference feature, the final image of Straifu, a background image, and this prompt:

a green creature with a purple shirt, she takes a deep breath and screams, the scream lasting 2 full seconds, Sakuga animation, eyecatch animation. Vintage traditional cel animation, TOEI, disney, don bluth, filmation productions, scene from Masters of the Universe (1983), ultra-high quality flawless animation sequence, Blu-Ray remaster. Every frame in focus and sharply detailed. Animated on 2s matte background painting.

[bobthedragon]

I've been making vtuber guys for funsies bc arborix made such a good one earlier and idk what to do with them but anyway here's a dinosaur I made and I just realized I forgot to link its throat and tail flair actions to any sort of input :|c;;

[thebeetleb0y]

Idk about you guys but I think this dude might be a little autistic about dinosaurs

[ddejavvu]

i cried six times and there's shredded yarn all over my room but here's your crocheted dinosaur

[iquipau]

Spinosaur plush pattern up!!

You can find it here https://www.etsy.com/listing/1791268139/pdf-pattern-instructions-spinosaur

Ill start posting here again, ans what better than with a new pattern 🥰 had been working on this one for quite some time now

I have more dinosaurs planed!

[artistic-daspletosaurus]

Once made a small tutorial on how to draw the blue Gorgosaurus from Walking with Dinosaurs

[datgreenmonstah]

Had a bunch of ppl asking for a tutorial on making a head, so I thought doing this for my updated rexy mask would be good.

Number one rule is always crush and shape the cardboard!

This is part one, I’ll be going over the other parts as it progresses, next will be masking tape and paper mache.

Hope y’all enjoy!