Ceratrollsaurus

How did you manage to do that?? I'm guessing the ragdolling when tranquilized caused the Tsintaosaurus to partially clip through the fence? I mean, fair enough, don't slump a drugged prey animal against a fence that has holes in it with a predator directly on the other side, but I didn't expect that to apply in a game where small dinos need to break a fence to escape even though they could easily fit between the bars.

Strangely majestic

2022 art summary

Another year full of gay raptors.

I decided not to use a template separated into months for the image, as I didn't make new things at a very regular pace this year.

Raptor AU has gotten to a pretty comfortable point in said raptors' lives. The two packs are happily merged into one inextricably, and my precious baby Skye, who pretty much started the whole AU, is a fully grown raptor lady with a beautiful wife and two babies of their own.

A big portion of my more scientifically accurate raptors, too, have been JP/W-related, as I've had a lot of fun playing JWE, for which I don't currently know how to make all the mods I'd like to use. But I can dream of a park full of toothy groundhawks, and draw it. (I know how to mod TS2, though, and the more anthropomorphized versions of raptor AU raptors have also been fun to put together and play house with.)

One bigger project is still in progress, and will be until sometime next year. It involves dinofiguresculptings, but more on that later. :)

Big and small saurischians

Diplodocus: What are you guys pointing at? I'm right here!
Humans: Dale a tu cuerpo alegría Macarena... 🎶

My Edmontosaurus seem to have finally succeeded at their summoning ritual. What horror have they unleashed?!

Diplos and Ceratos living together, mass hysteria! There's a fence between them, but I still have the cheapest fence replaced with an invisible one, and this is a new challenge mode game.

In other news, say hello to the newest smol critter on the block!

Oksia

Some results of clay everywhere

Theropod lookbook

It's a goth Indominus rex!

Not a moment too soon, considering I just finished herding a pack of Troodons back into their enclosure for the third time within a single storm. :D

(They had the comfort gene and everything, but just as I'd moved all but the last one of them into their enclosure, a storm started, and their comfort level was lowered by missing their friend in addition to the storm.)

Hydrophobic semiaquatics?

More screenshots from my ongoing attempt at Isla Nublar challenge mode on Jurassic difficulty in JWE.

A romantic walk in the rain for the Ceratos.

A guest area surrounded by dino enclosures with a gyrosphere tour looping through them, accessible only by monorail.

Driving into an enclosure housing two rabid Spinosaurus, yeah that sounds like a good idea. Though to be fair, if you get bitten by a rabid 8-ton theropod, it's probably not contracting the rabies that will kill you.

In the game it's just an easily treatable dino disease among all the others, but knowing what actual nightmare fuel rabies is in real life, wouldn't any of my animals having caught it, even if they were cured, be grounds for park closure and quarantine? My two Baryonyx also got it at the same time, and it would make sense for two species of spinosaurid to both be susceptible to the same illnesses, it's just that they were at the exact opposite edges of the park...

Where did the dinos catch it? Is there a rabid wild animal freely roaming my theme park full of people (who should be even more susceptible to this mammal disease than the stem-birds kept here are)??

Thank you for visiting Jurassic World, complimentary post-exposure prophylaxis for everyone currently present on the island.

It's all part of the tour

"Must be a safe twister, otherwise they wouldn't let us keep using the rides. Right?"

Brachio and Cerato antics

No no no, I just put those wires there thinking it would be fine for them to go over an enclosure!

Yeah, that seems safe.

Too heavy to get picked up by the twister.

"Keep watch for me while I sleep?"
This lady is living the dream.

Loistavia

A Ranger's Nightmare

I used the sandbox in JWE to make myself a little obstacle course (/excuse to take spooky screenshots).

I'm just a humble park ranger at a dinosaur zoo that houses several kinds of Velociraptors, all of which have been set loose by unfortunate circumstances, of course. Some of the dinos' movement has been restricted by fences left intact (and a bit of invisible fence so I don't meet too soon the fun surprise also roaming the park), but they should be pretty free to run into our team in the dark of night, after a storm tore through a bunch of fences and some malfunction, perhaps even sabotage, left open gates that shouldn't be left open. We also can't close any gates we open along the way. Everything will be resolved somehow once I get to the Innovation Center (maybe that's where they keep the push to close button that will put us back in business), but it's at the other side of the park, and vehicle aggression is on. Good luck.

Well, that's not a good sign...

Now clay everywhere

Also bits of foil.

Sprinkled

Wingdominus rex

Check out this bootleg LEGO Indominus I found at the fleamarket!

She has wings?? And lasers? And a lady riding her?
What more could you want! :D

As it is a bootleg product, unsurprisingly the cover is not entirely truthful about the contents. No lady, no lasers, but the wings were included and I managed to attach them, even though I couldn't find all the parts the assembly guide that was also in the box showed I should use. They have articulation, too. I assume the wings are copied from some other LEGO set, probably involving dragons. To whoever had the idea to put them on a dinosaur: thank you. I mean winged dinosaurs are a thing in real life and nothing new, yes, but not with this kind of wings.

Indominus - or "tame Tyrannosaurus" - is missing a few paint details seen on the cover (that's fine, I have paints), and also doesn't have thumbs, which may be a result of how the arms were cast in a way that uses less material, or maybe for dodging copyright infringement purposes like the name. The packaging just straight up uses the Jurassic Park 3 logo with just a different text, though, so nice try.

The back of the box tells me this PRCK (which I'm choosing to pronounce as "prick") Dinosaur World line includes three other figures: a Velociraptor, a Dilophosaurus, and a... purple Indominus, I think. All with wings, naturally.

Well, the one I have seems to hold together pretty well and has working articulation in all joints, and I suspect would be compatible with real LEGO sets (I don't own any to check). She's also the first Indominus rex figure I have, so I guess she's my official Indominus rex now. Welcome to the raptor shelf.

Snotos (snail photos)

Fluff, fluff everywhere!

Limmitus

Puisva

'Tis the seasoning

Have this spoopy picture of something I've been working on.

Glowy lumps

Chanterelle mimics

Keeping company

Homographic

Now she's just extreme

Extreme Damage JW Velociraptor has had her extreme damage patched up with epoxy putty. There's a bit of aluminum foil in there, too, as filler under the putty, as the wounds were quite deep.

The button on her back is a bit awkward since it dips down a little instead of following what I think would be a natural curve for the back, but I hope it won't look too weird once she's painted, and that I won't regret not adding more putty over the whole thing. I decided to leave the pop-up code alone and keep that one functional. I'm not trying to make her look not like a toy, I just want her not to look like she's bleeding to death.

(A note about the materials: I try to remember to mention when talking about sculpting with epoxy putty that it's not safe to use without precautions, such as ventilation and nitrile or equally protective gloves (which are recommended to be worn at least while mixing the putty, but I keep them on while sculpting, too, which I've found is not really an inconvenience so long as I have gloves in a size that fits my hands snugly enough - touching the uncured putty doesn't melt your hands off or anything, but you can develop a sensitivity to it). And a proper mask when sanding it, but I use it to make dinosaurs, which don't exactly need to be silky smooth, so I just don't sand them. Anyway, though this stuff is strong after curing and attaches well to most surfaces and is easy to sculpt, so it works well for my purposes, it hardens by chemical reaction, and a craft project is not worth your health. I feel like I don't see this brought up enough when finding crafting guides and such online and even see people film tutorials where they mix it barehanded or otherwise use epoxy products with no protections, so like, please research your materials, and look into safer alternatives, too.)