Kiabugboy

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Picture of me posing next to a taxidermied crocodile in a museum, my shirt matches the blue shirt in the quote post
sideways panning shot of an Ordovician reef, the floor is filled with brachiopods, superficially clam-like bivalves but not molluscs. in the background are tall aulacerid sponges, they look like underwater saguaro cactuses. and an Orthocone, straight shelled nautiloids. at the center is the horn coral lobocorallium, its skeleton lays sideways on the substrare, and the cross section, instead of being the typical circular shape, instead has three lobes, almost like the silhouette of fidget spinner. the polyp or soft body has many tentacles swaying in the water
Giant golden orb weaver spider painted over a photo of a tangle of cables I took around the neighborhood
Upside down black and white photo of a Danaus caterpillar getting ready to pupate
Old artwork from 2017 of a long serpentine creature with a long slender maw, and tall centipede like legs emerging from the fog in an unknown landscape
3/4 front view of my spirifer 3d model, still a work in progress. It shows the inside of the ventral mantle since the ventral shell is removed the mantle itself is 'cut' in half to show the inside of the visceral mass, the blobby bits at the center of the soft body that contains all the organs like the gut and muscles
A horsefly up-close
figurine of a rock Crab (true crab) holding on to the claw of a King crab (false crab) in a similar manner to Scar and Mufasa in The Lion King, the King crab is hanging on the ledge
Submitted for the ilustra.see competition last year. This was an experiment on depicting Paleontology with Wayang kulit, a traditional shadow puppet art form from my country. Here a scene reminiscent of my City, Surabaya's founding myth is depicted, but instead of a shark fighting a crocodile, it is a Permian Spiny shark fighting an early armored sea reptile. Surrounding them are brachiopods, tabulate corals, and horn corals found throughout Permian strata in Java and Timor, while the Gunungans in the back have a simple wavy pattern to indicate the scene is taking place underwater. The wayang cutouts are drawn in Photoshop, imported as transparent PNG objects in Blender and rendered in Cycles to achieve the shadow puppet look
A series of creature sketches, most are clam and coral-like I find myself getting influenced by whatever is the latest paleo-critter I'm obsessed with
3D model of a generic spiriferid Brachiopod. It superficially looks like a clam where the sides of the shell tapers into points But Brachiopods are Lophophorates, not molluscs
Blue ballpoint sketch of various fictional trilobites and other arthropod creatures
Closeup of Homotherium's face from prehistoric planet Ice age, it has white fur and looks like a lion with too big of a chin
Closeup of Gigantopithecus from Prehistoric planet Ice age, 3/4 view of the face
Closeup of a female Giant Moa from Prehistoric planet Ice age, showing its face and a bit of the neck
Calyx/cup of Archaeocrinus, it has ten arms that fork twice. The center of the cup has a raised funnel where the anal sac is.
Top: ammonite modelI recently got from Fukui dinosaur museum, not sure of the exact species but it kinda looks similar to many Jurassic ammonites with a keel Bottom: old 4D puzzle nautilus model I had since a I was a kid
Crab mascot at the echizen museum
Highly detailed Kyusu clay teapot with a flower crab sculpted on the lid
Another giant spider crab statue in front of a restaurant
Crab painted on wood, it's an artefact in Osaka history museum
Preview of the full video showing several different crinoids (sea lilies, echninoderms that resemble an underwater flower but with feathery arms instead of petals) with Platyceratid snails on them (extinct snails that have coiled or loosely coiled shells, that attach on the crinoids)
Eucalyptocrinites, a Silurian crinoid with a peculiar Calyx ("head") that's shaped like the part of an orange press that you press the oranges to, where their arms can perfectly fit into the grooves
sped up process video showing the 3d modeling, texturing, and rigging of a Platyceras model
Closeup of a Platyceras snail with a loosely coiled shell like the top of a witch's hat, attached to a Macrocrinus calyx, a sea lily with a round central cup that ends in a long tapering tube at the top, and with feathery arms radiating out of the cup
Evil boyband, 3D render screenshot of different types of platyceras snails, some coiled, some straight shelled or slightly curved or spiny Each snail sits atop a bumpy orb since I was testing the body and shell deformation to fit the contour of the orb
sped up OBS recording of Blender where a 3d Platyceras snail is being rotated following a bumpy orb
Pdf of a scanned old book depicting platyceratid snails, here with cashew like shells with bumpy surfaces
3D model of a platyceratid snails, the shell is loosely coiled kinda like a wizard hat
Clay sculpture of endoceras, a straight shelled nautiloid with a shell like a unicorn horn, and cephalopod body
Person next to a giant fern with leave stalks as thick as bamboos
work in progress of a crinoid 3D model, this particular one has arms that branch out and split into more arms in a fractal manner, very tedious to model.
Screenshot of a Patreon post showing the WIP of a Mosura 3D model, mosura is a radiodont like anomalocaris
Bellerophon umbilicus
Top view of Maclurites
A video showing 3 meter tall sponges
A sea lily, stalked echinoderm with a tulip-shaped crown at the end where arms radiate out of it, on top of its crown is a coiled snail
Various oncocerids, Nautiloids with bulbous slightly curved shells that look a bit like turnips or potatos, with different types of restricted openings, some wider and some narrower with T shapes or star like shapes They're displayed as if they are shell specimens in a museum
3D render of Baltoeurypterus, a sea scorpion with small walking legs and two large paddle legs at the back, here depicted with red and green color patterns
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Trimeroceras
Pentameroceras mirum, shell shaped like a curved teardrop, the opening is very narrow with the opening having five protruding sides like a fully open hand And one slit going to the posterior portion where the siphon would be The shell texture is orange with white wavy bands running through it and white dotted patterns Out of the very narrow opening, tiny tentacles stick out
Deloprosopus front 3/4 view showing the spring-shaped spirolophe inside
alt: video shows vetulicolians in an aquarium setting with the glass aquarium Background and sometimes the water surface. The first three vetulicolians have a rectangular fish like 'head' shape with no eyes, a small hole for a mouth, and a grooved line running through separating the top and bottom half of the body. Along the grooved lines there are five holes identified as gill slits, on top of the body is a small dorsal fin similar to a shark's in shape. Protruding out after the dorsal fin is a paddle like segmented tail that propels the body forward. The second one is more rectangular in shape hence the name rectangulata, while the third one, V.cuneata has a beak like protrusion instead of a rectangle shaped head. Fourth one shows shenzianyuloma, it has a more pomfret-like silhouette. Fifth is Nesonektris, it has no dorsal fin and the tail doesn't protrude out of the top half of the body, it looks more continuous with the body. Sixth shows pomatrum, its body is tube like with a tadpole shaped tail. Seventh briefly shows skeemella, still Unclear if it's really a vetulicolian. It has a smaller head followed by a long many segmented tail. The YouTube commenters have pointed out it looks somewhat like a sperm...
Dawsonoceras retracting into its shell
alt: Camera (shallow focus distance) pans from right to left, close up to an approximately 2cm long trilobite slightly moving forward while its antenna and butt jiggles (palaeolenus) among a tight cluster of Neobolus brachiopods (not mollusks but they have a similar bivalved shell that resembles clams except the top and bottom shells are not exactly the same, but the left and right is symmetrical unlike in clams). on some of the brachiopod shells are even smaller parasitic organisms of unclear affinity, only recognizable from their conical pointy tubes
From top to bottom left to right: octopus, mimic octopus, a cricket for some reason, argonaut/paper nautilus, vampire squid, cuttlefish, broadclub cuttlefish, flamboyant cuttlefish, cuttlefish, flapjack octopus Sketched with a blue ballpoint pen
Video showing several orang Isoxys (middle Cambrian bivalved arthropods) wading around in a dark background aquarium
3D render of Vetulicolia longbaoshanensis, an early chordate from the Guanshan biota