WAIRing up that road, WAIRing up that hill, WAIRing up that building

All are digital art drawn in FireAlpaca and Paint Shop Pro, unless specified otherwise.

Utulintu
January 2022

A dreamy troodontid to start the page.

Birb catalogue
April 2022

Ideas for cosmetic variations of Velociraptor in Jurassic World Evolution, with feathers.

Not to replace the scaly, pronated-wristed designs seen in the game (though I do find the basegame ones pretty replaceable, and there are already mods for that), as I think a Jurassic Park/World game is an excellent environment for the two kinds of dromaeosaurid representations to coexist. If the explanation for the retrosaur designs is their in-universe not being exact copies of prehistoric life, but ones with heavily patched up DNA, then perhaps that's the Velociraptors you would start out creating, and once you've gathered enough samples to have as complete of a Velociraptor genome as is possible to acquire (which I assume is what what's called 100% genome in the game means in practice), you would unlock the option to also make more accurate-looking ones, if you so choose. Still hybrids with modern animals to some degree, like all JP/W animals are - just less so, and perhaps with a bigger percentage of the filler DNA being from animals already more closely related to and more closely resembling dromaeosaurids.

Also yes, these gals are still around 6 feet tall and highly social, and cloned from the fictional dromaeosaurid that's called Velociraptor in the JP/W universe, not Velociraptor mongoliensis/V. osmolskae, or Deinonychus. But I consider the Mesozoic version of that animal, and deinonychosaurs in general, to have been fully feathered in the JP/W universe, too.

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Banded
May 2022

A dromaeosaurid chick with her new ID ring.

The level of feather development is probably off for a chick old enough for its feet to have stopped growing (and thus able to be banded). Present-day avian dinosaurs grow quickly in size, and are at least almost at their adult size when they finish growing their first plumage of pennaceous feathers, while some fossil finds suggest Mesozoic maniraptorans may have had their growth order the other way around. But drawing this was inspired by watching a banding livestream of Peregrine falcon chicks, which are very, very fluffy, and I wanted to draw flufffff. This isn't a Mesozoic dinosaur anyway, as humans would have to be around to band it. An alternate universe present-day dromaeosaurid.

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Banded clutch
June 2022

🐦 2835 A.K.A. Jewel, male, 2nd to hatch (yellow band)
🐦 2833 A.K.A. Sunfire, male, 3rd to hatch (red band)
🐦 2836 A.K.A. Ivy, female, 1st to hatch (blue band)
🐦 2834 A.K.A. Perdita, female, 4th to hatch (orange band)
🐤 Trixie, female, 5th to hatch. Not banded due to having been too small when the older siblings were within the narrow window of their feet having grown to their full size but their legs not being strong and agile enough yet for the chicks to be able to run away.
(Thank you for the names, ArbiterAziza!)

The line of dromaeosaurids that in this alternate universe survived the K-Pg extinction event has evolved to hatch more altricial than Mesozoic dromaeosaurids would have, and the young of this particular species remain dependent on their parents for months after hatching, though much like avian dinosaurs, they grow rapidly in size. They can't fly and don't need to fledge, but they only begin hunting on their own after having grown an at least almost complete plumage of pennaceous feathers, having hatched with only wispy down. Though they may catch the occasional bug as they practice hunting behaviors close to the nest.

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Ranger spotted!
July 2022

Another Jurassic World Evolution feathered redesign: my favorite Troodon skin (rainforest).
The angle is kind of a homage to my first encounter (which I ramble about here) with the genus that
has been my favorite dinosaur ever since (and still is as Stenonychosaurus and Latenivenatrix).
Though perhaps the version below is more in spirit of that depiction.

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Get back in the jeep
July 2022

Ranger spotted!

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Icecream Austros
November 2022

An Austroraptor pair having their morning dance sesh.
+ palette challenge.

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Evil Velo
December 2022

She's more chaotic neutral, but that's the name of the palette
(from the same challenge as above).

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Down Pillow
February 2023

Snout tucked into fluff.

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Some little guys
March 2023

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Noticed something
April 2023

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Seize!
May 2023

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Wet Beast Wthursday
August 2023

Rainsoaked raptor as inspired by a rainsoaked raptor.

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Pea, Ham, and Bean
August 2023

Indoraptor kids, but someone else's!
These little ones are Romeo the Indoraptor and Blue's babies from Romeotheraptor over at tumblr,
featuring adorable and skillfully staged toy photography stories. Having baby raptor adventures.

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Survival
September 2023

Talon from Primal Rage.
Had feathers before it was popular, and now he has even more of them!

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Sickraptor
November 2023

And after that representation of liveliness, we end the page with a much less spry birb,
because I was sick at the end of the year.

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