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Do you want to submit dioramas when there's not a contest, and without concern for time period? Post it here!

This is the general topic about Dioramas, both submission and general Work In Progress posts about them.

Rules:
- The diorama must be in color.
- The ecosystem must be depicted accurately ie. if it's a forest and there are sufficient flora present in it, it should look like a forest.
- All species depicted must be reasonably accurate to their size and biology. Feel free to ask their creators for anatomical help.
- The diorama must have at least 2 out of 3 of the following: flora, fauna, or microbes. eg, flora and fauna, flora and microbes, fauna and microbes, or all three.
- Unless the given ecosystem has fewer species, a minimum of 5 species must be present in the diorama.
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[image] Artist: Biome: Week/Generation: Flora: Fauna: Microbes:

While waiting for the form to be up so I can officially submit some older pieces, I'll post something I've been working on. This piece is based on an observation that the earliest shrews and the earliest nodents not only existed in the same environment, but were predator and prey. Here's the progress so far:

Well, crud. Most of the pieces I've done have been grassland scenes with very few species and only one of those meets 5. I have other pieces that have more species, but one is old and bad and the other has non-native species as the only flora due to shrog meddling. That leaves me with just the one.


Artist: Disgustedorite
Biome: Dixon-Darwin High Grassland
Week/Gen: 26/162 (Bonoian period)
Flora: Arid Puffgrass, Fuzzyfan, Sprawling Quillball, Robust Arid Ferine (mostly obscured and barely visible in the distance)
Fauna: Scrubland Hornface (Juvenile), Tigmadar
Microbes: None

The flora in this one are a tad difficult to distinguish because I drew them at a realistic density...sorry about that

Artist: Disgustedorite
Biome: Huggs Temperate Forest
Week/Generation: 11/75 (Biocatian period)
Flora: Puffkin (various juveniles and adults, out of season, leaf litter), Gyroleffo (roots, leaf litter), Stickyballs, Nidbin, Mawring, Double Plent (juvenile, leaf litter), Upplenbell (leaf litter)
Fauna: Shrew Lizard, Nonibble, Ketter, Vicious Sauceback footprint
Microbes: None

This could also probably go among the gallery images for the Shrew Lizard.

QUOTE (Disgustedorite @ Jun 24 2021, 06:19 AM)

This could also probably go among the gallery images for the Shrew Lizard.

I don't see a reason why dioramas can't also be used as supplemental images

But yeeah these both look good. Approved

I think there needs to be more illustrations like the shrew lizard scene I drew in general. With how old Sagan 4 is, it's surprising there hasn't been a lot of non-member-made fanart of ecosystems accumulated over the years, and illustrations like that really help tie things together by showcasing ancestors of familiar modern groups in their natural environment.

Since the Shrew Lizard-focused diorama could be used as a gallery image for the Shrew Lizard itself, could the Scrubland Hornface and Tigmadar-focused image also be used as a gallery image for the Scrubland Hornface and the Tigmadar? Could the Nonibble depiction be extracted from the greater image and made into a gallery addition?

QUOTE (Coolsteph @ Jun 25 2021, 10:44 PM)

Since the Shrew Lizard-focused diorama could be used as a gallery image for the Shrew Lizard itself, could the Scrubland Hornface and Tigmadar-focused image also be used as a gallery image for the Scrubland Hornface and the Tigmadar? Could the Nonibble depiction be extracted from the greater image and made into a gallery addition?

The image with the scrubland hornface and tigmadar was already approved to be placed on the page for tigmadar. I figured it shouldn't go on the hornface's page as well because it's showing a juvenile getting grabbed by the tail with blood.

The nonibble suggestion is a bit weirder. If that's done, it could be done for all dioramas. There's a lot of those with a lot of species. I suggested it be on the shrew lizard page because that particular species is featured prominently.

Felt like drawing a classic forest scene. Will add more species, clean up, color, and submit soon.

The velishroot and the pickclaw are friends. They survive the gamma ray burst together underground in their shared burrow.