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Published: 2016-03-27 00:50:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 4400; Favourites: 85; Downloads: 15
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Because this is my favourite and I don't care.
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i just stumbled on this, and i love your work, especially the eosapien
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Thank you very much! π
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I dunno how you did it, but the gas bladders are fantastic! 
Also, I don't see what the issue is with having both claws and boneless 'fingers'. Claws are ill-suited for fine manipulation, but being predators would be useful for breaking apart carcasses either for the convenience of being able to list what food it could manage into the air where it'll have minimal competition form scavengers or to parse up a kill among associates.
It's possible that the soft digits might have chemo-receptive properties. Who knows!
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Thank you!
actually the body is a mix of epoxy clay and air-drying clay. the bladders were made with a thermic shrink-wrap plastic and tinted transparent glue (cold silicon) I molded the big one with an egg-shaped rock I have as a desktop ornament. for the other ones I made small molds out of epoxy.
It's interesting to speculate about the functions of the digits; as you say two sets of different fingers might prove useful, as a weapon-manipulator combo I think it's a cool idea, I specially like the seven-fingered hands they gave these guys in the documentary
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I don't know why... But I find the Eosapiens my LEAST favourite creatures in the book. I think the Finned Snappers or a relative of would make a better choice for a sapient.
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I like them because they're weird as hell XD
One of the things to consider when designing a sentient species IMHO is to adapt at least two appendages as graspers, I believe the Eosapiens are the most likely candidates, because the ability to float freed their legs from a locomotory role.
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I don't see the need of multiple manipulators. Many of my (Unuploaded) aliens have a single, multi-digited appendage.
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Don't forget the Daleks
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Dalek can be the third mightiest race in the universe with only one "hand"
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good point. Do upload! 
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I will! If I can find in the mountain of drawings...
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Good luck...
Mountains of drawings are bound to have interesting things, especially when they're old
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Mine certainly do! I remember sifting through it looking for a Pterdaustro drawing (get it?? GET IT??) and found a thing called "Dream People" which seemed to beΒ tribal amphibious creatures with 4 arms derived from their lips...
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Hahahaha oh I must confess I had to look it up to get it, but I did XD
but YEAH! it happened to me a few months ago as well; I've been looking for a really cool drawing I made like 10 years ago but instead I found early sketches of what's now one of my biggest personal projects!
I definitively want to see those "Dream People" you mentioned!
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Back to the pile!
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What's this project you mentioned?
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Ohh it's a long story I'm writing, called Oniria,
These are the bits and pieces I've uploaded so far!
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Whoa!! That's really cool, are they spirit-infused skelebots?
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Something like that, they're a part of a bigger fictional world that functions on a mixture of magic, science and surrealism.
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Sorta what I meant.
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