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This is a group whose purpose is to offer the best collection of accurate deinonychosaur art on Deviantart. This will include only high-quality and accurate illustrations of any dromaeosaurid or troodontid dinosaur.
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Founded 13 Years ago
Jul 24, 2011

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332 Members
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Rules for submissions

For more complete rules & regs, see here.

  • Anatomy must be reasonably accurate. Follow skeletals, look at original fossils, read original papers about proportions. This includes things like correct skull shape, no pronation of hands, accurate placement of pubic boot, accurate leg proportions, and realistically limited tail flexibility. Violation of any of these major points is grounds for immediate rejection.
  • All deinonychosaurs are feathered. The extent of the feathering is open to some debate. Bare legs and neck, as in ostriches, is permitted (though not preferred) for larger deinonychosaurs. For those where the feathering is directly known from fossils, there is very little wiggle room. Primaries always attach to the second digit of the hands. Deinonychosaurs, especially the smaller ones, likely had a very birdlike body plan in terms of plumage.
  • Use common sense. No inaccurate environments or settings, no crazy colors or patterns, no anthropomorphization whatsoever, and no anachronistic species interacting (unless it's clearly a cartoon and therefore belongs in the fun stuff folder).
  • No images that were not created by you. No "meme" images. If you use a photo, a skeletal, a 3D model, or a free-use image in your submission, please cite your reference (unless you made it yourself, of course).
  • About the fun stuff folder: this folder is for cartoons, caricatures, PSAs, comics and joke-y stuff involving deinonychosaurs. While this folder isn't intended to be strict paleoart, submissions must still be reasonably accurate. Correct feather placement and avoidance of common mistakes is a must.

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:iconscience-illustration::iconraptor-fanz::iconcouncil-of-feathers:
Thank you for your input on the last journal entry, about whether we should allow non-feathered submissions. Much to my relief, the community's overwhelming reaction was a resounding "hell no!" In light of that discussion and also of external communication with a couple of concerned members, I have decided instead to be stricter about accuracy and more selective from now on in terms of what I'll allow here. This doesn't mean that every submissions has to be absolutely perfect, but the bar is slightly higher than before. For an updated list of our rules, please see the front page on Deinonychosauria.

However, there is a caveat: at suggestion from babbletrish, I have decided to open up a new folder for deinonychosaur cartoons, PSAs and the like. However, these must still be accurate. The primary focus of this folder is one of humor and of educational value, not strict paleo-art, but I will not sacrifice accuracy for the sake of humor (i.e. feathers can still attach to the correct digit in a cartoon!). Of course this does mean I'll be more lenient about anthropomorphic expression and behavior in this folder.

With this in mind, I have two questions on which I'd appreciate some input from the community:

1. Is the "fun stuff" folder a good idea? If there's an overwhelming consensus against it, I'll ditch it. Suggestions for additional guidelines are welcomed.
2. Spec evo: Yay or nay? Whenever I come across amazing stuff like this I sort of want it here, but it doesn't count as realistic paleoart so I'm not sure.

Thanks everyone!
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:iconthearchosaurqueen:
TheArchosaurQueen Featured By Owner Jul 27, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thank you :aww:.
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pilsator Featured By Owner Jul 27, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Hey, thanks for submitting my deinonychs to the Featured folder!
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MattMart Featured By Owner Jul 26, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Good idea for a group. Are the group names flexible? What with the buzz about unpublished species & studies supporting Archie as a member, Archaeopterygiformes does have quite a bit of name priority :)
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EWilloughby Featured By Owner Jul 26, 2011  Professional General Artist
Oh man, I had endless problems and indecision when deciding how to name this group in regard to Archaeopterygiformes. It does seem ridiculous to exclude Archie from a morphological standpoint, but things get confusing from a phylogenetic standpoint (I want this group to exclude birds, there are already tons of dA groups for bird-related things, but I don't want the group to be... paraphyletic). What do you think, should I include Archaeopterygiformes here?
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MattMart Featured By Owner Jul 27, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Meh, I'd WFTP and see what the evidence for a monophyletic Archaeopterygiformes with Archie + Deinonychosaurs is first.
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pilsator Featured By Owner Jul 27, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
So there's something in the pipeline that more or less firmly recovers Archie as a deinonychosaur (or rather, under these circumstances, deinonychosaurs as archaeopterygiforms) as opposed to finding it there because the analysis doesn't focus on paravians?
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Old-PaleoClipper Featured By Owner Jul 26, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
thank you! looks very nice
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Durbed Featured By Owner Jul 26, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thanks for inviting me. :)
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BrokenMachine86 Featured By Owner Jul 25, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Thanks for the invitation!!! :)
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ChrisMasna Featured By Owner Jul 25, 2011  Professional Digital Artist
Thank you very much for considering me for this group! :)
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E-Smaniotto Featured By Owner Jul 25, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Thanks a lot for inviting me and asking me to show some of my works! What a wonderful surprise!
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pilsator Featured By Owner Jul 25, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Congrats for this idea, Ferahgo! And thanks a bunch for inviting me and asking me to show off my artwork.
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Ikechi1 Featured By Owner Jul 24, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
thanks for this Ferahgo and thanks for letting me join, though I don't have any accurate raptors in my gallery.....yet.
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SageKorppi Featured By Owner Jul 24, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
"However, to the best of my knowledge, there aren't any maniraptoran-related groups on DA where accuracy is a significant focus. This one is intended to be the first."

Thank you thank you thank you thank you Ferahgo!
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