ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

The REAL Triceratops
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" *DISCLAIMER*
I know ARK's animals are not supposed to be the real-life creatures, and I love the game regardless of it's inaccuracies. This is merely to show a "what-if" of what it would be like if the ARK team strived for realism in their creatures designs.

I'M BACK AGAIN AND ABOUT TIME TO!

It feels so good to finally finish this, and though I think the page layout and text looks a little janky the trike itself is probably my best yet.
(even if the pose isn't very dynamic)

Now the general problem with ARK's trike is the proportions, it's tail was waaaay too large as is it's head. The legs and feet are pretty wrong to, they're more elephantine which is not correct. It also needed larger thighs and a fatter stomach.

Also though we do have skin impressions for ceratopsids and we know it to be scaly I doubt it's frill was overly armored as it is in game.
I know it's supposedly a cross between triceratops and styracosaurus but it's clearly meant to be a trike so I had to make the frill much less spikes over all.

I'm also not entirely sure if larger ceratopsids had bristles, I heard its been disproven and I'm going off of Saurian's trike model (note my trike is T. horridus, while Saurian's is T. prorsus) so I've elected to leave them out.

/I promise the next one won't take 10 months/

[Original for comparison: https://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/ark.gamepedia.com/d/dd/Dossier_Triceratops.png?version=e1a9bd5e1f369c99b99008d3c768d4f3 ]"
15 Comments
Nemo  [author] Jul 16, 2017 @ 3:32pm 
Yeah I heavily referenced Saurian for this. The color scheme isn't 1-to-1 hough.
Oz Cun' Jul 16, 2017 @ 3:29pm 
Saurian?
Nemo  [author] Jul 14, 2017 @ 3:02pm 
Thanks man! :D
Scanova the Carnotaurus Jul 14, 2017 @ 6:08am 
Breathtaking as always.
Shiina Jul 11, 2017 @ 10:49pm 
Mm
Nemo  [author] Jul 11, 2017 @ 10:39pm 
Honestly the walking animation is the worst it looks so weird.
Shiina Jul 11, 2017 @ 10:27pm 
Isle's trike 3 roar animation lmao
Nemo  [author] Jul 11, 2017 @ 10:22pm 
Honestly the derpyness probably comes from the pose. It's the same as the regular dossier as I tried to make it as faithful as possible while making my realism changes. Look at some Saurian footage or maybe eve the isles trike for a better idea of how this would look in motion.
Maybe more Saurian as the Isles trike has some weird animations.
Shiina Jul 11, 2017 @ 9:39pm 
Not the SUPER SUPER old design, I'm talking about the designs they used in things like Jurassic Park, long tail, further up off the ground, not as derpy looking in dimensions
Nemo  [author] Jul 11, 2017 @ 2:39pm 
Also goji I'm gonna need a new link in order to join.