Hello! I don’t know if you’re into digimon or not but you do like pterosaurs so i’m curious what your thoughts are on Rhamphomon and Azhdarmon’s designs as they’re based off pterosaurs :) they’re relatively new digimons!
I know SOME on digimon both from childhood enjoyment and through osmosis by a friend! I saw them the other day and they're awesome! I'll go through each below
Rhamphomon- got a really nice pose flow going. I love the club tail, it does a lot of things right, a little more fuzzy than your average ptero in most medias (they were fully fluffed!) and got style. The wings are pretty nice too and I really like the head cover thing and colors. Good digimon in general!!
This thing is so fucking cool I'm not even gonna lie. The blades on top of the wings are SIIIIIICK.
The metallic parts are just incorporated well and the crest low-key reminds me of a nyctosaurus shape. I really like this dude. Just incredible design. I look at it and instead of anything meaningful I think "this is so fucking awesome".
The "negative" and anatomy tidbits: Both of them suffer from common pterosaur designing problems though, but it's a wide problem from outdated or just untrue stuff in popular media you'd have to do some research mentioning these facts. The bird feet is the most prominent, pterosaurs did not have grasping feet at all! If anything later pterosaurs feet even looked a little too human and sometimes I'm a little haunted by it. The number of digits is correct though with a caveat. They also are missing a hand finger, as *most* pterosaurs had 3 regular fingers and a wing finger.
By later pterosaurs, I mean there is a split between early and late pterosaurs with rhamphorhynchoids being earlier, and pterodactyloids later. Both have different characteristics that the later pterosaurs lost or developed such as the 5th toe, tail length, commonly beaked, etc.
Which leads to the mention azhdarmon has a tail too long for azhdarchids, as they have very small tails I'd compare to a bear in silly factor, but who am I to talk since I do the same for some characters :p it's still really rad.
Overall? Surprisingly good designs and makes me giddy they are making more pteros as the diversity would lead to so many designs. Tupandactylus would easily make for an axe for a head.
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