7 new skins of the new juvenile woolly mammoth
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Here's my new original models for the Woolly Mammoth juvenile.
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https://www.nexusmods.com/planetzoo/mods/1877
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This is how Peak looks like.
Not to sound condesending or mean but here are my detaisl to helpp with your mod :)
Woolly Mammoths had a similar coloration to hairy Asian Elephants, with counter shading similar to rock hyraxes and pale beards and lips.
The ears of modern elephants develop long hairs around the earhole that are quite common today but mammoths would obviously have them completly covered by hair, and that hair was paler than the rest of the body. They were also smaller than the ones in this picture, almost like the proportional size of human ears to human skulls, that also aplied to adults. The ears would barely be visible with their full winter fur.
The fur around the lips and cheeks forming the beard was muchlonger, asian elephant calves today can have massively long hairs on their lips and around the tusks and of course, mammoths would be even hairier.
And note that the hair would also be much longer around the belly and arms, like bions and yaks.
By your's truly, paleoartist Benjamin-Leon Reinoso-Langlois
if you need some reconstructions for inspiration/reference, you can DM me on Instagram at Benjamin-León Reinoso-Langlois (@benleon_paleoartist) • Photos et vidéos Instagram , I'll be most happpy to help and contribute to your mod, extinct proboscidians are my expertise.
Initially I did try making some skins just as you describe, particularly the third one from the left (See attached image), but I was having a difficult time getting it to look good in game, so I abandoned the design and mixed it with just a more regular one. But I might try again in the future.
In my non-game model the fur is much longer around those areas, however with planet zoo's fur it can be a bit difficult to make super long fur without it ending up looking bad- so I did make it shorter. It's a bit longer than it looks in the picture, from close up it should look longer, I could try seeing how much longer I can get it before it starts looking bad with the game's shaders.
Do keep in mind that this would be an actually well-groomed mammoth born in a zoo- so not as messy as a wild one, the same would go for the adult. But I might consider attempting to make a messy fur shader in the future- but that would require me to delay the mod and spend countless hours experimenting with how to get it to look good, and I can't nearly afford to do that lol. I may try if I develop these technologies further with more extinct species I plan to upload in the future.