Sabertooth by Jerry LoFaro on ArtStation.
A prehistoric lion-sized cat with a long, narrow head and flat, serrated upper canines. These scimitar-toothed predators arose in Africa, then spread to Eurasia and finally to North and South America. Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs.
Extinct S. populator was the largest of the three Smilodon species. Tiger-sized with burly forelimbs and weighing 480 to 950 lb, it was overall more robust than any living cat. Its long upper canines, however, were relatively slender and weak, apparently adapted to a precision bite. Pleistocene. (Leviatan-666)
Extinct saber-toothed Smilodon engaged in fierce battle with another large cat. (Zdenek Burian)
Extinct Homotherium skull reconstruction by Velizar Simeonovski; right column based on Vratislav Mazak’s interpretation of cave art. The flat, serrated upper canines may have been concealed by the lips when the mouth was closed.
Skull of the extinct dirk-toothed big cat, which lived in the Americas during the Pleistocene.
X. hodsonae, melanistic phase: A prehistoric robust machairodont, more muscular than any other cat alive or dead. All its teeth were serrated, not only the broad upper fangs. They lived about 1 million years ago in the Pleistocene of North America.
My concept of a sabertooth Tiger,. More of it on my instagram : https://www.instagram.com/idiependaal/ Had the rough concept sculpture lying around from a sculpt session a few years back. and used it now to test some yeti fur grooming. Since before this i mainly used xgen. Was pretty tough getting it to this point, to big of a groom for my old system. Will share some work in progress sequences and screenshots soon. Learned a lot of the yeti grooming basics on this one, and added snow on top and in the groom with instancing on the curves. I did chunks. ,best would be to do it on a snowflake level if you got the cpu and ram for it. But jus wanted to have this one presentable quickly, things can be improved. But good enough for this 3dconcept. Allready took a good amount of time:)
Extinct S. populator was the largest of the three Smilodon species—tiger-sized, burly and weighing 480 to 950 lb.
DNA studies reveal these prehistoric felids were social, swift predators that diverged from modern cats about 22.5 Mya. About the size of a lion, with long serrated canines, they arose in Africa, then spread to Eurasia and finally to North and South America. Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs. (Mauricio Antón)
Megantereon cultridens: Megantereon was a genus of prehistoric sabrecats built like a large stocky jaguar with a powerful neck and forelimbs and flattened, serrated upper canines. They lived in Africa and Eurasia from the Pliocene to North America in the Pleistocene. Possibly the ancestor of Smilodon. (Mehdi Nikbakhsh)
An extinct feline with long serrated saber-like canines, a sloping back, and a short tail. It was about the average size of a modern lion or tiger. They arose in Africa, then spread to Eurasia and finally to North America. Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs.
