and here is the dunkleosteus without the bone overlay for use as reference in life reconstructions
remember the plates are exposed but the flesh around them isnt shrinkwrapped, only the skin overlying the plates

A little life reconstruction to go with it

I forget what it was actually but it’s a typo

Some stills of other angles and hidden parts

And in the workspace (fixed the animation too

Oh that’s a fun one

this is just a little on the spot spec behavior but its based vaguely on modern behaviors derived to the extreme over 200 million years
these being the first true sophonts since the fall of man

hunting in packs comprised of a breeding pair and their daughters, with mature males leaving and living fairly solitary lives until finding a mate

the sharkopath and their relatives being extremely smart animals, having their own language similar to modern cetacean clicks and buzzs but using the bioluminescence running down their bodies and fins

That background utahraptor just going