Dedication Raptors

Vektrix makes Raptors that are dedicated to some of his favourite creators as well as friends.

History of the Raptor Dedication
Vektrix started creating Raptors dedicated to other users in order to help garner subscriptions and awareness of these creators.

Creation Process
Creating a Raptor Dedication is perhaps the most involved Vektrix gets when creating Raptors. It is especially difficult with some creators, as he tries to recreate the style of the creator in question.

Getting Started
All Dedications start off as one of Vektix' several templates, some of which have been published. The template is in essence the element of the build that is his signature, since the templates are quite clearly his. One or two of the dedications have been built from scratch, however, these have subsequently had any of the parts, colours and textures removed and transformed into another template.

Know the Creator
Before he even starts to create a dedication, he will look through the creator's sporepedia for inspiration. This is, however, not limited to creatures. This process involves actually studying several creatures though and looking closely at some non-creatures in the case of creators who are not prolific in this area. In the end, though, the dedication will include elements from 3 or 4 creatures within that creator's repertoire.

Only one of the dedications has been to a creator whom he has not gotten to know well through comments or other aspects of the community. However, for all others, some aspects of the creator's personality - or at least Spore personality - may be incorporated into the piece.

Building a Raptor
After narrowing down to 3 or 4 creatures, Vektrix then gets to work. Using these creatures, he limits himself to the parts the creator has used in their builds. In many Raptors, there are even attempts at recreating certain aspects of the creator in question's work, such as crests, tails and various other adornments.

Of the 4 creatures being used as a guide, 1 is always for colour. In some dedications, Vektrix will simply use the "Paint as..." function to completely copy that look. In all of them there is an element of this, but in many the colour of one of the layers may be tinkered with. This is not because the colour scheme chosen is bad, more that by transferring it onto the raptor, it may well change it's effect too much. What looks good as a horse, will not always mean a good looking raptor. Only on occasion does he change the entire layer in question.

List of Raptor Dedications

 * Armaturoraptor
 * Bellaraptor
 * Cactaraptor
 * Celestiaraptor
 * Collaraptor
 * Dinoraptor
 * Drakeraptor
 * Exoraptor
 * Horroraptor
 * Illaraptor
 * Incendiaraptor
 * Knurlraptor
 * Krayven Raptor
 * Luporaptor
 * Mecharaptor
 * Monoraptor
 * Mutaraptor
 * Mutatoraptor
 * Neonraptor
 * Oculoraptor
 * Pandoraptor
 * Reefraptor
 * Spectraraptor
 * Venomoraptor
 * Xenoraptor
 * Zaroaraptor