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I built 128 dog-breed skeletons by recycling the same bones.
I'm about to update this piece to 150 breeds (about 25 added in the past year). This is roughly 3 years' worth of work (off and on) and a process where I reuse nearly everything (rib cages, skulls, femurs, and even pieces of fur) across breeds - rarely starting anything from scratch. All work is done in Illustrator, and many bones are on separate layers (which makes it easy to move things around and/or create new breeds from old ones). The breeds aren't entirely to scale, but that was a decision made to keep the largest breeds from interfering with those in the rows above and to keep the smallest breeds from disappearing entirely. :)
u/meat_on_bones — 7 days ago