iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

DINODON'T! My submission to @speedfreak01.bsky.social's Pyara region DLC contest. This one's an evolution of one of their pokemon, DODON'T.

A grey and yellow raptor-like creature with wings and a plumed crest upon its head.

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Those silly old timey paleontologists forgot the feathers

Quadrepedal reptilian creature with feathers

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Life as a non lego can be rough when you don't have any brand recognition to be the wind beneath your wings. Thankfully, if you're compatible with most leading brick building brands, all you need is a bit of creativity and suddenly you're somebody. Captain somebody, even.

A Make-It Blocks astronaut figure lays upon the tabletop in pieces. He speaks:

"Can anybody hear me? This is Captain Strange. Complete system failure, I repeat, complete system failure. Ground ground control, come on...

Captain Strange turns to see a strange shadow approaching from the right. The owner of that shadow speaks from offscreen:

"Why hello there. You've fallen a long way from the dollar tree, brother."

A minifigure made of lego, kre-o, and top blox, wearing an armature of arms tipped with various tools stands over Captain Strange. He speaks:

"Nothing to worry about. Soon you'll be better than ever. I can fix you."

A close up of the second minifigure, brandishing a chrome blade. He speaks:

"I can fix anyone."

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Narrated by either Gary Owens or Christopher Reeve, now on VHS and DVD

Drawing of a VHS case named "Dino-Mania" with a green Tyrannosaurus head on it

Drawing of a DVD case named "Dino-Mania" with a green Triceratops skull on it

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

OPPOLEON - More pocket monsters should be dinosaur/marsupial hybrids named after historical figures.

A quadrupedal creature that resembles a mix of an opossum and a dinosaur. Four pink baby versions of the creature are holding on to its back

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Hell yeah, I've still got the field guide they issued

A photo of the "Jurassic Park Institute Dinosaur Field Guide"

A photo of the "Jurassic Park Institute Dinosaur Field Guide", open to the page on Spinosaurus

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Three minions for hire, a nocturnal hammerhead, a glob, and a lil' ducky. A digital redo of a drawing from 2019.

Three creatures upon a white background. To the left is a blue amorphous blob creature with eyes, tentacles, and one humanoid arm. To the right is a greyish brown winged dragon-like creature with a head like a hammerhead shark. Between them is a yellow-orange creature that resembles a duck with a shock of pink hair upon its head.

Three creatures upon a white background. To the left is a greyish brown winged dragon-like creature with a head like a hammerhead shark. To the right is a blue amorphous blob creature with eyes, tentacles, and one humanoid arm. Between them is a yellow-orange creature that resembles a duck.

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Took a stab at designing a mega dragonite

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Digital version of an old doodle. An Abra/Charmeleon hybrid and a non cyborg 'space dinosaur' Gigan, back before he lost his baby teeth and the before the nanobots in his bloodstream began reformatting him and adding the mechanized metallic parts (at least that's how I imagined it happened)

Two creatures, the lefthand one being black with grey chitonous armor and a purple flame at the end of its tail. The creature on the right is blue and yellow, with red eyes, limbs that end with sharp points, and mandibles one either side of its jaw.

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

A Normal type Charmeleon. No fire powers but still runs a bit hot, holding one feels like holding a hot water bottle.

A bipedial, pinkish tan reptilian creature with light yellow-green eyes, two fangs on its upper jaw, a single row of five teeth on its lower jaw, and a tuft of hair on the end of its tail.

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

A Normal Charmander. Removing Fire from the equation alters its body chemistry and development due to no longer sustaining high temperatures and not being able to rely on elemental energies for growth.

A bipedal tan and pinkish reptilian creature with light yellow-green eyes, a fang on its upper jaw, two teeth on its lower jaw, and hairy tuft at the end of its tail.

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

MEW█████ - Another failed Mew clone. Hides by using its psychic powers to remove itself from people's memories. The only evidence of it left are partially burned documents no one remembers writing and edited footage of it escaping the lab. Very few people are allowed to remember it.

A bluish-purple floating entity with asymmetrically shaped limbs and a branching tail shields its face from the viewer with its large right arm.

Do̷ ̷y̷o̷u̷ ̷r̷e̷m̷e̷m̷b̷e̷r̷ ̷y̷o̷u̷r̷ ̷o̷l̷d̷ ̷p̷a̷l̷ ̷Me̷w̷t̷h̷r̷e̷e̷?̷

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

POXTONGUE - My take on a Dragon Quest enemy.

A green sickly reptilian creature with a long, lolling tongue from which spore things are emerging from

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

There was a Dark Horse comic that touched upon similar themes called "Aliens: Apocalypse - The Destroying Angels". I think the idea is Aliens were the force behind the Fermi Paradox.

A panel from "Aliens: Apocalypse" featuring a primordial Alien attacking a Space Jokey.
Text reads:
"Oh, yes. It's happening again. I've seen the pattern. One and a half billion years ago, the giants who built this city grew into a space-faring race. For a time, they dominated our galaxy. Then the angels appeared and restored balance."

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

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PREDATOR 2
Yet another lifeform that preys upon the deadly ALIEN, adept at smuggling itself into their hives as part of its life cycle. This species also begins as a face-hugging parasite, one that seeks out the same kind of host organisms the Alien utilizes. After implantation it becomes dormant, waiting for its current host to be captured by Aliens, placed within a hive, and face-hugged. The gestating chestburster will be summarily devoured by the predatory embryo, with the nutrients triggering a growth spurt and subsequent eruption from the host. This newly mobile phase has very little scent, allowing it to evade detection from Aliens while it feeds on eggs, facehuggers, and chestbursters. (Alien Queens possess the ability to detect these intruders, as do experienced Praetorians.) Though growing to a size larger than a Warrior Alien, this predator’s long serpentine body allows it to slip through surprisingly small corridors. The two wing-like appendages on its back can fold down to protect its vulnerable flanks from the raking claws and teeth of the Alien swarm once its scent becomes more pronounced and is finally targeted by the hive. This is the make-or-break phase of its life-cycle, with only the swiftest and most resilient individuals escaping into the outside world. Once out it will continue to prey upon isolated Alien Warriors and will eventually lay an egg, beginning the process anew.

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

PREDATOR 2 - Another lifeform that shares and ecosystem with the infamous ALIEN. This one specializes in smuggling itself into Alien hives. Heavily inspired by Giger's "Alien Monster IV".

A reddish brown alien lifeform, with an elongated eyeless head, four vaguely humanoid limbs, a skeletal torso, and a long twisting tail ending in a bladed stinger. Two wing-like appendages sprout from its back, and the end of its tongue has pincer-like jaws at the end of it.

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

INDOMIGNATHUS - A compy with attitude (and several genes originating from many other species of dinosaur and reptiles).

A greyish-blue bipedal dinosaur of slight build, with small spikes along the sides of its body down to its tail, sharpened claws, and large long jaws.

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Grudge Match 31 "RECALL that the villain of the piece, more often than not, possesses a pseudonym that is NOT their name. Need I REMIND you that they call Comic Book Guy."

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

NINETIES DÆMON - Living in the past much? I guess in a way it's all we have, as long as you ignore the present and the future, man. You can summon HÆMAK-ARÆNAH if you want, dudester, but you have to chant its name eleven times. Thankfully there's, like, totally a song to help you with that.

A yellow giraffe-colored winged reptilian creature resembling a mix between a dromaeosaur and a dragon casts its glance towards the viewer. A green JP symbol is blazened across its thigh and its tail has a jibba-jabber on the end of it. A speech bubble resembling a VHS rewinding screen has the words "REW" within it, along with the sentence "Don't have a 🐄, man" (the word 'cow' being represented in cuneiform). There's a faint jazzy blue and purple pattern along the white background.

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Jon Nappleseed - Mass produced science hero from the future. Named after the legendary tree-herder from Appalakian legend.

A humanoid being with colorful tubes running through his body, a head with a flat carved top, and large mismatched arms glows magenta in a black void.

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

WYRM - Where do wormholes come from? Turns out it's worms. Growing to lengths more easily measured in miles/kilometers, they use fractal teeth to rip through the fabric of space-time as they travel throughout (and outside) the universe. This process 'aerates' the dimensional branes, which is good!

A spikey, worm-like creature with three serpentine limbs glows green in a black void. Three mandibles crown its jaws as it tears colorful rips in the fabric of space-time.

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

ZUKI: Zoologically Unclassified Kaiju-like Idiosyncrasy Non-Hostile\NOT radioactive\Unknown origin\Possible link to MTR-01(ゴジラ)\First seen 9/9/78 Pitkin, Alaska\Known to: circumnavigate globe in a week: spew smoke when threatened: land on boats & enter buildings\CAN SUMMON MTR-01 TO CURRENT LOCATION

A winged reptilian creature with spikes running along its back is lit red in a room with pipes running along the wall. One of its wings juts out from the drawings frame, as does the tip of its head.

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

UB-13 Outsider a.k.a. VEXTRUDER

A reptilian creature squats on four legs, each limb ending with a tangle of claws. Its head is bare of flesh, consisting of a set of jaws, two eyes, and a brain-like organ.

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

DINOSAUR WIZARD - Disko the Warlock, attended by the winged compsognathus, about to perform his best trick; summon giant space rock.

A bipedal purple and tan dinosaur with a head similar to a dodo strides forward, bone wand in hand from which green sparks shoot and trinkets hang, accompanied by small red bat winged dinosaurs. Upon the larger dinosaur's head is plumage similar to a peacock, the eye-spot markings look exactly like its real eye. A ring of 'eyes' is formed from both its eye, the eye-spot plumage, and several floating 'eyes' of unknown origin. One of the green sparks issuing from the bone wand looks similar to a comet.

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

EON, the New Urth God of Ages. His body is able to ferment plant food so thoroughly it turns into reality-warping star-stuff, which he can also fire from his jaws as a weapon. It's never too late to make your own Primal Rage character.

Eon, a gigantic green, yellow, and red cotylorhynchus (a small headed herbivorous synapsid from the Permian era) taking an aggressive stance as aether phases through his body and billows out of his jaws. Beside him is a hooded human welding a scythe.

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

THE LEMUR'S DREAM - To me Gooble obviously represents humanity; upright, broad shouldered, ponderous and all consuming. Noggindrill is mankind's machinery which, to a lemur, might as well be living things. Strangely shaped, unknown function, unforeseen consequences.

A large purple hulking figure (Gooble) tosses handfulls of berries into his mouth. An orange creature with a drill for a head (Noggindrill) emerges from the ground.

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Any creature that shared an environment with Jurassic Park's version of Velociraptor would have to had developed anti-raptor tactics in order survive such a fierce and intelligent predator. Oviraptor got by though the use of vocal mimicry in order to confuse and destabilize them.

A bipedal reptilian dinosaur against an orange background. Its back is towards the viewer and its long tail thrashes behind it as it looks back and you. It is facing the viewer, mouth is open as if in mid shriek, and it is holding a ransacked egg carton in its clawed forelimbs, one of which has fallen out. A Jurassic Park 'JP' symbol is on its hip, Lost World style, reading 'Site B - JP.23'.

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

ANGUIRODON - An unmutated heisei version of Anguirus that shares an environment with the Godzillasaurus. Fierce, semi-aquatic, and omnivorous. The living embodiment of the best defense being a good offence.

A greyish, quadrupedal, armored dinosaur leaps forward against a light green background. Its armor plates are covered in spikes with a few scars criss-crossing amongst them. It has four horns adorning its head like a crest, and it's sharp white teeth are bared.

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

What arrives once a week, twice every day, and appears on the calendar three times a month? Once, twice, and thrice equals six, but what is that number afraid of? How many wonders of the world do you know? How many sins can you name? How many heavens? WHAT EIGHT NINE?

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

ALIEN/THIS ISLAND EARTH: ANGRY WEAPONS - “Like looking in a mirror, isn’t it? What’s that old Earth saying? ‘The apple does not fall far from the tree?’ Well, this apple had a worm attached to it. Or perhaps a serpent.”

Drawing of Giger's Alien (from the film 'Alien') with traits of the Metaluna mutant (from the film 'This Island Earth') - an eyeless, skeletal, biomechanical monster with pale iridescent skin.

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

ALIEN/THIS ISLAND EARTH: THE PEACE ENGINEERS

ALIEN/THIS ISLAND EARTH: THE PEACE ENGINEERS - “I know I’m just a savage, uncivilized human in comparison to your vast space-faring intellects and thinking computers, but I think this needs to be said; are you out of your damned minds!? Look at that thing! Do you really think it will lay down its arms and go back home to mom and pop when they win the war for you? You want killing machines now, right now, but you’re not thinking ahead. Or even looking back! You just explained you always find the eggs in ruins. Ruins! They murdered their makers! And now you’re giving these things a second chance to swarm over every planet and kill everyone else!”

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Connor Ricks @cgricks.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The starspawn and the fish bottle (shoulder angels/demons for hire)

Sketchbook page with drawings of a large green and yellow octopus-like creature and a smaller yellow and blue bottle shaped creature with pincers, spikes, and a long tail.

Sketchbook page under blacklight with drawings of a large green glowing octopus-like creature and a smaller yellow and blue bottle shaped creature with pincers, spikes, and a long tail with a glowing eye.

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