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If I haven't already revealed myself to be a complete and utter dork about this werewolf stuff, this should prove it — I even did a dentition study, and of course, I had to animate it.

I only ended up doing the the front and side views, since animating the tooth schematic would have been even more overkill than this already is. You can view the animations here:

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Using human and canine anatomy for reference, I worked out how the transitions between the two would work with the aid of an intermediate form. One thing that threw me at first, humans have four upper incisors between our canine teeth, but wolves have six. Instead of just leaving it so, I had two additional teeth grow in at the top between the incisors and canines. Likewise, on the lower jaw, the wolf skull I used as reference had an additional pre-molar and molar on each side. Interestingly, while doing this study, I learned that canine's molars are evolved to work like scissors. The lower jaw is slightly narrower than the upper, allowing the two to mesh along their interface, so the animal can cut and slice a kill's flesh, to make smaller chunks that are easier to swallow. Some time later, I saw a zookeeper demonstrate this using a lion skull. Apparently this is a feature among all of the carnivore family.

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If I haven't already revealed myself to be a complete and utter dork about this werewolf stuff, this should prove it — I even did a dentition study, and of course, I had to animate it.

I only ended up doing the the front and side views, since animating the tooth schematic would have been even more overkill than this already is. You can view the animations here:

[link]

Using human and canine anatomy for reference, I worked out how the transitions between the two would work with the aid of an intermediate form. One thing that threw me at first, humans have four upper incisors between our canine teeth, but wolves have six. Instead of just leaving it so, I had two additional teeth grow in at the top between the incisors and canines. Likewise, on the lower jaw, the wolf skull I used as reference had an additional pre-molar and molar on each side. Interestingly, while doing this study, I learned that canine's molars are evolved to work like scissors. The lower jaw is slightly narrower than the upper, allowing the two to mesh along their interface, so the animal can cut and slice a kill's flesh, to make smaller chunks that are easier to swallow. Some time later, I saw a zookeeper demonstrate this using a lion skull. Apparently this is a feature among all of the carnivore family.