I have finished the head illustration at least, and now i just need to finish what i am on with the body. Originally i was going to do three different dinos, each being not so high rez and not so much detail, but now I am focusing on the one, and will do others at a later date. Thanks for your comments and putting up with my WIP.
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Nice work. Does it get a little confusing when you have so much detail going on?
Nice modeling, and textures. More updates!
Really nice!!! I love the fact that texture and detail get along just fine. The teeth are marvelous! MORE!
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good!!! very good!, Nice model and textures. More updates!
you paint textures very quickly~:D do you show how to do with it?:o
Wow!
I don’t understand how you did the scales.
I feel so lost in ZBrush. Can’t figure out how you guys are getting such amazing detail.
Can you explain how many sub-d levels you have? How much memory this model takes up? What kind of computer are you running? Do you need a power house of a computer to do these kinds of details?
Thanks.
nice work, on the details and what not, though your reference is very very old, like 1800’s old.
sure theres artist interpretation and then theres fossiil records and scientific and anatomical accuracy.
but good job anyway.
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well since no one was around back then anatomy beyond the fossils is subjective anyway. Man has been fooled by fossils before …well man has been fooled by man made fossils before so I am willing to give mr lewis a break here, since I wasn’t around when they were I can’t say his interpretation is wrong.
I can say I think he did a fine job on it and I am sure it suits the purpose for which he intends it and I hope he is happy with his results when he is done because ultimately that is the only one he has to satisfy.
well, as it turns out he had it all wrong cause the way he had the allosaurus positioned his back would be broken, plus most of what we now know about the dinosaurs is from the fossil records and the study of modern day animals and how they adapt to their environment and in thinking that way we can pretty much discern what they could’ve been like.
i could go into more detail on that but i figured i wouldn’t want to bore anyone and i just don’t feel like typing all that much.
very good!
Hey this is great modelling, and your texturing is particularly pleasing.
But I hafta agree with Neuro, a lot of recent research has changed the way we think about dino appearance, especially the Theropods (bipedal carnivores). They were a lot less upright than originally thought and would have had to have been a lot more straight-legged. The weight of these guys - around 2-3 tons for an Allosaur - just couldnt be held in the typical ‘crouching’ position for great lengths of time, and the purpose of the long tail had to be to cantilever the huge head with it’s massive jaw muscles. This becomes more evident as the animal gets larger, to the point where the 5 ton T-Rex is basically a set of legs and a head with a tail for balance. This is possibly why the arms got so ridiculously small, suggesting that given another 50 million or so years they might have disappeared altogether.
This stuff is just physics and has required new discoveries and new technologies that just weren’t available a century ago, there is still an awful lot we’re just guessing at. They may have had feathers, (actually they definitely did have - new finds from China have proven that an ancestor of T-Rex had simple feathers, but they may have only been present in juveniles), they may have had all sorts of colours and adornments like a chickens comb, or a turkey’s neck, but we can only guess at this as soft tissue isn’t preserved in fossils, although another recent find from China has the imprints of scaly skin.
That’s why Paleontology is so interesting (to dweebs like me), because new things are being unearthed every day, and new scientific advances never stop.
Sorry to take the focus off your excellent sculpt Lewis, I’m looking forward to seeing the final result.
