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Walking with Dinosaurs; You've seen the show, prepare for the S&T!
Topic Started: Sep 20 2013, 08:24 PM (6,353 Views)
CyborgIguana
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The title says it all. Using DM's WWD pack, I've decided to recreate WWD in ZT2 photos. Note that there will be various differences from the original TV series, namely I'll be doing the episodes in order of what's released, rather than following the original order. Also, I'll be adding a few of my own bits and pieces to the episodes, but for the most part they will remain the same. And now, the feature presentation. ;)

NEW BLOOD:

Imagine you could travel back in time, to a time long before man. As you travel you can see huge changes in the vegetation and the climate. Even the surface of the Earth itself would move as mountain ranges are pushed up by colliding continents.

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Now, we've reached the first stop on our voyage through time. We've arrived on a lush scrubland 220 million years ago, and this is where our story begins.

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Suddenly, there is movement among the tall horsetails.

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The slender shape of a female Coelophysis emerges into the open. She is one of the first dinosaurs and, although she doesn't know it yet, she is the founder of a dynasty that will last 160 million years.

To Be Continued...





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Lanzerince
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Nice work, can't wait to see what's next
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PrimevalRaptor
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Nice work so far, I'm sure there will be some nice updates. ^^
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CyborgIguana
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Thanks, guys. You'll love my recreation of the river from this episode, I think it turned out quite lovely myself. Also I should warn you that I might take a while with recreating the Thrinaxodon burrow since they were the only animals in the episode shown with babies (meaning I'll have to wait for the adults to mate and reproduce before I can take photos).
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Tyrannocanthosaurus
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Really well.
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extremos
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This seems like it'll be great! Can't wait for the next part.
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CyborgIguana
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Thanks guys. Here's part 2 of New Blood, and I got it done in the same day as part 1!

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A herd of Placerias come down to the river's edge for a late morning drink.

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These strange animals are part of an ancient group known as therapsids, or mammal-like reptiles. Millenia ago, these creatures ruled Pangaea, but now only a handful of therapsids remain. Placerias may look fearsome, but they are vegetarians. Their tusks are primarily used for digging up roots.

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However, these tusks can also be used in fearsome jousting tournaments between angry males.

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On the opposite bank, the female Coelophysis reappears.

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She spots a lungfish in the water, and assumes attack position. Dinosaurs such as herself have an advantage over other reptiles: they can move on two legs, which frees their front limbs to be used for manipulating objects. The positioning of dinosaur legs is different than that of other reptiles as well, they are held erect directly underneath the body instead of being sprawled out to the sides, and the long tail can be raised level with the legs when running to aid in balance. These features allow dinosaurs to be swift, streamlined, agile, and beautifully adapted...

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...for killing

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While the dinosaur busies herself with stalking the lungfish, other predators are also at work nearby.

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Dragonflies, the river's resident flying predators, dart about over the water.

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Insects first evolved around 100 million years before the first reptiles, and some of them quickly took to the wing and became aerial killers.

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The presence of the dragonflies attracts another, more exotic flying hunter.

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This is Peteinosaurus, part of a newly-evolved group of flying reptiles called pterosaurs. Pterosaurs are the first vertebrates to master powered flight. Their wings consist of an elongated fourth finger that supports a leathery membrane. Their bodies are covered in short fine hairs, and many species have long tails that can be used to steer during flight. Like dinosaurs, they are warm-blooded and active animals.

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Peteinosaurus is a natural-born insect hunter. She swoops after the dragonflies, snapping them up on the wing one by one.

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On one hilly riverbank there is a small burrow.

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And dwelling within is one of the valley's most bizarre and fascinating animals.

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To Be Continued...

Edited by CyborgIguana, Sep 21 2013, 01:29 PM.
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extremos
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I liked this part too, I can't wait for the rest!
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Admiral General Aladeen
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Nice job CI! It looks outstanding!
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CyborgIguana
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Thanks guys. After I'm done with New Blood, I'm going to do Land of Giants (I'll have to leave Nigel and his crew out of it since I can't include them in a ZT2 project, so it's just going to be a traditional WWD episode focusing just on the animals), and then Spirits of the Ice Forest once it's released.
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Bill
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great photography man. i'm suddenly in the mood for watching WWD again after seeing these :D
and it's awesome that you were able to took a perfect photograph of the Peteinosaurus, those thing are pretty darn fast.
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Cat
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I like the way you did it, but I dislike the foliage intensely. It would have been better if you used foliage that looked like the foliage from the actual show,
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CyborgIguana
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I tried to use foliage that looked similar, but this was the best I could do.
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MarxRaptor
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This is great!
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Lazardi
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Wow, awesome photographies! Especially the fighting Placerias, it's epic! :D
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