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Favorite Dinosaur Reconstructions
Topic Started: Sep 28 2013, 09:05 PM (305,623 Views)
Ulquiorra
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Came across these two earlier today,

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CyborgIguana
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They're both amazing, though the visibility of the antorbital fenestra on the raptor's snout is bugging me just a little.
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CyborgIguana
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Any other Zdenek Burian fans here? His work is quite dated now, but he stood alongside Charles Knight and Rudolph Zallinger as a paleo-art legend of his time:

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Incinerox
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti

I like how the paleoartists of old weren't afraid to put a little bit of meat on dinosaur bones. Everything, while inaccurate, at least looks like it was intended to be a fleshed out animal.

Marine animals were given rubbery skin. All dinosaurs above had thick, wrinkly skin and solid muscles that covered the skeleton and smoothed out the whole animal. How did we manage to lose that in the first place?
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CyborgIguana
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Probably out of the Dinosaur Renaissance's need to emphasize dinosaurs as leaner, meaner animals. I agree that some artists definitely took it too far though.
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Acinonyx Jubatus
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I AM THE UNSHRINKWRAPPER!

Those hadrosaurs... So ugly in shape, but SO PRETTEH IN COLOURS.

Also I want one of those baby Pteranodon as a pet.

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Paleop
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is that a dilophosaurus?
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Acinonyx Jubatus
May 21 2015, 08:00 PM
Those hadrosaurs... So ugly in shape, but SO PRETTEH IN COLOURS.
That's another thing I like about Burian, he seemed to be one of the first paleo-artists who wasn't afraid to add splashes of colour to his dinosaurs at a time when most of his contemporaries were still depicting them almost universally in dull greens, greys, and browns.
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Paleop
May 21 2015, 08:33 PM
is that a dilophosaurus?
Indeed it is. Magnificent, is it not?

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^Though not nearly as magnificent as this. How to Train Your Pterosaur for the win.
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CyborgIguana
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OMG I WANT ONE!
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Nerdasaurus

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Best argentavis I've seen in a while. :)
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Tyranachu
May 22 2015, 12:26 AM
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Best argentavis I've seen in a while. :)
I think Tyranachu has said enough.
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Mathius Tyra
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Rat snake is love... Rat snake is life

Meh, that is very ugly! Whoever did that has no taste at all.
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Condors and Vultures are usually very ugly (if majestic), no reason to think that Teratorornids may not had been too considering their morphological similarities...
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Mathius Tyra
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Rat snake is love... Rat snake is life

But look at that neck fluff! It's based on what? A Nicobar pigeon?! That's ridiculous! And what're those crest! Totally not a bad rip-off of secretary bird's.... And the orange face??? Come on, it would certainly look even better with purple or blue!
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