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Post by Meso-Cenozoic on Apr 9, 2009 10:16:49 GMT
Very good, Stoneage. I'm impressed!
Well, the way I look at it, we may never really know how big any of these got. I agree with what Malcolm said about his statement under his avatar. Just think how many sizes us little humans come in! Just when we thought we've found the largest of a species, there will probably be yet another larger one out there to be found. Also, think about how long we've been uncovering these fossils compared to how many millions of years they were around!
I guess we can only go by what we know as of now and just keep updating our info as newer info comes in. I think this will always be an open case, at least in our lifetime, lol! ;D
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Post by bucketfoot on Jul 29, 2009 4:59:57 GMT
Stoneage - You forgot Torvosaurus (although "Edmarka" may just be a large Torvosaurus)
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Post by dinonikes on Oct 3, 2009 20:37:52 GMT
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Oct 3, 2009 21:53:33 GMT
Very cool If you were to edit anything, maybe just make the neural spines a little taller?
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Post by tomhet on Oct 4, 2009 2:32:58 GMT
^^^Yup, I was going to suggest that thing about the spines, particularly where the neck meets the head and maybe the area above the hips: Perhaps the hands should be facing each other? Other than that, I loved it, the tail looks very nice!
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Post by kuni on Oct 4, 2009 2:43:49 GMT
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Post by Blade-of-the-Moon on Oct 8, 2009 5:26:43 GMT
Hey Malcolm..hope your doing well. Nice to see you getting back to some dinos.. This Acro def beats the Carniegie piece...the fluid motion beats the Battat I think..but I agree with the above posts..add a bit of height to those spines..it's the animals defining characteristic after all.
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Post by kikimalou on Oct 8, 2009 7:55:40 GMT
Very nice one Malcolm, I can't say nothing about the height on the neural spines on the head/neck but the pose is really cool and so natural.
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Post by dinonikes on Oct 8, 2009 17:38:57 GMT
I made this guy in my usual fahion-right on a skeleton reconstruction- the vertebrael spines are the correct height- they are buried in back flesh/muscles- I went with the thinking that we discussed earlier in the thread regarding sail/hump options-I choseto make it this way as ooposed to having a back sail- if a sail is preferred i can scrape down the clay on the back to make it look sail like-the hands are facing in, clap style, it just doesn't look that way in the photos-
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Post by john2xtheman on Oct 8, 2009 18:09:52 GMT
I made this guy in my usual fahion-right on a skeleton reconstruction- the vertebrael spines are the correct height- they are buried in back flesh/muscles- I went with the thinking that we discussed earlier in the thread regarding sail/hump options-I choseto make it this way as ooposed to having a back sail- if a sail is preferred i can scrape down the clay on the back to make it look sail like-the hands are facing in, clap style, it just doesn't look that way in the photos- I personally believe the neural spines were hidden by muscle on the living animal,so I would say the model is fine as it is shown in the picture above .
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Post by Griffin on Oct 8, 2009 21:18:13 GMT
Wow I really like it. I agree with everyone else taller spines. I can't wait to see some color on this guy.
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Post by john2xtheman on Oct 8, 2009 22:43:06 GMT
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Post by tomhet on Oct 9, 2009 0:33:09 GMT
Well, they certainly match the skeleton, but I imagine that they would have meat on them, which would probably make them look taller. To dinonikes: it's clear that you based it on the skeleton I like the hump of your Acro, IMHO you don't need to convert it into a sail, I'd just suggest making the hump a little bit taller, that's all, but in the end it's your call
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Post by [][][]cordylus[][][] on Oct 9, 2009 2:52:23 GMT
And that's one sweet acro exibit!
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Post by dinonikes on Oct 9, 2009 4:20:07 GMT
Well, they certainly match the skeleton, but I imagine that they would have meat on them, which would probably make them look taller. To dinonikes: it's clear that you based it on the skeleton I like the hump of your Acro, IMHO you don't need to convert it into a sail, I'd just suggest making the hump a little bit taller, that's all, but in the end it's your call Yeah, maybe you are right about adding some more back meat to the top- thinking back to when I sculpted it, I probably didn't add enough to the top of the spines- plus I like the idea of beefing up this guy for whatever reason. I have to admit that I wasn't thrilled about making this guy with the sail look- I don't know why, but to me, without much knowledge of the science on this issue, it just seems like the spines were probably added attachment surface for big back muscles- I keep referring to a photo of a monitor skeleton that Crazy Crow man posted back in the original thread while we were discussing the Tylosaurus and mosasaurs. That photo showed the monitor to have pretty good length vertebrael spines- which in the case of the monitor were for muscle attachment, as monitors don't have sails like the Acro is almost certainly usually depicted-that same photo had a big influence on how I did the back of my Tylosaurus, which I modeled after a monitor's back- so long story short- I am going to add to the muscled back a bit- will post photos of revision-
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Post by nobs on Oct 9, 2009 12:43:17 GMT
That Acro Exhibit is at the Raleigh, NC Natural Science Museum (where I live, been there lots of times!). Its pretty nice, it has a life size Camarosaurus (fleshed out) in the same room, you can see its head in the corner there. Also of note is that the musuem is home to "Willow" the dinosaur fossil with its heart fossilized.
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Post by dinonikes on Oct 9, 2009 20:42:19 GMT
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Post by kuni on Oct 9, 2009 21:24:26 GMT
Nice! The back and hands look great!
I will fully own up to nitpicking at this point, but there seems to be a very sudden transition between the "back meat" and the tail.
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Post by dinonikes on Oct 9, 2009 21:45:09 GMT
Nice! The back and hands look great! I will fully own up to nitpicking at this point, but there seems to be a very sudden transition between the "back meat" and the tail. Yeah, i see that too- will adjust it a bit right before molding it- no need to post that revision I think- No need to feel you are nitpicking, these are the insights I am looking for- when you work on these things for hours you tend to lose that fresh eye to see it as it is- if that makes sense-
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Post by kuni on Oct 9, 2009 22:00:13 GMT
Cool. What color scheme are you thinking about for this guy?
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