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Post by tomhet on Jul 25, 2008 1:26:12 GMT
Thanks for the positive comments. the acrocanthosaurus one and the perminan scene are awesome!!  so, you couldn't resist temptation? (is that the wwd liopleurodon)? It's not the WwD but a similar knock-off Liop made by TS Toys, an obscure Chinese company. |
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Post by stoneage on Jul 25, 2008 2:41:58 GMT
You should do more dioramas. I'd like to know what methods you use to show animals swimming under the water or flying in the sky?
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Post by tomhet on Jul 25, 2008 3:56:07 GMT
Unfortunately I don't have enough time to do more dios  I have a few oldies, I will post them if you like. As for the water effects, I love to experiment. Believe me, I have tried many things. In this case, I took two grainy B/W pictures of the Liop and the Ophthalmo. I'm holding the Liop so it appears to be swimming. After that, I resized, cut and pasted the Ophthalmo. Then I added a fake shadow and I coloured the pic. |
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Post by Libraraptor on Jul 25, 2008 10:41:50 GMT
Very nice! I like them.
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Post by stoneage on Jul 25, 2008 21:04:13 GMT
Sure I'm ready to see more! You really made a lot of effort to get a good picture.
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Post by tomhet on Jul 26, 2008 0:51:10 GMT
Ornithosuchus crushing a Proganochelys  The water is actually a plastic bag. I blurred it just a little bit. Kronosaurus & Cearadactylus:  2 Baryonyx fishing  A T-Rex attacking a pair of Euplocephalus  Liopleurodon hunting  Mammoth & Saber-Toothed cats  The midnight fisher. A Spinosaurus about to take a dive.  A Dunkleosteus has caught a careless Cladoselache.  |
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Post by therizinosaurus on Jul 26, 2008 3:07:54 GMT
That last one's great  |
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Post by brad on Aug 8, 2008 15:49:06 GMT
The Kronosaurus & Cearadactylus pic is my favourite. Reminds me of the National Geographic cover with Dakosaurus.
You should write a tutorial about your methods, unless they're a secret.
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Post by tomhet on Aug 8, 2008 17:30:49 GMT
^^^ Yeah, it reminded me of that too ;D The effects aren't secret. I just play around with Photoshop. I guess I could write a tutorial for some but others are old and I can't even remember what I used exactly  Besides, I had a full version of Photoshop 6 back then, now I have a 'light' version. New dio, several Cretaceous cephalopods:  Explanation: I actually took seven different pics, (six of the animals, one of the background) and put them together. For the background I used a slab of volcanic rock. You have to cut them very carefully, otherwise it will look terrible. It should look a lot better with a decent camera (the Polyptychoceras have an awful whiteness I couldn't remove). A friend of mine told me it wasn't convincing, but I couldn't do better. I used an almost transparent dark blue layer (the opacity of the colour is %5 if I recall correctly, you can modulate it with Photoshop and get different results) |
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Post by richard on Aug 18, 2008 2:15:45 GMT
cool
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Post by Dinotoyforum on Aug 18, 2008 10:26:25 GMT
Nice ammonites diorama Tomhet!
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Post by tomhet on Sept 3, 2008 5:39:36 GMT
New one: Early Devonian estuary. You can see a big Pterygotus closing in on a Pteraspis. You can see two Hemicyclaspis watching the show.  |
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Post by richard on Sept 3, 2008 17:05:29 GMT
really good idea! there's a lot going on there but there's something about the background... anyway very good job! |
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Post by stoneage on Sept 3, 2008 21:44:01 GMT
Good stuff Tomhet.
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Post by bokisaurus on Sept 3, 2008 23:36:27 GMT
Great dios! Are the sea scorpion and friends Kaiyodo/Dinomania figures? I like the hunting liopleurodon, did you enhance his eyes?
What's next? Can you do a triassic? That would be cool!
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Post by tomhet on Sept 4, 2008 2:30:40 GMT
Hey Boki, The Pterygotus, Pteraspis and Hemicyclaspis are indeed Kaiyodos. You can read my review of the Pterygotus on the blog I'm glad you liked the hunting Liop. Curiously enough, I didn't enhance the eyes (or the teeth), it was a funny effect of the camera  I don't know what I will do next. I will try to do one located in the Triassic ;D |
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Post by richard on Sept 4, 2008 15:06:54 GMT
and why not a jp based one?  *runs* uh what about a liopleurodon killing a dinosaur that got too close to the water? |
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Post by stoneage on Sept 4, 2008 23:24:36 GMT
;D Did you do something to the pterygotus to make it appear bigger and give it some color.
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Post by tomhet on Sept 5, 2008 3:49:43 GMT
and why not a jp based one? *runs* uh what about a liopleurodon killing a dinosaur that got too close to the water? JP? I'd do it if I had more figs, but I don't About the Liop, that wouldn't be so original ;D stoneage, I added some green and enlarged it a little bit |
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Post by richard on Sept 8, 2008 16:44:01 GMT
About the Liop, that wouldn't be so original ;D well you don't have ideas... a spino fishing? sharks chasing fish? a dancing mammoth? |
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the acrocanthosaurus one and the perminan scene are awesome!! 
so, you couldn't resist temptation? (is that the wwd liopleurodon)?
I have a few oldies, I will post them if you like.
Besides, I had a full version of Photoshop 6 back then, now I have a 'light' version.
*runs*