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Post by Tyrannax on Dec 14, 2008 1:06:35 GMT
I see, I believe it was a Giganotosaurus. Its somewhere in my room I think....I think it involves a race. At least the Giganotosaurus looks as if its running with a lot of people watching as if it was a formal event.
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Post by Blade-of-the-Moon on Dec 15, 2008 1:35:29 GMT
The novel with a Giga on the cover is Chomper by Glut : www.amazon.com/Chomper-Dinotopia-R-No-11/dp/0679891099/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229304374&sr=8-1Not sure it had anything to do with a race though..I'd have to read it again. Actually that fanfic sounds completely unrealistic... Gurney does skirt around the carnivores a bit...but it has been mentioned in his books that several carnivores like dromeosaurs feed on invertabrates and fish while living with people and herbivourous dinos. The rainy basin carnosaurs feed on each other as well as dead dinosaurs which venture from all over Dinotopia to die there when their time comes...and there is the odd human or dino that ventures where they shouldn't and end up as dinner. The carnos are intelligent..but just are more natural...preffering to keep to the old ways of living vs the herbivores. |
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Post by Meso-Cenozoic on Dec 15, 2008 6:22:17 GMT
Here is an illustration by the author/artist James Gurney. It depicts a Giga on the left with an attacking T-Rex coming in on the right...   Maybe it's a momma Giga protecting her baby. Because, there's a little one at bottom left that's peeking in behind the two people and the little ceratopsian! "Go get 'em momma!" (Oops, sorry Tyrannax, lol!) |
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Post by Meso-Cenozoic on Dec 15, 2008 6:31:31 GMT
Hey, I just noticed that I went over 100 posts!
I am a Full Member now! WooHoo!!!
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Post by ningishzida on Dec 15, 2008 21:59:23 GMT
The novel with a Giga on the cover is Chomper by Glut : www.amazon.com/Chomper-Dinotopia-R-No-11/dp/0679891099/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229304374&sr=8-1Not sure it had anything to do with a race though..I'd have to read it again. Actually that fanfic sounds completely unrealistic... Gurney does skirt around the carnivores a bit...but it has been mentioned in his books that several carnivores like dromeosaurs feed on invertabrates and fish while living with people and herbivourous dinos. The rainy basin carnosaurs feed on each other as well as dead dinosaurs which venture from all over Dinotopia to die there when their time comes...and there is the odd human or dino that ventures where they shouldn't and end up as dinner. The carnos are intelligent..but just are more natural...preffering to keep to the old ways of living vs the herbivores. Actually the fanfic I referred to seems far more realisistic than Gurney's cutesy cutesy Dinotopia. Why would the Carnos be reduced to eating each other when realistically, these intelligent carnosaurs would have every advantage and could easily dominate their world? Appeasement by the humans and herbos is the only realistic answer. And being allowed to prey on the 'losing' section of the human population would keep the human population in check. Even the Herbos couldn't compalin. In a realistic Dinotopia I could imagine the Carnos carefully watching the humans as well, and eliminating any new technology that could prove a threat to them. |
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Post by Meso-Cenozoic on Jan 14, 2009 3:46:36 GMT
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Post by dinonikes on Jan 14, 2009 4:07:06 GMT
Man I forgot how really beautiful those paintings really are, haven't seen them in a while. They remind me a lot of Maxfield Parrish. One of my favorites is the one where the guy is riding the pterosaur- the way the background is distorted as you would see as you were flying fast, not able to focus on anything for very long. Very cool.
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Post by ningishzida on Jan 14, 2009 12:38:47 GMT
Man I forgot how really beautiful those paintings really are, haven't seen them in a while. They remind me a lot of Maxfield Parrish. One of my favorites is the one where the guy is riding the pterosaur- the way the background is distorted as you would see as you were flying fast, not able to focus on anything for very long. Very cool. He was an illustrator for National Geographic, so combined his atistic knowledge of dinosaurs with that of historical architecture. But now I see the painting that inspired the guy who did the fanfic about the carnos eating the women of a different sector of Dinotopia based on the outcome of the race. Those appear to be very large dromaosaurs in the contest, which seem a bit out of place 'performing' with humans, though the fanfic guy seemed to make more sense of it than Gurney did. |
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