Sunday, June 20, 2010

Spinosaurs

Spinosaurus
scale 1/25
length 62cm

















I attempted the lizard like lip and face reconstruction.

























































reference

"New Information on the Skull of the Enigmatic Theropod Spinosaurus, With Remarks on its Size and Affinities."Dal Sasso, C.; Maganuco, S.; Buffetaut, E.; Mendez, M.A. (2005)
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Vol. 25 (4)

  "My theropod is bigger than yours...or not: estimating body size from skull length in theropods".Therrien, F.; and Henderson, D.M. (2007). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27 (1)

"Dinosaur Expo 2009 -The Miracle of Deserts "  official Catalogue


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Monday, June 7, 2010

"LIFE RESTORATIONS OF DINOSAUS"

 
This book was published in 2008 in Japan.
I participated to this book as one of the paleo artists.


















 Participating artist
In this book, many works by 7 paleo artists are introduced,
and there are many explanations by mainly many Japanese paleontologists.
















The article on painting by Takashi Oda.















The article on sculpting by Tyler Keillor.

















My Allosaurus.














The explanation on Allosaurus.
Many Japanease paleontologists wrote articles for this book.