Hyogo International Dinosaur Symposium 2013

Hyogo International Dinosaur Symposium 2013
March 16-17

 The first day naight, we stayed and had a dinner at a spring inn.


The second day, I and Takashi Oda talked about our art work at Tamba dinosaur fossil Lab.

 

 Xing Xu , Mahito Watabe, James Kirkland, and Haruo Saegusa.

James Kirkland, Xing Xu , and Takanobu Tsuihiji.

Romain Amiot and a origami dinosaur he made.

I, Ren Hirayama, and James Kirkland with my work 

 Thr paleontologists expained the exhibition of  Tamba dinosaur fossil Lab. to participant  of the sympojium.

I gave James Kirkland Tarbosaurus and Saurolophus the official toy of the exhibition "The Gobi:Cradle of the most enchanting dinosaur fossils" .
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I sculpted the models for these toys.
The center is Mahito Watabe, He is the supervisor of these toys. 

 After the sympojium, We went to Osaka Museum of Natural History  to see  a special exhibition "The Gobi:Cradle of the most enchanting dinosaur fossils" .

A new dinosaur book for children.

New Dinosaur book for children.
All dinosaurs images are my works.
The supervisor is Katsuhiro Kubota, paleontologist of Kannamachi Dinosaur Center.
The editor has edited many dinosaur books.
I'm very pleased to make book with them!

Drepanosaurus (2012)

Drepanosaurus unguicaudatus

Length 25cm
Scale 1/2

Of course, I know these plants were not in Triassic.  I took this picture with imagination as "if we can keep this animal".

My Drepanosaurus with Dan Chure and his wife  at SVP annual meeting in 2013.
He presented on new specimens of Drepanosaurus at the SVP, and used my work images in the presentation.

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Main references, 

" The taxonomy and paleobiology of the Late Triassic (Carnian-Norian: Adamanian-Apachean) drepanosaurs (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha: Drepanosauromorpha)."
Silvio Renesto, Justin A. Spielmann, Spencer G. Lucas, and Giorgio Tarditi Spagnoli. (2010).
 New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin. 46:1?81

"HYLOGENY OF DREPANOSAURIDAE (REPTILIA: DIAPSIDA)"
Phil Senter
Division of Mathematics and Science, Lamar State College-Orange,
410 Front St., Orange, Texas 77630 USA

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My workshops, lectures and presentations

My mainly job is sculpting models.
On the other hand, I do some workshop programs for children and adult.

drawing dinosaur reconstruction workshop for children.

drawing Mosasaurus and　Plesiosaurus  reconstruction workshop

sculpting dinosaur model workshop .

Assembling Apatosaurus skeleton workshop.

 We used the Apatosaurus skeleton drawing by Takashi Oda for this  teaching material, and he tried to this workshop and added the reconstruction drawing!















 Lecture on dinosaurs and paleo animals with paleontologists or students.
















paleontology lecture at a cafe in a department store.

 Dinosaur symposium in Tamba City.


This year, I did workshops more than 15 times and, several lectures and presentations.
Talking with various people on paleontology is very important for my activities.
I'm looking forward to meeting many people next year!

Kentrosaurus (2012)

Kentrosaurus aethiopicus

Length 54cm
Scale 1/10

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Main references, 

 ・"CAD assessment of the posture and range of motion of Kentrosaurus aethiopicus HENNIG 1915"  Mallison, H. (2010).(Swiss Journal of Geosciences online first)

・"Defense capabilities of Kentrosaurus aethiopicus HENNIG 1915. "
Mallison, H. (Palaeontologia Electronica)

・"Evidence for a sauropod-like metacarpal configuration in stegosaurian dinosaurs"
PHIL SENTER( 2010). ( Acta Palaeontologica Polonica)

・"New finds of stegosaur tracks from the Upper Jurassic Lourinhã
Formation, Portugal"
OCTÁVIO MATEUS, JESPER MILÀN, MICHAEL ROMANO, and MARTIN A. WHYTE(2011)
( Acta Palaeontologica Polonica)

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Tarbosaurus

I sculpted this Tarbosaurus for the model of the official toy of the special exhibition "The Gobi:Cradle of the most enchanting dinosaur fossils"  at Osaka Museum of Natural History.

The length is 25cm.
The material of commodity is PVC.
 manufactured by favorite (Kinto)

This toy is sold only the special exhibition. The special exhibition is not so big, but is very wonderful.　There are about 200 exhibits, and the almost are original fossils!!　I'm very proud that I could sculpt this model with supervising by paleontologist for the exhibition .

Desmostylus 2 (2010)

Desmostylus

Length 15cm
Scale 1/20
 

This models are sculpted for Numata Fossil Museum in Japan.

 On Desmostylia, several japanese researchers study the reconstruction.
I sculpted this works with the supervision of  Norihisa Inuzuka (Tokyo university), a researcher of  Desmostylia.>The other Desmostylus models for Numata Fossil Museum.

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