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Dragonthunders — The thieft that is higher up, Utahraptor
Published: 2019-09-28 00:59:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 11756; Favourites: 275; Downloads: 44
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Another theropod finished for my animal size chart series, Utahraptor ostrommaysi is one if not the largest Dromaeosaurid known, with a size estimated around 7 meters and a weight of more than 500 kg, living during the middle of the early cretaceous (Barremian, 126 m.y.a) from the Cedar Mountain Formation. BTW, about the plucked version, its just the result that occurred to me to make the body and the plumage in different layers for more body proportion accuracy, as I've gone digital, I preserved the line art and paint it, this for appreciate the shape and musculature, something to vary from most as people often do the feathered version but would be also okay to see how the shape of the body is without those (also I did a ballerina dancing naked Utahraptor a while ago and I wanted to update the anatomy a little better)Based from skeletal reconstruction by Scott Hartman
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A very good reconstruction, and a clever workflow as well! I do appreciate how you made its body feathers more form-fitting to reflect its size. It's beautiful.
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Yay! Your first utahraptor picture! 😅😇😁I’m proud to see you do new Dinos like this
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people say that JP raptors are the size of utahraptor, but actually, when looking as this picture right here, I'd say they are qutie a bot smaller than utahraptor.
more somewhere close to dakotraptor or deinocuyus (the latter being what the raptors are actually based on)
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Kinda near but not so near, Comparing the JP raptors comes in the middle of the sizes of Dakota and Deino, not so giant but also not that small, Deinonychus seems to be just half of the heigh and lenght (even with previous reconstuctions of the time) and Dakotaraptor is kinda bigger.
So I would say is just a big raptor, but not near the sizes of the biggest dromaeosaurids.
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I think the closest in terms of size, would actually be Austroraptor and Achillobator, though the overall anatomy is closely based on Deinonychus. Gregory Paul admitted that the Velociraptor was indeed modeled off a Deinonychus. The reason why they called it a Velociraptor, was because Paul at the time theorised that Deinonychus may have been a member of the Velociraptor genus. He proposed the classification "Velociraptor antirrhopus". Of course, his proposal is now largely rejected, and we now consider Deinonychus a separate genus. From what I understand, the increase in size was an intentional artistic liberty that the filmmakers chose to make, probably to make the raptors scarier.
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well yeah.
essentially JP raptors are deinochyus, just with an old name
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Splendid work as usual.
I love the coloration you chose for Utahraptor, It looks like something that would fit a dry environment like The Great Plains.
Also the naked Utahraptor looks really bizarre, especially the tail. I never would have thought that a dromaeosaurids tail underside was so bumpy.
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