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Titolo - "Il Branco", il cast
Tratto - Matita HB + Digitale nero 4 pixel
Colore - Digitale
Software - Adobe Photoshop CS
Hardware - Macintosh G5
Originale - Matita su carta - 42x29,7
Data - ottobre 2008
Questa tavola compare nel terzo della serie "Dinosauri". Si tratta del cast completo del terzo volume, in scala reciproca e con la sagoma di un essere umano medio dell'altezza di 175cm.
Se nel primo e nel secondo volume abbiamo avuto diversi problemi a comporre un cast realistico, per questa terza storia – che si basa sui fossili della famosa Morrison Formation americana – è invece stato molto semplice, e non abbiamo dovuto fare altro che scegliere gli animali che più ritenevamo adatti.
Ecco il cast.
• A sinistra in basso Ornitholestes hermanni, un teropode carnivoro lungo circa 2 metri. Fino a poco tempo fa si riteneva che avesse un corno sulle ossa nasali, ma proprio mentre questo libro era in lavorazione è stato scoperto che questo corno non c'era. Per fortuna che eravamo in tempo per correggere!
• Subito a destra c'è Camptosaurus dispar, un ornitopode iguanodonte che raggiungeva i 7 metri di lunghezza.
• Ancora a destra Dryosaurus altus, un ornitopode lungo oltre tre metri che possiamo paragonare ad una antilope del mesozoico dotata di mani prensili.
• Ancora più a destra, Ceratosaurus nasicornis, uno dei teropodi più popolari tra il pubblico e paragonabile – per collocazione nell'ecosistema dell'epoca – ad una iena attuale. Raggiungeva i 6 metri di lunghezza.
• All'estrema destra, in primo piano, ecco il protagonista del volume: Allosaurus fragilis, che superava i 12 metri di lunghezza e le 4 tonnellate di peso. Nel volume potrete assistere ad uno scorcio della vita di un branco di questi potenti predatori, che si concluderà con lo scontro tra due maschi dominanti...
• Dietro Allosaurus il colossale sauropode diplodocide Apatosaurus excelsius, che raggiungeva i 26 metri di lunghezza. Si tratta di uno dei dinosauri più piacevoli da disegnare con i quali mi sono cimentato.
• Dietro di lui, in verde, ecco Camarasaurus lentus, un altro sauropode: più corto ma più alto di Apatosaurus. Un giovane esemplare è al centro della scena prologo.
• Alla sinistra di Camarasaurus uno dei dinosauri più famosi, lo spettacolare Stegosaurus armatus. Lungo oltre 9 metri, disegnarlo è stato una continua sorpresa.
• In alto, in volo, vediamo uno Pterosauro. Non è un genere definito ed è stata l'unica difficoltà incontrata nella formazione del cast. Sappiamo che nella Morrison gli pterosauri c'erano, ma non esistono fossili.
• Per ultimo, sullo sfondo, l'immenso Brachiosaurus altithorax, che raggiungeva un'altezza di oltre 12 metri ed un peso di oltre 60 tonnellate. È così grande che non ci stava nella tavola!
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Title - "The Hunting Pack" cast
Ink - HB pencil + Digital black 4 pixels
Color - Digital
Software - Adobe Photoshop CS
Hardware - Macintosh G5
Original - Pencil on Paper - 42x29,7
Date - october 2008
This plate is from the third volume of the "Dinosaurs" series. You can see the whole cast from the 3nd book in scale with the outline of an average 175cm tall human being.
The casting for this story was pretty easy: infact the story tells about the dinosaurs of the famous Morrison Formation, one of the best known mesozoic fauna. We have simply choosen our "favourite" animals.
• Bottom left the 6 feet long carnivorous theropod Ornitholestes hermanni. Until recently paleontologists supposed that Ornitholestes had a "horn" on its snout; but just when this book was in progress a new discovery stated that there was no horns. Fortunately I was in time to correct!
• At its immediate right you can see Camptosaurus dispar, an Iguanodontid Ornithopod that was up to 7m/23ft long.
• Still more to the right Dryosaurus altus, another Ornithopod. Up to 3,5m/11ft long, it was like a mesozoic antelope.
• Always right Ceratosaurus nasicornis, one of the most popular dinosaurs. More than 6m/20ft long, we can compare it – according to ist supposed place in the ecosystem – to a hyena.
• Rightmost we have the star of the book: Allosaurus fragilis. It was more than 12m/39ft long and its weight was more than 4 tonnes. In the book you'll see a day in the life of a pack of these mighty hunters, and a fight between two huge dominant males...
• Behind Allosaurus the immense Diplodocid Sauropod Apatosaurus excelsius: it was up to 26m/85ft long. It is one of the most pleasant to draw dinosaurs for me.
• Behind Apatosaurus you can see a big green guy. It's Camarasaurus lentus, another Sauropod: shorter but taller than Apatosaurus, it was up to 18m/59ft long. A juvenile Camarasaurus is the star of the volume prologue.
• Left to Camarasaurus there's the spectacular Stegosaurus armatus. More than 9m/29ft long, drawing it was a continual surprise.
• Above Camarasaurus, you can see a flying pterosaur. Not a precise genus, this was the only difficulty in the casting. We know thah there were pterosaurs in the Morrison region, but we have no fossils.
• In the background the gargantuan Brachiosaurus altithorax: it was more than 12m/40ft tall and its weight was more that 60 tonnes. It's so big that there's not enough space in the plate!
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Kronosaurus82 In reply to ??? [2023-04-08 09:02:45 +0000 UTC]
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rakeladriano224 In reply to Kronosaurus82 [2023-04-08 13:52:12 +0000 UTC]
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Kronosaurus82 In reply to rakeladriano224 [2023-04-13 08:40:52 +0000 UTC]
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Evodolka [2017-09-23 14:56:47 +0000 UTC]
such amazing animals, love how the brachiosaur's head doesn't even fit on screen
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Kronosaurus82 In reply to Evodolka [2017-09-24 06:34:12 +0000 UTC]
Thanks.
To fit Brachiosaurus into the scale, the other ones would have been too small. It's like the taller schoolmate that doesn't fit into the class photo.
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Evodolka In reply to Kronosaurus82 [2017-09-24 16:38:43 +0000 UTC]
your welcome
i get what you mean entirely
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aikman2016 [2016-12-23 18:26:16 +0000 UTC]
Esistono dinosauri con il vecchio aspetto di Ornitholestes?
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Kronosaurus82 In reply to aikman2016 [2016-12-27 09:44:31 +0000 UTC]
Onestamente non saprei.
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aikman2016 In reply to Kronosaurus82 [2016-12-28 15:47:19 +0000 UTC]
Forse soltanto i cuccioli di Ceratosaurus.
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RizkiusMaulanae [2016-10-25 09:45:54 +0000 UTC]
The camarasaurua you used here looks more like C. supremus than C. lentus to me, judging from its size of course.
And I feel like most of the dinosaurs are (a bit) oversized.
But anyways, nice chart.
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rizkirafu [2016-08-19 12:23:09 +0000 UTC]
Hey, I always wonder is the Allosaurus the main character here?
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Patchi1995 [2016-06-09 21:18:51 +0000 UTC]
I note that Apatosaurus excelsus, is actually Brontosaurus excelsus.
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Kronosaurus82 In reply to Patchi1995 [2016-06-10 08:08:27 +0000 UTC]
Also note that I made this when it was still called Apatosaurus excelsius.
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Yu-Gi-Nos [2016-05-22 19:29:53 +0000 UTC]
I love it! I equally love the fact you, like me, consider "Saurophaganax maximus" to be an adult Allosaurus
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Kronosaurus82 In reply to Yu-Gi-Nos [2016-05-23 07:13:23 +0000 UTC]
I always thought they were the same genus.
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Kronosaurus82 In reply to codylake [2016-03-29 07:30:50 +0000 UTC]
I drew it by fantasy because at that time there were still no complete pterosaur fossil from the Morrison Form, so I don't think it's Kepodactylus.
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Truewarrior1000 [2015-06-12 19:19:10 +0000 UTC]
Wow incredible how such creatures walked the same land we do and to think how this world changed so much
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Kronosaurus82 In reply to Truewarrior1000 [2015-06-13 07:45:51 +0000 UTC]
Some places didn't change as much as you might think.
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Venator94 [2015-05-05 18:41:44 +0000 UTC]
Che tavola stupenda! Sembra di ritornare piccoli e guardare documentari come Walking With Dinosaurs! XD
Dico questo perché a tutti questi dinosauri "di vecchia data" sono affezionatissimo, anche alla luce del fatto che sono diventati delle vere icone del Giurassico. A parte il "genere" della tavola in sé(mi piace il confronto di forme e dimensioni di generi vissuti nello stesso contesto) trovo fantastici i colori dei singoli soggetti. Forse il mio preferito qui è Ceratosaurus.
Anyway, non vedo l'ora di mettere le mani su questo libro!
P.S.: che sorpresa scoprire che nella formazione Morrison non sono mai stati rinvenuti fossili di Pterosauri! Strano, in effetti!
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Kronosaurus82 In reply to Venator94 [2015-05-07 07:17:03 +0000 UTC]
Capisco cosa intendi con "vecchia data", in effetti i volumi più divertenti da disegnare sono stati proprio questo e l'ultimo (quello con Tyrannosaurus), perchè si trattava di "dar vita" ai giganti che avevano popolato le mie fantasie d'infanzia.
All'epoca della realizzazione del libro in effetti non c'erano fossili di Pterosauro nella Morrison; onestamente non so se ci siano state nuove scoperte...
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Venator94 In reply to Kronosaurus82 [2015-05-24 16:07:17 +0000 UTC]
Hai colto esattamente ciò che intendevo!
Per la faccenda degli Pterosauri... Sento il bisogno di indagare! XD
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Kronosaurus82 In reply to PCAwesomeness [2015-04-08 08:27:17 +0000 UTC]
Of course, we know Morrison form. quite well.
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Thanesdoom [2015-03-25 05:44:07 +0000 UTC]
Have or will you be having one with Argentinosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus and Spinosaurus? Please answer!
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Kronosaurus82 In reply to Thanesdoom [2015-03-25 08:29:41 +0000 UTC]
Did you see my whole gallery before asking?
Not Pachy, but Stygimoloch: T-Rex-preview-ENG
Argentinosaurus: I-Titani-Cast
Spinosaurus: Spinosaurus-aegyptiacus
Browse the "Dinosaurs and Paleoart" folder of my gallery, there's more.
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Kronosaurus82 In reply to CrashBandicoot2015 [2015-02-11 12:54:51 +0000 UTC]
Thank you.
I like this theropod a lot.
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CrashBandicoot2015 In reply to Kronosaurus82 [2015-02-11 15:46:58 +0000 UTC]
me too
allosaur like a t-rex with raptor hands
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Kronosaurus82 In reply to Wesdaaman [2015-02-02 08:52:23 +0000 UTC]
Unfortunately the few remainst of Mesadactylus sre too small to be from "our man".
At that time we choose this "generic pterosaur" because of the lack of any decent pterosaur fossil from the Morrison formation.
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Giganotosaurinae [2014-11-20 22:15:40 +0000 UTC]
Come si fa a non amare la superba colorazione del tuo Allosaurus? Sei bravissimo, complimenti!
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Kronosaurus82 In reply to Giganotosaurinae [2014-11-21 08:45:40 +0000 UTC]
Ti ringrazio molto.
Devo ammettere che io stesso la ritengo una delle mie più riuscite.
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NordicB3rry [2014-11-09 10:21:22 +0000 UTC]
My draw name is Don't be Shark in Jurassic Period anybody can check it on my profile
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Kronosaurus82 In reply to NordicB3rry [2014-11-10 08:38:44 +0000 UTC]
This is the third of the series. The english edition is entitled "The Hunting Pack - Allosaurus" and it's published by Abbeville Press.
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NordicB3rry [2014-11-09 10:07:49 +0000 UTC]
Yeppii you drawed Ornitholestes hermanni it's my favorite of all lived animals on earth !!!!!
Thanks !! <333
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FredtheDinosaurman [2013-12-28 19:37:04 +0000 UTC]
I love your Allosaurus. Do you mind if I use a similar color scheme on my Allosaurus?
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Kronosaurus82 In reply to FredtheDinosaurman [2013-12-29 08:54:31 +0000 UTC]
Thanks.
No problem for the colors, feel free to use that scheme. But if you do use it, would you give me credits, would you please?
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FredtheDinosaurman In reply to Kronosaurus82 [2014-01-02 08:55:52 +0000 UTC]
Absolutely sir I just caught the hint of African predators in your Allosaurus (Lion colors) and Ceratosaurus (Leopard colors)
I was just going to go a little more literal with the colors myself. But most definitely, the first thing I put up regarding this will have a section giving you credit, and I also forgot to mention that I am using your Allosaurus sketch/outline to help me color them. Thanks, big fan. I'm hoping to buy the next 4 books
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Kronosaurus82 In reply to FredtheDinosaurman [2014-01-05 15:08:12 +0000 UTC]
Oh, and of course don't forget to show me the results, when you'll be done with your Allosaurus. I'm curious.
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Kronosaurus82 In reply to FredtheDinosaurman [2014-01-05 09:51:35 +0000 UTC]
Hehe, you're wrong, actually!
Infact, I got the inspiration for Allosaurus with a pic of Leptodactylus pentadactylus, commonly known in english as the "Smoky jungle frog", while Ceratosaurus was inspired by Crocuta crocuta, commonly known in english as the "Spotted hyena".
There are some quite unsuspected inspirations for my dinosaurs colors: I even got inspired by butterflies a couple of times!
As for the last four books, keep in mind that the comic stories in volume 4 and 5 were not drew by me (also the third comic story – this one – even if I entirely drew it, was partially colored by another person)... so if you're going to notice a quality drop, that's not my fault: it was a publisher choice to cut on quality to save time. I hope you're going to enjoy those books anyway, after all every story is still written by me, and aside from the comics in book 4 and 5, I drew any other piece of art in every book (covers, illustrations, etc). Fortunately, everything was back on my quality standards with book 6 (I didn't color that comic story, but the woman who did, did a very good job following my instructions).
PS - Sorry for my delay with this reply.
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