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Juvenile Raptors, just a couple of months old, showing their playful, child-like side.However, a cold intelligence and menace lurks very close to the surface even at this young age.
B, 4B pencil on A3
From an original concept design by Mark 'Crash' McCreery
Lead concept designer, Jurassic Park
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OMG!!!! Your the artist that did the sketches in my Art of Jurassic Park book!!!!???? <3
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haha no, i'm not
The artist that did those was a conceptual artist called Mark 'Crash' McCreery.
These raptors are just a copy of his original art work, but thanks, they must be good enough for you to think they were his work
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Well I admire your honesty! They look so close its crazy!! Still awesome!
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Of course, you always have to at the very least put down the original artist if you've used their work. It's not right to palm it off as your own.
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"They're lethal at 8 months and I do mean lethal."
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I was just looking through your FANTASTIC gallery - at your amazing pencil work and then I saw this. It is just PERFECT. Ok - I am extremely biased towards pictures of raptors but I really love your work and I cannot believe you drew raptors... awesome awesome awesome.
That decides it for me. I'm going to watch you...
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Thanks alot 
This is one of my favourite drawings as a kid, but never wanted to re-create it untill I was good enough.
I stumbled along the picture one day and thought 'yeah, NOW I have the skill to re-create the original drawing'
So I did.
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took a picture of it with an HD camera. I don't have a scanner.
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ok thanks!!! the dinosaurs look like nublarensis female raptors. those are the ones in jurassic park 1.
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That would make sense as they were concept art for the Jurassic Park film, and all the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park are female
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yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Aww. You know, they may look cute now, but when they're ripping out your eyes, you'll think twice.
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how sweet! Love em'! Thanks for the group submit too! <3
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I know I've seen this before, a long time ago, but I'm glad to see it again! Have you got a link to the original?
I love all three of them, especially the playful one in the middle. ^..^
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No, I remember seeing them many years ago in a book that I have bought just after the film came out (17 years ago now) but I couldn't find the image anywhere on the net. So I had to dig out the book and draw them from that. The image in the book was only about 5x3.5ins big, so it was quite difficult to draw it up on A3 size
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Hmm... That's a tricky one. I never saw the book, and I know I've seen this on the Internet... maybe 5+ years ago. It will be tough to track down! But hey, at least yours looks just like the original.
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I normally dont care for dinosaurs but this is a nice drawing arent raptors the fastes dinosaurs?
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Apparently so. My Jurassic Park/dinosaur knowlege is very hazy, but I think they're supposed to be Cheetah speed over a short distance.
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That's precisely what Muldoon says in the first film.
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But in reality, they're as fast as us and as smart as cats.
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Yes and really smart like they can make a strategy to corner you.
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But in reality, they're as fast as us and as smart as cats.
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cats are stupid sorry. and we walk slow
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exactly, so you see?
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what raptors are smart and fast
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Just smart enough and fast enough, not super smart and fast.
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Just smart enough and fast enough to get around (and compared to most dinosaurs)
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yeah so yeah they fast and smart.
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Yes, just not like in the jurassic park movies
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It's been proved.
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If that is so, then how do we know that the opposite is false? I'd say that our own advances were the result of sheer dumb luck, especially since the ability to speak is not a true sign of so-called intelligence.
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Footprints, catscans, fossil examinations, etc.
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Essentially nothing more than speculation, since we don't have a living specimen to actually prove these theories. Fossils can tell a fair amount, but not everything.
In all truth, a creature half our height would definitely want better mobility than a human - after all humans are not very well-built either - and, while I agree that "intelligence" has its limits, social behavior, especially in groups, is something that we have never been able to touch on until recently, and even then has only been selective towards humans and a few other living animals. A lot has happened in the past 3.9 billion years, and we know very little of it beyond fossils and geological strata. Indeed, there is a lot of room for error.
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Maybe, but they even did the computer examinations to prove it.
Besides, they did need to be smart enough and fast enough to take down the prey they might be used to.
Also, the raptors claws can't cut, they just stab.
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Computers are just as flawed as we are; they can only work based on what is punched into them, and guess who's behind that task - us.
I'm aware that their claws are only capable of stabbing - I've seen the documentary on that before. they simply don't have a cutting edge along the inside of the "sickle". And besides, the methods of hunting that are the most effective usually involve either a strong, crushing bite or a precise stab (both would be great) in a vital and exposed area like the neck.
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Well, I guess we'll never know. But look at the comparison between the legs of a ostrich's legs and raptor legs, parts of the ostrich's bones are longer than one another (by body comparison), while the raptor's the other way around.
Okay, I was just telling ya that (I've met a lot of people who don't know that)
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The only problem with that argument is that evolutionary divergence from the ancestor of both birds and bipedal dinosaurs (it's more likely that birds started out as tree climbers and not bipeds) have developed two different frames by which an animal can move, by which you are fundamentally comparing apples with oranges. What works for one species may not or will not work for another.
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