#dinosaur corner

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

I just want *one* mainstream popular modern (ie, new) dinodoc that

avoids anthropocentrism

outright calls birds dinosaurs

we don't know if life on our planet does the second one, but we do know it's failed on the first if the synposes are to be believed

and prehistoric planet did the first, but as we know, still hasn't called birds dinosaurs

I'm just. So. Tired.

[papermonkeyism]

Oh, right, the other ArtFight I did this year! The character's Lempo by @polarwooly

I mean, come on, a fluffy ceratopsid with a wonky frill? That's, like, custom made to cater to my specific interests. Love the horns, and the extra mane along the back, just great design!

I originally did a sketch of just the head, but decided halfway through that I wanted to do a full body to flex a little, though now that the deadline's over I felt like cleaning up the head shot too, so have a little extra.

[wordybee]

Puppet History: The Dreadful Demise of the Dinosaurs

[spacedoutbabbit]

I have so much art to do for school but instead my mind is focused only on silly gay cartoon characters

I wanted to see how he translated into my style! Once this semester is over I'm gonna work on some art of these blorbos after/between comms

[januscorner]

Isaac Higgintoot Stimboard With Dinosaur Stims

🦖🦕🦖 🦕🦖🦕 🦖🦕🦖

[movietimegirl]

Omega: Were you killed!?

Phee: Sadly, yes...but I lived!

Omega: *Gasp*

[kibosartcorner]

Screenshot redraw !

[windydrawallday]

WIP and teaser, YEAH I doodle the dinos and even finished a colored artwork-ref but-- I need to keep going slow because I got sick during the weekend orz what a way for the month to kick me AGH

[kalesalid]

old doodle page of animal practice

[frogspawned]

pet peeve is when a story tells us something is aberrant, but it seems to matter more about who does the behavior than the behavior itself. rorschach in snyder's watchmen isn't going too far; we watch nite owl and silk spectre ii snap necks and arms with gleeful, loving abandon, in slow motion no less, while they lecture the audience about rorschach's violence. heroes frequently torture the plot contrivance out of a villain and then moralize to the camera when the villains do the same. indominus rex's killing spree doesn't shock or appall me; all the jurassic world dinosaurs act like mindless killing machines, and the camera lingers, rapturous, on their cruelty. it's not an outlier. there's nothing interesting about it beyond as a set piece.

in a better script, the indominus rex would have had pathos; a chimera made for entertainment, for profit, stitched together with no regard for itself and placed in a lonely box. a freak among freaks. of course it would be mad. but the film wasn't interested in it as an animal, or a character, only as a moving piece of scenery for people to scream at or breathe tensely while it can clearly smell and reach them but doesn't, because it isn't a character and doesn't have motivations.

it's just sort of boring, i suppose. it tries like all other empty drab things do to cover it with bombast and roaring and soaring brassy scores but it's just sort of dull. a sprawl of nothing.

conversely peele's nope is a transcendent monster movie, imo, because it thinks about the the whys and hows, how jean jacket perceives the world, how the world perceives her, and lets that shape the narrative as much as jupe or emerald or gordy. they consulted biologists and behaviorists, digging into the meat of it. the creature as a camera as an animal as a device. nope has layers. it takes its own insane premise seriously, and has something to say, and is a goddamn good movie. i forgot where i was going with this.

[st4rrmii]

Been thinking about Lucien and Darius bonding over their love for The Land Before Time and crying over the first movie together

[aropride]

its also very interesting to learn about other types of fundamentalism because it feels like a lot of these programs or churches or whatever are just saying the quiet part of the way i was raised out loud . and like adding rules and regulations in order to make sure everyone's doing it Right but the core beliefs are all the same it's just that they're being said out loud instead of vaguely hinting at

[jt1674]

[carnytaurus]

also! some new, simpler sprites for my PNG for jupiter since she's changed so much.

[albino-parakeet]

Watching Eden erupt the first time reminded me of those kPG extinction paintings.

[bestanimatedmovie]

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What fans say:

In This Corner of the World:

Love the animation style and story telling.

Animation and music are beautiful. I also love that it's told from the perspective of an artist whose head is always on the clouds. So many historical events are happening, but she's just living her life as best as possible in her little corner of the world. It's also interesting to see the WWII from the perspective of Japanese civilians.

We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story:

Does anyone else even know this movie? t I want to give it a shout out because it was such a fun oddball of a film.