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Published: 2015-01-31 02:11:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 912; Favourites: 27; Downloads: 3
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One of the things people keep saying with regards to Jurassic Park (as well as all of its sequels......yes, all of them) is how scary the dinosaurs are. Personally, I've never felt that way about them. No Jurassic Park dinosaur has every scared me. Hell, out of all the hundreds of dinosaurs I've seen in movies, TV, video games, books, etc. the only one that even vaguely creeped me out was the Tyrannosaurus in Phil Tippet's Prehistoric Beast (which you can watch in its entirety on Youtube). For me, dinosaurs are just too beautiful to be scary.So this was my attempt to make a dinosaur that looked scary. And personally - I failed. I don't think this looks scary. It's a bit creepy, and quite ominous, but I wouldn't call it scary by any stretch of the word. But I do think it looks kinda cool, so I decided to post it any way. It's T. rex btw.
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There's definitely a very spooky feel to this piece.
I can also see this being scary in a very basic, instinctual way. I can imagine being alone in the middle of a Cretaceous meadow and suddenly seeing this silhouetted against the dark sky, then disappearing into the shadows again before you have a chance to figure out exactly what it was.
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The whole kerfuffle over feathered dinosaurs has to be rooted in Western cultural perceptions that reptiles are collectively more menacing or villainous in appearance than birds. When you hear the word "bird", the first images that come to your mind are tiny songbirds, poultry, or parrots instead of anything as dangerous as a crocodile, cobra, anaconda, or Komodo dragon. On the other hand, turtles may be the only reptiles still around that don't scare or repulse people. No wonder the Western public prefers a reptilian aesthetic to their predatory theropods.
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Clearly not enough people have had run-ins with swans or geese. Those things are Satan's living kazoos.
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