Re: Feathered Dinosaurs book

[David Krentz <ddkrentz@charter.net>]

I just bought the book two days ago and I can't put it down!  I'm a  
Schouten fan for sure!  In my opinion, this is the only artist that  
has made feathered dinosaurs extremely appealing ( I'm on the losing  
side of this too).  I've talked to many artists who HATE to feather  
their dinosaurs, on a strictly artistic level it really cramped  
everyone's asthetic.  Mostly feathered dinosaurs wind up looking like  
terrifying molting muppets.
  On a recent dinosaur movie project I pushed very hard for birdy  
dinosaurs.  I explained to the producers that dinosaurs with  
eyelashes, flushing colors, irridecence, cock combs, throat wattles,  
display feathers, blue tongues...etc would be a welcome and plausible  
scenario.  We could have beautiful dinos, not just more Jurassic Park  
dinos.  Looking at bird photos didn't work, and showing dinosaur books  
that had feathered dinos didn't work because they kept looking at the  
unfeathered ones!  Now I can hand them this book and go "see, this  
works!"
  Schouten's descriptions of why he chose to portray each dinosaur  
the way he did is well thought out.  This is an artist who really  
knows animals, not just dinosaurs.
If anyone knows this man, buy him Fossil Fuels brew for me.

 D


On Sep 18, 2008, at 8:11 PM, Choo, Brian wrote:

> It's a shame that Gigantoraptor was announced just as the final proofs
> were sent off, I would have loved to have seen Peter's rendition of  
> that
> animal - he did manage to whip up Sinocalliopteryx at last minute
> though. I too am exceedingly annoyed at the 1.5 page image formatting
> plus the level of reproduction of some images doesn't do the original
> art justice - see "A Gap in Nature" and "Astonishing Animals" to see
> what high-quality reproductions of Schouten's artwork look like.  
> Still a
> mind-blowing piece of work though!
>
> Brian
>
>
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