RE: What is big, fluffy, and could tear you to shreds? Yutyrannus, the 9 m long feathered tyrannosauroid from China

[Jaime Headden <qi_leong@hotmail.com>]

  Arguably, the dire wolves' fur is limited because, aside from the variances 
on the intro and the dragons, the dire wolves are on screen in a very limited 
fashion. The time to expose them is also countered by the lack of alien-ness to 
their appearance: It should be easier to model a wolf's fur and just scale the 
model up to pony-size than the obviously cgi'd dragons. I'm not sure it is 
possible to avoid the Uncanny Valley, budget or no.

  But ... I agree, Rob's wolf did look particularly good.

Cheers,

  Jaime A. Headden
  The Bite Stuff (site v2)
  http://qilong.wordpress.com/

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)


"Ever since man first left his cave and met a stranger with a
different language and a new way of looking at things, the human race
has had a dream: to kill him, so we don't have to learn his language or
his new way of looking at things." --- Zapp Brannigan (Beast With a Billion 
Backs)


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> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 17:58:43 -0400
> From: 
tholtz@umd.edu
> To: ddkrentz@charter.net&#59; 
dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: RE: What is big, fluffy, 
and could tear you to shreds? Yutyrannus, the 9 m long feathered 
tyrannosauroid from China
>
> > From: 
owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu 
[mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu]
> > On Behalf 
Of David Krentz
> >
> > Dinosaur's salary 
for movies and docs just went up. Now
> > they also need a 
team of stylists and a hair/makeup trailer.
> 
>
>
> :-)
>
> 
Speaking of such thing, noted the fur on the Game of Thrones dire wolves in the 
new season: it shows that you can have realistic
> 
pelage/plumage on a (moderate) budget.
>
> 
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