Were Not huge fans of posting renders, but we thought this model could slip the net for obvious reasons. Here you can see our WIP Deinonychus, she will be one of the most dangerous species you might come across whilst playing. We have also included a little fact file for you below.
The model was made by Rafael Grassetti and is planning to make many more!
The model you see might not be 100% true to life, for game-play reasons we wanted to emphasize the “scare” factor slightly more than usual. We do hope its a step in the right direction for this character and its a lot more realistic than the Jurassic Park species which were hybrids.
LWR wrote: Deinonychus was a Dromeosauride living in North America during the Early Cretaceous period. Deinonychychus, along with most Dromeosaurides, bore a sickle shaped killing claw on each hind foot. The 5-inch claw was used to stab into vital areas of its prey, such as the neck or heart, to suffocate the animal till death. The claw likely was in the air when the animal was running, to keep it from dulling and hitting the ground when on the move. The tail of Deinonychus has special bones and joints to make the tail act as a stabilizer and to keep tail straight when the animal is running. The main diet of Deinonychus was Hadrosaurs.
Characteristics: There is fossil evidence that suggests Deinonychus was a pack hunter, using the superiority of numbers to take down large prey. Much like wolves, there would be an Alpha male and Alpha female in a pack, with the alpha animals in control of the rest of the pack. Most Deinonychus packs would consist of about 4 to 6 animals. There would be a strict pecking order for food, with the alpha dinosaurs eating first. Deinonychus was a very quick animal, running at speeds of up to 50 Km/H. Since some dinosaur species were very closely related to birds, it is not impossible to imagine Deinonychus may have bore feathers. There is a lot of evidence to suggest Deinonychus was a warm blooded creature. To avoid being ripped apart by these quick predators, watch all your fronts and stay together at all times.
Nice model guys
Thats pretty bad ***, Nice work!
Great pose and overall structure in that pose. Can really see the bird-like references in the modeling as well. Good stuff guys, keep it up!
sick pose :D i hope thats not ingame model beacuse that ould kill my graphics card.
it looks like a zbrush or mudbox model, which is way to high-detail for any pc atm.
looking awesome
I don't even remember a dino by the name of Deinonychus in any of the JP movies, maybe the books, but then the statement of this model being a lot more realistic then the JP one would be false because we have never seen one.
- my whole point about that was just that I don't remember it and i was just backing myself up, nothing against the model.
Anyways that model is awesome, and it will scare the crap out of me once in game, it does right now, but I can't wait to see some animations of this model, great work, keep it up.
"We do hope its a step in the right direction for this character and its a lot more realistic than the Jurassic Park species which were hybrids."
For it to be more realistic than the JP monsters, it would have to have feathers. Some of the other parts of the fact file can be called into question as well...
mike, the theory that all coelurosaurian theropods had feathers is just, that: a theory. It is very popular atm, but so far no Deinonychus fossil with feather prints has been found. The assumption that this Dinosaur had feathers is based on the fact that many Dromaeosauridae did.
Practically everything about dinosaurs is a theory. The assumption that Deinonychus had feathers is well supported (as you've mentioned, many Dromaeosauridae did) and at present, is generally accepted among paleontologists.
The claim that "its (sic) a lot more realistic than the Jurassic Park species (sic)" is just silly, for a variety of reasons.
That's not to say that the model doesn't look awesome, just that it isn't anymore accurate than those in JP (since Velociraptor isn't a species and since Utahraptor is nearly the same size/build as the raptors in the movie).
@ Fugitmdup
Deinonychus was never in the movies, but rather the term Smiley is referencing from "hybrid" is the fact that the raptors in the movies were the size of Deinonychus, which is incorrect. Real veloiciraptors were much smaller, and were portrayed incorrectly in JP.
Everyone, plz stop being wrong, lol! VELOCIRAPTOR IS NOT A DINOSAUR, IT IS A GENUS (that currently inclds. a single species) or can refer to a clade (in which instance they come in a variety of sizes). Also, Deinonychus is considerably smaller than the fictional raptors portrayed in the movie.
Just trying to help! ;)
The velociraptors in JP should have been called Deinonychus because they look more like those.
JP has it very wrong and as a dinofan and fossil collector I’m happy to see this mod is going for a more realistic approach. I can really see that there are people in this team who know something about the real-thing.
Will this raptor get feathers ingame? I hope so :)
Everyone, plz stop being wrong, lol! VELOCIRAPTOR IS NOT A DINOSAUR, IT IS A GENUS.
JP didn't get it anymore wrong than the scientists who misclassified Deinonychus in the genus Velociraptor.
Wrong, when we talk about 'velociraptor' we talk about Velociraptor mongoliensis as this is the only species recognized in the Velociraptor genus.
A Deinonychus is not a Velociraptorinae, it's a different genus.
Where do you get your information?
Unlike you, my knowledge goes a little deeper than Wikipedia. You see, as a geologist working for a paleontology dept., my father made some key Deinonychus discoveries that helped support Dr. Ostrom's revolutionary theories regarding dinosaurs. At the age of 11, I had already been along on excavations to the Cloverly formation, met Peter Larson, and Dr. Ostrom at the Yale Peabody.
Let's break down where you've gone wrong.
"The velociraptors in JP should have been called Deinonychus because they look more like those."
More like those than what?! They are Deinonychus (scaled up). They were based on Deinonychus and referred to as Velociraptors, the genus Deinonychus was at one time considered to be a part of.
"JP has it very wrong"
JP didn't get it anymore wrong than the scientists who originally classified Deinonychus in the genus Velociraptor.
"when we talk about 'velociraptor' we talk about Velociraptor mongoliensis as this is the only species recognized in the Velociraptor genus."
BS. I'm guessing you had no idea whatsoever until you read my posts that Velociraptor is a genus rather than a species and now you're just trying to cover-up. But even your cover-up is wrong. Just admit it instead of trying to cover and compound your mistake.
"A Deinonychus is not a Velociraptorinae, it's a different genus."
Wow, Velociraptorinae is not a genus. It's a clade. Of which Deinonychus antirrhopus is a part.
I've written your next post for you.
"You're right, I was wrong, I'm going to be an adult and admit it. Thnx Mike for sharing your first hand experience with me and expanding my knowledge of dinosaurs and taxonomy."
Well the JP films classified them as velocraptors, problem being real velocraptors are the size of turkeys. These chap’s are the next stage up, and the ones that appeared in the film under the name of "velocraptor" but in-fact where Deinonychus.
Oh, interesting, model looks great once again, can't wait to see it textured.
I was under the impression that the one's that appeared in the CGI film were actually immature Utahraptors, but they *are* often cited to be Deinonychus. AFAIK, Deinonychus is also much smaller than the 'Raptors' that appear in the film.
Nope! You're all wrong! Velociraptor is a genus that was once thought to encompass a variety of dromaeosaurids (and prolly was once thought to incld. Deinonychus, though I could be wrong). Further, Deinonychus is part of the clade Velociraptorinae (which could be shortened as Velociraptor, thus making Deinonychus a "Velociraptor").
It's safe to assume that in the fictional works the term Velociraptor referred to the clade in order to be purposefully vague, as at the time no known species of dino existed that resembled the dinosaurs portrayed.
Ambershee, Utahraptors were discovered shortly after the movie was in production and originally the paleontologists wanted to give the dinosaur a name honoring Spielberg because of the dino's resemblance to the movie creature.
Booyah! ;)
The book isn't that old. I still have it in hard-back.
Huh? Isn't as old as what?
"(and prolly was once thought to incld. Deinonychus, though I could be wrong)"
This from Wikipedia...
"In the past, other dromaeosaurid species, including Deinonychus antirrhopus and Saurornitholestes langstoni, have sometimes been classified in the genus Velociraptor."
Hey, look at that, I wasn't wrong! :)
Nice research.
Holy crap! That's amazing, I definately look forward to being ambushed by a few of those things :)
Brilliant...
That model looks awesome! (but as you've mentioned, not like Deinonychus... :) )
crazy model huh mates!
Why is it "not like a Deinonychus" yes they did mention that for this animal they wanted to give it a different look which does change things but still(answer me with a PM please)?
beastly awesomeness
as long as you stage it correctly, with intelligent AI, everything in the game is going to be scary.
model looks great btw. =)
Looks very good but... isn't this a bit wasted work? Dinosaur skins tend to be made by texture artists with vivid patterns which completely hide tiny normal map details.
the texture can't 'hide' the tiny normalmap detail, because it only shows when the light hits the model.. this is not wasted work.
what i am wondering was, this doesn't happen to be a single frame of a sequence for this dino, right?
because if it's not, i want to know why you modeled this in this position, instead of in the idle pose..
the model looks great btw, awesome work.
THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!!
But still wrong!
Deinonychus is a genus on its own, which uncludes species like Deinonychus antirrhopus, they are not part of the Velociraptor genus.