Maquette Magic

Original maquettes made by James Gurney as reference for his Dinotopia illustrations. Many of these can be seen in the Lyman Allyn Art Museum exhibition in New London, Connecticut through February 2, 2013. They're also published in the new edition of Dinotopia: The World Beneath.

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[Thomas Hilton]

Give this man a goddamn TV series

[LadyOrnitia]

You've never heard of Dinotopia?

[Julia Pace]

The energy that goes into making these incredible creatures is mind boggling. Do you first sketch, then model and then sketch for the final drawing? The textures and colors could not be more perfect - is that fima and acrylics? After you have modeled one of the dinosaurs, you must have internalized every detail so that drawing them must flow freely.

[KaosNoKamisama]

Where is the "OMG this is awesome" button?

[Justin spice]

you always know how to make me smile! :D

[Jorbz150]

?

Oh. This is a book that James Gurney did a while ago. It is about a fictional city, where dinosaurs and people live together.

From my understanding from other videos, James Gurney believes that dinosaurs lived before humans. This is just for a fictional book he worked on.

[Bryan Beus]

Oh, there it is at the end:)

[Bryan Beus]

So inspiring, James. By the way, what's this song from?

[Thomas Hilton]

I hope that this isn't weird creationist stuff