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Garry's Mod Paleoarrt; Fun with Source!
Topic Started: Jun 19 2013, 05:36 PM (1,554 Views)
Russwallac
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If any of you follow me on DeviantART, you're probably familiar with my Garry's Mod art. As for the rest of you, you can check out the best of my paleoart work here!

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This is good stuff.
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A comprehensive list of all organisms, artifacts, and alternative worlds encountered by the foundation team.

At the present time, concepts within are inconsistent and ever shifting.

(And this is just the spec related stuff)
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Edited by T.Neo, Jun 22 2013, 06:31 PM.
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I felt that one! XD
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Epic.

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Epic. .3.
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Post those little paragraphs too, they're good insights.
"You shall perish, whatever you do! If you are taken with arms in your hands, death! If you beg for mercy, death! Whichever way you turn, right, left, back, forward, up, down, death! You are not merely outside the law, you are outside humanity. Neither age nor sex shall save you and yours. You shall die, but first you shall taste the agony of your wife, your sister, your sons and daughters, even those in the cradle! Before your eyes the wounded man shall be taken out of the ambulance and hacked with bayonets or knocked down with the butt end of a rifle. He shall be dragged living by his broken leg or bleeding arm and flung like a suffering, groaning bundle of refuse into the gutter. Death! Death! Death!"



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You mean the DeviantART descriptions? Most of 'em are just jokes. I can post the paleoart guide things though, I guess.

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Dinosaurs that are resting and sleeping aren't often shown in paleoart, but it's important to show that dinosaurs aren't always running around killing each other. Based on fossils such as Mei long, we know that at least some dinosaurs curled up when asleep, much like birds do. They may have also "roosted" like birds, as the dromaeosaur on the left is doing. It's unlikely that dinosaurs just slept in whatever position they happened to be in like reptiles do; they probably were much more bird- or mammal-like in their sleeping habits.

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Along with hunting scenes, menacing poses are the most common type of dinosaur imagery. Usually, they show the animal reared up, bellowing at the heavens or leaping at the viewer. However, it's unlikely that dinosaurs ever actually did this. Based on the behavior of modern animals such as birds, dinosaur threat displays probably consisted of lowering the head, hunching the body and growling (yes, birds can growl). In this picture, you can see how the abelisaurid has also raised its tail and spread its arms to make itself appear larger. In dinosaurs with more extensive plumage, the arms were probably a vital part of such displays, so keep that in mind when depicting them.

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A lot of paleoart involves dinosaurs hunting things, mainly because it makes for a cool picture. However, it's important to keep in mind how animals hunt. There's no roaring or other vocalizations involved; in fact, predators are usually dead silent when hunting. The prey animal might make noise, but only if it's warning other members of its species or in pain. If you want your hunting scene to be realistic, keep your dinosaurs' mouths closed. Additionally, make sure that your predator is focused on its prey but the prey is focused on where it's running. Prey animals don't look back at their pursuers to see where they are!

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Dinosaurs weren't the only animals that were around during the Mesozoic; they shared their world with a huge variety of other creatures. Dinosaurs tend to upstage such contemporaries in paleoart, but there are plenty of fascinating animals that aren't dinosaurs. Birds, crocodylians, and even mammals provide plenty of potential inspirations. In the picture above, it would be impossible to tell what era the crocodylian is from if it wasn't for the dinosaur in the background. Try incorporating animals besides dinosaurs and pterosaurs into your art; you'll be surprised how much more diverse and natural it feels.
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I've never seen a Gmod ragdoll this high poly. The hell are you doing, Russ? Are you a wizard?
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All of them, apart from the Trike, are Primal Carnage models.
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Aye, that they are. People port all kinds of stuff into GMod these days; I'm well-stocked with what I want. Except dinosaurs. I can't find any decent friggin' dinosaur models aside from the Primal Carnage ones...
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Honestly I see using a proper 3D program to create images of things better than using a video game sandbox/mod. It may be more complex but it's more versatile and gaining skills with the software is useful... and awesome.

I've wanted to do this for some time but I can't find any dinosaur models worth a damn for my purposes. I tried to create my own with the Apatosaur thing and I got the basic morphology to a far better degree than ever before, but didn't really get to the point where the details were acceptable. I think that's partially due to my lack of reference as to what is enough and what is too much, my background with trying to get models as low-poly as possible, and wondering whether my computer will be able to take a model that is over 500 000 or even 1 000 000 polygons in size.
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