I'm stunned by this recent renaissance of CG animated projects where the approach isn't about highly detailed realism anymore, but more like:
"Ok, let's bring the concept art itself to life."
The geniusness of this final battle is that by being a deep sea setting, the characters are allowed to perform faster, more dynamic action than in the previous fights, yet the size of all the environmental elements (dust particles, water bubbles) still make sure they are enormous
Apparently, this completely Cambrian looking fella is a "mitten lobster" (Parribacus japonicus) and until now I've never heard of them before.
Shame, 'cause they look adorable.
Even if the current MV movies are no longer going after semi-realism anymore, you can tell this is directed by a guy who's a total nerd after animated media and I love that.
The sheer power and energy going on here is immaculate.
I love HTTYD for its dragons having insects level diversity but still making sure how different dragon species could be related to each other under modern understanding of evolution.
HOLY SHIT! I was watching the opening of
#GodzillaVsKong
and they just picked deviantart user Remul's fanart and placed it into this map thingie.
And it's clearly not just in a similar position, you can see it has the same mole-like hands, which differs from the canon versions.
So what the Monarch show is implying is that Godzilla ISN'T actually millions of years old, but simply affected by Hollow Earth's(?) time dilation affects?
Either the Red Death has evolved from a dragon with multiple heads and the six eyes are the remnants of that OR multi-headed dragons are the ones that started out with multiple eyes on single heads.
MINUS ONE SPOILER:
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This one is by far the most irredeemable incarnation of Godzilla, not because all the misery and devastation, but because at one point I'm pretty sure he killed a dog.
In the 40s, William D. Berry's art was revolutionary to the progression of Paleoart. Without him there probably wouldn't have been Dinosaur Renaissance the way we know it, yet his name has been long forgotten in the mainstream paleo media, unlike Knight or Paul. Time to change.
The astronomical amount of existential dread, nihilism and acceptance you gotta go through as a person in Dinosaur Train society, knowing there's time travel technology allowing you to go to the next time period as fun BUT if mass extinction ever hits, you'll be left on your own.
I don't think any of the Monsterverse movies has ever properly utilized Matt Allsopp's composition skills, while turning his storyboards into cinematic sequences. That shot of Godzilla standing in the rain above Alcatraz, is a massive missed opportunity.
To Bob's unpleasant surprise, Nigel has traveled back into the Cretaceous North America again, to rescue a remarkable and rare creature.
He kind of forgot the park has wooden fences... or the fact that its newest member can fly...
And this is where Prehistoric Planet succeeded. Understanding how the camera and its lenses on the production, work on real life objects (or even how the motion blur behaves when they move) is one of the key elements that can help VFX artists bring perfect photorealism to life.
One of the reasons why WWD's effects still hold up effectively up until this day is because they were brave enough to use shadows as dark as needed, given by the location's lightings. You rarely get to see that in later programs. It also depends on the lenses that are used.
Always mention these critters when somebody finds the human skull markings on the Dinosaur Revolution T. rex too unrealistically edgy or impossible.
Nature's creativity combined with our pattern seeking can do wonders.
Moth from genus Acherontia, distinguishable by the markings on the thorax
This moth is featured on the poster of the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs
Never forget when The Meg's creature design almost shared the same unrecognisable, over-monsterised fate as JW or 65. Instead, they went with something more akin to actual sharks and even pseudo-speculated on how Meg would change over millions of years in deep ocean environment.
No, Capcom should definitely NOT capitalise on the growing popularity of Prehistoric Planet by making a similar documentary out of Monster Hunter.
And they definitely shouldn't ask the VFX team behind Amazing Dinoworld to bring it to life.
That would be a crazy idea, right? 🤒
Wild ideas in SpecEvo/worldbuilding projects often get lazy criticism from people with biased, surface level understanding of evolution.
If we only had antelopes, the idea of a herbivore using bone cancer to seasonally grow, then drop its "horns" would sound stupidly edgy too.
Imagine being a Monsterverse citizen: The nuclear lizard just trampled onto your family. A scientist from a shady organization gaslights you that it's like a natural disaster, all we can do is coexist with it.
Then a few years later you see it giggling while burning a monkey.
Minor spoiler but I'm glad they didn't use this to gain manipulative sympathy points from the audience, despite her characterisation shown prior to this.
But instead we see that she's an unreliable cheater, like her dad.
Not every queer character has to be a role model.
Greg Broadmore's art is indescribably inspirational. The poses and motions in his creatures are so dynamic an expressive. They don't feel like they're set in one certain position but more like a single frame got captured out of their motion that's still happening in that moment.
"Why did scientists have to ruin the look of dinosaurs, I wish they could be like in the 1920s or 30s again!"
My sweet potato, we have Pseudosuchians for that.
This is it. The perfectly photorealistic CG dinosaur.
It's so atmospheric to see dinosaurs in such familiar locations, with forests similar to those near to my home. Truly sparks the imagination.
#PrehistoricPlanet
Ice Age 3 was the best conclusion the Ice Age movies could have had. Manny's finally recovered from his past trauma of losing his first family. The possibility of living dinosaurs and other mesozoic beasts also had a further exploration without any unnecessarily convoluted stuff.
This is false.
"They're not giant insects. Insect properties defined how weird and strange their feature were going to be. I would classify them as mammals because they have flesh and bone and muscles." -Guillaume Rocheron, G14
This only shows basic biology ignorance on staff.
Regardless of how Jurassic World: Dominion will turn out to be as a movie on its own, I'm very happy about Kaiju Quetzalcoatlus getting a proper spotlight as the fuzzy Rodan of its universe.
I could care less about the Giga, gimme this maniac!