Re: Kong Dinosaurs

[David Krentz <ddkrentz@charter.net>]

Since this is a movie, and a bigger than life spectacle, and we've seen 
a million 'accurate' dinosaurs on a million different TV shows and 
images, I think the designs could have been pushed further.  If you 
have made the choice to go fantasyish, embrace it.  I like the 
ceratopsian!
  There is a sculpture online of Peter Jackson posing with a very early 
sculpt of Kong fighting 3 rexes.  I loved the design of them!  Now it 
seems they've become more conservative and they lost some of their 
'enhanced reality' appeal.
  It can be viewed at
http://img-tbhl.theonering.net/news/kong.jpg

Regardless, from what secret insider info  I have on this film ( OK, 
I'm a geek) , I assure you, you won't care about the designs when it 
all comes together.  My head spins when I think of it!

  David Krentz


On Mar 24, 2005, at 10:16 PM, Eric Allen wrote:

> Well, Jackson and Crew did say pretty early on that
> the dinosaurs in Kong would not be "real" but more
> "inspired by" actual dinos.  (plus, you didn't expect
> a bunch of dinos to be waiting around on an island for
> 65 million years without undergoing some evolution,
> did you? ;-p )
>
> Eric Allen
> Undergraduate, TTU
>
>
> --- Jordan Mallon <jordan.mallon@gmail.com> wrote:
> > While cool looking, those dinosaurs are abhorrent.
> > And is it just me,
> > or does the "raptor" have two fingers and the T. rex
> > three?
> >
> > --
> > Jordan Mallon
> >
> > 4th year undergraduate student, Carleton University
> > Vertebrate Palaeontology & Palaeoecology
> >
> > Paleoart website:
> > http://www.geocities.com/paleoportfolio/
> > http://dino.lm.com/artists/display.php?name=Mallon
> > MSN Messenger: j_mallon@hotmail.com
> >
> > On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 20:31:07 -0500 (EST),
> > Danvarner@aol.com
> > <Danvarner@aol.com> wrote:
> > > This courtesy of Pete Von  Sholly: first look at
> > the new "King Kong"
> > > dinosaurs as licensed to Dark Horse  comics as
> > sculptures.
> > > http://www.theonering.net/scrapbook/group/1653.
> > >
> > > DV
>
>
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