Styracosaurus

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by Daniel Eskridge

Title

Styracosaurus

Artist

Daniel Eskridge

Medium

Digital Art - Digital Painting

Description

"Styracosaurus"

I've always loved paleoart. When it comes to dinosaurs, I've lately been on a theropod kick. I was getting a little bored with t-rexes and allosaurs though, so I decided to switch gears a bit. After doing a bit of browsing on the net, I came across styracosaurus. With its wild head gear, I thought it would make for some great art. So, I sculpted a new styracosaurus model and gave it a pretty elaborate coloring to match it's interesting head. This is my first artwork to feature my new model.

The name styracosaurus means "spiked lizard". This dinosaur was a large ceratopsian from the Cretaceous period. A distant cousin of the more well known Triceratops, this massive three ton creature sported four to six horns protruding from its frill and a single two foot long horn from its nose.

I created this work using digital techniques. The dinosaur was sculpted using Scuptris, textured in ZBrush, Rigged and posed in Blender3d, then exported to Vue where the rest of the scene was constructed and rendered. Gimp was used for post production. I also used Topaz Adjust to do some minor color enhancement.

Resources:
Sculptris: http://IntrovertArtist.com/Sculptris
ZBrush: http://IntrovertArtist.com/ZBrush
Blender3d: http://www.IntrovertArtist.com/Blender
Vue: http://IntrovertArtist.com/Vue
GIMP: http://IntrovertArtist.com/Gimp
Topaz Adjust: http://IntrovertArtist.com/Adjust

Thanks for looking,
Daniel Eskridge

Uploaded

May 14th, 2015