ok for me this project isn't finished yet,

the animation is pretty bad, i'm sorry if you spent ages doing it but it looks too rigid, the feet don't bend etc etc. If you want to be an animator then this wouldn't get you a job. I'm sorry that's really harsh but it's true.

As for the look of the dinosaur, it doesn't look at all like dino skin. it looks like it has no spec/bump or anything. Maybe a lot of it is lost in the compression but even so I would expect to see more. Did you goto a zoo and check out some really skin on a rhino or an elephant? that's your best reference right there. Even check out https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0233044/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0214382/ these are shameless company plugs but that's why I'm being so critical

You're lighting is basic and i don't feel that your dino really sits in the bg plate at all. I don't know how much work went into the lighting (it tends to get forgotten about around here ) but you need to sort it out bigtime.

well done on taking your time over this and kudos for having the grit and determination to see it through for 9 months, i hope you learnt loads and transfer all that onto your next project. Don't take my comments personally, you will get a lot of (relatively in-experienced) people telling you how good it is because they honestly think it is, but I've been doing this for three years now and I can see the mistakes so I will help you by bringing them up



Alan