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Anyway, I'll be doing a dinosaur based around the body structure of a tyrannosaurus rex. The head might be roundish if the idea I have in my head looks right with the rest of the body. If not, I'll give it a boney look and maybe some horns on top or something. The small arms of a T-Rex will be replaced with longer arms, although I currently have no special design for them as of now. Despite the obvious uselessness of having wings on such a large and heavy creature, I plan to add them as well. I'm thinking along the lines of bat-type wings that you see on demons and such. The backside will hopefully be covered with spike-ish protrusions of bone. I'm not sure if I want to go with a Bowser look with a shell-like plate along the back (not as thick and obvious as Bowser's however) that runs from the top of the head to the base of the tail or go with a more realistic look.
Anyway, I suppose we'll see how it goes and cross bridges when we get there.
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brought the tail up considerably and tweaked a few vertices here and there.
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I just read that this whole compitition is in honor of the T-Rex DVD that just came out for SM... I'd like to state for the record that I have not purchased the DVD so none of my ideas are coming from it or anything. I didn't even realize this until just now, so please don't think I'm trying to be cheap or anything. =P Had I known earlier, I probably would have chosen a slightly different design, but oh well.
On another note, I should be able to continue modeling tomorrow afternoon. ;-)
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