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Published: 2016-02-06 04:13:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 24461; Favourites: 566; Downloads: 126
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Now available on shirts, stickers and more! Two different designs to choose from, here andΒ here ---
Drawings and sketches that made up a body of illustrations to accompany a paleontology research project completed last year. Also featuring other European ice age creatures - cave lion, cave bear, cave hyena and megafaunal wolf.
More Megaloceros + deer illustrations from this project:
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Wish you will make one with Eucladoceros too.
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I have recently painted Eucladoceros.
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Great work, I like the addition of the cave hyena. Β The cave lion looks like it is about be run down the the irish elk and is oblivious!
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Haha, that's a hilarious interpretation
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Aaaaa I LOVE MEGALOCEROS my fave deer so awesome! Definitely will keep an eye out on the Redbubble
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Oh thank you! I didnt actually put any megaloceros works on Redbubble, but I should probably get around to that.
The rack sketch top centre, as well as the coloured full-body painting might turn out good on stickers.
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Yes you definitely should, they are awesome 
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Was just telling my friend that I wish these were still alive so I could ride one ;^;
I beg riding a cervid is exhilaratingΒ
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It probably would be exhilarating to run for your life once the animal decides to trample you 
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Aww 
Moose ehh... I don't know if I want to ride a moose ;-;
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loveeee *Q* I am unable to use my words today to express just how much I think these drawing rock..Β
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I used to watch those cg prehistoric "documentaries" all the time as a kid, I remember thinking these guys were so cool
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Oh man so did I, some of them were horrendous! 
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Which ones would those be?
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I don't recall the names of the horrendous CGI prehistory docos I suffered through in the 90s. Needless to say it's generally a good idea to avoid using CGI models and animations as art reference, as like the game of Chinese Whispers, one will undoubtedly duplicate small errors into larger ones. Even high budget productions such as BBC's Walking With Beasts have moments when the animations feel artificial or the light doesn't interact naturally with the fur. Real living animals, when available, are always the best models.
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Agreed.
Besides WWB, I can remember a documentary called "extinct" which had the giant deer, but other than that, I don't recall any other depictions.
Still, I do remember the VFX crew talking about how they were experiencing challenges animating mammals for WWB after doing WWD, as they were far more complicated, and have more moving parts (ears twitching, etc.), so that might explain some of that, along with the fur.
Also, was the pattern for WWB's giant deer accurate?
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I think another part of the problem is that we are so familiar with observing extant mammals. Anything 'off' about their texture and movement in the CGI is really easy for audiences to pick, especially if they've grown up on a diet of nature documentaries.
Visual effects keep getting better. Fur is a real challenge to animate but I'm continuously impressed by every effort to build on what has been achieved before.
I believe WWB was trying to base their megaloceros coat off this rock art from Chauvet - the problem is we have no way of knowing whether this really was a megaloceros depiction, but one can dream.
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Yes.
WWB is fairly sturdy, but Ice Age Giants now trumps that, though they didn't have nearly as many episodes or as much success as WWB.
Most paleoartists here regard that as the gospel truth of M. giganteus's fur pattern.
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The problem is that IAG is still inferior.Β A boring, biased hostess coupled with animals reserved to "B" footage.
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But it has higher-quality cave lions, which make all the difference.
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Now you're seeing the forest for the trees.
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I was talking about the effects, in any case. IAG could ahve had much better narrative, I get it.
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One big deer. Woulda been amazing to see one in this day and age.
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Thank you for commenting
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I must say that your sketches are absolutely lovely. β₯ the anatomy is just gorgeous. They are all gorgeous! 
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So lovely, thank you for the kind words!
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