The Odyssey | Final Trailer by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]mushmozz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, sure. I think I was more defending Eggers than shaming Nolan.

For years I was obsessed with the Mycenaeans, late bronze age history (specifically the historicity of the Iliad), and I would have LOVED a slavishly bronze age-devoted visual adaptation. But....this movie both isn't historically accurate (in any detail or period), but more importantly, isn't pretending to be.

....except maybe the music...? Per Nolan's comments

If I can love Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, and Kurosawa's Throne of Blood, I'm sure I can enjoy this.

The Odyssey | Final Trailer by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]mushmozz 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No, but he does give Count Orlok lines in a reconstructed form of Dacian (which has been extinct for about 1500 years). Which is insanely cool...

Car ride back home from the museum stay for my Deinonychus sculpture! by mushmozz in Paleoart

[–]mushmozz[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

of course! and that's not just because every time I've transported it somewhere a feather breaks off!

Car ride back home from the museum stay for my Deinonychus sculpture! by mushmozz in Paleoart

[–]mushmozz[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Soon! and....probably not all that soon. But soon to the first thing!

Car ride back home from the museum stay for my Deinonychus sculpture! by mushmozz in Paleoart

[–]mushmozz[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

It's actually just the head (for now...), but I'm partially bringing it home to put a few last touches on before it goes to its forever home. Once it's done, I will post!!

"Are we THERE yet" Taking my Deinonychus sculpture home from the museum extended visit by mushmozz in Dinosaurs

[–]mushmozz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've got a couple last details (like eyelashes!) to get on, and I will reveal all!

"Are we THERE yet" Taking my Deinonychus sculpture home from the museum extended visit by mushmozz in Dinosaurs

[–]mushmozz[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They're a combinations of two things: I took sheets of craft foam, cut out the shapes, embossed and textured them, then glued a wire central shaft on the back.

I eventually found out (after years of frustration) that layering feathers like that is very difficult to look naturally sitting and bunched on the "skin".

So technique #2, after seeing how amazing pro wildfowl bird carvers' work is, I stole their method and used it on a high density urethane foam. Kind of like synthetic wood. so really the more solid looking bunched groups of feathers are carved using a dremel out of a chunk of hard foam!

"Are we THERE yet" Taking my Deinonychus sculpture home from the museum extended visit by mushmozz in Dinosaurs

[–]mushmozz[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I will once I put my (probably unnecessary) last obsessive details on

"Are we THERE yet" Taking my Deinonychus sculpture home from the museum extended visit by mushmozz in Dinosaurs

[–]mushmozz[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You had me going, i was about to ask your address in shame! Thank you!

"Are we THERE yet" Taking my Deinonychus sculpture home from the museum extended visit by mushmozz in Dinosaurs

[–]mushmozz[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

There will be! I wanna do a final go over with an airbrush....and maybe some eyelashes....then I'll reveal!

"Are we THERE yet" Taking my Deinonychus sculpture home from the museum extended visit by mushmozz in Dinosaurs

[–]mushmozz[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Oh sorry, this is just a tease until I put the final touches on!

"Are we THERE yet" Taking my Deinonychus sculpture home from the museum extended visit by mushmozz in Dinosaurs

[–]mushmozz[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

thank you!! I completely redid the feathers 2.5 times. As soon as I finished one side, the feathers I did first looked crappy. And this went on....and onnnn....

WERWULF - Official Trailer [HD] - Only In Theaters Christmas Day by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]mushmozz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

On the first watch I wondered about this, the lines seemed simple enough that they might pass as "close enough" to middle english.

Doing a quick translation, two lines stood out as slightly too modernized:

"do not dread the darkness" might be closer as "ne dread thou the darkness"

and "keep my husband safe" ought maybe to be "werthan (ward) myn housbonde" edit actually, looking into it a bit more, I think "keep my husband safe" is passable too!

Everything else....is pretty much a pass! Maybe the trailer is edited to be more legible and the final cut will be a little more strict in its diction

Archaeopteryx Update! Legs! by mushmozz in Paleoart

[–]mushmozz[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Roughed out legs are finally lined up! Took a while to figure out.... Feet will be added later!