Howdy from Texas!

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Hi everyone,

I am an MFA student at Texas A&M in the visualization department.
For my MFA body of work I want to create a short animation exploring the lack of cartilaginous forms on most dinosaur depictions.  I am going to take a common skeleton (probably a cat) and not look at the correct anatomy at all, but reconstruct it looking ant something similar is bone structure but very different visually (probably an iguana).   I am going to add muscles to the skeleton based on the new reference creature, then shrink-wrap some skin onto it and animate it moving around.

I am here mainly to get advice and information on how dinosaurs are drawn and speculated about- the palaeontology forum has some awesome art and discussion going on that I discovered while searching the internet.
If y'all have any good books or resources on drawing dinosaurs anatomically, I would love to get those.

Looking forward to talking with you all!

[Arul]

Howdy from indonesia welcome to the forum enjoy your stay 

[Mitko]

Welcome!

[Patrx]

Hi, welcome to the forum! That sounds like a very interesting project If you've not already read it, I fully recommend "All Yesterdays", which explores similar ideas. Also, though I haven't read it myself, I've heard good things about "The Unfeathered Bird". Outside of books, you can't go wrong with palaeo-blogs like SVPOW, DinoGoss, Dinosaurpalaeo, and Mark Witton's blog.