What is off about the sculpt the this Rex head?

[SirGrooot]

I am the known Dinosaur lover amongst my peers and some of them started playing the PC game "ARK: Survival". Knowing my favorite dinosaur is the Tyrannosaurus, my friends quickly showed me the in-game rex and I couldn't help but be dissapointed.. The Rex just doesn't look good to me. There are of course two ways to look at the Tyrant King in my eyes, those being one through Hollywood's eyes and the other through the eyes of Paleontology. This model seemed like it didn't know how to do either. Aside from the eye crests what seems to really bother me if the upper jaw/snout area. Is it just me or does it not seem correct? Is the snout too long? Is the nasal area too bulgy?

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fd1vnh8mbrp67em.cloudfront.net%2Fimage%2Ffile%2F1%2Fcd%2F70491%2F521536496_preview_2015-09-20_00031.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fthezt2roundtable.com%2Ftopic%2F9990665%2F22%2F&docid=1UBbPyiqx61geM&tbnid=tqmTRoQiHb29cM%3A&w=1920&h=1080&safe=off&bih=850&biw=1745&ved=0ahUKEwjf4drqobPMAhVonIMKHRVhBhkQMwh6KEQwRA&iact=mrc&uact=8

[tyrantqueen]

Arguably there's too much bone structure showing through the skin. You shouldn't really see the temporal fenestrae.

[Dinomike]

I agree with Tyrantqueen. Also, the head looks too big and the eyes seem to be positioned in a way that doesn't allow him to see forward, ie the snout may be too wide.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

I must be getting old..no one noticed the bunny hands?  lol   Honestly it looks like a poor JP Rex copy..the detail is there but the biology isn't.

[stargatedalek]

In terms of accuracy the ARK Tyrannosaurus is better than its counterparts, namely Primal Carnage. The arms are entirely wrong and the head is to large, but the fenestrae aren't as bad as most, the snout itself is much more narrow than the aforementioned, and the enlarged brow horns aren't so enlarged as to be completely implausible.

[Dinoguy2]

The little spikes over the eye are fanciful but not impossible (I think blunt bosses would be better for head pushing competitions). They obviously only looked at side views when designing it, the bone around the eyes should angle forwards strongly, it would be tough to see the eyes from the side due to the ridges around the orbit opening in the skull.



The main problem is that the head is not just too big, it's ridiculously huge compared to the body. Seriously, that thing looks like a bobble head toy. Did anybody bother to look at the real skeleton?

[fason]

im in love  with this representation of trex may i ask who did it ?

[Dinoguy2]

im in love  with this representation of trex may i ask who did it ?

http://mpm.panaves.com/nh/tyrannosaurus.htm

[fason]

thank you (sorry for the late reply)

[antorbitalfenestrae]

The eye also looks much too big and... bulbous honestly

[allosaurusrock]

You guys are missing the major flaw here... no feathers!

[Dilopho]

You guys are missing the major flaw here... no feathers!

Yeah but we're discussing the skull here 

[HD-man]

You guys are missing the major flaw here... no feathers!

Not necessarily given that we don't know for sure whether tyrannosaurids had feathers &, if so, to what extent. To quote Barrett et al. (See the 1st post: http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=3476.0 ), "There is some evidence across the dinosaur tree for homoplastic loss of these structures (e.g. some tyrannosaurids possess scales, but lack evidence for other epidermal structures; electronic supplementary material, S1), so integument evolution cannot be regarded as a progression to more complex epidermal structures."

[stargatedalek]

The fact remains that it's by far more likely they possessed a functional extent of feathers.

[LophoLeeVT]

sirgroogt, do you know where i can get this game???

[Rain]

sirgroogt, do you know where i can get this game???

You can purchase it on steam.

[alexeratops]

sirgroogt, do you know where i can get this game???

if you do get the game, have the knowledge that you need some sort of huge graphics card and a high amount of RAM to run it at all. It is one of the most demanding games on the market right now.

[allosaurusrock]

When it came out, I was slightly upset because none of the animals had feathers, and were portraying them as movie monsters.

[fason]

When it came out, I was slightly upset because none of the animals had feathers, and were portraying them as movie monsters.

just a quick question .   were they movie monsters because they did not have feathers or were the models just movie monsters ?

[allosaurusrock]

They looked to me like Jurassic Park 'I am going to eat you and roar loudly' monsters. But also, I am a little majprly bumhurt about the no feathers thing.