More extinct mammals

Joe Webb

Alessandro_AM has been showing off his new wolf and it looks great and of course will snap it up. But I'd like to see a dire wolf, or at least a morph for that great wolf.

I'd love to see things like mammoths and mastadons, megatheriums (ground sloth), teratorns, andrewsarchus, entelodonts, glyptodons and other such animals. Not only would they be good for "historical" recreation pictures, but they could be used as alien and fantasy animals. Orcs riding dire wolves, herds of glyptodons stampeding around a space ship, those shovel faced elephants being hunted by reptilian savages.

Seems like an untapped markets, is all I'm saying

nicstt

Think we have enough already tbh: http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/biodiversity/elements_of_biodiversity/extinction_crisis/

Agree though, some interesting extinct ones would be cool.

Joe Webb

nicstt said:

Think we have enough already tbh: http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/biodiversity/elements_of_biodiversity/extinction_crisis/

Agree though, some interesting extinct ones would be cool.

Yeah, lots of animals already in the catalouge are going to be extinct within the next 50 years, so do those detailed models now while we still have examples.

synechodus_b7d65b3411

Try Dinoraul. He has a number of good mammal models. His stuff is spread across several selling platforms so do't just look in the Daz site.

 

Alessandro Mastronardi

Extinct mammals are indeed awesome. I'm more inclined to do those rather than domestic cats and dogs (plz don't hate me). Right now I have WIP the Thylacine, and also the Diprotodon, which are two of my most favorite extinct mammals. If time and energies will allow, I'd love to make more and more of those, even if are niche products and probably will sell little.

Joe Webb

Alessandro_AM said:

Extinct mammals are indeed awesome. I'm more inclined to do those rather than domestic cats and dogs (plz don't hate me). Right now I have WIP the Thylacine, and also the Diprotodon, which are two of my most favorite extinct mammals. If time and energies will allow, I'd love to make more and more of those, even if are niche products and probably will sell little.

No hate here, while I want better pet models I'd rather see the extinct animals. I love that Thylacine you've hinted at, and will certainly get it when it comes out. I don't know your career, aside from the models you sell, but I would think you could very easily create coffee-table type books. I know there is a lot of work being done by Australian paleontologists right now, like Cooper at U of Adelaide. And places like the La Brea tar pits (I volunteer there on Sundays) sell all types of shirts, hats, posters, and books. While that itself would be a niche market too, it seems like a pretty stead revenue stream. Then again you probably already do that sort of thing

Alessandro Mastronardi

Joe Webb said:

Alessandro_AM said:

Extinct mammals are indeed awesome. I'm more inclined to do those rather than domestic cats and dogs (plz don't hate me). Right now I have WIP the Thylacine, and also the Diprotodon, which are two of my most favorite extinct mammals. If time and energies will allow, I'd love to make more and more of those, even if are niche products and probably will sell little.

No hate here, while I want better pet models I'd rather see the extinct animals. I love that Thylacine you've hinted at, and will certainly get it when it comes out. I don't know your career, aside from the models you sell, but I would think you could very easily create coffee-table type books. I know there is a lot of work being done by Australian paleontologists right now, like Cooper at U of Adelaide. And places like the La Brea tar pits (I volunteer there on Sundays) sell all types of shirts, hats, posters, and books. While that itself would be a niche market too, it seems like a pretty stead revenue stream. Then again you probably already do that sort of thing

Hi Joe, thanks for the hints. I do some work for some italian (and very few european) universities, to whom I provide images depicting reconstructions or simulations of landscape study, environmental impact assessment etc. I also cooperate, occasionally, with a few customers that ask for 3D wildlife images for local magazines, congress posters etc. Did also a couple of works for an australian editor, about two years ago.

It's safe for me to say that I am not an accomplished wildlife artist, at least not as much as I wanted to: it's difficult to get known out there, and there is a lot of competition. Nonetheless, I have an insane passion for creating wildlife art and, to be totally honest, I'm often doing it for my own pleasure :) That is the reason for all the niche products that I tend to model disregarding maybe more lucrative and popular ones.

Joe Webb

"not an accomplished wildlife artist" - I guess we have different defintions of accomplished   I do understand about the competition though, and it really comes down to luck to get that "breakout" job. If you like what you do then keep at it, the quality shows.