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Woolly Bully

Mixed Medium Animals posted on Oct 28, 2015
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Colorado background with Eurasian prehistoric wildlife in the foreground. Coelodonta atiquitatis or Woolly Rhinoceros. This species showed up 70 thousand years ago (maybe earlier?) and died out along with all the rest of the giant mammals (mammoth, mastodon, Irish elk, saber tooth cats, etc.) about 11,500 years ago. They were roughly the same size or a little bigger than the modern white rhino. They could get as big as 12.5 feet long and 6.5 feet tall. There were a few species of woolly rhino before this one that date back about 3.7 Million years ago and the oldest rhino ancestor goes back 50 Million years ago! Those looked like short nosed tapirs and were much smaller. This most recent woolly, however, was large, built tough and survived the last glaciation. Their diet has been identified as grasses and maybe anything else that falls on the ground that is a plant as evidenced by some preserved carcasses and fossilized stomach remains. I was inspired to do this when I saw some art work Here In the description he points to a link to a recent article on the woolly rhino's look including coloring of the fur. It was an interesting article: Here with the short and rough version being; the author of the article referenced numerous cave paintings and how accurate the prehistoric people represented animals including color and skin/fur patterns. This is known from finding preserved carcasses and skin and fur patches of some extinct mammals. All that said, representations of the woolly rhino in caves in France (I think) show all or most rhinos with a dark band across their abdomen. It's hard to know how defined the edges are; like a panda? Or was the border more ambiguous. Whichever, it was enough for the locals to include the look in their paintings. I tried to follow suit here. This is Raul Lunia's (dinoraul) Wooly Rhinoceros that I sent through Poser's Hair Room. It makes him a bit more shaggy and I adjusted the abdomen hairs in the material room for the darker look. I morphed the hump a bit higher and bigger and flattened the horn side to side a bit with Poser's morph tool. Once posed I rendered using one Sunlight, and an IBL using the background as the image base. I used a skydome too with the Colorado background as the reflective surface. Might be overkill. Once rendered I just added him to Photoshop and adjusted light, shadow, color and blur to blend him in a bit. Thanks for stopping by.

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Comments (13)


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Arrogathor

3:50AM | Thu, 29 October 2015

Pretty cool image. Sad if modern rhino's went extinct.

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jmb007

4:35AM | Thu, 29 October 2015

belle bete

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miwi

6:27AM | Thu, 29 October 2015

Klasse image,excellent work,super!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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eekdog Online Now!

7:27AM | Thu, 29 October 2015

I recall that tune, killer creature my friend. Awesome time period beast.

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flavia49

10:05AM | Thu, 29 October 2015

wonderful work

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drifterlee

2:32PM | Thu, 29 October 2015

Beautiful!!!!!!!!! I love the fur!

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Cyve

6:13PM | Thu, 29 October 2015

Fantastic creation and composition my friend !!!

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GrandmaT

6:47PM | Thu, 29 October 2015

Magnificent!

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RodS

8:57PM | Thu, 29 October 2015

Aw, now I have that song in my head..... Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs, wasn't it? :-P

Anyway.....Another excellent prehistoric scene and critter, Art! I love these! If history would have been this interesting in school, I might have paid attention (rather than drawing pictures in my notebooks...LOL).

Great info on your technique, too. It worked beautifully!

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iborg64

5:57AM | Fri, 30 October 2015

wonderful image the Woolly Rhinoceros looks marvelous

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Savage_dragon

7:45PM | Sun, 01 November 2015

Rats! Now that's stuck in my head. Uno, dos, one, two, tres, quatro! Kewl!

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Kindredsoul

9:59AM | Mon, 02 November 2015

wow that is some beast, very realistic render too, i thought it was real at first.

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Daddywolf

4:16PM | Sun, 15 November 2015

Wasn't that song about a Dog? although Rino works! Great Image! I was into Prehistoric Life and Geology a lot when I as younger wanted to be a geologist or Paleontologist. But they did not need one in the Military🌋


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