Movie adaptation cartesian plane where x axis is “good/enjoyable film” to “dogshit” and y axis is “faithful to the source material” to “an entirely different story”
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Some additions from the notes
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To everyone who has reminded me that the Percy Jackson movies exist, I hate you, thanks.
This was a fun little thought experiment illustrating an inevitable flaw of paleoart: you have to use living animals for references, and you have to make a lot of assumptions for recognizable things like nose shape, ear shape, eye color, fur color and texture and so on, so there’s a lot of latitude for error, especially for creatures that don’t have any modern descendants.
On the left is a cougar (Puma concolor) restored by an artist who lives in a world where all felines and their relatives have gone extinct before humans ever saw them, so they used a wolf as the model for restoring soft tissue. On the right is the opposite situation, a wolf (Canis lupus) restored using felines as a model.
It was interesting to see how much of the character of the animal was inherent in the bone structure, and how much was dependent on flesh and fur.
If your solution to some problem relies on “If everyone would just…” then you do not have a solution. Everyone is not going to just. At not time in the history of the universe has everyone just, and they’re not going to start now.
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