Avoid, Audry lake bed , look I, AOM guilty of it, as much as anyone. We Aore all tried to stage scenes of dinosaurs on monotonous dry lakes. Why? Because it, AOS easier than dealing with the foliage. But nature seldom looks like that. Usually every available plot of land is covered with plant life. Except you, Aore actually setting the scene on a flat landscape, make the terrain. Mix in a few rocks or fallen log. Give the dinosaur something to step over or to squeeze underneath. By giving your dinosaur something in the scene to interact with, you can pass an extraordinary realism.
Grab pictures of the environment Whenever you travel in areas with the types of Mesozoic plants, take photos for reference future. Florida palms and cypress swamps that are very similar to what you would have seen there are 100 million years. In other places, you can find ginkgo, redwoods, small ferns, tree ferns, and Araucaria. Take a variety of angles: large branches of plans, bases of trees, rotting logs and swampy edges
Add dino damage The large animals. Africa are hard on plants and dinosaurs would be no different. Look at photos of plants in Africa, where the animals come off lower branches, trample small plants, rubbing against the bark, or spinning all but the highest leaves. If you add dino damage to plants and trees, you, Äôll add a level of storytelling that will add naturalism whole scene.
Overlap the foreground Overlap parts of the dinosaur, AOS included with the leading retail. This almost always occurs in real life. The detail could be a branch, a rock, a bouquet of ferns, or another dinosaur. Don, AOT show all pose in crisp detail. Throw some parts of development. If the foreground element is close to the viewer, blur a bit.
Add dappled light If your decor is planted trees under high, most subjects will be in the shadows, with spots of light spotted filtered down from the canopy. You can use this fact to your advantage in artistic featuring the focus to strong light, and disguising the least important parts of the installation with a mottled light. Remember that the size and fuzzy points of light increases as the light beam moves away from the source of the shadow
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