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Saurian-Tyrannosaurus rex
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Published: August 24, 2015

Here is the new T. rex for Saurian, that dinosaur game I'm working on.  We redesigned our rex after new information came out and some less than gentle prodding from yours truly.  During the redesign process I must have pumped out dozens of design ideas.  So I am extremely satisfied with this design, its become hard to see any other T. rex now haha.  Anyways I hope you guys dig it.  Also I should be able to start posting new work again soon, so get excited.  Follow the links below to find out more information on Saurian and our new T. rex design.

Saurian Facebook | Saurian Twitter | Saurian Website

Other Saurian Work
Saurian Concept Art by arvalisSaurian-Acheroraptor by arvalisSaurian-The Observer by arvalisSaurian-Quetzalcoatlus by arvalis Saurian-T. rex Infographic by arvalis 

Photoshop CS5: a ton of time to get to this final concept
T. rex Design©Urvogel Games LLC
Image size
5161x2497px 3.51 MB
IMAGE DETAILS
Software
Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 Macintosh
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44120GGi's avatar
44120GGi|Student Artist
Love this.
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Magnanimous-Matt's avatar
Magnanimous-Matt|Hobbyist Digital Artist
Phenomenal as the new design is, I'm gonna miss this buddy ;_;
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GearDaemon's avatar
GearDaemon|Hobbyist General Artist
Im gonna miss this feathered t-rex design in saurian, it is one of my favorites and it looks so damn cool. But your recent redesign is fantastic, the t-rex is definitely not one of my favorite dinos but your passion for them is inspiring.
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Sheemori's avatar
the feathers in the fossil of a T-rex was actually never proven.

however,  new evidence has surfaced in fossilized neck skin that shows the T-rex was indeed covered in scales.

feathers are nothing more than a pipe dream for evolutionists who want the crackpot bird theory to hold more ground with a lack of real evidence.

I however do enjoy your art.
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arvalis|Professional Digital Artist
This is 3 years old. I know that feathers are no longer likely for T. rex. However we know for a fact that many dinosaurs are feathered. We have tons of evidence for feathers. For someone to think otherwise, they would have to be very dumb.
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Hetalia0604's avatar
Hetalia0604|Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Still looks terrifying with the fluffy feathers 
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ABB0002's avatar
ABB0002|Professional Photographer
Anthomnia played saurian
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arvalis's avatar
arvalis|Professional Digital Artist
He's played it a few times it would seem. 
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ABB0002's avatar
ABB0002|Professional Photographer
He only played I think 8 times
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TWdinoexplainer|Hobbyist General Artist
www.nature.com/articles/srep44…

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/…

reptilis.net/2017/06/19/the-re…

reptilis.net/wordpress/wp-cont…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archosau…

ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~kent/paleon…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procerat…

I like the idea you had of making this but personally i find the feathered trex a little underwhelming and not very intimidating, also it would be cool if you could add albertosaurus to the list of dinosaurs for saurian, I picked up the game recently its a bit bare but its beautiful. 
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JPGuchiha's avatar
JPGuchiha|Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Is there any real evidence that says an adult T-rex had feathers?
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CoelurosaurianArtist's avatar
CoelurosaurianArtist|Hobbyist General Artist
You've been literately commenting this for every feathered T.rex reconstruction.  
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Evodolka's avatar
Evodolka|Hobbyist Traditional Artist
THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING!
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JPGuchiha's avatar
JPGuchiha|Hobbyist Traditional Artist
And? 

What's wrong with asking for evidence to a baseless claim?
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CoelurosaurianArtist's avatar
CoelurosaurianArtist|Hobbyist General Artist
I'm not talking about the hypothesis itself. 

I'm alluding to your constant barrage of the same comment copied and pasted to every interpretation of the animal. Even if it was prior to the Bell et al. paper. 

There is of course, nothing wrong with questioning the individual for their reasoning on why they drew the creature with plumage. At the time, the resources we had lead us to bring up the hypothesis on the matter, and plenty of scientists were actually convinced by the hypothesis. 

But now, that very idea is being questioned as time goes on. Almost everyone overlooked the fact that it was a hypothesis. THAT is why many people reconstructed the animal possessing feathers.  
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Whitedragon66's avatar
can i have your permission to publish something with a similar colour and look scheme to this artwork here please :)
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arvalis's avatar
arvalis|Professional Digital Artist
Can I see it first?
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Whitedragon66's avatar
sure i can upload it on my page and i will delete immediately if you want 
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Evodolka's avatar
Evodolka|Hobbyist Traditional Artist
looks amazing :)
1 of my favorites depictions of a tyrannosaurus, i just adore the colours and design :D
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JPGuchiha's avatar
JPGuchiha|Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Is there any real evidence that says an adult T-rex had feathers?
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Evodolka's avatar
Evodolka|Hobbyist Traditional Artist
nothing really, more just "heavily hinted at"
and even then it would probably just have about 10-20% feathering maybe even less
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JPGuchiha's avatar
JPGuchiha|Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Really? Because from what I've seen there's at lest a 97% chance that T. rexes were entirely scaly.
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RaptorWings's avatar
RaptorWings|Student General Artist
Did u see saurian update?
They say:
"There's been a lot of new information about a certain famous dinosaur this year and we have definitely been paying attention. I have spent dozens of hours working on something with some major input from both Scott Hartman and Mark Witton, two experts in life appearance of prehistoric animals. Unfortunately I can't say just yet what this is, but its pretty exciting for us and I hope you start getting excited too. It's expected sometime in the next month so pay attention."

This might mean they're converting to a scaly rex or something.

I hope not.
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Holconia's avatar
Holconia|Professional General Artist
Well there's not too much evidence as to whether or not Tyrannosaurus was definitely completely scaly or definitely feathered, so the devs are free to speculate wildly
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