Create a Herd of Grazing Dinosaurs in Photoshop – Psd Premium Tutorial
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Create a Herd of Grazing Dinosaurs in Photoshop – Psd Premium Tutorial

on Apr 14th 2011 with 17 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Estimated Completion Time: 12 Hours
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

Just about everyone remembers that scene from Jurassic Park when the characters come across herds of dinosaurs grazing in a grassy field. In this Psd Premium tutorial, author Ed Lopez will demonstrate how to create a scene filled with Triassic era dinosaurs including a Brachiosaurus, one of the largest animals to ever exist. In this lesson we will demonstrate several matte painting techniques and will also show how to create dinosaurs from scratch. This tutorial is available exclusively to Premium Members. If you would like to take your matte painting skills to the next level, Log in or Join Now to get started!

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I was born in Mexico City, worked and studied photography at Eastman Kodak while training in minilab management and traditional darkroom techniques. Now I am steadily growing in the freelance world on matte painting, digital art/illustration and even some 3d modeling.  

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  • Hugo

    This looks freakin’ amazing! :)

  • http:///www.jgdesignz.com Jose Gonzalez

    This is surreal. This is a great example of what creativity and imagination can produce…

    Flawless Victory!!!!!!

  • flyingfox

    Ha, this one is great. I was just doing your “Underground City”. This one looks even better. Looking forward to it.

  • http://www.greasypigstudios.com/xcardsthespot Arvin Bautista

    Not to be nit-picky, but hey, it’s dinosaurs, it’s like the most fun science to be nit-picky about:

    1) Brachiosaurs and Stegosaurus were Jurassic dinosaurs, and actually appeared in the mid-to-late Jurassic, about 50 million years after the triassic.

    2) Grass did not evolve until the late Cretaceous, 150 million years later!

    Jurassic Park got away with it because the world was set in the present, and they were taking creative license (despite the fact that most of the star dinos on the island really were from the Cretaceous)

    • Odyssey

      Evolution is only a theory. Grass could of been here from day one of Earth. :)

    • Jaybo

      Jurassic Park may have featured many cretaceous dinos. But Cretaceous Park doesn’t sound cool. Gotta think of the marketing.

    • Josh

      Tut looks awesome!

      Other than that, Arvin, you know there is not a single thead of evidence for evolution right? :P It’s a completed joke. Common sense > Evolution.

      • PixelTunnelVision

        The theory of evolution has a lot of holes, and isn’t perfect, bu there is A LOT of evidence to support it. Unlike a lot of other popular beliefs…

      • Andrew

        You know about domestication right? That is a form of evolution

  • Ben

    Where did all the free tutorials go?…….

  • http://itcutives.com Jatin

    Just one work for this post: AWESOME !

  • http://www.logandesigns.co.uk Mark

    This looks stunning. I would love to have Premium

  • http://kishkoosh.com Ron

    Looks like it’s worth it!

  • Michael

    Just an idea – the download for this tutorial is almost 1Gb – could the html files be available as a separate download to the psd files, for those of us with rubbish internet connections!

  • http://www.aphrodite1994.com/ Mark

    The detail involved in this is phenomenal. Well done. Only wish I could see the full tutorial.

  • Andrew

    These dinosaurs look rather inaccurate, their legs are positioned wrong, and the brachiosaurus’ neck is far too skinny.

  • daniel

    I want to buy this from tutsplus.com is that possible???