Jurassic Park Raptor Hatchling

[Prop-Builder]

Here're a few updates on the 'mock up' version I'm doing. As you can see, I've created a quick plastic cutout of the hatchling head to stick the clay on to. There're also a couple of milliput eyeballs I can use. The clay for this quickie is wet clay, but I will switch to an oil- based Roma clay for the proper sculpt later.

The egg is very roughed in, and again is done with wet clay. If I'm happy with the size of the egg, I will make a template later for the sculpture which will be done in an oil-based clay too.

More pics to come by the end of this weekend!







UPDATE!

Here's the Raptor sitting in the egg for comparison. Looking at the movie stills, I feel the egg I did is slightly over-sized. It is currently 8" in length so I may reduce it to 7 1/2 inches to get the head looking just right sticking out of the top.

It is all very rough right now as you can see, this is not to be the actual model I will be finishing, only a quick mock-up. The egg actually looks smaller in these pics comapred to the head, and in a way, right. But in life, that's not the case unfortunately.

I wondered if the movie image shows the egg with the narrow end up, or the fat end? How would birds or dinosaurs hatch in life? Is there some kind of rule that they always break out in a certain area of the egg first (i.e. wide end of egg)? Mabe the embryo grows in a certain position and the head is always near the wider end of the egg?? Any ideas people?





Update!

Added the oil-based clay now. I can start working on the finer details and start the egg also. I have the eyelids to fill in and a lot of skin wrinkles to make.

[moviecreature]

Have you seen the Kenner toy hatchling Raptor? Yours is looking better than that one already! ;D When will you finish this one, you've had it started a while now?

[Prop-Builder]

I have the Hammond cane I'm working on right now, then maybe I'll do the amber rocks before going back to this one. It won't be much longer now.

[moviecreature]

This is a very cool little model. You could maybe make complete eggs too, as you're sculpting almost the whole thing anyway? If I got one of these, I'd like to make a nest with different stages of hatching and some full eggs waiting to hatch open.

[Prop-Builder]

Well, I plan to sculpt an entire egg, then chop off the top of a cast and place the head into that, then remold it. I can easily do a nest with complete eggs too. ;D I've always loved the lab scene which is why I'm doing this.

[Fraggleman]

Cool.

How will you do the egg?

[clarence]

That head is really cool I like it and it gives me an idea will you be selling any of them? I have a good idea or one if not then It will go on Clarences list to do

[Prop-Builder]

I can make one of these for you if you like the finished result! ;D

I believe the more appropiate name for this 'look' though would be Deinonychus, or maybe even Utah Raptor. I'd also like to make several versions of this little baby head to fit scientifically accurate fossils & studies.