Thread:Animalman57/@comment-6025261-20171226231727

Now we all have our own thoughts on the Deinonychus and how it looks, mainly on the crest. Firstly, let's compare it to a real Deinonychus (ignore the crest and feathers in this comparison).



The Deinonychus in JW: Evolution has a lot shorter boxer snout with a pronounced eye ridge. But there is a reason: compare the minus crested version to the illustration by Robert Bakker in the 60's.



Looks like they based it on the 60's verison of Deinonychus. Why are they going backwards in time for design? Well, let's compare it to the real skull for a moment.



Yep, not similar at all. But now let's compare it to the Velociraptors in the game, which are based on the film versions (mainly Delta, even though they said they won't have the named creatures as options to clone in the game).



Well, the raptors in the films are based on the modern idea of the skull, so to make it look different from the raptors, this Deinonychus was based on the 60's illustration.



Now, Deinonychus was mentioned in the films, where it is on the hologram machine in Jurassic World, showing the classic Velociraptors in the films and Deino are two different animals like in real life, so the JP raptors are just inaccurate InGen clones of Velociraptors. Here's the image: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/jurassicpark/images/c/ce/Jurassic_World_Dinosaurs.png/revision/latest?cb=20150306195711

So it makes sense that the game version will look different from the raptors, even if the crest is just a feature players can add to their dinosaurs (which WILL be a option, according to the devs). But one last note: they may change it due to this tweet:



That's all I wanted to talk about. 