hi monsters. i finally finished this video. some of you may remember me posting the last one in the series on here a while back, as well as a bit of behind the scenes material. anyway, it's finally done. hope you like it. critical feedback is always welcome!

oh and there's a few posts on behind the scenes/making of type stuff on my website here:
http://dontmesswithdinosaurs.com/?p=916
http://dontmesswithdinosaurs.com/?p=958
http://dontmesswithdinosaurs.com/?p=953

SUPER COOL!!! Wow, I really love this, so very professional. I've been following your posts and watching your stuff and have always assumed that you were creating these puppets and making these vids for a musician, but I think I just realised......are you the MC too?

Incredible, everything has really come together!  I love that the vein work on the wings are actually pictograms. I find it hard to find some thing to criticize.   Interesting enough the one thing that I can possibly criticize is also the thing I found cool. The wings looked like fabric because of the way the rippled in the wind. I am not even sure that is a bad thing though because they really look so great. Just something that caught my attention.

This is really a wonderful piece of work. You should be proud. Really pleased you have shared it with us.

Awesome. I'm stoked you guys like it, especially as fellow puppet makers. Hell, I'm stoked anytime anyone likes the weird stuff I make. By the end of a big project I'm so close to it and see all the flaws and issues so clearly that I have no idea if any part of it is even relatable to anyone else. I've been pleasantly surprised with the response to this project so far.

I agree about the wings of the terrorsoar - I initially tried to cast them in latex by applying latex directly to a thin layer of clay carved with inscriptions (they're supposed to look like raised scars carved into the wings by humans). Unfortunately something went wrong chemically and the latex never cured properly. It just turned into horrible sticky goo. I'm really not sure what went wrong because I've used the same technique in the past with no problems... So anyway that's why I turned to stretchy spandex fabric. Unfortunately I learned the hard way that once you apply paint to stretchy fabric it loses most of it's stretchiness, so the membranes couldn't really be stretched taught on the extended wing like I had hope to be able to... Oh well. That's learnin.

Its all so dark and exiting, I love it all!! I really like the tortoise like creature that wins in the fight, awesome creatures and I didn't see anything that looked wrong, I think the wings looked great, but I know w hat you mean, its always hard when you have something specific in mind and it doesn't quite turn out as you thought it would, but I still think from an outsiders point of view that it was amazing!! I wish I could put together something like this, you have so much talent!

Thats really impressive! !

Almost a Godzilla mobster movie feel. The creature designs I loved it

Thanks Jeezbo and DrPuppet!

i don't know if this is the appropriate place to post this, but I just finished a bunch of posters of the Earth Beasts from these videos which I'm selling in order to raise some money for the 3rd and final video... If any of you are interested you can see the posters here:

http://dontmesswithdinosaurs.com/?p=1091

The last of the 5 posters shows a monster that will be featured in the 3rd video...

Very cool posters!  I think it is fine to post here.  May not be directly puppet related but that is where the "and Stuff" comes in.