Columbian Mammoth by Mec4D
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Columbian Mammoth morph for Daz African Elephant done with Zbrush and rendered with HDR Megapack1 light in Poser and hdr tone-mapped after for more dramatic effect.
beside the Woolly Mammoths we know so well from the ace age time there was much bigger 13 feet Columbian Mammoths from the tropical areas hunted by Homo Erectus 1.8 millions years ago ..
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YouTube, morphing Daz elephant into mammoth :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peOO8wtKcts
Comments (16)
Very good morph!
Yeow, look at the piano keys on that thing!!! This is Toooo Cool, Cath!!! 5+++++
very cool, nice youtube as well. If I may add some notes for further enhancement, to my idea the Columbian Mammoth did not have his teeth curling up that much (but more flat and spiral), it was more hairy than on the image (but not as much as the wooly mammoth), it lived more on open planes. And it got extinct about 15.000 years ago. Homo erectus lived about 1.8 - 1.3 million years ago in Africa to Asia. I'm not aware of any Homo - anything on the American continent those days. But that should not be a limitation, should it? And I maybe wrong, I wasn't there at the moment. Anyway, great artist impression. Thank you for that, and wish you a creative 2011.
Looks fabulous Cath. HAPPY NEW YEAR HONEY! XOXO
National Geographic hosted by Mec4D. Very nice, the background blend is nearly perfect! Now let us know when we can buy the gecko to ride the mammoth's back hehe :-)
Great pic :)
I made my home work before I wrote anything, and Homo Erectus also dispersed into America, Columbian Mammoths had no hair due to tropical weather , and as much hair as an Indian elephant.. there are records showing that Homo Erectus feed on Mammoths , mammoths bones was found together with h.erectus that was out of Africa and mostly everywhere beside the northern hemisphere .. bellow is Columbian Mammoth official reconstruction .. see for yourself .. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Mammuthus_columbi_Sergiodlarosa.jpg
I want to add that Mammoths was walking america longer that one million years ago,and much much longer the African continent and the last mammoth that die was around 1500 BC 3.500 years ago and not 15.000, American Museum of Natural History in New York City show the Columbian Tusk 16 feet long, you should see it , each mammoth had different looking tusk as we human have different looking teeth , each artist have own impression , and I don;t like just to copy what everyone else do, the word Mammoth bring always to your mind the woolly mammoth and there was a lot more of the species , and that is so interesting ..
Fantastic!!!
Thanks Guys , free to download : http://www.mec4d.com/store/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=65
Really super work with this morphing for a very realistic result. You have them in a great setting too.
fantastic!!
Again, EXTREMELY well done! The sky and background are phenomenal! (I'm jealous!) Excellent work, here!
Cool render!
Excellent
I love that scene, the colors, setting, everything... That valley/ravine is a perfect set-up for an ambush by a gang of your H.erectus guys. (I mean they have to eat, don't say? ...and feed those cute little HE-K4 kids of theirs (yours)... ) W.