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The Making of The Therizinosaurus |
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These are pictures of the construction of Ingrid Crepeau's most
spectacular puppet to date. |
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 Stranger
Than Fiction!
Therizinosaurus
is the strangest looking dinosaur ever
identified (with or without
its skin). Our Therizinosaurus
is named
Zino.
Let's give this
dinosaur a hand!
The first things Ingrid designed
for this
dinosaur were its hands. |
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How Does She Do It?
The Hand Mechanism -- Details
The fingers are made of hobby plywood
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The knuckles are covered with ethafoam
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The finger-rings are pieces of aluminum tubing
By pushing and pulling, the fingers flex and extent
With this mechanism, the fingers can be operated individually
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Covering the superstructure (or "Gimme some Skin!")
The dinosaur is covered with quilted
bathrobe velour. The picture on the left shows the leg with the tail
flopping over the thigh. If you look carefully you can see the
belly, made of yellow foam.
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The Therizinosaurus, almost finished!
No one knows for sure what Zino looked like. One paleontologist has
said it probably "...looked like a half-plucked turkey and walked
like a pot-bellied bear."
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