[x]

Browse More Like This

More from *deskridge

View Gallery · View Prints

Featured in Groups:

#ILoveAnimals
The club for animal-lovers

#justAnimals
Animals Pictures Community

#Domain-of-Darwin
Evolutionists of DeviantArt

#Digital-Art-Club
Digital Art Community

#digital-artists
Premier Digital Artwork

#VuePort
Devious Digital Nature

#DigitalMixedMedia
ghost founder, active members.

#Spectrum-of-Art

Show all (18)

Details

Submitted: April 27, 2012
Image Size: 177 KB
Resolution: 810×1080
Submitted with: Sta.sh

Link

Thumb

Statistics

Comments: 133
Favourites: 383 [who?]
Views: 7,196 (0 today)
Downloads: 605 (0 today)

[x]

The Irish Elkby *deskridge

Digital Art / 3-Dimensional Art / Characters / Animals & Creatures

Prints of this image are for sale here: [link]

An Irish Elk stands proudly in a dense forest.

The Irish Elk, a.k.a. Megaloceros giganteus, is a mammal that went extinct rather recently (about 8000 years ago). It was almost certainly hunted by early humans and is depicted in many cave paintings. Despite it's name, it was not exclusive to Ireland nor was it closely related to elks. Rather, it was species of deer that ranged throughout Europe and parts of Asia. It likely went extinct due to climate change and being pushed out of its habitat by expanding neolithic human populations.

The animal was sculpted, posed and polypainted in ZBrush then imported into Vue where the rest of the scene was created. Final rendering was done in Vue and took about two days on an Intel I5 2.8 GHz with 8 GB of RAM. Post production was done in GIMP.

love 2 2

joy 6 6

wow 6 6

~~mad 0 0~~

~~sad 0 0~~

~~fear 0 0~~

~~neutral 0 0~~

~Japril1000 Dec 17, 2012 Student

i am speechless this irish elk is amazing

*deskridge Dec 18, 2012 Digital Artist

Thanks!

*Leonizart Dec 12, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I have to "dob" you in to every artist I know ( well ok - the whole 2 of them)!
Great WORK you have here... LOVE IT...

*deskridge Dec 12, 2012 Digital Artist

Thanks!

!thecrazycatgirl Dec 10, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

8( this scared me becasue my initials spell ELK and im irish o.o

~Child-of-Minerva Dec 7, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

I thought this was a photo until I realized you are probably not 8000 years old.

*deskridge Dec 10, 2012 Digital Artist

Thanks!

~Child-of-Minerva Dec 10, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

You're welcome

*JOCAPS Nov 25, 2012

There's 1 in a room of the "Les Eyzies" museum of prehistory in Dordogne.....
Giant, such impressive animal, the reproduction is breathtaking of realism

~spider123357 Sep 4, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

wow! Nice cervidae! I really love the antlers. Interesting fact: Did you know that moose, elk, caribou and deer are all cervidae?

More from *deskridge

Featured in Groups:

Details

Statistics

The Irish Elkby *deskridge

The Journal Portal

Polls

What is your preferred drawing software?

deviantART [dee·vee·un'nt·ART]

Keep in Touch!

Deviousness

Add Media

Style