Walt Disney's Dinosaur character design

This is a cool piece of movie history as well as dinosaur art.  It looks like the carnotaurus as designed here was meant to have feathers on its belly maybe?

Notably the same dinosaur is also present in the Dinosaur ride at the Animal Kingdom theme park at Disney World in Florida.  I wonder if Ricardo Delgado was involved in that project also?

Will make it a point to ask him the next time we chat.  Wouldn't be at all surprised if that was the case, as he had a pretty good working relationship with Disney through most of the 90's and early 2000's.  He's worked on several Disney and Pixar projects.  As far as the fur (or feathers), I did point out in my description that this drawing is a juvenile and the character featured in the film is an adult without the fur, but with the horns grown in.  So presumably, the fur gradually sheds with adulthood.  Anyway, thanks for the great comment David, please stay safe.

Superb!

Holy sh#t! Disney art and from its 3D hours. Congrats on landing such a great piece from a monumental film. Dinosaur is one of the best animated films not enough people saw (in my option). 

Agreed.  The Jurassic Park movies probably stole a lot of its thunder, but I actually liked the CG work on Dinosaur more than Jurassic (at least the first one).  And yes, box office could've been better domestically.  Although it did almost $350 million worldwide.  Thanks for the comment buddy!

All I drew as a kid was dinos!  I would be tempted to hang this on the fridge and not the wall!

A dino profile for the ages!

Beautiful work, especially like those tail spikes.

Very nice dino drawing.  The relationship of birds to dinos being evolutionary linked was made more popular during the Jurassic Park movies.  Some of this was based in fossils discovered in the early 90's showing quills and wishbones creating a link between the species. 

Great point.  I remember Grant's speech about raptors from the first film very well.  I imagine that pretty much any carnivorous bi-ped evolved from birds.  Would think that Ricardo was certainly aware of this and incorporated that into this drawing.  He seems like a stickler for research, so he probably knew more than the film makers what this species actually looked like.  If I had to guess, it was probably decided by either the director, producer, or writer, to make the Carnotaur look more ferocious.  Hence the addition of horns and the removal of any fur or feathers.  Hard to know without seeing Ricardo's design for the adult version.  

That is ultra-cool! 

There's so much personality in this drawing! I really think you can tell so much about how to use this dino in the film. Really great development drawing! Huge congrats!

I remember this preview as well and was just as floored and steeped in anticipation after seeing it. Great piece of art to recapture that emotion Eric! Very well done and excellent addition to your collection. Congrats and thanks fo sharing!

Oh, that's some uniquely cool stuff!  And the details and colors must look great in person!  Congrats, Eric!

It's always fun seeing these types of pieces on here. I get the same feeling of seeing the sketches and production work that leads to the finished product of a movie or show the same way as I do with comic art. Especially when it's something I really liked. I remember this movie and enjoying it along with the Happy Meal puppets and the lottery promotion they had with McDonald's as I recall when the movie cameout. Great piece.

Thanks David.  And I'm with you.  Whether it's comic art, movie art, fine art, or whatever.  Art is art, and if it speaks to you, it really doesn't matter what it was made for.  Funny, I don't remember any of the McDonald's promotions.  When you consider how much I love dinosaurs, that's kind of weird.  Maybe I just wasn't into puppets.  LOL!  Anyway, thanks so much for your kind words.  Please stay safe.

pure awesomeness!