The island itself is surrounded by a storm system and dangerous reefs that prevent safe travel to or from the island.Īside from a highly diverse ecosystem ranging from deserts to mountains to swamps, Dinotopia also has an extensive system of natural and man-made caves. It is a place of beauty and wonder lost to the rest of the world. Upon the hidden island of Dinotopia, humans and dinosaurs live and work together in harmony with one another and with the Earth itself. In 1994, director George Lucas had met with producers to discuss some of the concepts and visuals behind a Dinotopia movie that was never made. Gurney acknowledges the resemblance but has remained positive about it.
Many have claimed that some scenes in the film Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (particularly those in the city of Theed on Naboo) unfairly copy images from Gurney's books. Rather than digital tools, Gurney used "plein-air studies, thumbnail sketches, models photographed in costume and original cardboard or clay maquettes" to create 150 oil paintings for his 2007 Dinotopia book.
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The character Bix in the series is modeled after the Dino-Riders Protoceratops toy. He later decided to create an imaginary island based on these paintings. These were originally done as "art prints for collectors". This inspired him to imagine his own, so he painted "Waterfall City" and "Dinosaur parade". Gurney's assignments for National Geographic magazine required him to work with archaeologists to envision and paint ancient cities that no one alive today has ever seen. The disillusioned character Lee Crabb mentions this discrepancy, claiming that humans on the island are slaves to dinosaurs. "Utopia" in Greek loosely translates as "a land or place that does not exist", and is made up of a negative interjection meaning roughly "no" (ου, ou) and the word for "place" (τόπος, topos). Ironically, in Greek "Dinotopia" (Δεινοτοπία) means "terrible place" or "land of suffering", since the original Greek word for "dinosaur" (δεινόσαυρος) translates as "terrible lizard" and is made up of the words for "terrible" (δεινός, dinos) and "lizard" (σαύρα, savra, transliterated as saura). The name "Dinotopia" is a portmanteau of " dinosaur" and " utopia".
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