Originally planned to use Catmull-Clark SubD’s, but they were (and still are) a bit buggy in Lightwave 9. At the time I did this (2007) I had been re-learning Zbrush and I really wanted to test out something fun in Zbrush. So a dinosaur it was!

Originally I started modeling something akin to Dino from the Flintstones. Nearly finished it up too, but I dumped the idea and decided to go with a much more realistic look. I found quite a few reference images of artist sketches of a Utahraptor, which was what I wanted to model.