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Name: Luis V. Rey Date Born/ Age: 1955 Length: Less than 30 m. Weight: Less than 20 tons. Favorite Food: Tacos and Sushi. Family: Hominidae Genus: Homo Species: sapiens (I hope) Place of Origin: Latin America and Spain. Habitat: Rainy London (current) Favorite Movie: Brazil Favorite TV Show: Anything related to Biology., Evolution or Paleontology Favorite Dinosaur: Velociraptor Favorite Sport: Soccer Exercise: Bicycle and walking. Hobbies:
Art in general, music,
cinema, philosophy, writing and anything
Distinguishing Features: Black beard. Luis Rey was Guest Moderator on Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette Dino Dish June 1-31, 2001 Dino Dish - Luis Rey's Forum Vera Velociraptor's Very Vast, Verbose, Voracious Vocabulary Students? Pay Attention! Be sure to check out that is to say, investigate, (humph), certain other useful pieces of terminology at the 7V-WOW Archives. |
Luis Rey Biographical Notes
My father was an illustrator and I spent hours learning from him. My career as a professional artist started in 1975 (two years after I started the University) mostly doing surrealism, symbolism, comic-related or Sci-Fi stuff without ever taking my mind off science. I've worked with many people (Including film-maker and theatre director Alejandro Jodorowsky) during all these years. In Barcelona I was also publishing in some of the leading satirical magazines. All that while the Dinosaur Renaissance was taking place and I got hooked once again. I ended up in England for professional reasons. I'm quite independent and this was the place I could have a true professional respect for my work... and also Paleontology can be taken a little more seriously. It is not as big as in the States, but we can try to get it out of the 'kiddies' book section once in a while. Unfortunately in countries like Spain or Mexico, the paleontology fire is just starting to burn. I started my dinosaur illustration quite late (1988). That was about four years after I started frantic studies of the Dinosaur Renaissance. I couldn't believe that those venerable bones from the past were really alive again. When we used to see the majestic mounts at the AMHN or any other place in the world, we never questioned the fact that that T. rex mount couldn't actually walk that way... it was thanks Ostrom, Bakker and Greg Paul (mostly) that I started to see things in a different way. And needless to say it has
taken me more than ten years to start really thinking in devoting all my
time, and more: All my professional time to try to live from what
is now call paleoart. Commercial success can also be a subjective matter...
it depends of how much of a trouble maker you are, and if you accept to
do anything you get told without question. I refuse to do so. I need
to go back to study the original papers, even to the fossil bones if possible,
discuss different opinions and make up my own mind. If you are opinionated
enough you get more often in trouble (specially with editors that
have no idea what they are publishing and prefer tidy, completely wrong
1950's dinosaur restorations to any kind of innovative, accurate approach).
But at the end you probably get a cleaner conscience that you are trying
to do your best. . Luis Rey,
June, 2001
Selected
Artwork
Curriculum Vitae Luis V. Rey. Spanish-Mexican artist residing
in London.
Illustrator, researcher,
sculptor, anatomist, model designer,
Member of the SVP (Society of Vertebrate Paleontology) and of the Dinosaur Society (U.K.) actively participating in the last 4 years of symposia, exhibitions and Field Trips. Collaborations, Publications and Features With William Blows: Restoring a new version of Polacanthus (1992). With George Olshevsky: “The Birds First. A Theory To Fit The Facts”, OMNI Magazine (June 1994). With sculptor Charlie Mc Grady: Creation of a full sized, feathered model of Velociraptor (1997). With Darren Naish in “Pecking Order” (Fortean Times, March 1998). With Cristiano Dal Sasso and Marco Signore in restorations of Scipionyx samniticus (Poster at the 1999 SVP meeting in Denver). Feature in Discover Magazine #403 “Living Fossils” (a special programme for Discovery Channel) illustrating the work of Luis Chiappe and Kevin Padian on the origin of birds. Press correspondent and collaborator with Dino Press (Japan). Workshops and exhibitions: Dinosaur workshops for children at the British Museum (Natural History) and at the Alexandra Palace, London between 1992 and 1996. Co-organized witn Mike Howgate several biannual Dinosaur Conventions and public scientific workshops and debates in London since the late eighties. Yaohan Centre (dinosaur art exhibition) 1994. “Dinosaur Art Weekend” Dinamation Centre in Fruita Colorado in 1995. David Alden’s and Bob Bakker’s “Raptors” travelling exhibition UK Dinosaur Society’s Travelling Exhibition. “Monster Art Exhibition” at the Dudley Museum and Art Gallery SVPCA 2000 (exhibition), Portsmouth University . Field Museum of Chicago as part of John Lanzendorf’s tribute exhibition to the Tyrannosaurus rex known as “Sue”. Several paintings are in the collections of John Lanzendorf, Mark Kaplowitz and David Alden from Saurian Studios. Consultancy : BBC Series Walking With Dinosaurs (designing color pattern for several models). Working for the last two
years with Dorling and Kindersley as dinosaur art and anatomical
consultant, designing anatomically accurate blueprints and layouts
for new models to be sculpted and photographed resulting in the book D&K
Dinosaur
Encyclopedia by David Lambert and a forthcoming Prehistoric Animals
Encyclopedia.
Luis Rey's Personal Website Selected Artwork  Books
Books by (sometimes with others ) Look for these books at your Public Library! Some of these books may be purchased (instantly) online through our relationship with Amazon.Com. All purchases support D.I.G. NON-FICTION
The Usborne Book of Dinosaurs” (Sue Mayes, Usborne Publishing) “Dinoworld”, Vols. 1-4 ( Kingfisher) “The Search for Dinosaurs” ( Dougal Dixon,Wayland Publishers) “Dinosaurs: A Celebration” (Marvel Comics) “Deinos-Saurus” (Autonomous National Mexican University) “Dinosaurs” (The Time-Life Guides) “Dinosaurs” (Reader’s Digest Pathfinders)
Les Fossiles (Gallimard)
Prehistoric Animals (Dougal Dixon, TickTock publishing, in print) Mesozoic Fauna (Ken Carpenter, in print). 2001
Prehistoric Animals Encyclopedia.
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I
was born in Havana, raised in Mexico City, lived a good part of my life
in Barcelona and spent the last 14 years of my life up and around London.
I'm Spanish now. I have a degree in Visual Arts at UNAM (Mexican University).
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