504 Documentary #4 - Early Development

 The team got together and blocked out a timeline of the Carnotaurus' life we could use as narrative points.

The opening title would play over the main Carnotaurus hatching. 

There would then be a time skip to the juvenile Carno being kicked out of the parent's territory before he becomes a serious competitor for resources.

The Carno, now a young adult, roams around the continent, and at some point gets bullied out of a territory by an Abelisaurus or a Quilmesaurus.

The Carno gets to full size and returns to the territory, now bigger than the 'bully' predator and forces them out, leaving the Carno in charge.

A female Carnotaurus comes by, which could be a way to show how Carnotaurus would communicate (using low frequency 'mumbling' rather than roars like in films) and how it may have done mating displays.

Timeskip again to show the Carno now older, a bit slower, possibly have some healed over injuries that still slow it a bit, and a new, younger Carnotaurus fights him for the territory. This could show how the horns were used for shoving matches. The Carno is left severely injured.

The Carno, now being older, weaker, and injured, finally dies and is eaten by the smaller dinosaurs. I also made note this could happen in a marshy area or in a lake, as we could have the credit sequence over footage of the Carnotaurus holotype MACN-CH 894 on display in Bernardino Rivadavia Museum of Natural Science in Argentina.

While we worked on the narrative, I really wanted to explore colours, so I used Scott Hartman's reconstructive outline as a base and coloured over it to look at where it could go.

Model A uses lighter colours for the main scales (with countershading) to camouflage easier and uses blues and greens for display.

Model B uses much darker colours with darker back scales and osteoderms (inspired from the Harpy eagle) and no proper countershading. The display colours are blue and yellow (I also tried green out for horn colours but obviously we can pick and choose colours from different models).

Model C uses dark colours as well with lighter back scales and osteoderms and white face markings inspired from tropical parrots, which may have helped confuse the eyes of prey and be used for display. The feather colours are red and blue.