Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone (2005) on Netflix

Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone (2005)

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• Critics claimed some scenes in the 1999 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, particularly the city of Theed on Naboo, unfairly copied images from James Gurney's Dinotopia books; Gurney acknowledged the resemblance but stayed positive about it.
• James Gurney's assignments for National Geographic had him working with archaeologists to paint ancient cities no one alive has seen, which inspired him to imagine his own; he painted "Waterfall City" and "Dinosaur parade" as art prints for collectors, then built an imaginary island around them.
• For his 2007 Dinotopia book, James Gurney made 150 oil paintings using plein-air studies, thumbnail sketches, models photographed in costume and original cardboard or clay maquettes.
• In the Dinotopia TV miniseries, the Stenonychosaurus character Zippo was renamed Zippeau to avoid legal issues with the lighter maker Zippo, and he is said to have worked with Sylvia.
• Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time and its sequel The World Beneath both won Hugo Awards for best original artwork, and the first book won the 1993 Locus Award for Best Non-fiction at a point when the Locus Awards had no category for illustrated works.
• The 2005 straight-to-video animated film Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone was the first and only acting role of hip-hop artist Rollin Woodford (Ro Morikawa).