Ever since Unreal Tournament 2003, I'd made hilariously ambitious attempts to create replicas of Jurassic Park's Isla Nublar, at least in part, as maps. The desire was of course there all the way back to the original Unreal Tournament, but the technology wasn't exactly. At least not to the fidelity I wanted, so I don't think I ever made much headway back then. :)

The UT2003 map didn't amount to a whole lot. It did have the exterior of the visitor center and a little bit of the rotunda and dining room, the raptor paddock, some fence, and a custom drivable Jeep, but it was otherwise pretty depressingly empty. I think I also made an attempt in UDK (the free "development kit" of Unreal Engine 3), but I don't remember how far that went. Then Unreal Engine 4 came along, and it finally looked like I, much like John Hammond himself, could achieve my dream of having nearly the whole island (although at more of the smaller scale of the island in the book rather than the movie). Of course, just because I have the technology to support an enormous map does not mean I have the ability to populate it!

I had to pull the double duty of not only 3D modeling every little thing seen in the movie, but also researching what the heck it was to begin with in order to make the most accurate one I could! This was of course extremely time-consuming, and, despite having been 3D modeling since the '90s, I'm not a particularly fast or good modeler to begin with. :)

This is a sampling of what I had achieved with graphics built in LightWave 3D and assembled as a sort of virtual tour of Jurassic Park in Unreal Engine 4. My efforts died off around the time that I switched to Linux (circa 2017) for a couple reasons:

1. Using Unreal Engine 4 on Linux was annoying. They don't provide a build of it, so I had to build it myself for every new update I cared to try, which isn't the end of the world by any means, but it also acted janky at times—sometimes in ways that I think were kind of show-stoppers. It's been years now, so I don't remember exactly what, but I recall flickering and perhaps geometry disappearing and reappearing.

2. And more detrimentally, my 3D modeling suite of choice, LightWave 3D, didn't function correctly in WINE, and there's never been a native Linux version of it. This pretty much killed all forward momentum on this stupidly ambitious one-man hobby project.

Unfortunately, there was never really any one part that got finished. Everything is frozen in various states of completion.

A long time ago in an internet far, far away when I, my brother, and our brother-from-another-mother were just tiny babies with nothing but our pacifiers and ISDN lines, we were big fans of Sonic the Hedgehog. We had our own fan characters that doubled as our online personas—Blick, Sunny, and Wolf— that we dubbed the Furry Trio. As many Sonic fan characters tended to be, Blick and Sunny were basically just black and orange re-colored Sonic, respectively. They weren't distant cousins of Sonic's or any of that sort of typical fan character thing. They kind of just existed in the world. But we eventually decided we wanted these characters to be their own thing and so had to redesign them to distance them from their Sonic roots. Unfortunately, I never bothered to look up what the heck a hedgehog looks like and so these things were born. Wolf, however, kind of always looked like that. :P

They mostly ended up being used as joke characters and cannon fodder on The Lands of Meeriad or on holidays.

There exists a web site out there somewhere dedicated to them. I won't be providing a link, and I think its navigation bar was in Flash only. So good luck. :-)

The famous band of "adventurers for hire" from the old Lands of Meeriad and Daireem community fiction/RPG message boards.

Random fan art of mostly video games that I've made and felt like putting here.