Paleoart thread - Post Disnosaurs and other prehistoric animal drawings.
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ChilChakSack
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Not sure if this thread is still active after all that happened but since we are discussing Japanese artists I might as well shill this:
https://mangaonlineteam.com/manga/dinosaurs-sanctuary/chapter-1/?style=list
This technically counts as paleoart, right? Anyway, it's an anime book about taking care of different species of dinosaurs in a low budget Jurassic Park style zoo. It does a really good job of balancing the depiction of dinosaurs as mundane animals with needs that aren't very different from modern animals and as large potentially dangerous creatures that do not belong in the modern world. Very comfy read and pretty much devoid of all of the pitfalls you would expect from something Japanese; no gratuitous fan service, no over the top action scenes, and no clunky dialogue. In fact all the human characters look very sketchy and half assed compared to the very detailed dinosaurs. At the end of each chapter is a little commentary written by paleontologist Fujiwara Shinichi. Given how much effort was put into the dinosaur designs as compared to the characters I assumed that he was the author but as it turns out he was more of a consultant or editor. the actual author is Itaru Kinoshita. There are some inaccuracies, particularly with the "Troodon" which should be called Stenonychosaurus (more of a nitpick) and is completely missing its primary feathers, but over all I like how the creatures are depicted in this series. Only 5 chapters have been translated so far so it doesn't take much time to read at all. Also featuring DSP as a Dilophosaurus.
Some of my favorite panels:
https://mangaonlineteam.com/manga/dinosaurs-sanctuary/chapter-1/?style=list
This technically counts as paleoart, right? Anyway, it's an anime book about taking care of different species of dinosaurs in a low budget Jurassic Park style zoo. It does a really good job of balancing the depiction of dinosaurs as mundane animals with needs that aren't very different from modern animals and as large potentially dangerous creatures that do not belong in the modern world. Very comfy read and pretty much devoid of all of the pitfalls you would expect from something Japanese; no gratuitous fan service, no over the top action scenes, and no clunky dialogue. In fact all the human characters look very sketchy and half assed compared to the very detailed dinosaurs. At the end of each chapter is a little commentary written by paleontologist Fujiwara Shinichi. Given how much effort was put into the dinosaur designs as compared to the characters I assumed that he was the author but as it turns out he was more of a consultant or editor. the actual author is Itaru Kinoshita. There are some inaccuracies, particularly with the "Troodon" which should be called Stenonychosaurus (more of a nitpick) and is completely missing its primary feathers, but over all I like how the creatures are depicted in this series. Only 5 chapters have been translated so far so it doesn't take much time to read at all. Also featuring DSP as a Dilophosaurus.
Some of my favorite panels:
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Imagine Jurassic Park was real but they couldn't find any t-rex or triceratops DNA, all they have are deinocheirus. You have to pay $10,000 a day to see a park full of whatever the hell this is supposed to be.
(yeah I'd go too)
(yeah I'd go too)
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Ah, I forgot this topic existed.
They used the right scale pattern for Triceratops! I'm impressed.
They used the right scale pattern for Triceratops! I'm impressed.
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Mark Witton
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Horned dinosaurs vs. theropods: how much did horns matter?
The hero of the hour, Triceratops horridus . But how often were those long horns stuck into predatory dinosaurs in defensive action? I feel ...
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Quick! Someone post a picture of a big Triceratops cock!
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Although I no longer believe the evolutionists narrative. I still appreciate these artworks. It's an interesting piece of imagination that would work well in an abstract sci-fi setting.
Walter Myers was actually the artist who introduced me to this theory. I'm not really fond of reposting other people's IP unless it's for archiving reasons. But I do have to provide an example of one of his works to clearly demonstrate the talent he has went into these works.
This is one of his images of his imagining of the Ordovician Period that supposedly occurred 480 million years ago. Who knows, it might be accurate.
You can see his other artworks here.
Walter Myers was actually the artist who introduced me to this theory. I'm not really fond of reposting other people's IP unless it's for archiving reasons. But I do have to provide an example of one of his works to clearly demonstrate the talent he has went into these works.
This is one of his images of his imagining of the Ordovician Period that supposedly occurred 480 million years ago. Who knows, it might be accurate.
You can see his other artworks here.
Neil Redfield Yes it's a pronouns-in-bio but this artwork is so damn good that I'm willing to overlook it.
PipTheAlchemist
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To put it into more perspective, Wooly Mammoth's still existed on Wrangel Island in Russia at the same time the Pyramids of Giza were being built
ChilChakSack
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Not really paleoart but it is a related field and I wanted to share these. Speculative zoology, or speculative evolution, is a merging of fantasy and science where artists try to make informed guesses at how lifeforms would evolve under different conditions. This could range from what dinosaurs would like today if they had not gone extinct to how organisms would evolve on low gravity planets. Dougal Dixon is considered by many to be the father of this field with his trilogy of books paving the way for similar artists in the future.
After Man:
The New Dinosaurs:
Man After Man:
To little surprise his works were especially popular in Japan where they were adapted into comics, a traveling museum exhibit and even a stop motion documentary.
His creations also inspired The Future is Wild documentary series and some of the creatures from the BBC show Primeval, if anyone remembers either of those.
Btw, the comic I shilled in my last post in this thread reccently had another volume translated.
https://mangakakalot.com/chapter/ux929423/chapter_6
After Man:
The New Dinosaurs:
Man After Man:
To little surprise his works were especially popular in Japan where they were adapted into comics, a traveling museum exhibit and even a stop motion documentary.
His creations also inspired The Future is Wild documentary series and some of the creatures from the BBC show Primeval, if anyone remembers either of those.
Btw, the comic I shilled in my last post in this thread reccently had another volume translated.
https://mangakakalot.com/chapter/ux929423/chapter_6
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i thought we had a spec ev thread somewhere around here
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They were about the same size as the North African elephants Hannibal used too. Too bad the Paleosiberians (IIRC those were ancestors of the Eskimos) hunted them to extinction instead of taming them like they did reindeer.
The Future is Wild was one of the absolute weirdest documentaries I ever watched as a kid. Absolutely trippy and memorable as hell even though I only saw it like once or twice almost 25 years ago. I liked all the cephalopods dominating the world 200 million years from now. Hope they can get sentient before the increasing brightness of the sun 1-2 billion years from now eradicates most multicellular life.
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Meet the newly discovered Cetacean from the Paracas Formation of Peru from the Eocene of 39 million years ago.
It's name is Perucetus colossus and it was a Deathfat even by whale standards.
It's name is Perucetus colossus and it was a Deathfat even by whale standards.
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Kinda looks like the Bloop lol.
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I like this thread. 
