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Rough draft vs final. Amazing how much having carefully-researched, accurate anatomy can alter your composition.

You know, something AI can’t do, because it’s just randomly mashing images together.

https://t.co/AxhQzXPkzb

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2023-03-27

There's always a fine line to walk when reconstructing the unknown details of extinct animals in but the more I learn about living animals the more I am convinced that we wouldn't believe _real_ animals were real if we'd only seen them in art.

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2022-07-13

This is why it's so important to share our w/ our collaborators & publicly. People need to see & learn from all the research, measurement, anatomy, comparison & discussion that goes into thorough In good there is a story in every detail.

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2022-06-13

This is actually relatively few for me to make in order to make a illustration, in part because gave me great feedback & ideas, which helped evolve the piece from its humble beginnings.

I hope you enjoyed this thread.

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2022-05-29

We have so much more to show you. To learn more about the of reconstructing & a link to the scientific paper check out my blog here: https://t.co/QnRQjIUj58

& for & & scientific papes here:
https://t.co/MtYiDpa3Ke

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2021-04-12

Sorry it has been a while since I have checked in, I had burnt out a little on this painting and needed a bit to get back into the swing of things and work the visual issues a bit.

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2020-12-13

😅 i *might* have overbuilt this video...

The 4.5hr render in progress is 35 seconds of colorful evolutionary tree inspired by 's phylogenetic analysis...

🦚👹🦚

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2020-08-30

Just a quick lil suthn suthn i tossed together for the / video I'm finishing up... (inspired by evidence)

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2020-08-11

Here are some stages of making this artwork. I started off by making some sketches on paper and when I came up with a nice composition I started drawing digitally. From there it was a matter of coloring and detailing.

https://t.co/uQxZUqaIgI

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2020-07-07

Another (Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops horridus). I normally start by drawing the silhouettes of the animals/objects and make it look 3d later. But in this artwork I started by making rough 3d looking animals/objects before smoothing it out.

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2020-02-18