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And here we are with another "my favourite designs from...", paleodoc edition. After doing The Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Planet, there was no way we missed the Surviving Earth one. Heck it actually took us damn too long, but during August and the first half of September we've been super busy and just not in the mood to make such post, and we decided to wait and rewatch the whole show anyway. As with Prehistoric Planet, we had to extend the ranking beyond the top 10, and still it's not been easy to pick only 15 creatures- seriously, this series does have its flaws, but it knocked it out of the park with the animal reconstructions. So Here's our top 15! Do you agree with our takes, or there are yet other creatures that you feel deserved a mention here?

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As I wrote in my short review of The End of Oak Street, the movie's biggest letdown were the designs of the prehistoric animals. And like I always say- no, it's not (just) the fact that they're inaccurate, what pains me so much is to see Hollywood bringing on these trite, uncreative and tiresome caricature of dinosaurs as crooked gollums, rather than striving for more realistic and sleek models akin to what the Jurassic Park trilogy did. Hence we decided to try and give our own interpretation on some of the Oak Street's dino cast.

Yeah we cut many creatures out (Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Pteranodon) to be quicker with completing the post, I really didn't feel like going over Stego and Anky once again haha. And scrapped Titanoboa too, because honestly, there wasn't much to go around with a giant snake in terms of creativity😅

All the other stars are here. Hope u enjoy!! #theendofoakstreet
#dinosaurs #paleoart

For Allosaurus, I took Luis Rey as a HUGE inspiration to do something that felt vibrant and early 2010s in flavour, as you can see with the crests, that are really prominent and developed, and the fleshy throat wattle (yeah, I'm usually not a fan of these structures in big perdatory theropods, but this time I couldn't resist). Luis Rey's inspo also helped me staying somewhat faithful to the spines and feathers in the og design, although the fluff we see in the movie was reeeally trimmed down. To end with, I restored the nasty gash scarring Allo's face, as in my view not only did it enhance the animal's grim, gnarly aura, but it also made plausible for a predator with a damaged jaw and disarranged teeth to go so relentlessly after such a small, easy meal like humans.

Not much to say about Tropeognathus, that's basically a canon Tropeognathus and that's it (I think few things on Earth can be cooler than real tropeognathids). But I had sooo much fun with the colors here hehe

I was actually undecided whether to draw Spinosaurus in its 2020's rendition or have fun with its 2010's vest. At last I decided to go for the former, but I chose Spinosaurus mirabilis rather than S. aegyptiacus, so it was still a lil gulp of fresh air. And dappled it in all those g

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Summer photo dump. I got some great friends and a lovely girlfriend ❤️

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So, this is it. The day I hoped would never come is here. As per words of Darren Naish, there's no future ahead for Prehistoric Planet.

I know we are late to the party and this disclosure belongs to months ago, but no one has been talking about it on Instagram or YouTube, and I don't use Reddit that much, so I just found out about this ~1 month ago and didn't have time to post it until now.

Man... It's so painful to hear about this. Partly because this is a show I'd NEVER get tired of, partly because heck there was stil such a huge potential for future seasons. I know not everyone loved Ice Age, and some fans were straight up disappointed by it, but I still think it was a truly good and spectacular season, despite having its obvious shortcomings, and it had opened the door to so much possibilities for the series' future.

I don't want to sound as an alarmist or a clickbaiter, maybe there's still some hope, but Naish's tone sounded very... Definitive in his comment. Who knows, we'll wait and see Ig. In the meanwhile, I'll always be grateful for the three seasons we got💙💚

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Las cámaras ubicadas a lo largo de la Isla llegan a capturar momentos y sonidos que serían demasiado peligrosos de presenciar en persona, permiten tener un acercamiento con estas criaturas sin tener que invadir su hábitat.
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#suchomimus #dinotoys #dinophotography #toyphotography #jurassicworld

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I had never stopped to think about the incredible bounty of Smilodon iterations we piled up in the last ~6 years, and with most of them being so fantastic, a tribute was inevitabile🐅 as for Spinosaurus, this plethora is especially satisfying, because despite its huge fame, we have seen so little of Smilodon in past documentaries (I think we only got it in WWB and Prehistoric Park? Oh and Prehistoric Predators, which doesn't count). Which killer cat is taking the crown in your opinion?

#prehistoricplanet #survivingearth #smilodon

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Third round is here aaand yeah, Mutadon is out people. Choose the next one to eliminate and write It in the comments!
#jurassicpark #jurasicworld #dinosaurs

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Unsurprisingly, Spinoceratops is out. Who will be the next? The choice is yours! Write down the one you wish to ELIMINATE, choosing from (top to bottom, left to right):
-Indominus rex
-Indoraptor
-Scorpios rex
-Distortus rex
-Mutadon

#jurassicpark #jurassicworld

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And here we go with episode six! This was probably the one that made the least noise when the series was getting marketed this spring, and I'll admit that it's not among my favourite installments so far. This is partly by exclusion, since the episodes 1, 3, and especially 4 and 5 were hard to top (on top of being much more anticipated for me than this one). But yeah the episode also had its own problems. Did you already watch it? If so, what are your thoughts on it?

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All the episodes of Surviving Earth have now been revealed in detail, so I couldn't keep myself from summing them up here and ask you: which is the one you're most excited about?
Gotta say: over one week ago, when I found out that the series wasn't going to follow a chronological timeline, I felt let down a bit, but the more Impossible Pictures released their heads up, the more I got intrigued by this format. I feel like showing for the second half of each installment the outcome of the extinction event, depicting what came after, is a really cool idea. Could they still do this AND follow the canonical timeline? Yeah, but nvm😂
This said, my most anticipated episode could be either the Triassic one or the Great American Biotic Interchange, though it's REALLY hard to choose, and right now as I'm writing I'm changing my mind thinking about the others haha. Hbu? #survivingearth

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And which ones are yours? This is a topic where everyone can bring in a lot of different and equally intriguing points, so I'm thrilled to know if you would add these same creatures, or further new ones. I hope I don't sound ungrateful with this post- of course I'm happy with the overexpanding abundance of species we are getting in our paleomedias from the Jurassic franchise to the new documentaries and videogames, but for the fun of the game, I made a list of some of the taxa I'd LOVE to see getting more represented in the future. Some of them include animals that we never saw (or saw just once) in a product, others feature species that got portrayed a bit more, but that imo still need more spotlight. Hopefully, Surviving Earth will give us a hand with some of them!

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Happy birthday to us!! (Thank you all so much for your dms people, I'm so happy that you all keep following us💙💚) This is a little row of some drawings we did over the last months. Far from perfect indeed, but they're the ones we are most satisfied of among the lot haha. Always striving to improve tho💪 The first three are made by me, last three by my bro, here are some brief descriptions of 'em:

-The first one is called The Hanging Tree, after the famous and absolute BANGER song from The Hunger Games, and depicts a Megantereon feasting on an unfortunate Australopithecus on a tree. I'm happy of the whole piece, it DEFINITELY needs to be improved but it turned out macabre and creepy as I had imagined it (my comparative anatomy professor will say fake);

-The second one is a big phylogenetic tree of Theropoda with a small drawing for each family, I had started it some months ago and as you can see I'm FAR from being done😂 I have dropped it, admittedly, but I will continue I promise;

-The third one is a rework of the Deadly Nadder from HTTYD. I've always thought that the dragon designs in the live action suck sh1t, so here I tried to picture it in a more realistic way that would look better😂

-The fourth one is Drogon, specifically from A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 5. My brother drew him as the juvenile individual he is in ADWD, hence why he looks more slender and lightweighted than the Godzilla-sized Drogon from the last seasons;

-The fifth one represents two dragons my brother made, that were inspired by... Lizards! He thought that, while we often think about dragons as more archosaur-like reptiles, it could have been interesting to imagine them as more Squamate-based (he referenced iguanas and such); imo they look beautiful but he will 100% say that they still need some fixing;

-The last one is an animal imagined by my brother for a project with a friend of ours, where we had to imagine some creatures in a dystopic world. That one is a desert roaming ungulate, with all the adaptations for enduring such an environment (the inflating sack in the nose was genius of him)

Hope you enjoy them!!!

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