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What does a paleo artist do?
A paleo artist specialises in reconstructing extinct animals. You need to have a really good knowledge of the animal’s anatomy and biology and also be artistically capable. I design their colour patterns, thinking about where each scale and feather goes. But it takes a lot of people and a lot of work to get from words on a page to what looks like a living dinosaur on screen. We go back and forth discussing the minutiae, like, “What did this thing’s toes look like? How small are the scales?” All those little details. I got so invested in each of these creatures. It really feels like they’re my babies in a way.
Fossils are bones, so how do they reveal what dinosaurs looked like?
There is some degree of speculation about every bit of information that we don’t have, so we make sure our work is informed by what we do have. With colours, where we may not necessarily know the exact details, we can look to modern animals or to the relatives of those dinosaurs. We made sure that every creative decision was backed with as much science as possible. There’s also a lot of debate as to whether dinosaurs roared. Listen to a lion and that’s an impressive sound. Dinosaurs can’t quite do that, but they are still making loud, impressive sounds. Whether or not you could call them roars is a bit of a semantics thing.
Did you see the original series?
Yes, it’s what got me interested in science. I grew up in Malaysia and when I was five, we stumbled across a bootleg CD of the original Walking with Dinosaurs at a night market. I was obsessed from that day onwards.
How do your dinosaurs differ from those in the original series?
The change in appearance is like night and day. An utahraptor features in our new series and in the original. Back then it was a scaly lizard-like animal, now it’s covered in a full coat of feathers – it has wings and it has gorgeous birdlike movements. It’s like it’s an entirely different animal.
What’s your favourite dinosaur in the series?
The spinosaurus is my favourite. I even have one tattooed on my arm! It’s such a bizarre thing and so oddly proportioned that when I first saw it move, it was really like, “Whoa!” This is a creature that weighs upwards of seven tons, and it’s shaped like no other animal on the planet.
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Your who's who of prehistoric creatures!
1 Triceratops
Palaeontologists discovered Clover, a young triceratops, in the Hell Creek Formation in Montana, not far from the remains of a T rex. A visual imagining of Clover’s encounter with it ensues.
2 Spinosaurus
The story of Sobek was inspired by the discovery in Morocco of the only substantial spinosaurus skeleton. Sobek must run the gauntlet of predators to protect his young.
3 Gastonia
Bones of the spikiest known dinosaur — a juvenile gastonia — have been unearthed in the Cedar Mountain Formation in Utah. Visual effects are used to imagine a youngster called George having to face the fearsome grizzly-bear-sized utahraptor.
4 Albertosaurus
The albertosaurus was T rex’s faster, nimbler cousin. Unearthing the remains of a teenage skeleton in Alberta, Canada, is the springboard for Rose’s story, who is finding her place in a ferocious pack.
5 Pachyrhinosaurus
During a confrontation on a 400-mile migration north to find food, pachyrhinosaurus Albie becomes separated from his mother. But evidence suggests that these dinosaurs were able to find one another.
6 Lusotitan
A giant lusotitan — 25 metres in length — was discovered in a backyard in Portugal. As palaeontologists uncover the remains, the story of. Old Grande’s search for a mate unfolds. SHERNA NOAH
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