Storm over Hateg Island
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- During a rainy day of the Late Cretaceous, we follow a variety of Hateg island animals such as Hatzegopteryx, Tethyshadros, Paludititan, Sabresuchus, Balaur bondoc, an enantiornithine, and many more.
Sound effects from Pixabay.com and iNaturalist, as well as recorded by me!
A few seconds of synth sampled from from Outer Wilds soundtrack.
Thank you so much for all the kind comments everyone!
If you're interested, definitely check out this rescore of my animation composed by the talented Fin Nicol-Taylor! ua-cam.com/video/FvE9iFWdi1g/v-deo.htmlsi=RMWbXbcIq7i6Mo8t
Thank you so much for linking!!
I found out today that there was no grass until the end of the cretaceous period. This is devastating, unless you're gonna say all that green stuff on the ground was moss.
@@the_newt_nest Correct! Grasses are a relatively recent group evolutionarily, and modern grasses as we would recognise them today showed up even later. If you look closely, most of the ground cover in my Cretaceous animations are meant to be small ferns, brackens and mosses, vaguely like modern maidenhair ferns. I do also showcase some very early grasses in my Spinosaurus animation, they're the plants in the water in the dragonfly scene.
@@cenospireI'm so relieved.
I absolutely adore the little beak wipe at 1:45. Birds do it all the time, but I've never seen an animated bird wipe its beak on a branch before. It's such a nice little detail that really helps it feel alive, and this detail that shows that you have watched birds a lot and understand how they act. And so cute, too! I love when they do that.
It just help me to reminds me of my bird I lost and I can’t even have another one like this anymore 😒
Went to the comments to say this same thing! It adds so much life to the animation
fun fact: this action is called “feaking” and I thank whoever coined it for rhyming it with “beak”
also when I worked with some birds in the past, if we ever saw any of the residents feaking, it was tradition to shout/call them “feakus beakus” 😭
You nailed it. This short really builds the stage and ambience with the raw simple things.
Oh, that’s what it is, I’ve seen birds do something similair with powerlines and thought they were pecking them, found it kinda odd
the sauropods lowering their heads at the sound of thunder was SUCH a cool bit of speculative behavior! it was almost… haunting? watching them do it in sync like that. fantastic work!
Probably to avoid being struck by lightning?
The Liveing lamp posts didn’t want to get fried.
They lightning rods
I mean, that behaviour would certainly have been selected for so-
@@carlblix7794
Ah
It seems that Zeus struck him down
I was half expecting some kind of disaster like a land slide or flash flood, I’m happy to see a simple rainy night
Then the Chicxulub nation attacked
I like the way you animate the Hatzegopteryx walking, he feels heavy, yet controlled.
It feels like it's walking very deliberately. There's intelligence in the walk.
And the way it gets up from sitting too, feels like it has weight
As an Australian, hearing rainbow lorikeets and dainty green tree frogs as I watch this just makes me smile and laugh slightly.
Always love seeing your animations, this is gorgeous!
Thanks! Hah, glad you enjoy the familiar sounds. I've always felt that our native animals are underutilised in media, so I always try to include them! Even if it's a bit anachronistic for the Cretaceous period ;)
@@cenospire Truth! Except for the kookaburra, he's everywhere. XD
And even so, it's always nice to hear how you make soundscapes for you videos.
I love rainbow lorikeets lol. I have one as my homescreen
Its great that we recognize our animals this easily
@@cenospire you're australian! :D
I won't lie, this genuinely made me cry. Depictions of life on our planet during the Mesozoic like this, free from movie monsters and big battles, just seeing the day-to-day of these animals, is truly absolutely beautiful.
Exactly!
I'm so glad I'm not the only one, I felt so silly for getting emotional but this is so beautiful
Exactly! I only know of two creators with such nice real life Mesosoic animations.
oh my god the sauropods lowering their heads when they hear thunder... ouugh cretaceous asmr. love this sooo much.
Seeing a Hatzegopteryx in person would be 107% terrifying.
With a 7% margin for error
more like 150%
I'd name him sneeb
Though he'd probably try to eat me
Beautiful and horrifying
Beautiful 💛 I love how familiar these scenes feel- seeing the bird swipe their beak on the branch is something I see all the time and made me smile. It’s like we still have a connection to the distant past.
This is perfect! I love the attention to detail; the head bobbing, the eyes on the lizard when it blinks. Especially the bird cleaning its beak. So pretty!
I like how you can see the lizard flinch and then freeze when it sees the hatzegopteryx
@@catpoke9557 even lowering a little bit too
@@astick5249 Right? It looked so scared, the poor thing
The way the Hatzegopteryx fades into the mist over the trees as it flies away really conveys its size in such a clever way. It really sells the sense of depth and space. I had to go back and watch that shot again! This is incredible work that brought a tear to my eye.
This nails everything so well, atmosphere as well as attention to detail, fluid lifelike movements, probably my favorite detail is how the Hatzgegopteryx used its front limbs to launch itself into the air just like it would in real life. It's abundantly clear that you have a passion for prehistoric life.
0:18 Love the exposure that the ginkgos have been getting in paleomedia as of late
I simply cannot understand how one can make such smooth, accurate-looking traditional animation.
I am awe-struck with every submission you make, absolutely marvelous!
God the movements are so lifelike it's insane
Love the way you animated the way the wing folds on the pterosaur. So cool to think something the size of a Cessna 172 could be so graceful.
I want to say that I am an autistic adult who has had a dinosaur special interest ever since I saw the original Jurassic Park.
This is unbelievably beautiful. The way you treat these creatures as animals, and showing their routines for a little rain, it’s so wonderful and relaxing. As someone else said, the sauropods lowering their heads in response to thunder and becoming more parallel to the ground is an amazing and thoughtful touch.
The designs are wonderful and I can tell a lot of time and love went into this piece. Phenomenal work!!
God the scene where the pterosaur flies above the clouds, and all of the ambient noises stop is just breathtaking
Also the bit where the rain started falling was just. PERFECTION.
I LOVE the way the sauropods lower their heads after hearing thunder. If I had a lightning rod for a neck, I'd duck too haha
Your animations are always such a treat too! I adore them!
OK wow!! This animation style of yours is so perfect! And over 3 minutes! Love how peaceful this is - a great representation of what a normal day on prehistoric Earth probably really looked like
Your work is one of the purest expressions I've seen of paleo animation portraying the beauty of every day life. It's so peaceful to just watch these animals going about their lives, not to mention the gorgeous music, sounds, colors, and fluid animation itself
This is by far the best dinosaur 2D animation I've ever seen.
It's so relaxing. I could watch an extended version of this and fall asleep to it
@@catpoke9557 If I had the money I'd pay to make a full length version of something like this
@@martlettoo If I had the money, I would too
I LOVE everything about this… one little thing for example; how the green lizard got weary when it saw the Hatzegopteryx. So very subtle, yet extremely expressive
Although the dinosaurs are simplified, the way you animate their behavior and movements makes them feel like real animals. This is an incredible piece of work and weirdly nostalgic in a way, amazing job!
Are the sauropods startled by the thunder and lowering their heads to avoid lightning?! This is AMAZING!
Yes indeed! I'm glad it made sense, I was worried that the head-lowering might've seemed a bit arbitrary. And thanks!
@@cenospire It is something that you think about when you see how high some of them grew. I wonder if after a certain size it isn't even a concern anymore...
Yeah but Magyarosaurus dacus was 6m long and 0.75-1.1ton. Their head is actually a bit lower than an erect Hatzegopteryx thambema's head (in Prehistoric Planet beach scene pose).
Still tall titanosaurs though. And munching on a tree in rain is dangerous.
Finally some animation that understands the way animals actually MOVE. I love this. The weight shifting, the micro movements, everything.
Animal movement has got to be one of my favourite things, just imagining what it would feel like to have such a different body. It really needs to be considered more in depictions of life
@@astick5249 THIS!!
So fine! Very life-like, smooth, soothing animations.
I loved the detail of the bird wiping its beak on the branch.
Perfect sounds!
As I was watching this, at the moment the rain started in the video it began raining in my city as well.
EXACTLY at the same time and pace. Crazy coincidence
I've seen this so many times but I think I can articulate why the end bit hits so hard now: It's literally a "show don't tell" of how incredible the huge azhdarchids were. No statistics needed no "as big as a-" needed, that thing went over the clouds, you can feel that moment. We've never seen a flying creature that big before nor since, truly fantastic
This is such a genuinely gorgeous animation, there’s such a good sense of depth with the animals fluid movements. Beautiful work
You're a goddamn legend. The backgrounds, the sounds, everything! So beautiful. Somehow a 2D animation immerses me more into the prehistoric era than most dino documentaries and games I've seen and played. I love how chonky you draw the quetzal, it's oddly cute, but seeing that in real life would petrify me. The bird at 1:30, JEEZ that movement is so realistic, I imagine you had a video reference for that? It's incredible either way. Astounding work, thank you so much for making this.
Wow thank you, this is very high praise! I appreciate it!
I've never actually used a video reference for animating before, though I have spent a lot of time around birds (both pets and wildlife), so I find their movements easy and natural. In comparison, a lot of my larger animals are a bit more stiffly animated, at least for now :P
That is hatzegopteryx not Quetzalcoatlus, you can tell by the hatz’s stockier body and the location this is supposed to be
@@Spider-r6d he's talking about the other video im guessing.
Lovely animation! The energy this gives off is amazing, just a calm stormy night, and it's honestly really soothing. I love the smooth 2D animation that gives off a 3D effect every now and then. There's no violence or dramatic fights, just animals being animals. I adore the realism. Your work deserves more recognition :)
Is like going back in time and seeing snippets of what it was like back then, fantastic work of art.
This looks like a Disney movie!!! It's like Bambi with dinosaurs! Absolutely stunning environments and atmosphere!
I keep catching myself replaying this beautiful animation, it's a literal comfort. I absolutely adore the ambiance and the representation of a living ecosystem
I keep coming back to watch this. There's something truly magical in it, in every frame of it.
The rainy, moody atmosphere, the stellar lifelike animation, the droning soundtrack - so much to love, and such a feeling it leaves you with...
This was beautiful. so many dinosaur stories feature violence, and certainly that was part of creature’s lives, but there is also peace, escape and freedom.
Better than Most modern Disney movies.
Everything about this animation is breathtaking! The sauropods lowering their heads, the little bird wiping its beak on the branch, the Hatzegopteryx's stern but daunty walk up the hill... its like stepping out of a time machine and being smack dab in the middle of a bygone era!
Hearing the all so familiar rain sounds in a world almost alien ruled by weird creatures. Beautiful animation dude
I adore how beautifully hand-drawin this is with the subtle movements of 3D really spicing up this piece. it's stuff so well-done like this that really inspire me to get back into animation, and I can guarantee I'm not alone in feeling that 💜
Whoa, this is amazing. It's everything I've ever wanted in prehistoric animation. It's so real, and so natural. I love that it's so calm and quiet, not just focused on fighting and violent predators. It's like what 99% of history really was.
Instantly recognized this animation as the same style from the quetzal trying to eat that triceratops and i'm so happy i found the guy who made it. Its all so realistic, even putting the time to have a bird doing that beak wiping thing.
This guy is absolutely a time traveler. No one could get anatomy to look this good without even seeing the animal in person
This feels so immersive. It gives the prehistoric world a sense of familiarity, yet so alien at the same time
I love this sm?? It honestly feels like the begging of an old disney movie!!!!
probably 90% of the comments say this, but the animation is absolutely exquisite. it bears to mind studio ghibli
I have rewatched this video so many times I just cant believe how good this animation is
dude. something so simple that has obviously taken much mastery to create and is so satisfying to watch
Dinosaurs just living in their environment without dramatic music or crazy stuff going on is what I live for. This is beautiful. Probably now my favorite ever piece of animation. I’m just in awe!
Ok without a doubt this is the most beautiful animation I've ever seen :0
Not only the behaviours, but the movements are so real. It looks like the actual scenes from so long ago. I've seen some amazing 2d and 3d animated films in my life, but this takes all of that skill and brings it into a new dimension. I love your work
UA-cam recommendations has located an underrated animatior
Something about this makes me feel so...humbled.
also, you're incredible at animating birds and their micro-movements
Dang it almost looks like if a dinosaur documentary was done in an anime art style or something, really good 2d animation
The way that the bird after the sauropods jumped up looked exactly like what a real bird would do and the way it’s body moved was perfect! Well done 👍
Incredible. Such beautiful imagery.
As a pterosaur lover and young animator (stop motion) I gladly approve this documentary
This is incredible! You did a wonderful job on this film. It made me feel a certain sense of melancholy and wonder.
This is one of the most beautiful videos I've seen for months
This is a very atmospheric animation. Love paleo media like this.
Hoooly, this is such a mood! Honestly you have such an eye for narrative story telling through probably one of the hardest (imo) mediums and that being wildlife cinematics, like there is LOADS of character and emotional detail here being shown off. LOVE IT!
This is very moody. I loved the contrast between above and down the clouds.
This makes me feel at peace with the world.
This was mesmerizing! Bravo! Bravo! Absolutely captivating! Such an amazing piece of work, my only criticism is wanting it to be an hour long. Fantastic work, would love to see a feature length presentation of some sort, though I'm sure that would be a stupendous amount of work. WOW...great Job.
There''s something really cozy about the rain noises, the humming background sound and the darkish jungle environment visuals.
I'm in awe of not only how smooth the motion is, but also of all the little minutiae and quirks of movement you've captured here. It all looks so alive. The aesthetics and the soundscape combined impart a tremendous sense of atmosphere.
Incredible work. You can really feel the reality of their world in this in a way not often depicted. Peaceful days, serene moments, infinite life. All gone, lost to the eons. Makes you feel a bit small. Who will wonder what 3 minutes of my life was like?
amazing work that bird looked so smooth i thought it might've been rotoscoped, excellent sound and extremely picturesque
This is unbelievably gorgeous. Holy shit, stunning work.
Your animations are wonderful. Whatever the hell your vision or passion is, it's gorgeous. Keep it up.
This is incredible. It’s so peaceful and smoothly animated
Absolutly amazing sound design and the colours my gosh
I love how you animate the dinosaurs like normal animals instead of perpetually bloodthirsty monsters, really makes it feel like a believable ecosystem, I love folk who like to capture more than the hunting and rather focus on their place in nature, really beautiful!
This is so beautiful. It's beautiful animation. It's beautiful conceptualization. It's beautiful cinema. It's beautiful sound. It's beautiful colour. It's beautiful science. It may be one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen, and I'm stone cold sober right now.
I love that it went above the clouds, away from the storm below. That’s so cool and creative!
This is actually the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life
The Hatzegopteryx really just said *screw this*, and went above the storm.
I adore your work! I found it through Subjectively mentioning your channel and I cannot wait to see you grow. It's insane you don't have more followers! The simplified details you use to animate are so charming, I hope you keep that as you grow and learn more about animation.
I love the different situations you animate. Nothing "hardcore", graphic...just everyday life. THIS is the content I want to see about past life! I think you like pterosaurs...just a little
This is one of my favorite videos I’ve ever seen. ever
Prioritising smooth movement over looking realistic makes this feel closer to how you'd see the animals in life. You'd catch a glimpse and not be able to make out details but the silhouette and motion stand out.
Bringing the deep past of Earth alive and the incredible life forms lost through animations like these is so beautiful!
This is so beautiful I can't describe it 😭
Ooooh I could watch this forever!
So many subtle touches to everything’s behaviour and movement this is really special
AAAAH this is so gorgeous
The sound design is perfect
It’s so calm and peaceful, while still being just a little bit unsettling
Seeing the pterosaur in flight in front of the trees just after it took off managed to make some vestigial survival instinct in my head go off
Everything about this is just phenomenal, amazing short film, especially love the art style!
PLEASE keep up this amazing work
This was incredibly, incredibly beautiful. I love the way it's styled as a small look into the mundane lives of these creatures, a simple moment of time long gone. Thank you for making this!! It made me feel emotions transcending time and space
Magnificent. The manner in which you allow everything to breathe in this collection of intimate moments and images showed commendable restraint and reflection. Poetic, fragile, and touching.
the amount of passion that went into this is overwhelming, youve created a jewel of animation and paleoart ❤
I have watched all your animations, and in every single one, the animals behaved exactly how they would in real life, it really is a breath of fresh air seeing them animated this way.
I love how minimalistic the art is, yet so incredibly detailed the mannerisms and movements are. It brings a lot of life into your work. Great job.
I like how you depict the Hatzegopteryx, being a primarily land dwelling Pterosaur with a most robust body plan. It feels so smooth and elegant, yet heavy and wonky. The only thing I can see which could make the Hatzgopteryx more accurate is it's wingtips as Hatzegopteryx and all other Pterosaurs have broad circular wingtips, and not pointy triangular wingtips. Still an amazing animation!
I believe the round pterosaur wingtip thing is a "paleoart meme"
So easy to get lost in the beautiful atmospheres of your animations, and I really really like how the sound design complements this one. Just makes me appreciate the beauty of life lol. And as a side note, that quarter turn at 2:20 was so clean! Good luck out there :D
goddamn NAILED that spring feeling.. especially when you just ate a dandelion flower
2:55 oh imagine being able to soar above the rain
this is... utterly breathtaking.
I love this, specially the music, makes me feel at peace
beautiful, just marvellous. their not ugly monsters, just regular animals living life.
Yo Cenospire, you know me from Common Descent and might remember I work at a dinosaur museum, so hopefully this will have some weight.
I think you might be my very favourite paleoartist.
The style might be on the cartoony end, but your capture of a whole ecosystem, just everyday mundane life, is gorgeously realistic. I love it (and imo you should share these to the CD Discord more often)
Hey thanks so much, that really means a lot!! Yeah I remember the conversation we had last year, I definitely should check back into the Common Descent discord more often