Painting a Life-sized Dinosaur Sculpture: Dilophosaurus
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- Опубліковано 7 лис 2021
- This video is a behind the scenes look at the process of painting a life sized sculpture of Dilophosaurus that I designed and lead the construction of for Las Vegas Natural History Museum. The exhibit diorama depicts a vast desert landscape covered by giant sand dunes, based on the geology of the Aztec Sandstone, a rock formation that outcrops in Nevada, and which preserves the footprints of early Jurassic dinosaurs and other animals. The goal here was to create a believable looking animal that looks like it belongs in that desert environment, and whose external appearance reflects our most up to date understanding of early Jurassic dinosaurs as having more in common with birds than we previously thought.
To learn more about the process of reconstructing Dilophosaurus and it's strange bird-like features, check out my video "A Modern Look at Dilophosaurus" here: • A Modern Look at Dilop...
The #AztecSandstone Exhibit, featuring a life sized paleoart sculpture based on the largest known specimen of #Dilophosaurus is now open at the Las Vegas Natural History Museum. To plan your visit & buy ticketsgo to: www.lvnhm.org/
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This exhibit build would not have been possible without the support of my mad-talented build-crew! Friends who helped with the painting in this video are:
Paleontologist & Associate Processor of Anatomy at Western University of Health Sciences
Dr. Mathew Wedel & his research student Kaelen Kay
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Makeup/special effects artist Erica Smith MUA
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I'd empty my whole bank account for a fundraiser for a documentary with Brian Engh's art and dinosaur puppets.
Appreciate the support!
Wonder what Brian Engh's Scutellosaurus Model would look like next to this Dilophosaurus Model in it's exhibit at The LVNHM.❤😂
Me too!
AMAZING work! I love seeing the modern birds and reptiles that inspired you. I’m very inspired myself watching this! What a cool opportunity!
I saw this video about 2 weeks ago, and my partner and I just went to the Natural History Museum in LV and saw this in person! I didn’t even register that this piece was in LV when I watched this video. Great work!
Thanks for visiting!
The music is so spooky and haunting and I love every second of it!
Agree, sounds very ancient and very dangerous. Like it very much too with this video.
@@Alberad08 many thanks.
Your painting of a life size Dilophosaurus was just so beautiful and very epic,also I wish yall are having a good day.
Beautiful
I like the hoody look, he is seemingly tagging a dinosaur.
I occasionally pass by this youtube channel, and I wondered "Hm, I wonder if this guy has made any bigger dinosaurs?" How perfectly timed :]
Are you planning on completing the Dinosaurs of the Jurassic Part 2? I know the announcement trailer was a long time ago and you've probably moved on and/or canceled it but if there is a chance of it being completed do know we would all be very eager to watch it.
I am working on it now. Covid, big commissions, and new discoveries/excavations have all delayed completing Jurassic Reimagined. My apologies for the delay, but I want to do it right.
There are a few updates on Jurassic Reimagined for my patrons on www.patreon.com/historianhimself. More to come.
@@DinosaursReanimated very happy to hear your still working on it. Take your time
That's cool. Dilophosaur is one of my favorite dinos. I'd love to have smaller scale model of this to have on my desk.
This is amazing - hopefully the museum puts up some clips of this video at their display to show all the work that went into this incredible project!
Woah 😨, I just had no words to say about this. Just simply magnificent, it's so detailed, so much work, effort, passion, dedication and love to this art piece. Now the dilophosaur is now my favorite dino ever with this amazing design.
The final result looks so detailed and amazing, that if you don't told me that it's a statue, and you somehow tricked me to believe that this is actually a embalmed animal, I could perfectly believe it. You and the whole team of people behind this made a work completely out of this world
Thank you. The Las Vegas museum has a lot of beautiful taxidermy of modern animals and I really wanted to make my Dilo sculpture look as life like as possible so that it would fit in. :}
I have so much respect for you for working with Dr. Wedel
I always look forward to these videos. SUPER intense.
You are and you will always be an admiration for me, I make small Dinosaurs with a technique called "Paper Mache", I enjoy sculpting but painting becomes too hard for me; however I always use your amazing work as a motivation to keep going and improving my skills, with the dream that one day maybe i could make something as wonderful as your sculptures.
Keep going! I love to watch every piece of your work!
Thanks for the encouragement! Keep going to you too!
I been waiting for this moment.
Nice Dilophosaurus model also love Your Paelo Art.
man i really wish your art could be displayed in london's natural history museum
the dinosaur section there is so outdated, id totally go back just to see your work
maybe it'd be the 1 thing i actually like about london lol
This is magic, I felt the same excitement about dinosaurs that I did as a kid seeing you bring this big guy to life. Keep it up sir!
Yeah when I was younger I was obsessed with dinosaurs and learning about them, unfortunately I’ve lost a lot of that knowledge and enthusiasm, but seeing things like this always bring back fond memories.
@@kad1393 Honored
your new dilophosaurus wetherilli description and recreation made me admire this creature, i never once knew it was one of the first big carnivorous dinosaurs, nor that it was the apex in its enviroment, my knowledge of dilophosaurus was lacking even with the old info, but damn. this is one helluva beast..
The amount of detail is astonishing
I've gotten a lot of questions about depicting Dilophosaurus with plumage so I am pinning a tweet with the reasoning and a link to a scientific paper on the topic. For more info on the process of reconstructing Dilophosaurus, check out my video "A Modern Look at Dilophosaurus": ua-cam.com/video/y7jSOp2mr2s/v-deo.html
So, while it is true that we do not have >direct< evidence of plumage in Dilophosaurus (yet), we DO have fossils showing plumage in several groups of dinosaurs all over the dinosaur family tree, including some pretty "standard issue" Late Jurassic basal tetanuran theropod dinosaurs: Juravenator, and (arguably) Sciurimimus. The skeletons of these little theropods aren't much more bird-like than Dilophosaurus, yet their skin covering ranges from partially to completely fuzzy.These finds along with numerous other discoveries of plumage in plant eating dinosaurs and pterosaurs can only mean:
Either,
ALL dinosaurs evolved from a common ancestor in the Triassic that was fuzzy,
and/OR
that these skin features are very easy for dinosaurs to evolve and thus plumage and/or scales evolved multiple times independently throughout the VAST history of dinosaurs.
The possibility that any dinosaur group could have had plumage and/or scales is the view that is currently most -supported by the available fossil evidence, and the most widely accepted by researchers specializing in the evolution of theropod dinosaurs, including Dr. Adam Marsh who advised heavily on this project.
REFERENCE:
See Yang et al 2018
"Pterosaur integumentary structures with complex feather-like branching"
Figure 3 - family tree of dinos & pterosaurs found with plumage
(includes link to download full text of scientific paper):
www.researchgate.net/figure/Phylogenetic-comparative-analysis-of-integumentary-filament-and-feather-evolution-in_fig3_329715712
noice job!!
Damn, I love your sculptures. Unfortunately I won't be able to visit any place in the Americas any time soon, so I don't think I'll get to see them in person for at least a few years :|
I’m so glad you put feathers on it
A work of art and a labor of love.
This is cool and amazing~🤗👍
Thank you for sharing this video~
Great music and atmosphere
That was amazing.
This is so badass! Hopefully someday we can get the dinos to move and roar!
Phenomenal is an understatement to describe your work!🤩 Its even more striking that the interior of the crests is brighter than the exterior.
I hope a miniature collectors model or something gets released based on your design.
I love that it was given scars! Very cool touch. Makes it feel more alive, like it has a story.
OMG I have no words for this! I’m a HUGE dinosaur nerd so this is just amazing! Keep doing all of this stuff that makes you happy and have a good day.
Say the number of how many dinosaurs you know cause I'm also a dino nerd.
awesome!!!
excelent video man!!
Whoa!!! Amazing!!! 🤩
WOW this is incredible!
WOW!
This has been an absolute treat. Wow! Amazing to see this beautiful Dino being brought to life!
That gorgeous
Brian Engh is an amazingly talented artist and I don't get tired of seeing him work.
But he also has a really relaxing voice and so I love hearing him explain about the animals. Its like watching an episode if Animallogic With Danielle drawing creatures while also watching Dr Polaris. No soundtrack could beat that.
This is absolutely stunning! The amount of detail put into the sculpture is AMAZING
Amazing attention to detail! I enjoyed the references from extant (bird) species.. colourful cassowary, etc.
It's so cool to see some of the references you were using alongside the painting process!
Absolutely gorgeous ❤️
From the Sue statue to this beautiful Dilophosaurus the 2020's is the decade of amazing dinosaur sculptures and statues!
Amazing 👏👏✨✨
I seriously can't wait for you to release an album with all these Mesozoic beats you've produced...
It is brewing.
I LOVE IT!!!!!
Fantastic work! Hello from the Dinosaur Park in Ogden, Utah, USA.
Thanks, and hello!
In my opinion, this Dilophosaurus look’s way cooler than the one from Jurassic Park.
I love it!
good show
This is amazing! My dream job! You and other paleoartists inspired me to start going to uni studying biology and doing this myself! One question: it surprised me that you didnt use any primer, why not?
Thankfully I was able to come see this display in June. The curator even let me come down and chat in the fossil room for a bit. Really cool stuff.
for some reason i thought the dilo was smaller than that, damn!!
Amazing work as always and the paleo beats just makes it even better.
salute!
That looks amazing!
This is amazing!! Truly how I have been envisioning dilophosaurus. Where has it been put on display? I'd love to see it in person.
Masterpiece
This was a very nice video
That is really good
Soooooo cool!!!!
Awesome 🙂
Wow. Epic. How cool.
This is insanely beautiful, amazing work!
Excited to see this in December!!!!!
Amazing work dude! 👍🏼
Damn, that Dilophosaur is HUGE. It is hard to imagine there were bigger dinos that make him look small.
It's an amazing dinosaur though
It's dwarfed by loads though
When I was 5 I went to the Children's Museum of Indianapolis when I saw the dinosphere I fell in love with the animals on top of that I loved art, today I now study art and animal biology and hope to one day do this. I love your work and is really inspiring to me 💙
Awesome! Looking forward to seeing art from you!
Feathered!
Dillophosaurus!
Nice Work 👍
The dude that painted the Dilos face probably sees them in his dreams when he sleeps now.
If I had a zillion dollars, there would be a hyper-realistic Spinosaurus by my indoor swimming pool.
I was waiting this 💓
Impressive work.
I hope you get to collaborate with the museum on another project.
So many features that have not changed over millions of years including the colour of blood 🩸
Please remember to like and comment to appease the almighty algorithm 😁👍🏼
I've been in a couple of pretty serious situations in my life, made some not so great choices and dragged myself through the consequences. I'm not super tough, but I'm not the sort to panic over nothing, I typically keep my head in emergency situations...
But if I ever see that thing in real life, I'll shit my pants and run.
How do you get into this type of work? Its so cool!
By developing and maintaining a professional artistic skill set, doing detailed work, learning as much as I can about biology and anatomy (not just dinosaurs & fossils), and by networking with paleontologists, biologists, exhibit designers, and museum staff.
@@DinosaursReanimated AND by being an extremely gifted artist...it don't come easy. You have an excellent hand
@@dragonfox2.058 Gifted to have had a supportive family, friends, and opportunities to work on practicing making art. I definitely didn't start out being good at any of this. Lots of practice.
@@DinosaursReanimated cool. well you're exceptional now. I never had much support but I did it all anyway
@@dragonfox2.058 Thank you for your kind words.
Love this! Do we have evidence that dilophosaurus was feathered, or is this speculative? In any case, I think it is beautifully designed!
DI-L-O!!
On a serious note, amazing job!
EDIT: 6:10 YES! Tritylodont time!
You deserve more views
how is the model made? the textures and everything are insane
Love to work with you sometime as I’m trying to create videos recreating the ancient past as well. Great stuff
Man, it looks so good. Im curious how sculpture was made, what materials were used? I've heard a lot stories about visitors destroying exhibitions im museums (Dilophosaurus sculpture in my local museum was shot with nerf gun) so Im guessing its not clay or anything fragile.
Does anyone know what that adorable little mammal (?) being sculpted at 6:19 was?
Possibly Kayentatherium.
Only if JP took efforts to make this Masterpiece 😑
man, how does one get to have a job like this? I would love to paint dinosaurs as my job D:
nice work - the filaments are purely hypothetical and probably far too early for them to appear on theropods
The distribution of fuzzy body covering found across the family tree of dinosaurs suggests that dinosaurs + pterosaurs evolved from a fuzzy common ancestor in the Triassic period, 60+ million years before Dilophosaurus evolved in the early Jurassic.
1000% 😃👌🏽
Don't Dilophosaurs have neck frills or has that been overturned too?! . . .
The neckfrills were first used in the JP franchise. Probably as a way to make the dinosaur look more intimidating. They are not present in the fossil record of this dinosaur.
and this was overall just a fairly medium to small sized dinosaur, in our time dilophosaurs would have been an apex predator of its region and one of the biggest predators on the planet.
Oigam y Bleyken?
Wait dilos where that big?!?!
What's the name of the dinosaur?
I play ARK so i know everything about dinosaurs 🤣💚🦖
Am i the only one who wants to ride this thing?
What makes them think dilo was a furry?
With new evidence that is found in fossil's it is suggested that they were feathered
I kinda wish he kept it either all scaly or all downy. the half feathered stuff never looked right to me
I feel you. Maybe if we had had more time we could have finessed the plumage to scaly skin transition a bit more and make it look a bit more realistic. It's a tricky look because we don't anything quite like it in modern animals and yet the fossil evidence indicates that some dinosaurs, such as Juravenator, had plumage on its back & scaly skin on it's underside, at least on the tail. Figuring out what the whole animal actually looked like when alive is really challenging, especially when many modern animals are so crazy looking we'd never believe they were real if we just saw them in paleoart...
@@DinosaursReanimated I have to commend your work, though. That is the most accurate depiction of a theropod I've ever seen. I think you got the structure and the skin pretty much perfect.
@@steiglitzfletcherburger8636 Glad you like it. And don't worry, I wasn't offended by your comment, in fact it was good to see that my own concerns about the final look weren't totally unfounded.
Bro I feel bad for little kids who don’t know the scientifically accurate one😅
brian, stop making this so sexy lmao