Painting the Giant Amphibian Antarctosuchus
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Just a quick #paleoartprocess video showing how I painted an approximately full-sized #paleoart portrait of the giant Triassic #amphibian #Antarctosuchus. Antarctosuchus belonged to a group of ancient amphibians called temnospondyls, which occupied a niche similar to modern crocodilians, but temnospondyls occupied that ecological space before crocodiles as we know them had even evolved! Antarctosuchus was just over 2 meters long (about 7 feet) and its skull was discovered in the Late Triassic rocks of Antarctica by a team of paleontologists including Christian Sidor, who advised on this project. The painting was commissioned by the Burke Museum in Seattle Washington, and is now on display as part of a new exhibit about the evolution of amphibians. The mastermind behind this exhibit is Dr. Bryan Gee, a paleontologist studying the evolution of temnospondyls like Antarctosuchus.
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The amount of detail in this piece astounds me! Especially the way the light and reflections make it really seem underwater
He’s the best of the best no doubt
As a beginner artist, I absolutely love how to edit in the references you used! Paleoart has always seemed like magic to me, so it's super fascinating to watch your process.
This is what my tiger salamanders think they are.
YES. Can confirm.
Amazing painting, Brian! Bravo! Also love the soundtrack and sounds as you paint the Antarctosuchus and the amphibians you've seen in modern times are shown in this video! :D
Beautiful work, when I saw the thumbnail I thought it would be a digital art, but you really painted everything by hand, I'm amazed
Thank you for sharing! BTW pretty striking how alligator-like he would have looked if he would have swam straight up to the viewer.
Convergent evolution is awesome
I really like your content! Thank you so much for sharing this type of information with the world; it really helps educate people about these important pieces of life! How beautiful it can really be!
INCREDIBLE Work mate! I'm ALWAYS excited to see new uploads from you but this was a glory to behold as always wanted to see yout Work-In-Progress.
You make me wana try to get back into art myself as your technique reminds me of how I used to do pencil drawings. Lot's of dabbing the details.
Beautiful work : ]
Thanks! Hope you make some more new art!
Love to work sometime with you Brian bringing the prehistoric past back to life. Mike
Man think of the time wenn the water in the triassic wasn’t a save place, wenn Giant amphibians and other crocodile like creatures roamed are waters of the Triassic 🥶🥶🥶
Amazing art work. It makes me wonder if people who spot lake monsters aren't seeing some type of large, unknown amphibian.
What I really like about this paleoart is how beautifully got the light piercing through the water and on the surface of the amphibian's skin.
Nice job man ,love the perspective and the way you did the murky water
Your art is one of the best so beautiful
Awesome video. Thank you for sharing your process
I love your art,and I now love this giant prehistoric amphibian even more because of it.
What a glorious fossil amphibian!
I now love Antarctosuchus,also thsi video was absolutely amazing and your artwork was incredible.
Very nice painting! I especially loved the detail in eye and the movement of the sand
Hey there, I would like to hear your opinion on a clip I uploaded. I wanted to know (based on your research) how accurate the location I filmed was to the new mid-late Jurassic. Thanks in advance!
Edit: For clarification, i mean Morrison formation
great video
art great
but: the track in the backround is soothing
wonder if somebody can make a looping version of it
Yo Brian, are you in Seattle currently? I live just outside the city and would love to stop by the museum to see your work.
I am not in Seattle, I did this painting while visiting family and sent the client the digital file. What is on display in the museum is a digital print of the painting as part of a large graphic panel discussing amphibian evolution.
I hope you'll let me know what you think if you get a chance to check it out!
@@DinosaursReanimated finally made it to the Burke Museum last weekend and saw your piece there, it was very cool, very natural looking, and along with a few paleo artists sketching theropods. Amphibians are often under represented, thank goodness they had a couple of exhibits on basil amphibians. Interesting decision on the cephalopod-like eyes, never thought of that before.
your art makes me smile
Ooo! Preview of a new track, as well? 😃
Materpiece!! 👏👏👏
Always awesome
Good video style. I will share this around for sure
Detail like you have a time machine!
That's a kick-ass painting!
Amazing painting and amazing music! Do you have more music up for streaming somewhere (like bandcamp et al)?
Your rad man definitely a fan of the channel
This was so cool! Great content as always
Nice Work! ^^👏
Amazing
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Seçtiğiniz müsik çok uymuş videoya.❤👍👍👍
Bu adam bu işi çok sevmese çizimleri bu kadar mükemmel olmazdı.
Very cool. The head seems to be more 'froggy' then giant salamander, with prominent nostrils and either ear or otic notch holes. Is this artistic license or did you see something in the skull that seemed 'frogish'?
I'm a bit obsessed with otic notches since I read they're more likely to be spiracles, for breathing air, as opposed to ears. And these animals may have been functionally deaf. Which wouldn't matter because they'd spend their life underwater and not need to surface to breathe except for where the otic notch was, the highest point on the animal head.
It makes me curious about smell, if they couldn't smell then they would be entirely dependent on sensing water motion. Through their lateral line and electric sensory systems.
Oof, a lot to unpack here! But I will do my best!
The TL:DR is that capitosaurs like Antarctosuchus almost certainly had ears in the "otic notch" of the skull, and temnospondyl evolution suggests that the auditory sense was an important part of the biology of many clades of temnos.
To answer your first question about the look of the art: there are some large salamanders with semiaquatic life habits with pretty "froggy" facial features, such as the Pacific Giant Salamander (Dicamptodon). Unfortunately frog and Salamander skulls often give little indication of how much soft tissue actually surrounded their skulls, so we went with a "froggier" looking head with big bulging eyes because these giant temnospondyls may have hunted both aquatic and terrestrial prey, like many modern amphibians do, and of course modern crocodilians, and most of these animals have big bulging eyes to peek above the water surface & have a broad field of vision. So, the reconstruction has the soft tissue look that it does because of implied life-habit rather than simply copying things like modern Japanese Giant salamanders or hellbenders which actually have a pretty specific life habits and habitats that were likely pretty different than most giant temnospondyls.
I actually reached out to Dr. Bryan Gee to ask about the hypothesis that the "otic notch" might represent a spiracle opening because I hadn't heard of that particular hypothesis. The reason I hadn't heard about it is because that hypothesis relates to more basal (fishier) tetrapods than derived temnospondyls like Antarctosuchus. Several pieces of literature (Sawin 1941, Schoch 2002, Schoch & Milner 2014, Clack et al 2016) describe the ear regions of numerous temnospondyls with a variety of ear conditions, and in most large temnospondyls the "otic notch" is almost certainly the embayment where the tympanum would be positioned as evidenced by numerous osteological indicators of ears, most notably semicircular canals leading to auditory capsule of the brain case. The back of Antarctosuchus' skull is not preserved, but the auditory capsules are ossified in a large specimens of the related capitosaur Mastodonsaurus, and our recon is based on those related taxa. The "otic notches" that you're referring to that might be spiracle openings are superficially similar looking notches in a similar place in the skull roof that are found in some basal tetrapods and in those very ancient critters it *might* be a spiracle but the homology of these notches to fishier forms is a bit uncertain and based only on the general position in the skull.
Lots of living amphibians without particularly well-developed or externally visible ears can still hear, and many vocalize to attract mates. Even in temnospondyls with poorly developed ears they still may have had a functional sense of hearing below water or at the water line, as water is an excellent conductor of sound. The real question is _what_ were they doing with their ears. In the case of many modern amphibians the driving force of ear development is acutaly vocalization, usually for reproduction, but predator avoidance is also an important selective pressure. That being said, the relatively early (Permian) temnospondyl Balenerpeton is significant according to Schoch because it "first shows an external ear morphology approaching that seen in anurans, and the base of a typically temnospondyl-style stapes is present." Exactly how acute these various animals hearing was and how it functioned biologically is not well understood, and generally unknown soft tissues no doubt played an important role. Much much more study of the aural ecology and anatomy of extant amphibians is necessary before we can do anything more than speculate wildly. That said, it is interesting that even some temnospondyls had anuran-like auditory apparatus.
Spiracles do not imply a lack of a sense of smell - sting rays and sharks and lots of fish with spiracles or the equivalent have great senses of smell. The spiracle is just a flow through point, water containing scent molecules still passes through the nostrils, circulates past the olfactory lobe where scents are collected & interpreted, and then the water goes out the spiracles. A well developed sense of smell is common in many animals which also have good lateral line & electrosensitivity. In fact I can't think of any with those senses that don't also have a good sense of smell.
If you're really interested in the evolution and ecology of animal senses, there's definitely a huge number of living animals whose sensory biology is barely studied. You might consider a career in research in that direction. Definitely check out Clack et al 2016 - it's the most expansive and up to date piece of literature on ear evolution across multiple animal groups.
phewff! that was probably the longest youtube comment in the history of life.
Bu kanalla tanışmadan önce bende tarih öncesi canlılar çiziyordum,bırakmıştım.Bu kanalla tanışınca tekrar geri başladım.
The realism is out if this world, I love your work! Btw what type of color are you using?
Wait, this is now at the BURKE? I’m going to the UW this January, WHOO-HOO! : ) )
nice!
I actually went to the premiere of the refurbished building a couple years ago; I saw they had Tyler Keillor’s Lystrosaurus reconstruction you had featured on here on a while back. :)
will we ever be able to purchase the music you use in these art videos and projects like Jurassic Reimagined on soundcloud?
Albums will go up on www.historianhimself.bandcamp.com when they're ready.
@@DinosaursReanimated ssiiiiiiick, god speed you legend
Amazing!!! Also that music is so primal and other worldly. Do you make that shit cause it's honestly awsome.
🎵 Spooky Spooky Salmander 🎵
I am inlove with your Background music man
The background music is by Historian Himself. Rumor has it that historian has several albums are in the works, but it takes himself approx 40000 years to actually finish an album so it may be some time before any new full albums are streamable online. In the meantime the stuff that's been released can be found here:
historianhimself.bandcamp.com/
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What is the song used?
It's his own.
any chance you‘ll draw a spinosaurus? it’s my favorite animal
I do not have any spinosaur commissions currently in the works, but my first ever paleoart commission was actually depicting spinosaurus for a paper reviewing the known material by Tor Bertin which was published in 2010. You can see that illustration and read a blog post about it here:
dontmesswithdinosaurs.com/?p=402
When will you return 🖐😭
Çok gerçekçi bir çizim.
What's the music?
He makes his own music.
I have heard some people claim that allosaurus was a scavenger only I was wondering if this was true or false? In my opinion I think it was both. What do you think?
Like pretty much every modern day carnivore it probaby would have fed on a carcass if it came across one, but a lifestyle as a pure scavenger is not something to be expected from an animal like Allosaurus (and other large theropods in general). Most obligate scavengers are invertebrates while this way of life is quite uncommon in vertebrates.
Additionally there is fossil evidence for the predatory behavior of Allosaurus represented by an injured pubic bone that bears a penetration mark. This pathology is thought to have been inflicted by a stegosaur (a potential prey item) with its spike-brandishing tail, hinting at an active predator-prey relationship between those two.
I would love to paint something like this, but I’m only ok at inanimate objects lol I do need to get better at drawing animals and Dino’s. The painting portion wouldn’t be too bad just drawing it beforehand.
This is boss ......
This is cool, but who else felt like they were listening to a Zelda dungeon
All I got out of this video was public domain deserty-music with drum and synth. Can you please add narration or audio description to your video?
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Evolution is really sum thing isn’t it