Paleoart as a tool of exploration

A quick little thing I thought about for a long time. It's a glimps at a much longer text collection that has been building up over the last few years.

If you want to see more of my work I recommend you our book "Europasaurus, Life on Jurassic Islands", which can be found in all well sorted online stores ;)

[paleomiguel]

I can really imagine those draws moving, like live animals and plants.

[trilobite]

Imagine a sort of road trip-style paleo documentary with this style and range of fauna, flora and fungi. Not necessarily something made to be especially grand or action filled, although some parts could be, but just someone traveling throughout prehistory and talking about cool prehistoric animals.

[hamishstewart]

It always amazes me how there’s so many fascinating and strange prehistoric creatures that are basically unknown to the majority of people.

[takenname]

SUPER NICE!
Love the unique art style and your portrayal of prehistoric life!

[galligaruga]

Animalia is one of the most diverse and interesting things this planet has ever hosted, filled to the brim shapes and colors and sizes of all sorts with heavily varied behavior.

Paleoart gives the person a glimpse into these worlds, exploring the variety of life itself. It is certainly a tool to teach, yes. But it truly shines in being able to share history itself, in the form of a scene that can be almost anything and people can gain new interests from it and feel inspired.

Which I find to be a beautiful thing really.

[freshyeska]

Paleo art is my favorite.

Ever since I was little I've had this desire to be able to see what the world was like billions of years ago for what im sure felt like forever, thousands of years unchanged, and what it's sights and sounds that at the time where common and mundane to it's inhabitants is now something so truly swallowed by time that our only way to grasp it is by using our imagination and even then it feels out of reach.

Like no matter what we think of, the chances that we are actually hitting the nail on the head are minuscule even with our best educated guesses.

Truly one of the only sources of "child-like wonder" tha remain with me in my adult life and I really value it for that.

[filmboyultimate]

I can imagine a paleo-series using the art style from the best paleo artists.

[Dynotopa]

Yes, I truly believe that in just doing a little exploring of new things and concepts you’ll find interests you never knew you had!
Paleoart is indeed the perfect tool for that.

[Skyypixelgamer]

Paleo art has showed me creatures I never even knew existed so I agree with everything said in the video

[XMFStudios]

I wanted to make a very speculative prehistoric documentary, this paleoart just inspires me more than ever to do that. There is so much that can be done with just what we have as fossils and a bit of thinking. I have many creature designs for that doc that are just so utterly wild, with muscles and tissues that we do not know, behaviors that we will probably never witness and stuff. This vid just motivated me to do so more, and yes you can all attack me all you want for using more speculation than even Prehistoric Planet did.

[fang]

Really great little video Josch. You explained everything nice and simply and also showed alot of the strange and wanderful creatures of the past many do not know about as well as more familer ones and even intresting behaviours and moments in what these creatures lives might have been.

[paulkuchnicki]

Honestly, you have completely redesigned paleoart. It’s not just some art where we can depict the best and coolest prehistoric animals, but it’s also going back and re-defining lost animals that have never been depicted in media. Paleoart is now a chance to show the world our past, and to show them that their world is not so different from ours in a lot of ways.

This video made me cry, because I see these animals living and breathing in my mind. Going through their daily life until the day of their death. This motivates me to do some thing with my life as well. I’ve never really gotten into making paleoart, but I have an awesome love for these animals of the past, But I should give it a chance.

Keep up the beautiful, breathtaking work that you have put hours and hours into. You have completely changed the mindset of many people, including myself. Pleasant journeys.

[_paleodude_]

Everything you said about paleoart is, without a doubt, true. Paleoart is such a powerful tool in shaping people's perception of these animals and I don't think enough people realise that

[trilobite]

0:01 Aquilolamna
0:04 Qarmoutus
0:08 Abyssosaurus
0:11 Lyrarapax (or some kind of amplectobeluid) and something that's probably a hymenocarid
0:15 Anisopleurodontis
0:18 I've tried to find what this is but I can't identify it
0:23 Beelzebufo
0:25 Bulbasaurus
0:29 Bungartius
0:32 Cordaticaris
0:36 Estemmenosuchus
0:39 Eretomorhipis
0:42 Entogonites
0:46 Diplognathus
0:49 Dendrorhynchoides
0:54 Criocephalosaurus
0:56 Leptoptilos robustus and Homo floresiensis (I think)
0:59 Kelenken
1:05 Hominids in a Megachelys/Geochelone shell
1:07 Homalodotherium
1:09 Hensodon
1:14 Henodus and a Crurotarsan
1:18 Megacerops
1:22 Skinnerhyus?
1:24 Maraldichthys
1:28 Makaracetus
1:32 Lyrarapax and Yuyuanozoon
1:35 Nipponites
1:39 Mylodon
1:42 Melosaurus
1:45 Megalampris and penguins
1:48 Parelasmotherium
1:52 Pachystruthio
1:56 Ordosipterus
2:00 Opabinia and some kind of Radiodont
2:03 Protoichthyosaurus
2:06 Polymerichthys
2:09 Gerrothorax
2:13 Pinacoceras
2:16 A turtle from the Wealden group?
2:20 Sahonachelys
2:25 Amphicyon and Oncorhynchus rastrosus
2:28 Cacops and a Paleodictyopteran
2:31 Soliclymenia
2:34 Sinemys
2:38 Some kind of Iniopterygian
2:41 Shringasaurus
2:45 Stensioella
2:48 Stegotetrabelodon
2:51 Squaloraja
2:55 Spathicephalus
2:58 Tauraspis
3:01 I swear I saw this image before on my searches. It's a therizinosaur, at least
3:05 Styracocephalus
3:08 Struthiocephalus
3:12 Tsaidamotherium
3:15 Tropites
3:18 Thalassocnus (I think)
3:23 Telephina

[IslandInteractions]

What a wonderful way to wake up on a Sunday morning - Thanks, Joschua!

[zwei]

I'm completely in love with what you do, thank you for sharing

[Thmasque]

Man, your art really does make these extinct animals feel alive and like they’re real animals.Great work on the art.Also I hope to be as good as you are at art like this.

[creationanimation]

1:38 when you try to wake up your brother but he’s playing video games

[Fede_]

Joschua you are one of my favorite paleoartists, your sketches are so cool: the details, the colors, the shades and the context make them so cool to admire. The enormous amount of underrated and obscure species you draw is amazing, thank you for keep making me discover new species. Love your book too 😉

[iverga]

I've searched all the creatures in this video so that people can know better which are the majority of them, not all of them are correct, specifically the ones with question marks are the species which I wasn't sure what they were, anyone who knows the name of the erroneus creatures feel free to correct me and I'll edit the comment in the future, thanks for your attention

Aquilolamna 0:00



Qarmotus 0:04



Abyssosaurus 0:08



Amplectobelua 0:11



Parahelicoprion 0:14



Arctocyon 0:18



Beelzebufo 0:21



Bulbasaurus 0:25



Bungartius 0:28



Aegiroscassis 0:32



Estemmenosuchus 0:36



¿Trinacromerum? 0:39



Ammonite 0:42



Diplognathus 0:46



Dendrorhynchoides 0:49



Tapinocaephalus 0:53



Leptoptilus 0:56



Kelenken 1:00



Megalochelys 1:04



Lestodon 1:07



Saurodon 1:11



Henodus 1:14



Megacerops 1:17



Metridiochoerus 1:21



Maraldichthys 1:24



Makaracetus 1:28



¿Ayshealia? 1:31



Nipponites 1:35



Mylodon 1:39



¿Purussaurus? 1:42



Megalampris 1:45



¿Elasmotherium? 1:49



Pachystruthio 1:52



Ordosipterus 1:55



Opabinia 2:00



Protoicthyosaurus 2:03



Polymerichthys 2:06



Trematosauria 2:09



Pinacoceras 2:13



Sandownia 2:16



Sahonachelys 2:20



Amphicion 2:23



Rotaryus 2:27



Soliclymenia 2:30



¿Waluchelys? 2:34



Iniopteryx 2:38



Shringasaurus 2:41



Bungartius 2:45



Stegotetrabelodon 2:48



Squaloraja 2:51



Spathicephalus 2:55



¿Cephalaspis? 2:58



Suzhousaurus 3:01



Styracocephalus 3:05



Struthiocephalus 3:09



Tsaidamotherium 3:12



Tropites 3:15



Thalassocnus 3:19



Telephina 3:22



Wulong 3:26



Tupuxuara 3:29



Glossotherium 3:33



Epidexipteryx 3:36



¿Portunatasaurus? 3:40



Tylacosmilus 3:43



Iniopterygiformes 3:47