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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Paleontologist Thuat Tran
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7 ноя 2021
