The Allure of Modern Dinosaur Artwork 

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It’s also because we see them as animals now instead of great monsters which the vintage stuff was trying to depict.

For me, dinosaurs have never struck me as "real" looking animals. I could never really imagine them existing on our planet. But modern artwork of dinosaurs, feathers, counter-shading, they look more real than ever. I can fully imagine them being real.

People who think birds are timid and peaceful clearly has never encounter a pissed off turkey

Bearded dragons, Argentine tegus, and Blue-tongued skinks are all scaly, cold-blooded reptiles, and they are cuddly, affectionate pets. Cassowarys and Emus, on the other hand, are feathered and scary as hell.

If you wanna make feathered dinos look scary, just cover them in blood from a fresh kill and make the feathers unkempt from the chase.

I love the new depictions. They look like actual animals, not monsters. They look like they think about their world, as simple or as complicated as those thoughts may be. Something that could even be more afraid of you than you are of it.

Some peeps seem to forget dinosaurs were animals not monsters

To all who claim feathered dinosaurs aren’t scary, I have a question for you all. Have you ever been confronted by an agitated Goose before?

The problem is, people tend to view dinosaurs as monsters thanks to these documentaries and movies greatly exaggerating their violent tendencies. People keep forgetting that they are animals, just like the modern ones. They are most of the times very passive, and their behaviour is more complicated than just 'kill prey'.

It's true. Birds are enormous pricks. Even the tiny ones.

What's weird is how people say "i like the old ones" as if dinosaurs were cartoon characters. Nobody gets to choose what stays "canon"

just imagine any dinosaur with a goose's tongue..... instantly horrifying

The point about scaly dinosaurs being scary really hit me. For a long time, and in many cases still today, dinosaurs were just monsters, big scary beasts no different than fictional dragons or the like. But they were living breathing animals once, not nightmarish beasts but a part of nature and the ecosystem. Modern art of dinosaurs definitely catches that aspect of dinosaurs much more than earlier depictions

With all the remakes and reboots Disney keeps putting out, I wouldn't mind one of "Dinosaur" if it took what we now know of dinosaurs today and applied it to a Fantasia-like story with voiceover narration. While I really hated the Lion King remake for its realistic talking lions, that ascetic would really work for a feature-length dinosaur documentary.

Modern dinosaur designs are great because they actually look like animals instead of monsters. Well, usually. My biggest issue with 'vintage dinosaur' art is they just stretched skin over the bones without thinking about potential muscle, fat, etc. My favorite way to show how silly this is is by drawing modern creatures the way dinosaurs have been drawn. You get a cat that looks like a vintage dinosaur if you draw a cat this way.

General public seeing a bald eagle: So majestic and badass! General public seeing a feathered dino: Urgh it looks like a chicken I hate it.

Talks about reptiles as creepy and unnerving, shows a cute lizard getting petted

"If they're not killing each other they're boring" *[Laughs in David Attenborough]*

There's a bunch of scary paleoart with feathers, I think dinos are actually more terrifying with feathers

"Oh, feathered dinos are cuddly timid and cute" ENTER THE FLIGHTLESS BIRDS.

My favourite part of modern dinosaur art is probably the beautiful landscapes people can create for these almost alien creatures. It creates a fantastical view for dinosaurs, and the notion that it could be at least a little bit accurate to real life makes it that much more astounding. In conclusion: dinosaurs are my aesthetic

wtf where do i find wholesome dino art

A Walking With Dinosaurs remake would be incredible to see. The original was amazing to watch, but it doesn't quite hold up anymore, with all the new art styles and theories about dinosaurs. Improvements to special (and practical) effects over the last twenty years would also take the series to a whole new level. Please make this, somebody, anybody!

4:20, I have waited for someone to show that dinosaurs are beautiful creatures and not constant fighting, so thank you

"Birds are cuddly" said nobody who ever saw a filthy, blood-smeared vulture or a shrieking barn owl with luminous red eyes in the night.

I appreciate the use of the old-school RU-vid layout for the screenshots near the beginning

*Me crying because I’ll never know what dinosaurs truly looked like*

Want to make dinosaurs scary again have you ever seen a owl? I know I know the mononykus from prehistoric planet is like a barn owl but cute but in my opinion *owls are terrifying.* (i blame lost tapes owl man) but you see where I'm going. Imagine a owl like troodon with black soulless shiny eyes chasing you through the woods without making a sound. Yeah F that.

I think this comes from the fact that modern non-avian reptiles seems not that diverse and unfortunetly there are a lot of stereotypes surrounding them. But if look at mesosoic period, well it turns out that boudry between what we commonly think as "bird" and "reptile" is EXTRELY fluid and that prehistoric reptiles were incredibly diverse. It is interesting to me that from all this reptiles the only which survived were seemingly simmilar to each other... and also the birds which were completly different from the rest of survivor reptiles.

The algorithm has become surprisingly good at recommending interesting content. Thoroughly enjoyed the video!

As a hardcore dinosaur nerd i have a very hard time respecting people who can't let go of old dinosaurs, the modern ones look like *actual animals* as they should

The idea of a Gorgosaurus attracting a mate with intricate structures constructed of bones is super metal and I love it

A new video on dinosaur art from this channel?? I see that as an absolute win!

The guy who first discovered Utahraptor (I'm terrible at names, I've looked up his name several times and still can't remember it) described what he thought it would look like to be the target of his discovery, and honestly its terrifying. He theorized that it had feathers complete with eye spots that would leap out from the underbrush and latch on their target with their arms while the legs kick as fast as a cat could, exerting hundreds of pounds of force. Now I don't know about you, but if an eagle with teeth the size of a polar bear, I'd frankly shit myself

I love your videos, I can’t stop watching them! Looking forward to your next video! :)

Dinosaurs will always be cool. No matter how many changes they go through, they will always be fantastic to me.

I think the point you nailed was the fact that modern depictions eliminate a "status quo". You can look at the old lizard like depictions of the early 1900s and a T-rex always looked the same. Then you have the Jurassic Park era where every T-Rex has looked like the one from '95 since then. Now we are at this age of scientific discovery where we know a lot about the dinosaurs we study but using that knowledge it opens up the can of worms of how little we know. I can say "T-rex had feathers" and I know it "should have fat somewhere" but we don't know any of that information. It might have only had a few feathers like an Ostrich, or fully covered like a chicken. Could have had an elephant style trunk or a camel style hump of soft tissue that was wiped clean of the remains over millions of years. I can take any dinosaur and using probable cause and evidence from modern day, make ridiculous alien style monsters. A triceratops could have had large bits of flesh from its nose to its frill and the "horns" it was popular for could just be internal supports like a whale's skull. In many ways, the new age of science has also seemed to lead to the age of misinformation and opens up the flood gates to radical ideas with nothing to say "no that is definitely wrong". Its why people run back to their Jurassic Park depictions. A scary dilophosaurus with a frill that spits venom and has no feathers, has no real evidence for it, but at the same time, there isn't a lot of evidence that could disprove it "couldn't". People like definitive stances when it comes to scientific discoveries and I think its why the public has been so hesitant to accept the new age of dinosaur depictions. If everyone came together and said "This is definitively what a T-rex looks like, make your games/toys/movies using this style" people would be fine. But with no baseline people resort back to what they are familiar with and what was cool, aka, Jurassic Park.

There are actual preserved melanosomes in the feathers of dinosaur fossils that scientists can analyze under a microscope and compare to modern ones. They have the full color scheme and patterns for a few species, giving us a glimpse at what they actually looked like as far as color goes. I hope paleontologists make more discoveries in the future about other aspects of dinosaurs' appearance. I get excited thinking about how cool they might end up looking.

Remember that everyone accepts eagles as a badass symbol of courage and strength, this alone disproves the idea that feathers make something weak.

"Bowerbirds builds structures out of sticks and plants and then surround them with colored berries and flowers" NEVER FORGET OUR BROTHER RON

Neat video! I'm glad to see that my not-at-all serious Spinosaurus and the cringe-worthy drawings I did as a teenager are still making the rounds.

The fact that people are still fighting about feathers since like 10 years ago in the internet 😂😂

Old art: nostalgic New art: if feels like a real animal

General Public: Birds are timid, friendly and a minor nuisance Cassowary: *AIGHT, WHO'S GIZZARD NEEDS A CLAWIN?*

Feathers on dinosaurs, in some cases, actually make them more intimidating to me. It makes some of them look smarter and more fit, hence, more threatening. On the flip side, some dinosaur art of baby dinos are super adorable. In all, I like the many ways dinosaurs have been depicted since the 80's. So with or without feathers, they can look pretty menacing.

11:36 this is a traced art work. Original painting was done by Jordan K. Walker.

I'm glad you made the point about Dinosaurs being represented less like monsters, and more like animals in modern paleo art. For me, that's what I love about them. My favorite dinosaur is Allosaurus, and to me as interesting as it would be to see them hunt, what I would really like to do is see them do everything else. How they interacted with other Allosaurus', how they slept, how they groomed themselves, all of that. To me the most fascinating thing about Dinosaurs is that they were animals with their own unique sets of behaviors, that we will never be 100% certain on.

I grew up in the 60’s, 70’s.....sort of... and latched on to dinosaurs as early as I can remember. I loved the tail draggers as much as the more recent conceptualizations. As a boy, I had always thought that the image of plodding, slow witted animals was incorrect and was pleased when my mind’s eye view of a more bird like animal was presented in Adrian Desmond’s ‘The Hot Blooded Dinosaurs’. The book reconfirmed what I’d always intuited. I can appreciate a Neave Parker print as much as a John Gurche. Charles Knight’s paintings will never lose their luster of a very exciting take on earlier life just as Doug Henderson’s work captures an environment that just so happens to be inhabited by some amazing and fascinating animals. I have my books full of tail draggers on the same shelf as Don Gluts seven volume Dinosaur Encyclopedia, Dinosaurs: A concise Natural History, everything Greg Paul has written and many others. There’s much that has been brought to light, corrected, etc. There’s still a lot of interpretation and inference that occurs. Some might be on target, some, not so much. That’s okay. Some questions may never get answered. But, one thing’s for sure, dinosaurs will never get old. They’re too damn fun.

"scales feel rough" uhm hello have u ever touched a snake? they are so smooth

I accept both vintage AND modern styles of dinosaurs

It's explained in jurassic park that the dinos are innacurate because they have other DNA mixed in to fill the gaps, such as frogs for most and blue specifically has monitor lizard

In my opinion, adding feathers to the dinosaurs actually makes them more intimidating and terrifying. A giant lizard is definitely intimidating but it doesn’t click in your mind as something that could exist, but we already have giant birds, so the feathers just make the sight hit much closer to home than scales.

As a huge dino fan, I really enjoyed this video. It's a very wholesome take on the 'evolution' of dino theories, art, and facts.

I love both old and new dinosaur art. It's very interesting to see what paleo artists can come up with!

Its all fun and games making fun of the feathered rex for being too cuddly or not intimating/scary.. *Until you realize feathers dont change the fact it has a bite force of seven tons.*

Be it with feathers or not, i want dinosaurs to be depicted as what they are, animals and not just killing machines.

I enjoy both style of dinosaurs, each has their unique appeal.

With off hand experience with chickens and other fowls, I really could picture what the smaller raptors would be like if you snagged them and held them upside down. A flurry of fluttering feathers and talons.

Just fangirled seeing the Dinosaurs in the Wild Tyrannosaurus at 5.10 again. I worked on that.

I don't understand why people are so mad about new varieties of dinosaurs. Look at how diverse the species of earth are just today and now imagine what dinosaurs looked like across hundreds of millions of years. There's space for both the old and new designs across all that time. The bird ones might be more accurate with current science but that doesn't mean every single dinosaur looked like that.

I love modern depictions because they look like real animals. I've never thought the older stuff looked like animals, more like fantasy creatures.

Perfectly balanced, as all thing should be.

As a kid who both watched jurassic park and had a grandpa that had an Emu farm. I can tell you that yes feathered dinosaurs can be terrifying.

I feel like the way we depict dinosaurs will never truly be one hundred percent accurate, but we’re getting closer and closer. It’s kind of like that thing where you walk forward half the distance between you and your destination, then walk half the new distance again, then again, and again, each time getting a little closer, but never truly reaching it. It’s sad that we’ll never truly see real (non-avian) dinosaurs, but, in my opinion, we’re already much closer than we were even just a decade ago. Each step we take, whether it’s from quadrupedal lizards to kangaroo crocodiles, or from swamp-dwelling behemoths to active predators, or from alien-like reptiles to more familiar creatures, each step we take is important. That’s why I still really respect the old paleoart, especially from the Dinosaur Renaissance. It is outdated now, but we wouldn’t be where we are today if not for the popularization of movies and media like Jurassic Park. Moral of the story is… Respect the scaly wrist-breaking monstrosities, but anyone who says birds aren’t scary can just try and offend a cassowary. Just do it. You’ll see. :)

I love that last image of the dromaeosaur looking at those flying pterosaurs. It’s almost as if it’s thinking “soon my descendants will outcompete and destroy you. But not yet...”

You really think you can just sneak that Prehistoric Park music in there without me noticing?

“Like Pelicans eating live pigeons” Excuse me, they do what? Also great vid man. Me personally I love the idea of dinosaurs being portrayed as just normal animals. Feathered dinosaurs too are badass and beautiful, with Deinocheirus being my favorite dinosaur.

I'm surprised there was no mention of the cassowary... "the world's most dangerous bird" which looks like it could fit into the new style of dino-drawings.

That was just, amazing to watch. You've grown to become an inspiring channel. NO! Educator, of the ancient world

The free range of depictions is really what I think draws in so many people to draw dinosaurs. It's open to interpretation because there's simply no feasible way of knowing exactly what they looked like with so little remaining of the time frames. This video was great, man. Informative, emotional, and to the point. Seeing all the different depictions was also really interesting.

I used to like dinosaurs as a kid because I thought they were cool. Now I like dinosaurs because there's so much room for interpretation when it comes to their appearance and I think that's exciting.

5:15 - 5:27 "Herbivores are now being shown as interesting in their own right" *shows lizard skunk projectile shitting*

I'm in a similar boat to you, I really enjoy old dinosaur art and modern. There are a couple of things I dislike with said art of either periods, but thats just things I generally dislike with animal art (such as making things look unreasonably evil or spiky).

Just the thought that we won't really be able to definitely know how dinosaurs actually looked like gives me anxiety

"Birds are generally thought of as timid, friendly, and a minor nuisance at most" Golden eagles which throw goats off cliffs to kill them: "Timid? I'll show you TIMID-"

I personally love modern dinosaur artwork, mostly because it's much better reconstruction wise compared to old dinosaur artwork. The thing I don't like is when people decide to simply put feathers on every dinosaur in the book. Not all dinosaurs had feathers, just take carnotourus (sorry if I misspelled that). It was proven to have scales and most likely didn't have many feathers, if any.

The thing that I don’t like is the idea that having feathers automatically makes it uncool. I’ve seen so many terrifying interpretations of feathered dinosaurs that it makes me mad when someone feathers take away the possibility of a scary dinosaurs.

Viewing the vintage stuff as more of a fantasy because of the lack of knowledge of the subject gives that allure to me. I love the modern stuff as an adult because of the attention to how things were back then, in any way they could have been. Also feathers are amazing on dinosaurs.

Not going to lie, as a kid, I did draw dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals killing things a little too much. Now, I'm actually taking the time to draw dinosaurs and other prehistoric mammals doing other things. For example, I recently did a drawing of a Nanuqsaurus, a tyrannosaur that lived in the Arctic, 69.1 million years ago, completing a nest. Also, I did a drawing of a gorgonopsid called Inostrancevia with its infants, in response to how a lot of paleoart seems to heavily depict gorgonopsids hunting pareiasaurs, like Scutosaurus. The drawings that depict animals that are hunting things have points to them, such as a drawing I made of Velociraptor fighting Protoceratops, in reference to the iconic Fighting Dinosaurs fossil from Mongolia.

After watching the dinosaur popularity video and now both videos talking new and old art form of dinosaurs, I love how casual you are and show that these animals that once ruled this planet is something that captures everyone's imagination. When I was a kid growing up from elementary school to middle school and very little of it in high school I was laughed at for being dinosaur obsessed. I still am to this day and I'm 23 years old. The science of these seemingly other worldly creatures sure yes due to society can be boring but when it comes down to it: Dinosaurs have been here longer then us, they're bigger than us, faster and surpass all survival tactics to humans. Humans need tools to survive out somewhere in some environment for a week to one's entire life. Dinosaurs didn't. No animal truly does. I'm one of those science nerds that do look into the science of dinosaurs but I just love seeing in some media depictions of these large animals. Sure half of them are no accurate but the feeling is still there.

I’ve always loved both the classic and modern dinosaur artwork, to me the golden age of Dino art never ended. I like your introspective take on this controversy. People have their own likes & dislikes, and ideas about what is considered good or bad.

We need a new Dinosaur movie (I don't think a Jurassic Park movie can do it, too caught up in the past), that brings the modern understanding of Dinosaurs to the public eye

There's a meme in the online art community that has an artist placing a small cake (their work) next to a larger, more elaborate cake (someone else's work), and they lament/assume that no one will enjoy their little cake. Later, another person comes up, holding two forks, and rejoices, "Oh boy! Two cakes!!" ...I think that's how I feel about "both sides", I'm just happy to be a part of it! Art and science will always be linked together, and it's important to allow both areas of study to flourish. Also, who isn't excited about New Dinosaurs? Don't be a boomer. Live a little. Have some imagination. Life is too short to die on that grumpy old hill yk

Hoopsanddinoman: Makes video defending vintage dino art and worries that people wont agree with him. [Everyone liked that] Also hoops: Makes video defending modern dino art and worries that people wont agree with him. [Everyone liked that]

I don’t get how feathered dinos aren’t scary. Square up with a Cassowary, then get back with me.

They were monsters then. The art showed them as so disconnected from modern animals, that it had a fantastical, whimsical tone. Nowadays, dinosaur art depicts them as closer to animals we've become used to.

It's amazing how so much media exposure of dinosaurs looking and acting like monsters made people eventually come to hate the idea of animals looking and acting like animals. Especially treating their appearance as if they were fictional characters that you could criticize for not being "well designed or not be scary".

I love this, it puts everything I love about modern paeloart into words. I love the older style for how nostalgic and badass it was, but Im just engrossed with how we learn so much about them every day, and how now they feel like real animals

I love how the team for Monster Hunter World took inspiration for the design of Anjanath from these new depictions of dinosaurs. It's still recognizably reptilian-like, but it has fur on its back and it's got those skin things (like the dilophosaurus in Jurassic Park) that pop out on the sides as well as small spikes on its tail. It's just a fun mish-mash of various ideas that come together to make a really unique design.

Looking through the comments I feel like I'm one of the few that prefers the middle way, being that creatures such as T-Rex being completely covered in feathers would seem really impractical, seeing as it would have a great difficulty trying to preen all places. Smaller Dinosaurus, such as Dromeosaurs, I can see being covered in eagle-like feathers. Heck, my favorite artwork of a Dakotaraptor is one in the scheme of a Spanish Eagle. Do I need my dinosaurus to be scaly and scary? no. Do I need all of them to be covered in feathers or have strange bodyparts? no. Reptiles still co-exist with mammals in the world we live in, and they don't look like one another. As such I feel like the same could be said for Dinosaurs.

People getting mad over the appearance of a prehistoric animal be it scientifically accurate or not is absolute nonsense, it doesn’t take away from how magnificent and diverse these creatures were, these aren’t fantasy comic book monsters, listen to science people.

"scales feel rough, unsettling" *shows a lizard being happily petted*

One of my favorite parts of modern dinosaur art is how diverse it all feels. Modern dinos all feel like separate species of animals, while vintage dinosaur art is just a bunch of lizards slightly rearranged.

People talking like they wouldn't shit themself if a Chicken the size of a Bus ran up on them lmao

The modern understanding of dinosaurs and the recent artistic interpretation is amazing to me! I grew up in the 60’s and as a kid I couldn’t get enough of the old stop motion dinos. But as our understanding has increased, those old depictions seem naive and almost wilfully ignore basic anatomy. I love the modern depictions but I still have a soft spot for the fantastic creatures of my childhood!!!

In my life, I have found that birds are vicious little bastards, and reptiles are surprisingly cuddly and gentle. I'd be _substantially_ less frightened of a scaly dinosaur than of a feathered one.

If anyone thinks feathers aren’t scary, come to Australia and walk past a magpie during mating season

this is why prehistoric planet released in 2022 is just so fucking good. its honestly one of the best depictions of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures

I think the new designs Are GORGEOUS