PTEROSAVR
Bringing a Cretaceous Flying Giant Back to Life
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Skin and Outer Appearance
The Malapa Murals series shows the variation the south african hominin fossil-bearing region of Malapa throughout time (2 mya, 1 mya & 250k years ago), featuring the reconstruction of its ecosystems, faunal assemblages and hominin species.
What today is an open savannah (highveld) was then a dense, old growth woodland ecosystem, home to Australopithecus sediba. This hominin is known for two exceptionally complete, partial skeletons, a juvenile and an adult female, unearthed in the Malapa cave (which was then a sinkhole or death trap). Along with the region’s fauna, a family group of A.sediba rests in the foreground next to one of these sinkhole openings.
The Malapa Murals series shows the variation the south african hominin fossil-bearing region of Malapa throughout time (2 mya, 1 mya & 250k years ago), featuring the reconstruction of its ecosystems, faunal assemblages and hominin species.
A couple of Stegoceras validum displaying head-butting behaviour. Sculpted in ZBrush, texturized in Substance Painter and rendered in Marmoset Toolbag.
A couple of Stegoceras validum displaying head-butting behaviour. Sculpted in ZBrush, texturized in Substance Painter and rendered in Marmoset Toolbag.
Sequential restoration of the antarctic theropod dinosaur Cryolophosaurus ellioti, following the Reverse Dissection methodology.
Sequential restoration of the antarctic theropod dinosaur Cryolophosaurus ellioti, following the Reverse Dissection methodology.
