Drawing Dinosaurs (feat. Tyler Stone)

Fruitless

Tyler Stone (@TylerStoneArt) joins Josiah to discuss his work as a freelance paleoartist. Paleoart (scientific illustration of prehistoric life) is a field with an interesting relationship between art and hard sciences. They discuss this relationship and the nitty gritty of the business side of paleoart, before delving into the challenges of being a science communicator in a field that attracts conspiracy theories, and how AI image generation is impacting the field.

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Media referenced

• Tyler's animation of the evolution of whales, "From Feet to Flippers: The Evolution of Whales," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKbC7QSjWfE
• Old episode of Very Legal, Very Cool, "sh*tty creationism," where we discussed the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter, https://share.transistor.fm/s/96070284
• A short video by Tom Scott about the Crystal Palace dinosaurs Tyler discusses briefly, "The Scientifically Inaccurate Dinosaurs That Must Stay That Way," https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWItLyDzMyE. I'm including this in case you'd like a visual of them.
• Episode of QAnon Anonymous that I (Josiah) reference briefly, "The Tartarian Empire," https://soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous/episode-273-the-tartarian-empire
• The Paleoartist's Handbook: Recreating Prehistoric Animals in Art by Mark P. Witton
• One Million Years B.C. (1966) directed by Don Chaffey
• Jurassic Park (1993), directed by Steven Spielberg
• Jurassic World (2015), directed by Colin Trevorrow
• Prehistoric Planet, Apple TV+, produced by Jon Favreau & Mike Gunton.

Music & audio credits

• Yesterday – bloom.
• Crumble – Dinosaur Jr. (The only reason I put this song in the end is because of the artist's name. That's the dumb joke there. Nothing deeper or more thoughtful.)