Feel free to give me ideas and questions to tackle for future videos (preferably not a redesign vid since I've gotten too many ideas for that).

The Tyrannosaurus art in the first half of the video (8:35) is gorgeous! The Pachycephalosaurus painting looks great aswell, damn, the production was a mess.

Such a great video! And honestly it’s a shock more paleoartists haven’t accounted for intraspecific colour variation in their work. As someone who has kept tens of different colour variants of the same two centipede species, I’ve very much aware of how much variation can naturally exist within a species.

At first I thought you were going to explain what colours would be the least probable for dinosaurs - for example, the argument that sauropods couldn't be brightly coloured because their food would likely not produce the necessary pigments (kinda touched upon with erythrism though). But instead it's about unique cases. Interesting!

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Additionally they may like birds and some reptiles have breeding season colours. Which I think makes sense, dinosaurs like modern birds would have had excellent colour vision. Ultraviolet colouration would be cool to depict as it is also very important to modern birds. Some otherwise drab tyrannosaurus glowing brightly coloured in UV light. False gharials have been observed to lighten in skin colour in lighter enviroments, and darken in darker enviroments as well. So if a dinosaur species is seasonally living in the forest or on the plains it may change shade.

24:40 these would make some pretty sick skins in a dinosaur game I think the Pachy painting turned out lovely

Quick note on the eastern milk snake btw, they change in coloration dramatically as they age, so the reason why they look different might just be more of an age difference rather than genetic variation.

With all the talks about skins and morphs. I'm surprised Prehistoric Kingdom wasn't brought up at all.

Ichthyovenator will make anything but the finished Edmontosaurus VS Tyrannosaurus piece. (Jk this video is probs your best one yet)

That Pachycephalosaurus piece is simply gorgeous. Keep it up; your art gets better and better with each video.

This video made me immediately think about dinosaur subspecies

Wow, this was like a lecture about animal coloration with cool drawings on top! Neat stuff!

23:26 bro you’re so good!! 🎉👍 so fantastic art works. Keep it up. This is a type of art work I’d love to have on my wall or something. It looks so good 🤩

I love how that pachy art finally turned out!

Cool Accurate Tyrannosaurus 8:25 😎👌🔥

Dude you’re so talented and underrated. You deserve a trophy

AMAZING video!! I usually study an animals' environment when restoring it, but never really think of morphs and variation. I really have wanted to make videos like this, but I am rather worried about using my voice in videos, so I am not sure how to go about it. LOVE your approach in editing, scripting and choice of topic!

Color mutation is one of my favorite topics, just the possibility is stunning!

Each of your videos keeps getting better and better! After watching your speedpaints for a while, it’s been crazy seeing your improvement, keep up the good work man!

Nice art work of the tyrannosaurus

I'm very new to this channel and really enjoyed it the moment I started watching! Especially the music is absolutely perfect. Gave it a sub, although I'm more interested in the paleo and less in the art Anyways, enjoyed it a lot!

A really cool albino dinosaur I think you'd like to see is the albino pterodactyl in the Hallmark movie Dinotopia.

Interesting subject! How fun. Although I was feeling quite sorry for you with that painting. I don't know how many times you painted over something. Whew! It ended up looking really cool though! Way to go for sticking with it.

Nice speculative paleobiology video ❤. I'll might even incorporate it if I'll ever do a diorama or something with multiple speciemens of the same species. I would welcome any coloration related topic for that is what I struggle the most with. As for ideas... maybe ontogenic changes in coloration and pattern.

Although the science parts were great, the art parts of the video were what I loce the most. Great talent and technique, and as an artist, I understand the pain of "something feels of but I don't know why". Great video in general!

There was a squirrel in my backyard before which had a white tail, so we called him white tail.

Imagine seeing a blue beezelbufo

Your art is incredible man! The pachy's look amazing

Man, I still love this video and how well informal it is and can't wait to use this when drawing. Overall hope you had a great day

Great video, man! And really impressive painting work. As someone who focuses on digital, I respect anyone who knows their stuff with the brush. Keep it up!

Love the Pachycephelosaurid painting!

Your art is incredible and i also love your use of WWD ost lol

Well, in the breed standard, the labrador is black, yellow and chocolate black is the most common because it was the first when it was created

I certainly agree that Dinosaur color isn't something often thought about in paleomedia and frankly, that's a shame. There are a lot of interesting things one can do with color and speculative color can be just as interesting as speculative adaptations. I've personally always fancied the idea of Tyrannosaurus having a super bright mouth similar to a Cotton Mouth or Skink. Since Tyrannosaurus was an ambush predator I'm sure it was darker in coloration which begs the question of how it attracted mates. I assume its similar to Birds where bright colors are a sign of a strong potential partner and having a bright mouth, something that can be easily hidden while hunting and takes up a large part of the animal's body, would be perfect for that. Ideas like that are certainly missed in all of paleomedia.

I want you to do a video about making the land before time characters accurate and not outdated

Great video! Loved the discussions around variability in coloration among modern animals and how they relate to prehistoric ones, it’s fascinating stuff! And I think the final product turned out great too :)

Id like to see something in dinosaur media is melanistic or albino type of colors on the dinosaurs skin. Imagine a herd of Trikes or Rex'es and theres one that stands out from them with these genetics.

This video is literally so helpful though

good video 🎉

12:10 fellow Ontario boi ayyy👉👉

Another banger my friend, well done

Great video. I think budgies would make a great inspiration for dinosaur morphs with how much variety they can have in their colors and patterns.

Cool! have you heard about the Return of nannotyrannus?

Wonderful video and wonderful art!

I would love it if Power Rangers got the dinosaur colors right.

I like that dinosaurs colouration is always a big subject for discussion and we completely ignore the Paleozoic and Cenozoic area like they never existed.As for the reconstruction of colour based on Melanosomes i am very cautious like the possibility Prehistoric wildlife might got it's colouration by different biological factors in addition with modern wildlife which indeed owns its colour appearance to the Melanosomes but i might be just dramatic.

Christ you're so cracked at art

Interspecies & individual variation are fantastic things, and ones that people often forget about. The only examples of media using this type of variation I remember are Disney's Dinosaur (with Iguanodons, obviously) and Dinosaur Revolution (especially with tyrannosaurs)

please do a paleoart of megistotherium or simbakubwa both of them are hyaenodont

For some reason if I was a Paleo artist, and if I wanted to draw a dromeosaurs the colors would be more of birds of prey like the larger ones they would be based on the larger birds of prey like bald eagles harpy, eagles, and etc. with troodontids I would do Corvid and with Tyrannosaurus some species of crocodilians I don’t know why

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Nice pachycephalosaurus artwork. I’m glad that you did not put filaments on their backs, because there is no evidence of pachycephalosaurus.

Dumb question, but is it correct the word “compatriots” to call individuals of the same species?

Random question: What are your thoughts on ornithiscian cheeks?

12:55 Wow we finally got to see a face reveal! YES! Also ichthyovenator you look like a cool dude 👍! Will.

4:06 my freind has a little sister with albinism! She’s really cool! The combo of blue eyes and the reddish tint from the lack of melanin can make her eyes appear purple-ish sometimes. Also they essentially have to force her to wear sunblock she hates wearing sunblock idk why I wear it just fine (ginger, but for some reason my arms can tan in really weird cow splotch looking patterns and my face can tan a bit. Not much of the rest of me though unfortunately) 6:54 is erythrism the cause of being ginger in humans? That’s cool if so! :] 8:57 Piebaldism is also what makes pets have white patches! Piebaldism is so cool, also ball python breeders have genes down to a science goddamn I’ve seen piebald deer aswell! They look cool :]

0:33 china? like the utah raptor (spiderboi reference, please applaud)

18:30 for a second I thought you'd painted your palette to look like your art-piece. xD

I’m guessing any color because feathers can be just about any color there is

nice vid bro

One baffling trope I've seen in paleoart is having the T.rex be red while the Tarbosaurus is green. Has anyone else notice that? Personally, I think it should be the other way around with the T.rex green and the Tarbosaurus reddish, orange colors.

nice vid can you do a Velociraptor and the color based off a beaded vulture pls

I find it dumb that birds are saursichians (lizard hipped dinosaurs) despite there being an entire unrelated Clade of dinosaurs called ornithiscia (bird hipped dinosaurs)

I hope to make a similar video in the future

0:19 there was also sinosauropteryx in 2010

Hair can’t be green or blue but no Dinosaur or Pterosaur had hair they had scales feathers or pingnophibers

What art software did you use? I am getting into paleoart and I need something better than Krita but I dont wanna waste my money.

Also bc of leucism there's a yellow penguin somewhere out in the world And albino alligators have a lifespan of not long Not very long cuz dark blue and black helps the alligator to camouflage at the surface

I know that albino animals that are domesticated have a lot of health issues, some are deaf and blind

Didn’t expect a face reveal today my guy

Reptiles and birds have more color variability than mammals. I think dinosaurs would have a wide range of coloration.

19:15 sometimes the best thing you can do is cover somsthing up with its surroundings, it can be such a life saver 😂

1:55 lingering jansi jumpscare

I have another fan made character name Hellish Max, Unlike Other humans, Max Possess The ability to turn into a monster as looking creature, called Hellish Max, Regular Max is A 14 year old boy with long brown hair, Green eyes, He wears black Gray and green shorts, Along with the green shirt and wears Green shoes, He even wears 2 party hats His regular version stands at 5'6, And his favorite dinosaur is Brachiosaurus, He loves Pizza, Ice cream, Broccoli, etc, He can also write stories on his chromebook in google docs, And he is very intelligent As Hellish Max He is a Demonified person Who stands at 6'8, In his mouth he has long sharp pointed teeth. Some of his teeth are long Some of his teeth are Medium, And has a long devil like tail, That has spikes, And has long claws on his fingers, Along with pointy Ears, Plus has 2 devil like horns on its head, And is usually barefoot, And has a rather muscular body, His hand has an obsession with pancreases, And views pancreas as food, And has a long terrifying looking tongue, And has red crocodile like eyes And he can breathe fire, He is my fan made Dino Dan/Trek/Dana/Dex

Whats the difference between a morph and a subspecies?

Aren’t you going to finish the T. rex vs Edmontosaurus thing

It's me DOZIER World, on my grandmas computer. do something with triceratops.

I know this isn’t really related to the topic of the video but where did you find the plains track by giachinno I can’t find it anywhere 😭😭😭

Yo, dude is an amazing artists, but his perfectionism was detrimental for the work, it was fine the way it was going, I saw no reason to keep repainting things all the time.

I heard from someone that dinosaurs don’t have the correct genes to allow for genetic variations like albinism or melanism

It is possible the existence of subspecies in dinosaurs?

4:58 Aren’t birds reptiles? because dinosaurs are reptiles and birds are dinosaurs.

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Icthyovenator face reveal!

Misssttt--eeeeerryyyyy. Im so sorry

Any color that resembles a bird mate,their animals not aliens LOL

First! (I could be wrong, we’ll see lol)

They were colored like the cheap plastic toys

First. Edit: Dangit not first.

6 trillion views in 64 months? bro fell off :/

You spelled color wrong

Great Video! :)