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James-Tarleton

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Irish PaleoArtist, Learning Game Development, Colour Blind

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James-Tarleton @jamestarleton27.bsky.social · Apr 24

Final UE5 Environment - Abandoned Lunar Colony
#GameDev #Artist #3DArtist #UE5

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Beren's Reverie @berensreverie.bsky.social · 4d

The Kiss

#paleoart #berensart2025

"fighting dinosaurs" fossil reimagined as The Kiss by Gustav Klimt

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Caxela @caxela.bsky.social · Aug 28

A Thylacoleo and Her Joey

A Thylacoleo carnifex rests with her young joey in a cave, the joey lying with its head on its mother's arm. Some light shines on the cave floor through an opening somewhere.
Thylacoleo was a carnivorous marsupial (sometimes known as the marsupial lion) that once lived in Australia.

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James-Tarleton @jamestarleton27.bsky.social · Aug 27

Mirasaura #Paleoart #Art #Paleontology

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James-Tarleton @jamestarleton27.bsky.social · Jun 15

Pterodaustro Doodle

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Petite Paleoartist | Sauriazoicillus @ppaleoartist.bsky.social · May 31

here's today's #Paleostream flocking sketches!!!

today we sketched Himalayasaurus, Typothorax, Lunataspis (i drew L. aurora), and Kunpengopterus (drinking the nectar from a Weltrichia)

#paleoart #sciart #invertart #paleobotany #plantart

a Himalayasaurus has killed a smaller ichthyosaur, it swims away with the corpse still bleeding in its mouth

Himalayasaurus is a kind of ichthyosaur (fully marine reptiles with four flippers, dorsal fins, and tails used for swimming), specifically a shastasaurid (a group of the largest ichthyosaurs from the Upper Triassic). Himalayasaurus was found in Tibet and unlike other shastasaurids had ziphodont teeth (teeth made for cutting) suggesting it ate large prey, rather than having no teeth like other shastasaurids

a Typothorax is laying eggs in its mound nest, its cloacal osteoderms move away to make sure they dont crush the delicate eggs.

Typothorax is a kind of aetosaur (armoured herbivorous relatives of crocodiles and dinosaurs) that possessed an upturned snout and most curiously osteoderms around its cloaca

two Lunataspis aurora move towards the camera. the nervous system of the left Lunataspis is visible through its thin carapace, the one on the right is climbing over the left individual allowing the viewer to see its underside

Lunataspis aurora is an extinct species horseshoe crab from the Late Ordovician of Canada. it was flatter than modern horseshoe crabs and lacked a fused abdomen, instead its abdomen was made of individual segments much like other arthropods. it was also very small being around only 3-4cm long

a Kunpengopterus sticks its tongue into a Weltrichia to lap up the sweet nectar within the cup of the flower-like structure, pollinating it in the process. two other bennettitale branches are seen in the back, all the branches are similar to the genus Kimuriella in growth form

Kunpengopterus is an arboreal pterosaur (flying reptiles that flew using a bat-like wings) with a long tail, soft tissue crest, and potentially an opposed "thumb" on its hands

Weltrichia is a male form genus of bennettitalian (flower-like plants). most species were probably wind pollinated, however, some were beetle pollinated, it's possible they could've also been pollinated by animals too. the female form genus counterpart of Weltrichia is Williamsonia, which is known from the Tiaojishan Formation, where Kunpengopterus is from. Weltrichia has been associated with the genus Kimuriella, however, no species are contemporary with Kunpengopterus, so this depiction of a Kimuriella-like whole plant is speculative

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · May 8

Happy birthday Sir David :) God ray not added in post I swear.

Sir David Attenborough and Darren Naish at a filming event.

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Karim Zanaty @extinctfineart.bsky.social · May 8

Virtual #Paleoart Gallery Participants (4/5)

Just about one more week to go with artwork from
@fossillad123.bsky.social
@haiderjaffri.bsky.social
@wargonopsid.bsky.social
@palaeonavix.bsky.social
@spinojp.bsky.social

Get your tickets here tinyurl.com/4zw5m89e, spread the word & join the event!

🔽

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James-Tarleton @jamestarleton27.bsky.social · Apr 24

Lunar Colony - Rock TurnTable
#GameDev #Artist #3DArtist #Blender

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James-Tarleton @jamestarleton27.bsky.social · Apr 24

Lunar Colony - Robot Turntable
#Gamedev #Artist #3DArtist #3D #Modeling

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James-Tarleton @jamestarleton27.bsky.social · Apr 24

Final UE5 Environment - Abandoned Lunar Colony
#GameDev #Artist #3DArtist #UE5

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HJ_arts02 @haiderjaffri.bsky.social · Apr 21

"A local river giant"

A revamp of a piece i did 2 years ago. Featuring Baryonyx circa 125 million years ago. England.

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · Apr 17

Two small ornithischians: the super long-tailed (probably) Leaellynasaura amicagraphica from Eatly Cretaceous Australia and the well known Hypsilophodon foxii from Early Cretaceous Europe

#paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs

Reconstructions of Leaellynasaura (top) and Hypsilophodon (bottom)

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James-Tarleton @jamestarleton27.bsky.social · Mar 6

Creating an environment based around a Lunar Colony
- Fuel Pipe -
Modeled in Maya
Turntable in Stager

#GameDev #3D #Modeling #Environment #UnrealEngine

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James-Tarleton @jamestarleton27.bsky.social · Mar 6

Creating an environment based around a Lunar Colony
- Habitat -
Modeled in Maya
Turntable in Stager

Shape language and overall inspiration taken from Paul Jouard on Artstation

(I do apoligize for the weird glitchy look)

#GameDev #3D #Modeling #Environment #UnrealEngine

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James-Tarleton @jamestarleton27.bsky.social · Mar 6

Creating an environment based around a Lunar Colony
- Keyboard -
Modeled in Maya
Turntable in Stager

#GameDev #3D #Modeling #Environment #UnrealEngine

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James-Tarleton @jamestarleton27.bsky.social · Mar 6

Creating an environment based around a Lunar Colony
- Fuel Depot -
Modeled in Maya
Turntable in Stager

#GameDev #3D #Modeling #Environment

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Steve White @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social · Feb 17

Nice when someone buying one of my artbooks (still available) asks for something interesting as a sketch. This is Squaloraja, a weird Early Jurassic 'shark ray.' Was fun to do.

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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · Feb 11

My predecessor as State Paleontologist, Dave Gillette passed away on Feb. 10th. He will be missed. He oversaw the excavation of the Huntington Mammoth. @jlivelypaleo.bsky.social @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · Feb 6

Still a better Spinosaurus than those in a certain forthcoming movie.

Humorous drawing in brown pencil of a Spinosaurus, a very large dinosaur with a crocodile-like snout and a large sail-like structure on its back, perched on a tree branch.

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Rudolf Hima @himarudolf.bsky.social · Feb 2

Meganthropus palaeojavanicus of Sangiran, Central Java, Indonesia. A hominid that lived during the early-middle Pleistocene.

Brush test from last year. The fur brush is by Ville Sinkkonen, which you can get from his gumroad. Easily my top 5 brushpacks.

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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · Feb 4

stop re-opening jurassic park you dumbasses

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Little Baardo @littlebaardo.bsky.social · Jan 21

Geez you look away for one second and suddenly you have over 5k followers! In light of recent events I do not want to post on the other place anymore, gunna try to update on here more often. Here is some herbs and ground plants I made for Saurian!

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maru @koyamori.bsky.social · Jan 29

Happy Lunar New Year!! 🐍
#art

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · Jan 24

@nataliajagielska.bsky.social and her coauthors just published a new paper completely describing the osteology of the large #Jurassic #pterosaur Dearc sgiathanach!!!
bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Here's an illustrated I did recently based on their original 2022 description! #paleoart

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James-Tarleton @jamestarleton27.bsky.social · Jan 24

I wish I was this good