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🦕Isaiah Cole Torre🦖
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28| He/Him | Bi-disaster | #ActuallyAutistic | Wannabe writer and artist | Dinosaur lover for life | Talks about animation/film ALOT | Godzilla fanatic| Atheist
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IMO the Jurassic World series has been a huge mess, but Chaos Theory is the best thing to come from it. Especially in terms of its characters. And while not perfect, its ending felt more emotionally satisfying than Dominion. It's been quite a ride with the Nublar Six, and I'll miss their adventures.
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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I knew the Moana remake was gonna look bad, but I never expected it to look *this* awful.

This shot alone is visual proof that this thing is a horrible idea (and also why some animated characters should *never* be translated into photo-realism.)
An uncanny valley caricature of Hei Hei the rooster from the upcoming 2026 remake of Disney’s Moana.
November 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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HAPPY TRANS AWARENESS WEEK, FUTHA-MUCKERS!

To my trans friends and followers: You are valid. You deserve love. And you are awesome. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Hope you all have an amazing week!
A transgender themed super-powered dinosaur monster with the traits of a Tyrannosaurus rex, an Iguanodon, a Stegosaurus and Spinosaurus inspired by Godzilla- flashing its dorsal fins and firing a heat beam with all the colors of the Trans Pride flag piercing the darkness of oppression to let the light of love in. This is a variant- one of several, actually- of something I made a while back for Pride Month.
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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BONUS 2:

- Devonian scene (1976)
- Pteranodon (1976)
- Styracosaurus vs Tyrannosaurus (1968)
- Brontotherium and other Mid-Cenozoic mammals (1968)
#paleoart #vintagepaleoart #vintagedinosaurart #dinosaurart
Scene depicting aquatic and terrestrial life in the Devonian. On the right, an Ichthyostega with a jet black body and white cream underbelly lies on the shore of an ancient stream surrounded by horsetails, clubmosses and other primitive vegetation. In the water below, three armored fish- Pterichthyodes (yellowish green fish, left), Coccosteus (dark purple fish, middle), Cephalaspis (brick brown fish, right)- forage along the muddy river floor. Illustrated by Alex Ebel. From the pages of Childcraft: About Animals (1976) Reconstruction of a Pteranodon longiceps with light brown, furry skin, a white underbelly, and pointed wings covered in hair-like projections, carrying a fish in its sharp beak. Illustrated by Alex Ebel. From the pages of Childcraft: About Animals (1976). Scene of a green, scaly Tyrannosaurus rex (right) and a brown sprawling Styracosaurus (left) engaged in a fight. The rex sinks its teeth into the shoulders/back of the styracosaur while kicking one of its hind legs at its prey. The Styracosaurus meanwhile thrusts its head and drives its nose horn into the side of the rex. Illustrated by Alex Ebel. From the pages of "Earth Through The Ages" by Philip B. Carona (1968). Red-painted scene of a pair of Brontotherium (aka Megacerops) lumbering through a grassy plain alongside a pair of tiny spotted primitive horses (right) and an ancestral squirrel (left) climbing a branch. Illustrated by Alex Ebel. From "Earth Through The Ages" by Philip B. Carona (1968).
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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BONUS:

- Tyrannosaurus (1976)
- Brachiosaurus and Brontosaurus (1976)
- Late Jurassic scene (close-up, 1977)
- Triceratops (1976)
#paleoart #vintagepaleoart #vintagedinosaurart #dinosaurart
Singular illustration of an out-dated depiction of a scaly, green-skinned Tyrannosaurus rex standing fully upright with its tail dragging on the ground, its mouth open and drooling. Illustrated by Alex Ebel. From the pages of Childcraft: About Animals (1976). Two page spread of some out-dated depictions of the sauropod dinosaurs Brachiosaurus and Brontosaurus lumbering around and foraging in a Jurassic swamp. To the left, a uniformly bright green Brachiosaurus lifts its head and neck out of the water while devouring water plants. On the right, two grey, slope-backed brontosaurs make their way along the bank of the lake/lagoon, the one in the foreground trudging away with its tail dragging on the ground and leaving deep footprints. Above them in the sunset colored sky, two long-tailed pterosaurs glide through the air. Illustrated by Alex Ebel. From the pages of Childcraft: About Animals (1976) Scene of dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic of North America interacting with one another as they forage and hunt on a flat, dry plain as a dark thunder storm apporaches. A green and striped Allosaurus (front) rises to its full height as it prepares for a hunt. In the background to the left, two grey Brachiosaurus lumber about while two red plated Stegosaurus with eight spikes on their tails browse on conifers and ferns. Off to the right, three blue Camarasaurus amble along towards the stands of vegetation. This scene is meant to depict the then new concept that dinosaurs were warm-blooded and active, rather than cold-blooded and slow. Illustrated by Alex Ebel. From the pages of Science Year: The World Book Science Annual (1977). Singular illustration of an out-dated depiction of a scaly, light brown Triceratops with its head and horns lowered in a defensive stance. Illustrated by Alex Ebel. From the pages of Childcraft: About Animals (1976).
November 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Some vintage paleoart by Alex Ebel (3/3):

- Plants of Long Ago (1976)
- World Encyclopedia Dinosaur Chart (1988 version)
- Woolly Mammoth (1976)
- Dinosaur Renaissance version of the Jurassic (Science Annual 1977)
#paleoart #vintagepaleoart #vintagedinosaurart #dinosaurart
Illustration of a fanciful scene grey, upright-walking Certosaurus stomping through a thick tangle of ancient plants from different alongside giant cockroaches. The illustration is meant to represent the different eras through which plants evolved and how it affects the development of animals. Made by Alex Ebel. From Childcraft: The Green Kingdom (1976). A horizontal color-coordinated chart showcasing the sizes of various dinosaurs, and organizing each species by time period left to right from the Triassic (dark green), through the Jurassic (light green) and to the Cretaceous (beige). Though outdated by today's standards, the dinosaurs here are more in-line with the science of the time than before, with horizontal body postures, no dragging tails and generally looking/moving more active. Illustrated by Alex Ebel. From a 1988 of World Book inc/Childcraft's World Encyclopedia. Singular illustration of a woolly mammoth. Made by Alex Ebel. From Childcraft: About Animal (1976). Scene of dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic of North America interacting with one another as they forage and hunt on a flat, dry plain as a dark thunder storm apporaches.. Two green striped Allosaurus crouch to prepare for an attack on a herd of brick-brown Apatosaurus/Brontosaurus. Three small turtles watch from beneath the large sauropods and theropods as they stand off. In the background, a pair of grey Brachiosaurus lumber past two red-plated Stegosaurus feeding on a stand of cycads, while three blue Camarasaurus walk along. This scene is meant to depict the then new concept that dinosaurs were warm-blooded and active, rather than cold-blooded and slow. Illustrated by Alex Ebel. From Science Year: The World Book Science Annual (1977).
November 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Some vintage paleoart by Alex Ebel (2/3):

- World Encyclopedia Dinosaur Chart (1985 version)
- Jurassic Dinosaurs (1980s)
- Cretaceous Dinosaurs (1980s)
- Eocene Forest (1976)
#paleoart #vintagepaleoart #vintagedinosaurart #dinosaurart
A horizontal color-coordinated chart showcasing the sizes of various dinosaurs, and organizing each species by time period left to right from the Triassic (dark yellowish green), through the Jurassic (light green) and to the Cretaceous (cream/beige). The dinosaurs themselves are based on out-dated depictions, sluggish, entirely scaly and dragging their tails while either standing fully erected on two legs or walking on all fours with a sprawl. Illustrated by Alex Ebel. From a 1985 of World Book inc/Childcraft's World Encyclopedia. Scene of various dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic period interacting with each other on a dry plain covered partly in ferns and cycads. A rust red and black-striped Allosaurus attacks a dark yellow, slope-backed Diplodocus as it thrashes its tail. A blue and white Camptosaurus rushes away, while three green and orange tail-dragging Stegosaurus forage along a ridge in the background. Another Diplodocus/sauropod rears up on its back legs to reach the leaves of a tree in the distance. Illustrated by Alex Ebel. From a 1985 of World Book inc/Childcraft's World Encyclopedia. Scene of various dinosaurs and other animals from the Late Cretaceous period interacting with each other in a lush, green swamp as a nearby volcano erupts. In the background, a Tyrannosaurus rex faces off against a lone Triceratops. Two hadrosaurs wade and feed at the water's edge in the foreground, while a flock of Ornithomimus run off in the background. A possum-like mammal watches from a nearby broad-leaved tree, while a primitive snake and lizard creep along fallen tree branches. Illustrated by Alex Ebel. From a 1985 of World Book inc/Childcraft's World Encyclopedia. Scene of some primitive mammals, including a six-horned Uintatherium and a weasel-like Oxylaena foraging and hunting along a shallow stream in an open forest of broad-leaved trees and grasses in the Eocene epoch. Illustrated by Alex Ebel. From Childcraft: The Green Kingdom (1976).
November 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Some vintage paleoart by Alex Ebel (1/3):

- Pre-Dinosaur Renaissance scene of the Jurassic (Science Year 1977)
- Triceratops Vs Tyrannosaurus (1976)
- Scolosaurus (1968)
- Early Permian scene (Science Year 1977)
#paleoart #vintagepaleoart #vintagedinosaurart #dinosaurart
Scene of an upright, brick brown, white-bellied Allosaurus eyeing a sluggish rust red Stegosaurus and grey, water-dwelling Brontosaurus on the banks of a lake in a misty Late Jurassic swamp full of ferns, cycads and horsetails as a long-tailed pterosaur glides overhead and a volcano erupts in the distance. This scene is meant to depict older ideas about dinosaurs as dumb, sluggish, cold-blooded animals to contrast the (then) newer image of dinosaurs as active, warm-blooded creatures. Illustrated by Alex Ebel. From Science Year: The World Book Science Annual (1977). Illustration of a high-sprawling brick brown Triceratops charging its horns into the thigh of a startled, upright-standing green Tyrannosaurus rex. Illustrated by Alex Ebel. From Childcraft: About Animals (1976). Scene of a sprawling Scolosaurus with blue spiny armored skin and two spikes on its tail club perched over a rock over-looking a turbulent steamy volcanic Cretaceous landscape rumbling with earth tremors. Illustrated by Alex Ebel. From "Earth Through The Ages" by Philip B. Carona (1968). Scene of two red-colored Dimetrodons attacking a group of grey-colored Eryops, while a pack of Ophiacodon bask in the sun nearby, along a shallow stream in an arid, sparsely vegetated Early Permian landscape. Illustrated by Alex Ebel. From Science Year: The World Book Science Annual (1977).
November 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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End of the week, time to watch Peak.
#PredatorBadlands
November 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Brief shoutout to this awesome little channel I discovered recently! They’re doing an entire video series recreating the history of life on Earth…with plushies! They’re currently up to the early Permian.

Really neat and creative stuff. Definitely worth checking out!
November 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THIS IS GONNA BE PEAK
November 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Happy Godzilla Day, everyone!

#Godzilla #ゴジラ #ゴジラの日
Art tribute to a scene from the original 1954 Gojira, featuring the iteration of Godzilla from Godzilla Minus One (2023). A flock of birds held up in a large cage panic as Godzilla roars over the burning city of Tokyo. Art tribute to GMK: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001) featuring Godzilla rising from an ash-colored cloud of writhing undead souls, while the silhouettes of the film's three guardian monsters Baragon, Mothra, and King Ghidorah loom in the background ready to fight off the evil giant. Art tribute to Godzilla 2000 (1999) with Godzilla illuminated by the glow of her mouth and dorsal spines as she prepares to fire her atomic breath in a dark, shadowy background. Depiction of the Godzilla from Godzilla Minus One (2023) standing over the burning ruins of Tokyo as he glows from his back plates and mouth with bright blue atomic energy.
November 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Close-ups of the individual panels/floors.

Each level reads from bottom to top, left to right, and represents a different stage of Earth history. Can't remember why I never colored them (either I didn't want to after coloring the background or just ran out of time.)

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#paleoart #comic
Bottom left: Hadean (4.6 billion years ago) Bottom right: Archaean (4 billion years ago) Mid-section: Archaean, Proterozoic, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian (3.8 billion-350 million years ago) Upper left: Carboniferous (349-299 million years ago) Upper right: Permian (299-252 million years ago) Featured organisms: archaea, cyanobacteria, Spriggina, jellyfish, annelid worms, trilobites, Anomalocaris, Opabinia, Hurdia, Pikaia, Myllokunmingia, Astraspis, Cameroceras, Orthoceras, Megalograptus, Cephalaspis, nautilus, Drepanaspis, Climatius, Dunkleosteus, Stethacanthus, coelocanth, Tiktaalik, Acanthostega, Meganeura, Eryops, Hylonomus, Diplacaulus, Dimetrodon, Edaphosaurus, Inostrancevia, and Scutosaurus. Bottom: Triassic (left, 252-200 million years ago) and Jurassic (right, 200-145 million years ago) Top: Cretaceous (145-66 million years ago) Featured organisms: Placerias, Eudimorphodon, Plateosaurus, Dilophosaurus (silhouette), Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Archaeopteryx, Apatosaurus, Pterodactylus, Barosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Stegosaurus, Allosaurus, Ornithocheirus, Utahraptor, Dakotadon, Spinosaurus, Confuciusornis, Argentinosaurus, Pteranodon, Corythosaurus, Lambeosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Saurolophus, Ankylosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus, Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus rex, and Quetzalcoatlus. Bottom: Paleogene (left, 66-23 million years ago) and Early Neogene (right, 23-10 million years ago) Top: Late Neogene (left 4-2.5 million years ago) and Quaternary (right 2.5 million years ago-present) Featured organisms: Uinatherium, Eohippus, Gastornis, Icaronycteris, Embolotherium, Paraceratherium, Pelagornis, Platybelodon, Titanis, Megatherium, Smilodon, Australopithecus, Glyptodon, American mastodon, Megaloceras, Coelodonta, Woolly mammoth, and Homo sapiens.
October 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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"Deep Time Towers"
12x18, pen + watercolor. Spring 2018.

An ancient piece of mine, specifically a project for an illustration course I took back in art school. The assignment was to tell a sequential story in the frame of a building. This scan is my only surviving copy.
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#paleoart #comic
A half colored, half black and white sequential illustration depicting the history of Earth and the evolution of life in the form of a metropolitan style hotel, with each floor from the bottom up going left to right representing a different eon or period in the 4.6 billion year history of the planet. The bottom floor on the lower left being the formation of the earth itself, the adjacent floor being the cooling of the crust and formation of the oceans. The next three panels/levels depict life's emergence and diversification in the Precambrian and Paleozoic eras. The middle two levels depict the Mesozoic era aka the age of the dinosaurs. And the last two levels cover the Cenozoic era, the age of mammals, leading up to the rise of modern humans on the upper right hand corner. The top of the building has a bright red sign saying "Deep Time Towers", with a model of the Earth directly behind it. The building itself is surrounded by a colorful chaotic background of stars, planets, moons, asteroids, comets and galaxies spinning in the void of space.
October 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Been struggling (again) with productivity, so I decided to color that Zooble sketch I made a few weeks ago.
#TADC #TheAmazingDigitalCircus #Zooble #fanart
A full colored sketch of Zooble from The Amazing Digital Circus against a white background. They look frustrated with one arm and hand pressed to their hip while saying to Jax (who is offscreen) "Hey, Jax. Do me a little favor and take a tall cool glass of shut the ***** up."
October 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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"Hunted By Moonlight" is a perfect paleomedia treat for Spook Season and my favorite of Dinosauria Vol. 2 so far. Its tone and atmosphere reminded me of Phil Tippett's Prehistoric Beast. The tension was nail-biting and it may have the coolest interpretation of Dilophosaurus ever.
October 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Money’s been a bit tight lately, but I still managed to snag some real treats for my birthday.

Got a copy of the new @marabrownwd.bsky.social book (super excited to start reading that one!!), vol 1 of Osamu Tezuka’s Black Jack, and a Japanese book of dinosaur art by Ely Kish. Cool stuff!
October 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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I’m quite liking what I see here. The American mastodons, Arctodus and those little reptiles(?) look great. Only designs I’m iffy on are the Nanuqsaurus. Their arms look pronated and the head seems too allosaur-like.

Hope a trailer drops soon so we can get a better look at them.
October 16, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Finally, a Thursday morning actually worth getting excited about.
YouTube thumbnails for a preview clip of the upcoming paleodoc mini-series Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age and a recently released French 2D animated short film featuring a white Yutyrannus called "Tears of The Mountain".
October 16, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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RIP to Drew Struzan, an absolutely legendary artist.

He made some of my all-time favorite film posters, including the one for John Carpenter’s The Thing. Also genuinely love this one painting he did based on TLWJP. He and Noriyoshi Ohrai set the gold standard for film posters imo.
October 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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On this day, in 1905, the Prize Fighter of Antiquity, the Absolute Warlord of the Earth, the King Of The Dinosaurs, was revealed to the world.

Happy 120th anniversary to the one and only King of the Tyrant Lizards: Tyrannosaurus rex!
#paleoart #dinosaur #dinosaurs #dinosaurart #Tyrannosaurus
Redesign and facial studies (plus sketch of the teeth) of the T.rex for "The Savage Planet", my upcoming re-write of the dinosaur film 65 (2023). Scene of a spotted brown and beige/tan-colored male Tyrannosaurus rex watching over three hatchlings with roaming the shore of the Western Interior seaway of North America. Designs based on Prehistoric Planet (2022-) Scene of Sue, the largest Tyrannosaurus rex ever found, striding through a forest with dead Edmontosaurus calf in their jaws while looking at a smaller juvenile T.rex passing by. A swarm of blue-colored stem-butterflies flutter away, disturbed by the larger dinosaur. Scene of a T.rex silhouetted in black roaring at the sky against a blood-red sky at sunset, with a flock of primitive Late Cretaceous birds flying away in the background.
October 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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My favorite paleoart pieces featuring the Tyrant Lizard King itself, Tyrannosaurus rex, in honor of the 120 anniversary of its description day!

- Charles R. Knight (1940)
- "Awakening of Hunger" by Mark Hallett (1985)
- John Gurche (2000)
- Mark P. Witton (2017)
Monochrome pencil and graphite sketch of two Tyrannosaurus rex fighting each other. The rex on the left arches forward on its tail and one leg to kick at its opponent on the right, which reels away. Drawn by Charles R. Knight, circa. 1940. Painting featuring two Tyrannosaurus rex striding out in search of prey as morning mist rolls over palmettos and ferns on an open plain. The bones of a long dead Triceratops (possibly the rex's last victim) lie strewn over the ground. Above the two rexes, a flock of Pteranodons soar away into the sky. Created by Mark Hallett, circa. 1985. Scene of a life restoration of the Tyrannosaurus rex specimen named Sue standing over the body of a slain hadrosaurid on an open clearing covered in ferns and herb-like plants on a forested floodplain beneath an overcast sky. Painted by John Gurche, circa. 2000 Scene of a scaly adult Tyrannosaurus rex striding through a red-tinted autumnal forest with its two feathered juveniles against an ominous overcast sky. Painted by Mark P. Witton, circa. 2017.
October 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Oh dear, I've abstracted on Spook Season...

BWAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
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October 2, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Quick practice/vent sketch of Zooble before I go to bed.
#TADC #TheAmazingDigitalCircus #Zooble #sketch #fanart
A black and white sketch of Zooble from The Amazing Digital Circus looking frustrated with one arm and hand pressed to their hip while saying to Jax (who is offscreen) "Hey, Jax. Do me a little favor and take a tall cool glass of shut the ***** up."
September 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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- Tarbosaurus and Maleevosaurus
- Gastonia
- Saltasaurus
- K-T (K-Pg) Extinction comet shower

#paleoart #vintagedinosaurart
Scene of a pair of Tarbosaurus bataar, which have just brought down a duckbilled Saurolophus, scaring off a smaller tyrannosauroid called "Maleevosaurus" (now considered a nomen dubium/likely just a juvenile Tarbosaurus) from their kill as the sun sets on a forested floodplain. Scene of a lone Gastonia wandering along a creekbed out of the shade of a dense forest. Scene of a pair of Saltasaurus walking through a drying forested floodplain past a small pond. Scene depicting the asteroid or comet destined to trigger the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction and kill off all the non-avian dinosaurs moments away from impact, while a pair of tyrannosaurs look up from a freshly killed triceratops to watch as it hurtles through the atmosphere.
September 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM