DEAD gODS - Flora and Fauna

[@Dragon_in_e_box]

I will personally fight whoever deems flora and fauna videos boring! Wilderness is always my favorite part of any world and I’m in love with the ideas you have for yours

[@michaeldillabough8933]

One thing you'll have to do is set yourself apart from Dinotopia and The Flintstones. Taking the Noah's Ark story as an example, it is clear that "normal" modern animals also exist in this world. So intermingling more mammals with the dinosaurs could help set you in the Antedeluvian world more. It might also be useful to reference Ken Ham's Ark Encounter museum in Kentucky which has lots of scenes of humans, dinos and modern animals (plus extinct ones too) together. Interestingly even though they don't believe in traditional "macro-evolution", they do believe in "micro-evolution" which makes even some of the modern animals look different. For example, they have giraffes with shorter necks and a sort of small horse-type ancestor.

[@PikminBean]

Agreed. Also good to keep in mind that all of the animals have to fit on the boat, so if the dinosaurs get too big it might be harder to capture the scale

[@michaeldillabough8933]

@@PikminBean Dinosaurs don't necessarily have to go on the boat. Growing up, I was told by many christians that the dinos weren't invited lol.

[@PikminBean]

@@michaeldillabough8933 Well obviously what we know of evolutionary history they were dead by the time Noah built his Ark. Considering this is a fictional world it seems likely he'll include them in some way, though he could always choose to exclude them who knows

[@mattrhodesart]

This is going to be a particularly fun challenge for this project. I actually have an upcoming video that starts to dig deeper into this very issue, but I have a feeling it's going to take a major effort. Also, I've visited the Ark Encounter!

[@din0boy1studios56]

Another good source of inspiration could be Tales of Kaimere, which takes place in a fantasy world filled with dinosaurs, another one is the KZbin series, Sauria, which is also a dinosaur fantasy world.

[@walidsidisaid2521]

It's funny that you said this risk to be "the boring episode" while in the meantime I found that 5:10 min passed extremely fast !

[@amayyaduvanshi2706]

I agree, the way he goes so indepth will draw anyone in

[@Banished-rx4ol]

As a paleo and fantasy nerd I love this part of worldbuilding. One of my favorite books of all time is The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island(the 2005 kong movie). It detailed all the creatures living on the island, their relationships with each other and the ecosystem, had cool art, etc. Had modern sea turtles living in swamps infested by giant sea serpents😂.

[@dr.thunder8268]

It’s this part of the creative process that I struggle with the most. Though I love world building and making lore for my own projects, I struggle sketching them out In the image I want to create it in. Seeing this helps a little bit as to looking at a different angle and possibly getting my head in a different perspective to improve that area Love this so very much and can’t wait to see more of your work here!

[@teeth716]

BABE WAKEUP DEAD gODS UPLOADED A NEW VIDEO

[@huhubagoly2000]

This art inspires me so much! I am flooded with ideas: The angels, who guard the entrance of the garden of paradise, between them a spinning sword. For the flora: God has cursed the Earth, so it would have some contagious fungus on it or many spiny bushes and trees. Keep up the great work!

[@ShamelessShabby]

DAMN! How the hell doth thou only have 6.69k subs?! Your art is amazing and very nostalgic to me! I absolutely loved Tellurion! Your illustrations are beautiful, the level of detail on each character, item, creature, their colours and lighting all feel very well balanced! The way each element bounces off each other and separates themselves from the background whilst feeling very much apart of it is awesome! I’m very keen to see your projects grow! Very inspirational!

[@OZTutoh]

Cool! Don't forget to tie the skulls worn by the entourage to some of these creatures you design.

[@patrykmaksymowicz1502]

So it's really have been a week? Man, time do goes quickly, doesn't it? Also, that was NOT a boring episode by any means! I LOVED the flora and fauna portraited in this episode: the oversized, pinkish-red Sundew plant, the bodyhorror shroom-people and my personal favourite - the killer mangrove tree. The dinosaurs here were also cool! I really can't wait to see more outlandish critters.

[@nmheath03]

The wildlife is my favorite part of worldbuilding tbh. For another idea, maybe turn the fact we know raptors had feathers up to 11, with flocks of raptors swooping down from the trees to carry prey back up to their nests, the largest species like utahraptor and achillobator being ones who lost flight (though still posses impressive wings) in favor of simple brute strength. Also, a recent study supports the idea of truly giant dinosaurs, at least in theory. This applies to all dinosaurs, so a giant among giants Argentinosaurus likely existing at some point. Still, it needs stressing these would be rare noteworthy individuals, not the norm.

[@MrStrides]

just wanted to say this is far from the ''boring'' episode it's actually my favorite.

[@guruditsingh8909]

This is no boring episode bro your art is soo good and the designs are so amazing as well keep up the great job and looking forward to the next episode

[@ZahiyaCourtney]

it's litarily my favorite part of world building .

[@logicallegends1663]

I would love to see more creature design, I for one am more interested in that than story. Your ideas are so interesting and I can only hope to be as good of an artist as you one day.

[@MrAwesomeTheAwesome]

Love the armor design that mirror's the Triceratops' own crest shape in the plating and how it implies the smith/crafter's respect for the effectiveness of a design which evolved with the creature for its protection. It feels like such a natural conclusion of a lived-in world. And that carrion pincer plant is brilliant, too. I've been training my illustration skills lately, but I've always loved concept and design and that's 100% my end goal and seeing someone so skilled at concept work talk through their process is inspiring me to remind myself why I'm getting into this in the first place. Thank you for making these available! Appreciate you. :)

[@HiNi.]

The mangrove tree is super cool! Great idea!

[@RomeckArt]

This is so cool! Love how fast you blocked out environments just by simply using the plants you concepted. I'm learning so much!

[@drummertp12]

oh shit this is so cool. Cant wait to witness your story coming to life!

[@wexit_wes]

You never disappoint

[@ZacGarver]

I don't know how I stumbled on Tellurion years ago, but I was so thrilled to see your YT content. So fun to watch and beautiful too.

[@schizoidman7730]

That's cool! Love your content

[@raylenc9760]

oh THATS what you were looking the image on twitter for!

[@charlieterry8506]

this is just simply wonderful

[@OscarCandeira]

just amazing :,)

[@DrunkenIdaho]

3:57 i love that red spino

[@mitchdezylva8082]

It will be super interesting seeing how this compares to some of the wilder ideas in something like Scavenger's Reign!

[@JoshuaDunlopConceptArtist]

Matt, I'm legitimately excited about this project. It's very similar to a game I started called Pangea: Beyond Extinction. I'm a huge fan of your work and I'll be watching as the project progresses

[@Alexandra-ip2by]

SO COOL!!!

[@faqueer]

This is fantastic! Seeing all of the designs do far it makes me crave to see (read?) the story even more, but I'll be honest, as much as I love these process videos, (and I do, very very much) I'm afraid it's taking away that joy of discovery and sense of awe I had seeing Telurion unfold with each new panel... Of course, that's not gonna stop me from watching them, not after teasing my brain this much 😃 P.S. thanks for introducing me to those two amazing artists, I can't believe I've never heard of Bernard Boutet de Monvel and Hiroo Isono before...

[@EL_Newman]

Good stuff! Looking forward to seeing how it develops.

[@kangarooboom507]

Is this going to be like a movie a film series if so. PLEASE DO SO I LOVE THIS ALREADY AND HAVE NOW SPEANT MY WHOLE NIGHT WATCHING THESE VIDEOS AND I LOVE IT

[@NamelessPigeon-w3r]

As an avid fan of monster hunter games the small details can’t be boring to me don’t worry. Keep up the great work👍

[@samuelsmith5400]

Wow I’m really early! Love the content man

[@felipeirnyo5001]

Amazing project! very inspiring too!!

[@luccamostra]

A new vid already!? awesome stuff

[@KSMetamorph]

@mattrhodesart Question ? Will mountains look different, like having holes, or will hunter make there houses ? And what creatures will live there ? Will the Arc be thrown from the top of a mountain ? What type of solid materials will they use to build the Ark ? Will their be floating cities ? And what type of creatures are they going to fight on the Ocean ?

[@mattrhodesart]

@@KSMetamorph sounds like you’re the ideal candidate to subscribe and follow along for future updates!

[@KSMetamorph]

@@mattrhodesartI feel defeated, it's not fair.... but Nice, thank you !

[@antoinerossouw9533]

You got me at dinosaurs. The designs, the world, the characters.... I am smitten... Also, one of those Spinosaurus designs looks familiar. Legiana mean anything to you?

[@TheCthogua]

Hiro Isono!

[@Goby-c4l]

Dinosaurs where feathered so I think you should just make them massive two story tall birds

[@dinossauroextinction4042]

what strange triceratops is this lol

[@jackwaterman8185]

I’m so glad to have stumbled upon this project in its early stages! In the wake of finding out that Scavengers Reign won’t be getting a new season, it’s really satisfying to get to experience a more behind-the-scenes look at the worldbuilding and design elements that go into creating a world that’s both familiar and entirely original at the same time.

[@KSMetamorph]

@mattrhodesart Will you do more livestreams ?

[@mattrhodesart]

@@KSMetamorph no current plans, but this is meant to be a growing project so we’ll see

[@Dev1lW0lf]

Was one of the spinosaur variations Titanosaurus from the Godzilla franchise?

[@natanm.v8145]

3:41 As someone who (for many different contexts, including fantastical ones) has been artistically reconstructing Dinosaurs for my whole life... I have some opinions... The idea of forgoing scientific knowledge for the sake of creating more visually interesting designs for the Dinosaurs of this world IS a good one, but it's also a dangerous one, in the sense that it could (at least in the hands of someone that doesn't really understands how to visually represent Dinosaurs beyond this collective surface level understanding) lead to boring creature designs that don't necessarily benefit from being based-off of Dinosaurs in the first place. Now, that sounds pretentious as fuck, so let me explain more thoroughly what i actually mean, and why do i think that. So... Did u know that T. rex, THE T. rex, had two large Keratinous Horns on each eye-brow, and that this Keratinous tissue probably continued thru most of it's face giving it some degree of natural face armor? Albeit they were probably short and blunt, that doesn't realistically erase the possibility that the Tyrant Lizard King was walking around wearing a mighty horned crown upon it's head... Now, do you see how awesome that could look when being utilized without the sackles of scientific accuracy and for the sake of raw storytelling and creature design? And the thing is, non-avian Dinosaurs are FULL of these little anatomical details that make them so much more visually interesting when looked from an angle of scientific especulation. Another example of this, that u even used here, are club-tailed Ankylosaurids. The tails of these animals were actual biological sledgehammers, like, for most of them at least in the final half of their tails, their tail vertebra locked to create a straight, unbendy, longvbony shaft that looked and worked like a man-made sledgehammer instead of just being a fully flexible generic fat lizard tail with a club at the end... Things that u wouldn't know about, if you weren't a nerd for paleontology, but that's not the point, the point is that, trying to create wild/speculative/fantastical/unrealistic designs for Dinosaurs while basing yourself off the generic non-scientific idea of what Dinosaurs ARE, often leads you to missing those small details that make Dinosaurs so much more interesting (both on their own and in the context of exploring them without the shackles of scientific accuracy in a fantastical setting). Again, I'M BY NO MEANS SAYING THAT U HAVE TO BE SCIENTIFICALLY ACCURATE IN EVERYTHING WITH THEM, not at all, but if u are gonna use Dinosaurs as just a base to explore creatively however u like, use the way they are seen thru a scientific lens, and THEN go wild on top of it, instead of using what are essentially, far less intresting versions of these animals, that don't really offer these interesting opportunities for creative visual exploration. Now... ALL of what i said here is completely ignorable, i'm just giving my 2 cents on the topic since i love Paleontology, i love Fantasy, i love putting the 2 together, and i just think that it would be awesome to see setting of DEAD gODS exploring it similarly to projects like Tales of Kaimere, or The Garden for example

[@natanm.v8145]

Y'all this yapping and i still don't know if put my point across properly

[@mattrhodesart]

I think you'll like what I do with the spinosaurus later on. But you make a good point. It's not that I don't care AT ALL about the scientific aspects of creature design, simply that scientific accuracy will never be my primary goal. I certainly want them to be "plausible" while also being dramatic and memorable. Like i've said elsewhere, it'll be an interesting challenge.

[@boris_bulletdodger9109]

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[@BOBERTTTT]

"This is the BORING EPISODE" and so that man was never seen again.

[@ryuvector]

[@datuhuginn5079]

I suggest putting Neanderthals in the setting, somewhat with either Elvish, Dwarven, or Orcish cultures.

[@urielignacioroman3724]

>:D

[@josephpotteiger6747]

there is nothing about your work i dont love.