I turned my phone into a diorama

Sculpting an ancient underwater-resin ammonite diorama inside an iPhone with Epoxy and Polymer clay.
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Chapters
00:00 Opening
00:40 Photoshop
01:13 Shell Sculpting
03:30 Rock
04:07 Crinoids?!
05:56 Demolition
06:43 Magic Sculpt
07:26 Nautiluses?!
09:03 EYES
11:18 Trilobites?!
12:22 Painting
17:19 Texture
19:40 Feather
21:32 Bubbles
22:38 Fish?!
24:40 Epoxy Resin

[@ichthyovenator3351]

My phone is shaking right now, it knows what I'm thinking.

[@Kayakasaurus]

Lol

[@sadpenguisagravitycoil]

my phone isn't charging it wants to be turned into one

[@Loveyuwukit]

Same

[@DinoManOldGodzilla]

hey pal!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@erynnmurphy2996]

An upload from Kayakasaurus near the end of Christmas Day? BEST. GIFT. EVER!!!!! Happy Holidays everyone!

[@Daves_shenanigans]

TRUE

[@Waterproof-Frog]

Fax

[@Styracoart]

Merry Christmas!!

[@morganw.4711]

“I’ve. Been. ROBBED.” Makes me laugh every time. I love the wholesome, sometimes surrealistic humor you bring to your videos and art.

[@sydneys2859]

The fish KILLED IT omg I got so drawn in by them and the creatures are sooo detailed and I looooove the bubbles

[@auricolour7862]

As a Crinoid enthusiast, you had me on the edge of my seat right until the very end. I should never have doubted you would add in the rest of the tentacles! The diorama looks amazing!

[@adriansushanyong2784]

That crinoid in 4:32 is actually called dinomischus if anyone is wondering, also I like the art, I like Cambrian period too, make more on it! 😊

[@sariannas2799]

The fish add so much life to the scene and the light ripple paint job looks bomb! Deeply unsettled by the fleshy pink of the crinoids, though. Feathers as the arms was a great touch.

[@Kayakasaurus]

Thanks, the fish turned out to be my favorite part too, and they were the easiest part to make lol

[@prehistoricfanboy101]

You really took your creativity to another degree with this one 🤯

[@NeoSDraws]

As a big fan of prehistoric marine invertebrates I can’t stop looking at this… it’s so beautiful. You did a fantastic job, keep up the amazing work.

[@lastofthehouseplants3590]

I can’t even wrap my head around how cool this is. It looks like a painting, the shading and everything, but it’s 3D?! Honestly gorgeous, you are insanely talented.

[@Lemonkid.]

I always found sea life more interesting than land life, and to sea a see diorama from one of my favorite model makers is a great christmas gift. Happy holidays!

[@annavanstralen3841]

Same!

[@immagical7036]

And to see a *see* diorama XD

[@vaporean_boylove.0w083]

I sea what chu doing here

[@MilQuetoastMushrooM]

AMAZING WORK AS USUAL!!!!!! I love your art I’ve been watching your channel for years and my little sister loves it too!!! Somtimes when she’s feeling down or bored she says to me “can watch the guy who makes dinosaurs with clay!” 😂 the other day when we were watching your videos she said you should make a mosasauras diorama lol!!! Anyway keep up the good work man me and my lil sister love to see it!!!!!!

[@owen2680]

Imagine walking up to some and saying “hey wanna seeing something cool” and you pull out this that would make that person’s day

[@ZimVader-0017]

It would 100% make my day, and I would also be incredibly envious of their phone 😂

[@shinysnake]

No idea what possessed you to make a diorama inside the gutted carcass of an iphone but I'm so here for it. This turned out amazing especially with the really limited depth.

[@blooky102]

Hmm this reminds me of the Ordovician period, but has a Jurassic ammonite (I think), Devonian trilobite, and potentially Carboniferous crinoids. either way I like it ^^

[@Kayakasaurus]

If you’ve seen one Crinoid you’ve seen them all 😅

[@seanathanbeanathan]

If Jurassic Park can do it, Kayak can do it 😤😂

[@ThatFreakOfNurture]

Always a good day when Kayakasaurus uploads

[@aylaweiss2090]

I’m so happy you talked about cephalopods!! They’re awesome. (And modeling the colors after the flamboyant cuttlefish was a great choice)

[@Allestaer]

So cool. I love ammonites, and I like the bluer resin because it makes the ammonite look further away in the resin. Happy holidays!

[@seanathanbeanathan]

Agreed, it really adds depth!

[@kateapple1]

Honeyyyyy kayakasaurus uploaded… get in HERE! ❤

[@Spinofaarus_boi]

Dis is the best Christmas gift this year :D Also on the same day I planned on making a trilobite that worked like a robo fish-

[@KingDrakoTyrell]

Cool

[@stuchly1]

Omg. Didn't expect someone would jerry rig everything a phone even more than JRE does. 😂 That was a serious teardown!

[@AsioEntomo]

More invertebrates! My favourite! I found your channel through your massive caterpillar, and while I love dinos, I've been waiting for more inverts. Looks awesome!

[@punkinnubs247]

Great editing and sound effects 👌👏 reminds me of Captian Disillusion

[@superiorcybergodzilla5670]

Your creativity is inexhaustible 😮

[@JarrodTOONSProductions]

So is mine! 😎

[@immagical7036]

26:21 that’s an ingenious way to turn the phone over damn!! Also, well done!!!

[@hitesman1]

All the little tricks, techniques, hats off. Not only entertaining, beautiful to see, but educational as well.

[@Charlie_the_redfox]

I love the ✨little rock buddy✨ ! 😂🥺

[@DUDETE9]

Yay!!! New video! My bf and I are chilling watching you now 🥰

[@dellearts]

An amazing use for an old forgotten device shell. Freakin beautiful!

[@Tyrannosauroidea]

I’ve been watching your channel for a few years and I took notice of the the love and care you put into every piece and you are able to combine science and art perfectly which is just out right amazing :)

[@Tyrannosauroidea]

And happy new year

[@deralex4350]

That paintjob is insanely well done!

[@queen_savanah1620]

this man deserves so much more hype

[@GothamCtySiren]

This turned out amazing! It feels like your creativity knows no bounds! I think the resin still looks great, even if it wasn't the color you were going for. It adds even more of a true ocean feel since there's typically a blue color tone to things underwater in real life.

[@cdevine9459]

Watching all the individual elements come together to form one cohesive piece is so satisfying! Great job on this one!

[@susannescheper8350]

That's really cool. I love the attention to detail. When you added those tiny beads and the way you clustered them, that was awesome.

[@dirkdiggler6730]

Здесь прекрасно всё!

[@MARJACX_Does_Stuff]

This was perfect! It was so fun to watch too! I still can't believe how good you are with clay, I could never😂❤

[@lyellgeorge2673]

what if you turned this into a series where you made progressively newer phones with dioramas of progressively more recent natural history? like the iphone 4 could be the triassic (assuming this is the permian) then the iphone 5 could be the jurrasic, etc. You could even go backwards and do the carboniferous, devonian ordovician, etc. I think this would be cool (but it might be expensive to get the latest phone models). Either way I loved this video and I hope you had a good year and will have a good 2024 :).

[@RKNYC]

Merry Christmas!!! Yutyrannus stares through window

[@itarfer]

The quality and attention to detail is just insane. At the beginning of the video I thought I was looking at a printed holographic image.

[@limoucheu8522]

Fantastic as always, just a little observation, Trilobites are amongst the coolest extinct arthropods, but they never lived with ammonites. the last of them disappeared since 252 millions of years at the Permian-triassic extinction. Ammonites are typical of mesozoic. Cheers

[@renees766]

"...minus the water mark" Ha!!!! That was good. 😂

[@annavanstralen3841]

Yayyyyy best Christmas present ever!

[@ethanbailey5636]

Awesome work! Now this has me wanting to see a marine reptiles diorama.

[@cerisekappes580]

You have done it again…. An absolute masterpiece!!!! Love your work ❤😊❤

[@ericmacuski]

That turned out gorgeous! Don't kid yourself 😁

[@jumpydoggo0423]

This is flipping amazing!

[@RiddleBoxBree]

Man your skills amaze me every time!

[@kkdarlin]

This is such a cool idea! I have some old phone cases I'd love to try this with 😁

[@louisbogli1804]

Just stop being this talented! Please! 😫😂

[@mcskitterz7580]

Glad I stayed up. this video was a great christmas present!

[@AndreeaEremiaArt]

Wow. So amazing. I love it ❤❤❤❤

[@fellowshipofthecraftofficial]

That was epic! I love all the little details, and your editing is super funny and entertaining! 🐚🦑🪸

[@Dinothesnow]

Ok this is way too cool! I love it!

[@wombatiferous]

I think you may have the best videos on KZbin. I love how creative and beautiful your projects are, and your videos are so nicely edited and narrated, they're just a joy and inspiration to watch!

[@elenakulikova8876]

In the end this looks like an artefact from the Orwell's story... Marvellous 😄😍

[@dirtywhitellama]

Fantastic work, I'm really impressed with the detail. Cephalopods are so bizarre, but looking at the ammonite I can start to imagine how they evolved from mollusk ancestors.

[@spinofaarusfossil65-ou9hy]

I like how he gave the ammonite BUBBLES

[@Ammonitemare1711]

This video had me so locked in it was awesome, more prehistoric sea-life pls!!

[@martinm3474]

Having worked with invertebrates, this is very cute. Merry Christmas.

[@maddrexyy973]

What a pleasant surprise merry christmas

[@crestedeldilophosaurus]

Increíble, Dios te bendiga.❤❤❤❤❤

[@hembrigysd184]

A tip for sculpting while carving things out of wet clay put cling film over it so there’s no debris while you carve

[@kitchencryptid821]

this is so cool!! All of the little details are amazing and I love the painting technique you used! I’ve been wanting to work with clay for awhile and this has greatly inspired me

[@RoseDragoness]

that is sooo pretty!

[@Tiger804]

Your phone case looks amazing I really love all the creatures and the time of work you put in to each piece and color, I had a few small fossils myself and my son has them now !!!, as I gave them to him,plus a trilobite and some small ammonites, and even has a collection of preserved bugs that he bought some time ago, nature sure is beautiful, ❤

[@fishgort906]

Definitely making a diorama case for my phone to wear.

[@takenname8053]

✨Ammonite shine✨ ✨Ammonite shine✨ Merry Christmas Kayakasaurus!

[@eliforeal5261]

Yo merry Christmas Kayakasaurus! This vid was altogether engaging, inspiring and anxiety-inducing! Working that tiny with subjects I'm not well-versed in would stress me out! But you pulled it off effortlessly (like always). Thanks for closing my holiday out with this fun build!

[@BleachBasket108]

Something about tucking the finished project into the jean pocket really struck me as funny. Just imagine you're out in public, you see someone reach for their phone in their pocket.... and they just pull this diorama out lol

[@mjpako162]

Como siempre sorprendiendo 😎 epico 10/10 tu video

[@Mothrabobafett]

Damn, this is incredible! I love it, I WANT it! an idea for future practical work on paleontology: make life size ceratopsian head busts

[@jimurrata6785]

Awesome diorama and your production quality is on point! I dont understand how you have under 1/2 million subscribers

[@paulafish1098]

it looks like a real image good job

[@Gabe-studios]

To add more detail you could add sea moss and algae on the trilobite and ammonite shells

[@daciantalker]

Wonderful video!

[@stephaniebelley6523]

I never knew learning could be so fun!!! I learned so much yet enjoyed every second of this video as your voice is very calming and relaxing. Can't wait to watch more of your videos. Please keep them coming!!!!

[@MayhemAnimationMG]

Your eye for detail and video style is exactly why i joined your patreon keep up the amazing work!

[@jacksbox317]

Your art is so inspiring!

[@HSPGelton2]

Yet another work of art! Bravo :) You know, a little bit of strategically placed glow-in-the-dark paint would have been a nice touch too.

[@RyTheFossilGuy]

Wow, what an incredible diorama! I’ve been drawn to your videos a lot lately; and I even asked and received some sculpey clay as a gift for Christmas to make my own sculptures! You’re a paleoart icon, and a great inspiration, at least for me!

[@rowandavandenheuvel7672]

Beautiful ❤

[@ritchiekolvers997]

Super cool!

[@matthew_thefallen]

Cool idea! 👍👍

[@PKTCrafts]

Beautiful work!

[@joshuahancock2079]

This is such a cool idea and such perfect execution!

[@tinywampa]

Came out great!

[@franciszekwrona8625]

Spectacular diorama!!! I'm just wondering why you chose to display a Jurassic Persphinctid together with a trilobite. Perhaps a paleozoic Ammonoid would have been more fitting

[@Graphixman]

Well done!

[@ihyaakmal5995]

The detail is so impressive!

[@Julzz1234]

So pretty!!

[@megalosaurusrex4637]

It turned out great.

[@RowieSundog]

I absolutely love your art 💖💖💖

[@branchsnapper2228]

Just incredible

[@rolandolopez5261]

Amazing

[@BioZilla_Editz]

Now this is art

[@goforitpainting]

Really cool.

[@kimscholl6383]

love it !

[@AspensRot]

Ugh your channel is so cool! ~_~ I love how much attention you dedicate to making the creatures as accurate as possible! I learn something new with every video ^_^

[@gojirazillasaurus6341]

OMG that is so beautiful