Hi #PortfolioDay I’m Tyler, a 2x Emmy-nominated photojournalist and freelance artist specializing in paleoart and creature design. I also dabble in 2D animation, and do sci-comm on TikTok. My plate is full right now, but I’m planning to take more commissions in 2025. Stay tuned!

@Riamus01 You were watching the weird love child of a cooky French director and a meat-and-potatoes Joss Whedon script in the form of an Alien movie. NGL I kind of love Resurrection when I’m in the right mood for it. When I’m not though… hoooo boy it’s rough.

@Bugimus @BestCryptids It’s pareidolia. All the “anatomical detail” is in the eye of the beholder. Patty is a tiny part of a low-quality 16mm film frame. You can read just about any detail you want into it when you blow it up that much.

RT @ratbitebaby:

@Riamus01 Considering how famously troubled (to put it mildly) the production was, I think it’s a minor miracle that the movie is even watchable at all, let alone decent. Yes, I am an Alien 3 apologist 😅

@skeletaldrawing Never thought I’d see a real T. rex that actually looks like the one from Jurassic Park, but… I’ll be damned.

@brenenwynd I would very much prefer scientifically-accurate designs, but I can get onboard with something that at least looks cool. I’ll take a swing and a miss over safe and boring.

@brenenwynd Yeah it’s a bit much, but I think the body is pretty solid for a titanosaur, yes? Tbh, after 3 movies of dumpy gray herbivores, I’m thrilled to have a design that’s actually visually interesting and inspired, even if it maybe goes a bit too far in the other direction.

I want to add that I’m not trying to dunk on the artists who worked on this. I know there are lots of cooks in the kitchen on project like these, and I’m sure the desldines were super tight. I have my nitpicks, but I’m still glad we’re getting a modern Spinosaurus in Rebirth.

RT @WedgeDAntilles: And not to mention, Jurassic Park was always marketed as having real and realistic dinosaurs. A lot of Paleontologists…

@HuitzilinF_Art @Sketchy_raptor

You can use the same in-universe logic to explain why both of these designs are inaccurate. It doesn’t change the fact that one of them is actually inspired and visually interesting, and the other one is a dumpy gray nothingburger.

@Rahll Reid, thank you as always for falling on the sword of helping me find people to block 🫡

@TheDJ_King Give the new Spinosaurus human teeth.

@FabioAleRomero If it had remained the only big gray theropod with spines and osteoderms and exposed croc teeth, I think it would be easier for people to internalize it as an imaginary monster. But when the Baryonyx, Allosaurus, and Giganotosaurus all do the same thing, they all blur together.

@OVERTHR0NE_ You need to charge your phone.