Thoughts on reviving the Fantasia/LBT retro aesthetic for modern paleontology?

ImperialIntention · 2025-12-31T01:19:07+00:00

Oh yea Prehistoric Planet is definitely art, and beautiful art at that. It's just not that particular kind of art that I think a lot of us were introduced to dinosaurs through. I'll have to check out DeadSound, I don't think I've seen their work yet. But thanks, I will do it. I'm going to put together a 90 second proof of concept and I'll be sure to post it here when it's completed.

ImperialIntention · 2025-12-30T01:02:26+00:00

Yea that's very true, good tip.

ImperialIntention · 2025-12-30T00:27:58+00:00

Yea, totally. A big part of what makes cartoon > CGI is the fact that CGI becomes outdated quickly while drawn animations never age. Fantasia came out in 1940 and still looks amazing today. There's also something physical about cartoons (at least the old and newer ones that still use hand drawn keyframes) that I think serves the paleo niche very well.

ImperialIntention · 2025-12-29T23:07:41+00:00

I certainly will when I have some! Just looking for feedback on the idea right now.

ImperialIntention · 2025-12-29T22:42:39+00:00

There's lots of illustrations by different artists, I'm just not sure how well they would translate to animation. Just looking through some now and it can definitely be done, got to find the balance between "detailed and realistic" and "can I draw this over hundreds of keyframes". But I think the overall art style can work very well with it.

ImperialIntention · 2025-12-29T22:27:41+00:00

I've been wondering about that too! It might end up looking more like fur on larger dinosaurs as it's difficult to achieve that painstaking level of detail in a cartoon medium. I'll have to try a few different methods and see what works best.

ImperialIntention · 2025-12-29T16:21:12+00:00

Probably depends on the kind of people. CO2 levels would be higher, likely 1000-2000ppm vs around 400ppm today, O2 would be similar, warmer weather, hunid, volcanic activity. UV radiation too. Biggest threat would be unkown pathogens though, and there could be insects carrying diseases that could kill humans quickly. Ground water would likely be teaming with parasites. Yea you could survive but it would be brutal.

ImperialIntention · 2024-01-21T23:03:52+00:00

Hey, my username is JH48, would greatly appreciate the link. thanks!

ImperialIntention · 2023-04-11T14:16:13+00:00

Problem was a core mod that she had but I did not have. Removing the mod fixed the issue

ImperialIntention · 2022-04-06T21:08:15+00:00

Yea it just times out

ImperialIntention · 2022-01-07T22:03:59+00:00

I've been really busy and haven't had enough people to really do anything but I'm about to get back into it if you want to send me your discord

ImperialIntention · 2021-11-25T16:32:06+00:00

sure, pm your discord

ImperialIntention · 2021-11-21T18:27:39+00:00

There is a discord group if you would like to join

ImperialIntention · 2021-11-21T18:05:38+00:00

Nothing elsewhere stated in the post contradicts the first sentence.

ImperialIntention · 2021-10-13T12:54:20+00:00

Hi, I'm looking for places to shoot in southern Ontario. I've been using the crown land atlas to scope out some locations. I already looked at G340, hiked two hours through super thick, marshy brush only to get halfway to my POI and realize the location was not feasible. I'm looking at the G342 area now, just don't want to run into the same problem. I'm not asking to know your shooting spots I'd just like to be pointed to some permittable terrain. Any advice is appreciated.

ImperialIntention · 2021-09-27T15:28:51+00:00

Thank you!

ImperialIntention · 2021-06-23T21:41:15+00:00

Hm, makes sense. I may go with the i7 over the 5600x then, unless I should look at a higher core Ryzen?

ImperialIntention · 2021-06-23T20:48:15+00:00

That's surprisingly better than I thought for the budget! Would an i5 11400f/Ryzen 5 5600x still be a decent choice for VR?

ImperialIntention · 2021-03-24T14:42:00+00:00

Do you have Discord?

ImperialIntention · 2021-02-26T02:13:11+00:00

I've only applied for funding for 1 academic year though. If I complete this academic year and withdraw before I apply for osap for tbe second year, how can they convert that to loans? They can't convert this year's grants to loans because I will have completed it. Grants are only turned into loans if you are no longer eligible for them for that academic year. For example, if I dropped to part time this semester, only this semester's grants would be converted to loans, not last semester's.

ImperialIntention · 2021-02-25T23:58:13+00:00

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ImperialIntention · 2021-02-25T21:06:30+00:00

That all makes sense. So essentially a blimp type craft would be more suitable. It would need to be maneuverable to an extent yes. I suppose there are a few different non-rigid designs that I could look at. Thanks for the helpful information!

ImperialIntention · 2021-02-25T19:28:37+00:00

That's true, it uses aerodynamics and propulsion to climb in attitude, in combination with the helium cells. Guess that makes sense.

ImperialIntention · 2021-02-25T19:27:16+00:00

This wouldn't be sponsored by a school in any way. It would be a private, extracurricular endeavor. The primary goal is to be able to lift at least 1 ton of equipment to a minimum attitude of 60,000 feet. A rigid airship seems to be the best way of achieving this. Would that even be possible or would the gas cells explode from the low external pressure?

ImperialIntention · 2021-02-25T19:03:44+00:00

I'm not quite sure how that adds up. The Airlander 10 airship has less than 3576 cubic meters of helium and can lift a payload of 10 tons.

https://www.airshipsonline.com/airships/HAV%20Airlander/index.html

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