I shared this to Twitter like a month ago but forgot to share it here, this is an update to my Basilosaurus bust that I first rendered in 2017-18, which I then remeshed and repainted between last year and this year. Compared to the original render, this one has all its teeth, the skull more closely matches the fossil material, the face is fleshier, and the coloration, while similar to the original version, has been redone from scratch with new brushes and patterns. Basilosaurus cetoides was an Archaeocete whose fossils were first found in Louisiana, which, during the Eocene epoch, lay partially beneath the Gulf of Mexico. It had a long, narrow body that reached up to 66 feet long, a proportionally small head featuring multiple kinds of teeth, and vestigial hind limbs. Members of this genus are also known from northern Africa and other regions that were once submerged beneath the Tethys Sea, and also from Peru and possibly even New Zealand, a wide geographical range that demonstrates its success as a top predator in the oceans of the Late Eocene. This mesh was rendered in Sculptfab and SculptGL, with these screenshots being taken in the latter program.
