#labyrinthodon

[earlypalaeoart]

"The home of the early air-breathers: A Carboniferous Forest with ancient Amphibians (Labyrinthodonts). In the water Baphetes; on land Dendrerpeton, Hylonomus, and Hylerpeton."

From Winners in life's race, or, The great backboned family by Arabella B. Buckley, 1882

After Dawson, 1863

https://archive.org/details/winnersinlifesra00buckiala/

[deepdreamnights]

Victorian Dinosaurs

Top to Bottom: Megalosaurus, Iguanodon, Ichthyosaurus, labyrinthodon, stegosaurus.

I tried to go back in time, but my angle was a little off.

Process under the fold.

For these, my process was pretty straightforward.

Using overpainting with Midjourney's edit feature, I took pics of the crystal palace dinosaurs and converted them into more realistic representations that maintain the weird body shapes and anatomy.

I also made appropriate backgrounds with a combination of image and text prompting.

I then took those base elements, and used Vidu's 2.0 Reference-to-Video feature to combine a creature and the background, and then prompted with something akin to:

nature documentary footage, a large reptilian creature in a steamy prehistoric jungle, the creature walks slowly, looking around as though on alert. It has a stubby tail, and moves in a salamander-like fashion. footage from national geographic, animal planet, filmed on 35mm film, 5k

[horrible-lizards]

Labyrinthodon, 1854

[earlypalaeoart]

"La Terre était alors peuplée d'êtres fantastiques, se livrant de porpétuels combats au milieu des éléments indomptés." ["The Earth was then populated by fantastic beings, engaging in perpetual battles amidst the untamed elements."] by Alfred Kempler, from L'Astronomie populaire by Camille Flammarion (1880)

[earlypalaeoart]

Watercolour painting of Triassic animals by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, undated (c.1853)

Left to right: Dicynodon, Labyrinthodon, Rhynchosaurus, ammonite

[earlypalaeoart]

Labyrinthodon from Contes du Dr Sam by Samuel-Henry Berthoud, 1866

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5849695c/f256.item

[earlypalaeoart]

"La trompette du jugement de la science a sonné. Ils sont ressuscités, et le naturaliste les classe." ["The trumpet of scientific judgment has sounded. They have been resurrected, and the naturalist classifies them."] by Georges Devy from Camille Flammarion's Le monde avant la création de l'homme (1886)

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6225955v/f29.item

[earlypalaeoart]

"Developpements progressifs de la flore et la faune aux ages successifs de la terre" ["Progressive development of flora and fauna in successive ages of the Earth"] from Camille Flammarion's Le monde avant la création de l'homme (1886)

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6225955v/f105.item