#shortfacedbear

[bobnichollsart]

It is exciting to see snippets of Surviving Earth coming out from Impossible Pictures (see: https://www.instagram.com/picturesimpossible/). One of the clips released features Arctodus, the "short faced bear", here is my official design sheet, which was used by the production team.

[sallysurisue]

A young Paleolithic hunter must go through a fight or flight situation with a territorial short faced bear!! 🐻

[proflambeovt]

Paleovember 2023, Arctodus simus!

Roaming North America until around 12 thousand years ago, this bear is colloquially known as a 'short-faced' bear, due to it's snout appearing far shorter than modern bears. The reality is that the appearance is something of an illusion; the snout wasn't actually shorter, the whole skull was actually much DEEPER. They're also members of a different group of bears than the more familiar ones known today, known as the Tremarctinae, with the only surviving member of this group being the modern spectacled bears of South America. 

When it came to Arctodus simus, the males of this species were absolutely huge, standing up to 11 feet tall when upright. They would have been powerhouses of the Ice Age, with their long legs allowing them to travel vast distances in search of food.

[252mya]

La Brea Tar Pits poster

A poster featuring some of the most noteworthy victims of the the La Brea Tar Pits. Mammoths, ground sloths, dire wolves and other animals from the last glaciar period that were unfortunate enough to get stuck in the tar.

sulc.us/brea

Design by Greco Westermann

[bobnichollsart]

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology…

Here's a portrait of the Arctodus, commissioned in 2022 for a project I cannot talk about yet. Arctodus, also known as the short-faced bear, lived during the Pleistocene.

[sallysurisue]

Here’s my final Brother Bear related art. 🐻🐻‍❄️ The OCs that Kenai and Koda have interacted with.

Kuruk (name meaning “bear” in Native American) is a male Short Faced Bear with a scar on his right eye.

Amka (name meaning “friendly spirit” in Inuit) is a female talkative and outgoing American Black Bear.

Yuka (name meaning “bright star” in Inuit) is a shy and curious young female polar bear.

[sallysurisue]

Brother Bear fan art if Kenai and Koda meet a lonely short faced bear.

[sallysurisue]

I rewatched Brother Bear a few days ago during their 20 year anniversary!

So I decided to draw a Short Faced Bear.