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"Kindred of the Tusk" | SAURIA: Lore Compendium

I wasn't sure if I was going to make extra "lore videos" for SAURIA as I didn't know if anyone would be particularly interested in the extended lore of this weird fantasy world I'm making.

However, the overwhelmingly positive response to "Blood for Blood" has led to tons and tons of questions about the extended world of SAURIA. Building up this world, its characters, and its factions is some of the most fun I've been having with this project, and I'm more than happy to share it! :D

This is the first of at least 4 "Lore Compendium...

Making Of | "Blood for Blood"

"Blood for Blood" behind-the-scenes video is here! :D

I'm also seriously considering making dedicated lore videos covering each of the major factions of SAURIA. Don't know when they'll be done though.

"Blood for Blood" | SAURIA | Animated Short Film (2023)

Full, finished, public version of SAURIA Episode 1: "Blood for Blood" is now out.

The "Making Of" video will be coming out tomorrow, and maaaan... I have a lot to talk about! :D

"Blood for Blood" | Teaser Trailer

Teaser Trailer for "Blood for Blood" is here! :D

SAURIA: Episode 1 is coming out TOMORROW!

Early Patreon Verison of "SAURIA Epsiode 1: Blood for Blood" will be released tomorrow, July 28th, for all my $5+ supporters.

Hope you all like it! ^_^

"SAURIA" | Trailer

Here it finally is; the trailer for SAURIA! I feel it really shows off the vibe I'm going for with this series and I'm very proud of it.

Thank you all so much for the support. The first film in the series shouldn't be too far away, and I'll keep you all posted on the progress! ^_^

OLD BUCK FIGURES ARE HERE! :D

These figures are part of the Beasts of the Mesozoic toyline, and are based on the character from my Dinosauria Animated Series.

You all know I love collecting dinosaur toys and the Beasts of the Mesozoic toyline in particular was a huge inspiration while making "Old Buck". To now have a couple of Old Buck figures in the very toyline that inspired the film is pretty amazing! :D All thanks to you guys with your fan-choice votes that got this whole collaboration started.

There are two versions of this Old Buck figure; "standard" an...

"Making of | Locked Doors" is out!

The behind-the-scenes video for "Locked Doors" is here! What a bizarre journey this one was... :P

....now back to SAURIA!

"Locked Doors" | Public Youtube Release

Here is the final public version of "Locked Doors". Hope you all like this weird little film I made! ^_^

I haven't made a stand-alone short film that wasn't part of some huge overarching series for years. It was really refreshing going back and working on a simpler, one-off project.

The "Making Of" video will be out tomorow.

"Locked Doors" | Animated Teaser

This is the teaser trailer for my latest animated short film “Locked Doors”.

The film is available to watch for all my $5+ Patreon Supporters right now and will be uploaded here on Youtube on November 25th.

It never ends...

10/10/22 UPDATE:

This situation seems to have sorted itself out already. It was just an error.

ORIGINAL POST:

Well, I've got 3 more fraudulent copyright claims (so far) on my older videos, this time by someone brand new. If "RepostNetwork" looks familiar it's because they famously copyright-claimed Pewdiepie's own original music and claimed his videos. I THINK "RepostNetwork" is actually "Soundcloud Repost" which is a legitimate company for indie artists to distribute and police their music, and someone has stole...

What Next?

Hey, everyone! Just wanted to take another opportunity to thank you all for the support throughout my ‘Dinosauria’ series. It has been great.

Now that the series is done I have no major project to work on anymore. I haven’t had this kind of short-film freedom since 2019. I could make anything! I think I have three main options;

1. New Autodale Series of films.

2. Dinosauria Series 2.

3. Something wholely brand new!

I obviously want to do all three, I have grand plans for all three, and will likely get arou...

"Making of | The Last Tyrant" is out!

The behind-the-scenes video for the last episode of my Dinosauria series is here and it's a long one. I have a lot of dino-related things to talk about! :D

This is the end of a long creative journey and I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you all for following and supporting me through it.

"The Last Tyrant" | Public Youtube Release

The final episode of my 'Dinosauria Series' is finally here!

I thoroughly enjoyed creating this series. I started this project a whole 18 months ago and I'm incredibly proud of the whole thing! ^_^

"The Last Tyrant" | Teaser Trailer

This is the Teaser Trailer for the fifth and final episode of my ‘Dinosauria’ series. This film is by far the biggest and most ambitious of the series by every conceivable measure. The finished film is a whopping 10 minutes in length and covers the dramatic extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous.

The film is available to watch for all my $5+ Patreon Supporters right now and will be uploaded here on Youtube on June 11th.

Thank you all for your support. Without it; this series would not ha...

'No Monsters' is BACK! :D

Here is my final post (hopefully) on the copyright claim situation;

For the past 8 months, I have received multiple fraudulent copyright claims over some of my earlier Autodale videos. Whoever was behind this wasn't specifically targetting me though. They had actually stolen a collection of copyright-free music created by Ross Bugden (which a lot of my videos use) and put it into Youtube's content ID system as their own, reaping all the ad revenue they could.

"No Monsters" was the film being affected the most by this a...

Want to Re-Score "No Monsters"?

I am looking for composers interested in scoring my old "No Monsters" animated short film.

"No Monsters" has been fraudulently copyright claimed over the song used in it, and this has been a reoccurring problem for months. I don't think I can live with a bunch of scammers profiting off of work that isn't theirs so I have decided the best course of action is to re-score and re-upload the film.

If you're a musical composer and want to help me out, please email me with demo reels or examples of work here;

davidarmsb...

AUTODALE IS BEING COPYRIGHT CLAIMED AGAIN!

I have received a copyright claim over "No Monsters", and "Making of | Don't Feed the Freaks" from "[Merlin] DINASTIA MARKET INC SAS" on behalf of "Bad Blood Music"/"Fame 13" over the passed few days.

These people are scammers. They take copyright-free tracks, put them into the Youtube content ID system, and proceed to claim the videos that have used it.

In particular; they seem to have stolen a collection of Ross Bugden's older tracks. MOST of my Autodale films use Ross's music and are in danger.

I have managed to contact ...

'Old Buck' Beasts of the Mesozoic Artwork! :D

David Silva and I are teaming up to create an 'Old Buck' Beasts of the Mesozoic figure. This isn't going to be a simple repaint of the existing Styracosaurus model anymore. The frill and nasal horns will be re-sculpted to better reflect the 'Old Buck' character. We're also considering doing 'plain' and 'bloody' versions corresponding to the opening and closing of the film.

Above are my final pieces for the packing art for the figure! I made two variants; plain and bloody. ^_^

I felt it was very important to show off th...

"Making of | Sea and Sky" is out!

I somehow keep forgetting how much fun these behind-the-scenes videos are to make. I had an absolute blast making this one! :D

...can't believe this is already episode four of five.

"Sea and Sky" | Public Youtube Release

"Sea and Sky" is finally out on Youtube! The fourth episode in my Dinosauria series... which features no dinosaurs. Hope you all like it! ^_^

Behind-the-scenes video will be uploaded tomorrow.

"Dinosauria" Update #32: Sea and Sky Group-Shot!

Work is going steady on the upcoming "Making of | Sea and Sky" video.

I'm currently working on the 'Featured Species' segment and just rendered out this size-comparison for the video. I thought the image looked really cool so thought I'd share it with you all. Putting all the characters together like this, all to scale, and next to a human comparison really puts these creatures into perspective! ^_^

Species (left-to-right):

-Cretoxyrhina (average adult size estimate)

-Cretoxyrhina (juvenile, smaller size th...

"Dinosauria" Update #31: Geosternbergia Sculpture!

With "Sea and Sky" pretty much finished, I've been hard at work on the "Making Of" video. Today I've been filming and editing the sculpture segment.

Here is a sneak-peak at my finished Geosternbergia (Pteranodon sternbergi) sculpture... looking a whole lot like a gummy bubblegum bottle! XD

I somehow keep getting surprised at just how much fun these making of videos are to do. It's great to slow down after working endlessly on an animation to reflect on and evaluate the work for a week or two.

The video will proba...

"Sea and Sky" | Early Patreon Version.

Here we finally have the fourth film of my Dinosauria Animated Series! :D

As mentioned in a couple of my previous posts; the mainstream media depiction of pterosaurs is very outdated, far more outdated than the pop-culture depiction of dinosaurs. Pterosaur depictions remain mostly unchanged since the Ray Harryhausen days, being portrayed as squawking, flapping, evil sky vermin and that's not right at all. 

"Make pterosaurs inspiring" was essentially the brief I gave myself for this project! XD

I have also al...

"Sea and Sky" | Teaser Trailer

Teaser Trailer for the fourth episode in my "Dinosauria Animated Series" is out!

I actually ended up liking this film FAR more than I expected to. I think it has grown to become my second favourite of the series, just after "Our Frozen Past". Hope you all enjoy it too when it's released! ^_^

An "Old Buck" Figure is going to be made! :D

The "Beasts of the Mesozoic: Ceratopsian Series" toyline that helped inspire my "Old Buck" short film (the toys I'm playing with in the "Making Of" video) just had a poll for fan-choice repaints of certain figures.

An "Old Buck"-inspired repaint was the No. 1 pick voted by fans which means we're going to get a Dinosauria Series-inspired Old Buck styracosaurus figure!

I had nothing to do with this. It was 100% voted by fans of the toyline and I even avoided sharing the news until now as to not artificially inflate my ch...

"Sea and Sky" in just a few more days! ^_^

The fourth installment of my Dinosauria Animated Series is just about finished. The Youtube teaser trailer and early Patreon version will be uploaded some time in the next couple days. I'm aiming for the 26th! ^_^

"Dinosauria" Update #30: Nearly finished!

This is just a quick update telling you guys that "Sea and Sky" is almost finished. I have a couple more shots to animate, a bunch of animation tweaks, and sound recording/editing left to do. The Early Patreon Version/Youtube Teaser should be out some time this month! ^_^

Above are some screenshots of the other non-dinosaurs that will feature in the film. These animals are supposed to be juvenile Cretoxyrhina but I think the skulls are too long and narrow so I'll probably add that to the "animation tweaks" list.

Cretox...

"Dinosauria" Update #29: ...not technically Dinosaurs.

"Sea and Sky", the next film in my "Dinosauria Series", will actually not feature any dinosaurs.

I'm sure a lot of you already know this but pterosaurs and mosasaurs (the two groups that will feature in my next short film) do not belong to the "Dinosauria" clade and were therefore not dinosaurs. They were still large, fluffy and/or scaley reptilian contemporaries of the dinosaurs and are often lumped in with them in films, books and toy buckets.

The reason I decided to break my rules and create a film about a bunch of ...

"Dinosauria" Update #28: Sea and Sky!

With "A More Ancient Spring" out of the way, I've focussed all of my attention on the fourth film in my "Dinosauria Series" which is currently called "Sea and Sky". It follows a group of Pteranodon sternbergi (Geosternergia) trying to hunt during a storm approximately 85 million years ago... but there are dangerous creatures in these Cretaceous seas.

"Sea and Sky" looks like it'll be one of the shorter films in the series at around 3-4 minutes long but that hasn't made it any easier. Every shot in this film has been more dif...