Short films, animation, music and illustration by Brian Engh (aka The Historian Himself). Don’t Mess With Dinosaurs is the aesthetic mantra behind the work displayed on this website. It attempts to express the necessity of respect for the ancient forces of the universe, and the sense of wonder and awe that they give me. In other words, respect to the ancients. That being said, expect some pretty serious prehistoric bizness: we talkin dinosaurs, monsters and rap music. also, paleo art, illustration, hip hop, short films, movies, music videos, action, adventure, environmental, ambient, ecology, creatures, biology, concept design, drawing, painting, digital music composition, visual fx, practical fx, effects, model making, puppeteering, explosions, aliens, bugs, squids, octopi, tyrannosaurus rex, theropods, ornithischian, deinonychosaurs, birds, reptiles, amphibians, triassic jurassic cretacious, robots, ancient monsters forever, rock monsters, cats dogs and danger, strange beasts, forests, deserts, underwater things, photography, lasers, space age science, wizardry, mysticism, sorcery, pagan animism, ritualistic sacrifice, awesome things, elemental spirituality, primeval forces, nocturnal species, parasaurolophus, deinonychus, spinosaurus, corythosaurus, baryonyx, natural history, fossils, plants, botany, magics, jungles, rainforests, trees, arboreal, forest canopy, caves, caverns, exploration, natural history, running, jumping, climbing, ghosts, spooks, ghouls, demons, ogres, dragours, mythology, minotaurs, centaurs, cerberus, harpies, sirens, hydras, cnidarians, bryology, moss, cephalopod molusks, entomology, herpetology, zoology, marine, estuarine, dont mess with dinosaurs, a thousand years of fighting, godzilla, kaiju, rodan, gidorah, kamakuras, kappa, yokai, samourai, ninjas, philosophy, earth beasts awaken, dirt, buckets, handfulls of gravel, rocks, rock formations, geology, physics, volcanoes, volcanology, pyroclastic flows, lava, magma, mass extinction, asteroid impact, hominids, primatology, global warming, climate change, ferns, horsetails, primitive organisms, cannibalism, short stories, long rants, lyrics, beats, percussion, samples, homegrown art, sound design, vikings, folk tales, ceramics, archaeology, paleontology, artifacts, petroglyphs, heiroglyphs, griffons, cyclops, geckos, lizards, frogs, hawks, owls, eagles, falcons, falconry, cassowaries, living fossils, crocodiles, crocodilians, caimans, alligators, garials, archosaurs, coelophysus, ornitholestes, gallimimus, dilophosaurus, monoclonius, styracosaurus, triceratops, brachiosaurus, amargasaurus, diplodocus, afrovenator, carcharadon, robots of redsmoke, valley of the shadow, children of stone, footprint, moss: a tribute, experimental animation, traditional.
Thank you Gabrielle, I’m glad you like them. I do have an account on deviantart, but I never use it because I don’t have time and I don’t particularly like how that site is designed… Anyway, my account is: http://dmwd.deviantart.com/
Man I love these pictures there pretty inspiring and i really like ( just to point out a few) The Death Mother and and all the New Era pieces but there all great. Keep working I read your posts on not having time that always bites but i bet sooner or later you’ll get some quality free time
marnie on 09 Apr 2009 at 6:45 am #
I lobbs everything!!
AJ aka Prodigie on 18 Aug 2009 at 10:30 am #
you’re a genius man. Hate to label but that is what comes to mind.
Gabrielle on 16 Feb 2010 at 8:20 pm #
love your creatures so original .. do you have a profile on deviantart.com?
Historian on 17 Feb 2010 at 5:23 am #
Thank you Gabrielle, I’m glad you like them. I do have an account on deviantart, but I never use it because I don’t have time and I don’t particularly like how that site is designed… Anyway, my account is: http://dmwd.deviantart.com/
Ian on 20 Mar 2010 at 6:39 pm #
Man I love these pictures there pretty inspiring and i really like ( just to point out a few) The Death Mother and and all the New Era pieces but there all great. Keep working I read your posts on not having time that always bites but i bet sooner or later you’ll get some quality free time