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.
Ugghh… I have learned so much in the past few months which makes all of this inaccurate (or just ugly to me) in so many ways. Soon, soon, the cleansing will come…
Historian on 06 Jul 2009 at 5:54 am #
Ugghh… I have learned so much in the past few months which makes all of this inaccurate (or just ugly to me) in so many ways. Soon, soon, the cleansing will come…
Chris on 02 Nov 2009 at 7:00 pm #
We are our own worst critics. Your work is awe inspiring, so at the very least take some solace in the grandeur of that.