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I am exceedingly happy and relieved to announce that Jurassic Reimagined part 1 is finally done.

Since releasing it few people were interested in seeing some of the visuals a bit longer, and wanted more information about the Carnegie Quarry and the strat column. Here is my illustration of the major Brushy Basin large dino lineages:

And here is a frame of ReBecca in the Quarry surrounded by an astonishing abundance and diversity of dead dinosaurs. The main takeaway here is that this was a remarkably productive ecology. Behold yall.

If you’d like to see the full quarry map (albeit sadly unlabeled by species) you can see that on Matt Wedel’s blog Sauropod Vertebra Picture of The Week (SVPOW).

Originally we planned on doing this documentary as two parts, but it became clear in editing that the story was more digestible and the complicated post-production process more manageable if it were broken into three parts. So, this part 1 is a bit shorter than the other parts will be, but I hope it helps people understand and appreciate the Morrison on a foundational level that will hopefully give significance to the forthcoming parts 2 and 3. Unfortunately breaking the first video into two parts meant that I needed to regroup and re-record narration, as well as generate some more art, sound and motion graphics to clarify the story, and subsequent refinement, hence the various delays.

I am aiming to realease part 2 toward the end of the month, but I have been consistently humbled by the challenge of trying to tell the complex story of the Morrison and it’s ecology of giant dinosaurs. The incredibly time consuming task of editing and refining and modifying the immense volume of footage we’ve shot over the last five years has proven exponentially more time consuming a process than I was used to dealing with, and that added to the already time consuming task of creating motion graphics and original music to augment that footage has proven a really complex and somewhat overwhelming task, so please bear with me.

Ultimately though, this project has been delayed numerous times in large part because the time I’ve spent in the Morrison has been a perspective-altering experience, and it has made me determined to try and tell the complicated story of the Morrison and express the feelings that story gives me as best as I can. The history of life on our planet is recorded in the geology at a scope and on a time scale that is truly unfathomable, and yet in that vastness there are the countless stories of living beings, our fellow earth creatures recorded in the stone. This documentary is my feeble effort to exalt those distant kind and our living planet of which we are an inextricable part. I hope that comes through more than anything.

I hope you like it. My collaborators and I are excited to share with you what we’ve been working on.