Forgotten Bloodlines: Agate - A Shameless Promotion post



If you haven't been paying attention in the last couple months in the palaeosphere, there's been buzz of a new palaeo-documentary, created by animator and CG palaeoartist Max Bellomio. It's an indie one, named Forgotten Bloodlines: Agate, about life of denizens of Miocene North America 20 mya, in particular the chalicothere Moropus and the giant entelodont Daeodon. The kicker is that it narrated by none other then Nigel Marven, a hero to many in the palaeo-media community.

I am very excited for it ever since I found out about it on the Discord sever I frequent and kept tabs on its pre-production, and have even helped promote it (as I'm doing right now). The Miocene is a very under-represented period in palaeo-media, always overshadowed by the Ice Age and the Mesozoic in spite of its diverse array of life, both from ancient lineages from earlier in the Cenozoic and ones just evolving, all as the world's climate cooled and grasslands spread across the Earth. Even Walking with Beasts left the period out to my annoyance and likely others, and very few other works, let alone documentaries touch it beyond an individual segment or two. Even without that, the CG is incredible, on par with Prehistoric Planet's.

If you have the time and money, you can be part of something greater, and donate to its Kickstarter, as I did weeks ago. It's already got a good pace, halfway there to its goal, but it can always use more, and depending on how much you pay, you can have any species of Agate Springs or an easter egg added. The plan is to release it in 3 seperate 15-min episodes before a full work combining them into a 45-minute feature length work, and if it it successful, Bellomio could make more series like it under the same banner of Forgotten Bloodlines. My ideal one would be Wadi Al Hitan of Egypt's Eocene period.

Forgotten Bloodlines Agate has no set date or platform, gthough I hear it will come at a minimum lo 2025, but when it debuts, you will love it.

Follow my Twitter account to find further updates on the documentary - or better yet, follow Max's. 

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