Mesozoic Mind

Hello, and welcome back to Mesozoic Mind . Have you ever noticed a reccuring thing in your favoyrite genre but no one ever discusses? I have, and I'd like to do that. Dinosaurs (andotherprehistoriclife) living in our modern, anthropocene world is very common in palaeo-media. The most common way is either time-travel, the Lost World trope of isolated lands, or genetic ressurection, or even whatever phlebotinum is at hand, magic or scientific. However, it usually reserved for hard fiction: books, games, and movies all apply, but never documentaries, based in rigorous science and truth, which stick to their respective time periods for portraying life. Right? Right ? RAAIIIIGHT ? Palaeo-documentaries have actually had a long history of showing prehistory in our time, which primarily occupies the 2000's onwards, particularly during the latter period of it. It's always entertaining to watch prehistory walk about our cities or chase us dumb apes, but what is the meaning of it? The...

When we think of 2D animation and palaeo-media, we have quite a lot thanks to choose from, ranging in tastes from the  Burianian  epic adventures of Don Bluth's  The Land Before Time , the anachronistic sitcom antics of The Flintstones , to the gory pulp of Gennedy Tartovsky's  Primal (2019), or even the Mons-collecting anime of Dinosaur King . But surprisingly, one section of it has never quite been all that prominent: documentaries. Don’t believe me? What’s the first palaeo-documentary which uses traditional animation to come to mind? Admit it, you can’t really name one. It’s a shame, as traditional animation is in my humble opinion the best medium out there: it allows much more creative freedom then live action, ages better then CG, and is less-time consuming then stop-motion.  Just imagine a documentary on the level of Walking with Dinosaurs or Prehistoric Planet animated in the style of Disney Renaissance or Studio Ghibli. Just the idea is already beaut...