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Love Kennis & Kennis reconstructions of ancient humans. Love the life they give them.
australopithecus afarensis "Lucy", australopithecus sediba, homo erectus pithecantropus, homo ergaster "Turkana boy", homo floresiensis, homo neanderthalensis x2, early homo sapiens from Jebel Irhoud, "Ötzi the Iceman" and neolithic woman Lisar.
More sculptures and info on the artists' website:
https://www.kenniskennis.com/overview/
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Some hominids-in-progress I've had on lately: a Neanderthal shifting her weight in preparation to throw a spear, some improvements I made to the meshes and textures for my A. sediba and P. boisei skins, and skins I still have to texture for H. naledi and H. heidelbergensis Digital painting (Photopea, first image), Digital sculpture (Blender, last three images), 2024
does anyone have a screencap of xu wenwu's desk from shang-chi???? there was an australopith cranium on the desk and i'm pretty sure it's MH-1 (a. sediba) but it was only on screen for a few seconds and i'm going crazy trying to find a screencap so i can check
An article published in the journal 'eLife' reports a study of Australopithecus sediba's spine.
An article published in the journal "eLife" reports a study of Australopithecus sediba's spine. A team of researchers created 3D reproductions of fossil vertebrae discovered in 2015 during excavations at the Malapa site, where the first bones attributed to this hominin species were discovered. This allowed obtaining an almost complete lower spine of the specimen cataloged as MH2 whose characteristics confirm the conclusions of previous studies that indicated that these australopithecines used their arms to climb trees like apes but used their legs in bipedal walking like the later species of the genus Homo.
These are the holotype fossils of two archaic hominin species, both discovered in South Africa. First is Australopithecus sediba, a species described in 2010 that is dated to around 2 million years ago. A. sediba is considered a related species but not a direct ancestor of modern humans. The second is Homo naledi, a species described in 2015 that has baffled anthropologists. Initially assumed to be over a million years old based on archaic characteristics the species has now been dated to 335,000-236,000 years ago, making them a contemporary of early Homo sapiens. At least 15 individuals of Homo naledi have been recovered and given that these remains were discovered in the Rising Star Cave System it has been speculated that the remains of deceased individuals were deliberately placed in the caves.
These two incredibly important fossils are on display at the Perot Museum in Dallas, TX through this March. This marks the first (and possibly only) time that these fossils have been on public display in the United States. Hominin remains are incredibly rare and only a small handful are on public display within the US. Many are highly fragmentary, so to discover remains this complete is unprecedented.
And on a more personal note, I’ve mentioned here before that I intend to pursue a career in anthropology. While I’m specifically planning on going into forensic anthropology, perhaps with a focus on forensic reconstruction, paleoanthropology was and always will be my first love. I remember reading about the discovery of A. sediba when I was a young teenager and finding about the young age of H. naledi before it was publicly announced from one of my favorite professors during my second year of college. Being able to see these fossils in person was an incredible privilege. I am so grateful to have had this opportunity and will never forget it.
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Traditional shading took so much time, so I switched things up. I’m pretty content with the new style I’m trying. Gives me extra time to draw more skulls!
Returning to hominid facial anatomy once again, I was able to adapt my A. sediba muscle model onto the OH5 skull (P. boisei) too! I'm happy enough with it that I went ahead and rendered some skins for them as well. Selected all the right vertices and generated UV maps and everything. Hopefully the colors look as legible on your screens as they do on mine, these are still very much in progress.
My restoration of this individual was partly based on an earlier attempt at rendering Paranthropus, from back in 2019. There were a lot of elements that got tweaked or entirely changed up in the update, but the mouth got to stay the same between renderings. Having even a little understanding of the face muscles makes a visible difference from one model to another, and I'm sure there's still some parts I could improve on as I keep working in this vein. If anyone has more technical knowledge about this sort of thing than I do, feel entirely free to get at me : )
In March, I started setting up a camera rig in Blender for showcasing my nine hominin reconstructions, and now, five months and 10,837 exported frames later, I'm finally done with the ~visual~ portion of my video about them! All I have to do now is record my voiceover and it should be out in a week : ) In the meantime, I've created a preview containing the video's Intro and the first showcase in the lineup, of Australopithecus sediba, and including that portion of my script not as audio, but as closed captioning.
