James Gurney is an artist and author best known for his illustrated book series Dinotopia, which is presented in the form of a 19th-century explorer’s journal from an island utopia cohabited by humans and dinosaurs. He lives in Rhinebeck, New York, in the Hudson Valley of New York State. Gurney is also a paleoartist who depicts and restores in his paintings extinct fauna such as both avian and non-avian dinosaurs.
Zdeněk Michael František Burian was a Moravian painter, book illustrator and palaeoartist whose work played a central role in the development of palaeontological reconstruction. Originally recognised only in his native Czechoslovakia, Burian's fame later spread to an international audience during a remarkable career spanning six decades. He is regarded by many as one of the most influential palaeoartists of the modern era, and a number of subsequent artists have attempted to emulate his style.
Steve White is a British comic book writer, paleoartist, and occasional colourist who has mainly worked with 2000 AD.
Charles Robert Knight was an American wildlife and paleoartist best known for his detailed paintings of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. His works have been reproduced in many books and are currently on display at several major museums in the United States.
Doug Henderson is an American paleoartist, illustrator and painter specializing in the portrayal of fossil animals and environments. He lives in Montana.
John Sibbick is a British freelance illustrator and paleoartist best known for his fantasy art and reconstructions of prehistoric life in several media.
William Stout is an American fantasy artist and illustrator with a specialization in paleontological art. His paintings have been shown in over seventy exhibitions, including twelve one-man shows. He has worked on over thirty feature films, doing everything from storyboard art to production design. He has designed theme parks and has worked in radio with the Firesign Theatre.
Paleoart is any original artistic work that attempts to depict prehistoric life according to scientific evidence. Works of paleoart may be representations of fossil remains or imagined depictions of the living creatures and their ecosystems. While paleoart is typically defined as being scientifically informed, it is often the basis of depictions of prehistoric animals in popular culture, which in turn influences public perception of and fuels interest in these animals.
Julius Thomas Csotonyi is a Canadian paleoartist and natural history illustrator living in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He specialises in photo-realistic restorations of dinosaurs, paleo-environments and extinct animals. His techniques encompass both traditional and digital media. His art is included in museum displays in many countries. Csotonyi also created the design of the reverse side of the commemorative 25 dollar silver Royal Canadian Mint coin called 50th Anniversary of the Canadian Flag.
Mauricio Antón Ortuzar is a paleoartist and illustrator specialized in the scientific reconstruction of extinct life, well known for his influential paintings of hominids, extinct carnivores and other vertebrate fossil groups. His works illustrate a great number of books, scientific papers, private collections and museums in many parts of the world. He currently works in association with the Natural Science Museum in Madrid.
Raúl Martín is a Spanish illustrator specializing in paleoart, the branch of science illustration that deals with artworks of subjects of paleontology. He is best known for his dinosaur paintings which appear in museums all over the world including the American Museum of Natural History, the Maryland Science Center, and Fort Peck Paleontology Inc. His works also notably appear in popular magazines including Scientific American, Science, and the International Edition of National Geographic. As of 2001, he works with the paleontology department at the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, Spain, where he currently lives, as well as with the paleoanthropological team of the Atapuerca Mountains excavations.
Mark Hallett is an American artist best known for his illustrations of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. Having originally coined the term "paleoart" to refer to science-based paleontological illustration, Hallett remains one of the most influential masters of modern dinosaur imagery. He currently lives in Dallas, Oregon.
Robert (Bob) Nicholls is a British paleoartist.
John Conway is an Australian palaeoartist and illustrator who specializes primarily in Mesozoic reptiles and pterosaurs in particular. His works include the 2012 book All Yesterdays in collaboration with C. M. Kosemen, Darren Naish and Scott Hartman.
Sergey Krasovskiy is a Ukrainian freelance paleoartist best known for his artistic reconstructions of dinosaurs. He was awarded the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's John J. Lanzendorf PaleoArt Prize in 2017.
David Krentz is an American paleoartist, character designer, animator, storyboard artist, writer and director specializing in dinosaurs. As an animator for Walt Disney Pictures, Krentz has worked on Disney animated feature titles such as Fantasia 2000, Disney's Dinosaur, Treasure Planet, and John Carter, as well as productions for other studios such as Escape from Planet Earth. He has also contributed character designs and computer-generated models for films such as the 2013 BBC reboot of Walking with Dinosaurs, including close to 20 ZBrush models. In addition to his work on films, Krentz has contributed his character design expertise to television shows such as the Discovery Channel's four-part nature documentary Dinosaur Revolution and its feature film version, Dinotasia, which was created from unused sequences of the show. Krentz was also the co-director and art director for both of these productions. His 3D modeling of dinosaurs was preceded by his paleoart, in which he has an avocational interest in sculpting of dinosaurs.
Andrey Atuchin is a Russian paleoartist, illustrator and biologist who focuses on artistic reconstructions of extinct animals. He is known for his clean, detailed style reminiscent of classic National Geographic illustrations. Atuchin has collaborated with paleontologists all over the world in illustrating new species for papers and press releases, such as the 2014 feathered dinosaur Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus, as well as more recent discoveries including the pliosaur Luskhan itilensis, described in 2017, and the 2018 ankylosaur dinosaur Akainacephalus johnsoni.
Davide Bonadonna is an Italian scientific and medical illustrator best known for his paleontological reconstructions of extinct animals. His work has been published in a number of books, museums, and magazines, including his murals in the National Geographic Museum's Spinosaurus exhibit and illustrations in books published by Simon and Schuster. He was awarded the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's John J. Lanzendorf PaleoArt Prize in 2010 for his restoration of dinosaur Diplodocus carnegii.
Julio Lacerda is a Brazilian illustrator and graphic designer best known for his artwork of dinosaurs and other extinct animals. His work has been published in several museums, such as Japan's Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, which features Lacerda's illustration of dinosaur Siats meekerorum that accompanied the academic paper and press releases announcing the discovery of this theropod in 2013. His digital paleoart is often produced in a photographic collage style.
Cevdet Mehmet "Memo" Kösemen, known internationally as C. M. Kosemen and also known by his pen name Nemo Ramjet, is a Turkish researcher, artist, photographer and author. He is known for his artwork, depicting living and extinct animals as well as surrealist scenes, and for his speculative evolution project "Snaiad", which explores a fictional alien planet and its diverse biosphere.
