The Paleoart of Arthur Hayward

Arthur George Hayward was an artist employed by the British Museum of Natural History (which is now called the Naural History Museum), he was the head of its Model Making and Taxidermy-Exhibition Department.
Although uncredited, he designed and sculpted stop-motion models that were animated by filmmaking legend Ray Harryhausen for movies like "Jason and the Argonauts", "One Million Years B.C.", and "The Valley of Gwangi".
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Notes - This video doesn't include every diorama he created, these are just the ones I could get my hands on.

[@timthelamb]

I can assure you, that many of these images appeared in a set of Top Trumps cards my little brother and I played with as children in the early to mid 1980s. What's more, I still have them in an old suitcase somewhere. Thanks for the sentimental journey. I now know the name of the artist. Thank you Casey.

[@LarsonFilms2]

You're welcome. I used to have that card set too.

[@Thorstein31]

I had a book as a kid that had so many of these pictures! Brings back memories

[@kaijusaurusrex]

I saw these pictures on the book, Eyewitness Dinosaur by DK

[@Gunter4life]

Nice

[@Toonking1985]

Does anybody notice that some of those models look like Ray Harryhausen's models? Like this 1:35, this 1:39, this 2:02, this 2:09, and that 2:21

[@LarsonFilms2]

That's because many of Harryhausen's models were sculpted by Hayward.

[@ElfVlad94]

У Харрихаузена был такой шанс поставить Затерянный мир Конан Дойля... И он был упущен

[@XaeeD]

1:35 is directly copied from Zdenek Burian's 1966 Phororhacos. Just Google that and you can see the obvious resemblance. I think Burian was more of an inspirational source than Harryhausen was.

[@maryoleary5044]

Fab!

[@kingkosmoceratops1404]

Anyone else have a random ruler with some of these images on it?

[@chancegivens9390]

Great stuff

[@LarsonFilms2]

Thank you!

[@chancegivens9390]

@@LarsonFilms2 No problem good sah!

[@mechanwhal6590]

There’s a sense of wonder largely absent from today’s paleo art. But what?

[@Sauron_the_Alien]

I want to have one of these figures

[@LarsonFilms2]

Me too. If only they were mass produced.

[@aebhosor4835]

They're mostly found in DK books for kids...

[@LarsonFilms2]

Not so much in later editions.

[@VincentStevenStudio]

It's nice but the view of dinosaurs is diffrent these days, those are incorrect.

[@aebhosor4835]

Let's say... outdated

[@mechanwhal6590]

I say they still have plenty of artistic value.