Playing Pterosaurs

Two pterodactyloid pterosaurs (maybe Mimodactylus) play along a forested clifftop during the late Cretaceous.
Sounds mostly recorded by me, but additional sound effects thanks to Pixabay.com and iNaturalist!

[@jacobcox4565]

The best way to make prehistoric animals seem more alive is to depict them behaving like regular animals.

[@tzeccentric7848]

Right!? Instead of typical hollywood monsters.

[@PurplePartyParasaur]

I love the depiction of the pterosaurs having weird almost random actions and movements, like real animals just messing around for the sake of it. Great animation as always.

[@stevaloo5544]

Lmao that sneaky peck when they were both distracted was great

[@skittslol1407]

The long periods of staring really sells this. My cats do this lmao

[@peacefulparrotasmr7361]

My favorite part is how the other pterasaur didnt really do anything to help himself, juat AAAAAAAA until his buddy stepped off his face haha

[@Shark54477]

0:49 that pterasuar at the right really took “hey look over there” to a new meaning.

[@user-ls8vw7yn8d]

This is absolutely fantastic.
These two creature’s movements are so realistic, comical and even relaxing.

[@paleona5820]

I love your prehistoric animations, they’re so charming. The pacing is just perfect for showing off these small snippets of their everyday life! Love the little snapping sounds of their bills! ♥️

[@fossilfighters101]

crying i would die for these silly guys

[@finngrace8727]

I love them so much… they’re so silly… I love all their vocalizations and beak-claps
They’re birdish but still very unique in the way they move, they feel so lifelike…. aaaaaaaaaaaa

[@Olorotyrant]

So underrated 😭😭😭
Also like the stork sounds

[@chadgorosaurus4898]

These pterosaurs felt so realistic. They acted like birds and not dragons.

[@anotherwesley7661]

>treat Friend as terrain.

[@Mi..Mi..]

Siblings...
Im calling it
(Also i love the little sneeze)

[@shiitakiaandqwsad3859]

I love just how natural this felt! I love your paleo animations, especially the weird and wonderful pterosaurs :)

[@mrdonut09872]

My gosh how do you make such fluid animations? They are Beautiful

[@WronaBros.]

This is SOO gorgeous! Extremely fluid animation, beautiful sunset art, sound design! Must have taken a lot of work, but it was absolutely worth it

[@assassinspino2112]

As always, wonderful job, it's great to see how 2 animals do something random and it just develops a funny situation bit by bit, great job

[@mtcrush2663]

This is fantastic! Their movements are so realistic.

[@lasiesta22]

Ah que hermoso 💚

[@Tyrexthecreaturedesigner]

This is absolutely beautiful and somewhat comedic seeing the pterosaurs messing around. Did you use slowed down Sandhill crane calls?

[@cenospire]

Thank you! Yeah, used sandhill cranes for the calls. Also the angry hissing sound I used is from an owl.

[@Tyrexthecreaturedesigner]

@@cenospire oh cool! I recorded some cranes near my house one time and slowed down the audio. It sounded just like a pterosaur!

[@VanessaScrillions]

This is truly incredible!!! Wow

[@graciliraptor3990]

Loved it, like dogs

[@ShadowDragon_616]

Awwww these are SOO CUUUUTE

[@marcosensi730]

Cute! I love the concept behind this "everyday moment" video

[@geraldineborella7910]

This is so beautiful. Playful and fun.

[@BetoFilms0903]

JAJAJAJAJA SO FUNNY AND GREAT ANIMATION!!!!

[@bv657]

Wow you should make a movie

[@ListenAndWhisper]

Omg that’s so friggin cute ^^ I love it

[@ralstonwithanr]

I love them

[@TarbosaurusBaatar]

This is quite plausible since keas tend to have play fights for no reason other than for the fun of it.

[@Cmep123]

Awesome as per usual!

[@nullnullnullnullnullnullnullll]

New sub! I love your animations!

[@The_Primitive]

Amazing

[@josephglatz25]

Alright, have to ask: How do you go about creating the pterosaur calls?

[@cenospire]

For these guys, I used sandhill crane calls, but just pitched down and slowed slightly

[@playeditz0]

Oh this video made me say cute little boi

[@itsafish4600]

cool

[@BaryonyxDude]

How are these animations this smooth

[@kelseylatta5245]

I love this

[@giirator]

Wonderful!

[@mrspino9267]

Now we need a animation of jakapil

[@indikagnanasena1620]

😮

[@archosaur_enjoyer824]

Are these baby quetzalcoatus?

[@cenospire]

No, was imagining these guys as Mimodactylus or something similar. Although I didn't have a specific species completely in mind, so maybe they could be!

[@archosaur_enjoyer824]

Ok

[@Kor06.]

@@cenospire ey is the pterosaur sitting on each other based on the wolves sibling?

[@Kor06.]

@@cenospire since the Quetzalcoatlus and young trike is based on the capybara and pelican

[@cenospire]

@@Kor06. It is indeed! Cool that you recognised it lol

[@Dli392]

I think Mimodactylus had a long tail

[@plumbum2233]

I love their random lil silly movements, they are like two playing parrots

[@pierre-samuelroux9364]

No because they not birds they can't be like birds because they aren't

[@Codename_Dabed]

I have two sides:
The one who wants to like the video
The one who wants to keep the likes at 69

[@Codename_Dabed]

It's no longer 69 likes, guess I'll like the video.