Greetings, my name is Kevin Miguel Elías, better known as Blayken in the world of YouTube. Basically, as it has happened to them and in fact it continues to happen to many young people and adults, I feel really fascinated by dinosaurs and especially books, movies, series and documentaries about prehistoric creatures in general. And frankly, I've always wanted to do my own project around these amazing creatures, so over time I got in touch with a group of dinosaur fans and users, and then paleontologists, illustrators, animators, paleoartists, and sound designers. , who were willing to bring my #MesozoicLifeProject to life.

But, what really is Mesozoic Life?

The Mesozoic Life project has gone through many different phases since it emerged in 2018 as an animated short film where we would see the life of a Spinosaurus, our flagship dinosaur and that you can see in the logo. In 2019 I financed a little on my own a 2D Teaser that was made by lthat you can see in my YouTube Channel, link here:

My idea was to make a 2D mini-series inspired by the premiere of the great Adult Swim Primal directed by Genndy Tartakovsky. I tried to raise funds through Kickstarter to make the pilot episode of the life of the Spinosaurus, Ramses. Unfortunately this turned out to be too ambitious on my part and the goal was not reached.

You can see the failed campaign here:

In 2021 the hope of reviving the mini-series returned thanks to the fact that I found a small group of people, true lovers who, in addition to being talented 3D animators, are also paleontologists who would help me do the unthinkable, bring Mesozoic Life to life with the help of VFX.

Currently you can still see one of the final tests that I liked the most visually, in this case it was made entirely with the Maya program by the VFX animator Julian Johnson-mortimer:

Unfortunately, this could not come to fruition because little by little all the people involved developed their own projects and jobs to take care of and that, despite being wonderful for all of them, caused the project to stagnate.

So what happened to Mesozoic Life?

Far from letting the project die, they began to look for an alternative way to show the six stories planned for the Mesozoic Life miniseries as well as a way to generate income and interest in the paleo community. This is how my project was divided into two branches that progress together and these are:

- Mesozoic Life: Figure Series!

As its name indicates, it is a line of collectible figures related to dinosaurs and other creatures that they are the protagonists of the stories destined to be the mini-series. The first one is that of our Ramses Spinosaurus, which after several attempts we managed to finance its mass production thanks to Kickstarter in 2022, without a doubt a very important step.

You can see the successful campaign here:

- Mesozoic Life Stories: The Comic Series!

Of course after so much commitment, time and dedication invested in this project, I was not willing to let the stories I wrote for years be lost in oblivion, so I began to look for an alternative way of telling my stories and thus Mesozoic.Life Stories: The Comic Series emerged. The first of these comics is "River of Giants" which will focus on Ramses, an adult male Spinosaurus, and his life in Cretaceous period Africa. This first comic will have a minimum of 150 pages and will not have a narration. Inspired by comics like Cretaceous by Tadd Galusha, which I highly recommend!

- Preview of the color finish of the comic illustrated by Villedraw (Not final version)

Although there is still no release date for this first comic financed entirely by me, every month I am revealing some first sketches and even color tests through updates on Patreon and small advances on social networks like Twitter, Instagram, YouTube or Discord which I hope gives you a better idea of the magnitude of this new course we have taken. While we wait to see how many real profits the sale of this Spino figurine brings and whose success could lead to the realization of other figures of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, I hope you find something interesting that we are working on simultaneously.

What can you expect to see in Mesozoic Life?

My stories cover the three geologic periods of the Mesozoic era: Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous, hence the name Mesizoic Life. For now, I have a total of six stories from 2020 and these are focused on specific places like Spain, Portugal, Africa, Argentina and Canada. Honestly I am forced to classify this project as Mainstream Entertainment instead of Hyper realistic stories.

Well, despite the fact that my team and I have made an effort to accurately show the latest discoveries in paleontology in many fields, time has taught me that when it comes to dinosaurs and extinct creatures there is little that is not uncertain, that is, we know many things but we don't know even more and everything can change drastically with the new discoveries that are made every year. So the best thing is to give it your all and make a product that people can enjoy on all levels without worrying too much about being realistic in all aspects. As for which dinosaurs will appear? it is no secret that I love theropods and among them I have decided to show you several of my favorites that if you do some research you will be able to see some of our designs and even old 3D models of some of them... But for now, I have focused on Spinosaurus and its contemporaries. For the rest, we will see if there is luck and we can show you to the others in comics and figures.

Active Members of the Mesozoic Life Team:

- Kevin Miguel Elías (Blayken) Screenwriter, Founder and Producer.

- Raul Ramos (RAR) Creature Designer, 3D modeling, Illustrator, Paleo Artist.

- Manuel Agüero (DinoArt) Creature Designer, Illustrator, Paleo Artist.

- Bryan Villegas (Villedraw) Comic Designer, Creature Designer, Illustrator.

- Arturo García (DrawPaint) 2D animator, Creature Designer, Illustrator.

- Max Bellomio (digitalduck) CG Artist, 3D animator, Creature Designer, Paleoartist.

Our Scientific Advisors!

Obviously for us it is important to have biologists and paleontologists who advise us so that both the stories and the designs of the animals and environments meet a minimum of realism according to their criteria.

Dra. Elena Cuesta Fidalgo

Graduated in Geology, PhD in Biology from the UAM (Autonomous University of Madrid) and completed her doctoral thesis on Concavenator corcovatus at the Las Hoyas deposit in Cuenca, Spain. It is satisfying on a personal level to have a Spanish paleontologist and also a countrywoman from the Canary Islands who knows about dinosaurs and who will help us show the dinosaurs of Spain and Europe as it has never been done before.

Dr. Rodolfo Anibal Coria

Paleontologist, professor of Natural Sciences, advisor and director of the Carmen Funes Museum in Plaza Huincul, in the Province of Neuquén, Argentina.

Dr. Agustín Martinelli

Paleontologist, Researcher at Conicet and Associate Curator of the Vertebrate Paleontology Section of the "Bernardino Rivadavia" Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Other ways to support Mesozoic Life!

Mesozoic Life Official Website: https://www.mesozoiclifeproject.com/

My Paypal account: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=HNR8TMBB8QFKL&source=url