Apple TV+’s Prehistoric Planet makes use of visible results and the most recent paleontology analysis to indicate viewers how dinosaurs lived 66 million years in the past.

The streaming service took the identical artwork meets science strategy forward of the launch of the present’s second season Monday, by enlisting panorama artist David Popa to create murals depicting the creatures within the areas the place they as soon as lived.

“As a child, I might skip college on my birthday with my dad and go to the Museum of Pure Historical past in New York Metropolis, the place I grew up,” Popa instructed Adweek. “Getting into into its halls and marveling on the dinosaurs sparked my creativeness like only a few issues have. I’m simply completely satisfied to proceed to maintain that fireplace alive for others.”

Popa had been planning a collection targeted on the thought of unearthing fossils of extinct animals earlier than he was approached by Apple TV+, who wished precisely that for its launch marketing campaign. He crafted large murals of Tyrannosaurus rex, triceratops and hatzegopteryx primarily based on the most recent findings on what every species would appear to be.

“What we tried to do was push away from the cliche, monstrous creatures that among the dinosaurs may very well be perceived as and have them embodied as characters dwelling out their lives on this unbelievable planet,” Popa mentioned. “That will get mirrored within the portraits proven; for instance, the delicate but majestic portrait of the T. rex or the unbelievable stone texture of triceratops mimicking his wealthy textured pores and skin.”

Every work took greater than 12 hours to finish and was made utilizing the identical supplies thought to have been used within the earliest cave work, resembling floor shells, charcoal and native chalk, plus water sourced from the realm. The works can solely be absolutely considered by drone and Popa has shared photos and video of the challenge throughout social media.

“My inspiration for taking over this strategy to pure eco-art was the need to completely immerse myself within the magnificence and thriller that nature can supply,” Popa mentioned. “Utilizing pure, ephemeral supplies permits me to have that dialogue, simply as early cave painters did 1000’s of years in the past, and it may assist me construct out that narrative.”

Every was crafted within the habitats the place the dinosaurs as soon as lived, with the T. rex showing in Moab, Utah, the hatzegopteryx on a distant island in Popa’s native Finland, and the triceratops within the fossil-rich space of Dorset, England often known as the Jurassic Coast.

“This strategy of pure eco-art suits completely with the themes explored in Prehistoric Planet and allowed me to carry to life among the unbelievable dinosaurs featured within the new collection in a novel approach,” Popa mentioned. “Curiously, the uncooked supplies and pigments I exploit are the identical that might have been plentiful hundreds of thousands of years in the past when the dinosaurs roamed the planet.”