Return to Jurassic through billions of years at a glance ｜ How to restore these lost friends？ This is how the dinosaur portrait came about …

　　CCTV News:The restored dinosaur is still a skeleton. If we can add muscle and skin to it, and match it with the plants and landscapes of that year, I believe our dinosaur will be more easily remembered by everyone, which is inseparable from a group of the most romantic people in the laboratory. Today’s Discovery Dinosaur Lab will show you how the scientific painter restored these lost friends for us.

　　Reporter:A popular science book and a dinosaur picture book are probably the places where many people first got to know dinosaurs, but have you ever wondered how a dinosaur skeleton like this finally presented such a lively and interesting science cartoon or such a portrait in front of your eyes? This is the question that we are going to take you to find the answer today.

　　Respect for science is the key to painting dinosaurs. Before writing, the painter should fully communicate with the researchers, be familiar with the characteristics of this dinosaur, and take photos of fossils or fossil models and import them into the computer as the basis of the draft.

　　How to restore the flesh and blood of dinosaurs with accurate bone proportions? This depends on the artist’s years of human sketching skills. Because this step needs to refer to the relationship between human muscles and bones to restore the muscle trend of dinosaurs.

　　Of course, in scientific painting, painters are not always so bound. When it comes to coloring dinosaurs, painters can be bold. Since science can’t determine the color of dinosaurs, why not give it to art?

　　In order to keep his imagination within a reasonable range, the painter should refer to living reptiles, such as lizards and crocodiles, their skin texture, texture, movements and so on. Let the flying imagination always have a scientific line to pull.

　　Ren Minghui, a scientific and artistic painter of vertebrate paleontology Institute of Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences:I think it is a bridge and a connection. In this field of scientific painting, what we have to do is to make this piece popular, that is, to let everyone understand it, not to say that this thing can only be understood by researchers.