Trivia / Dinosauria

• Blooper: The baby troodontid briefly clips onto the scene at the end of "Our Frozen Past" before the mother runs on.
  • Which is given a cheeky Lampshade Hanging in the making-of video about "Our Frozen Past" with a little "pop!" noise when the scene plays for the story review.
• Content Warnings: The description of the teaser for "Old Buck" features one of these, with Armsby warning viewers about the brutal nature of the film's fight scene and advising that children and parents not interpret its animated medium and saurian subject matter as meaning that it's kiddie fare.
• Creator Backlash: In his "Making of" video for "Old Buck", Armsby noted that he's "not particularly proud of the finished film" and considers it the weakest of the five installments, criticizing the creatures for being presented as too anthropomorphized and the fight itself as too gratuitously violent.
  "I don't think this film is bad, at all. I think it looks decent, it's animated well, I think it's a well-paced film with a beginning, a satisfying escalation, and an end, and a point - but this film was conceived and choreographed by smashing two dinosaur toys together and to me, it certainly shows."
• Creator's Favorite Episode: In a pinned comment on the teaser for "Our Frozen Past", Armsby says that this episode is "easily my favorite of the series". "Sea and Sky" is his second favorite as well.
• Deleted Scene: While every short has scenes that didn't make the cut, Armsby pointed out that a lot of what would become "A More Ancient Spring" was left on the cutting room floor, including a few alternate endings, a scene of the Gorgosaurus killing the female Lambeosaurus, an encounter between the male Lambeosaurus and one of the Euoplocephalus, and a few shots with a more water-color style background.
• Spiritual Successor: The series is very much an outgrowth of Armsby's previous dinosaur-centric film Sharp Teeth, with one of the stories featuring the same creatures and even editing beats from that film, providing a great way to establish Armsby's Art Evolution between Sharp Teeth and Dinosauria.
• What Could Have Been: In the aforementioned interview, Armsby said that he'd drawn up storyboards for multiple additional episodes that were ultimately shelved, including one about Diplodocus and one about the evolution of paleoart through the changing appearance and understanding of Spinosaurus.
  • The series started life as a post-apocalyptic story called "All Days" about humans trying to survive a world where a cataclysm briefly merged all time eras together, resulting in dinosaurs and other prehistoric megafauna returning and roaming about. While the apocalypse was scrapped, the dinosaur models were reused for Dinosauria while the basic plot of that short (a family trying to outmaneuver an attacking tyrannosaur) was reused as the plot for "Our Frozen Past".