All right!, here is the full tracklist of music used in the fan-edited Ice Age series:
Episode 1: South America 1. Mammals (Main Title) – Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST) 2. The Arctic Fox - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST) 3. Unreleased track – Steven Price (from the “The Hunt” blu-ray) 4. Independence - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST) 5. Sifaka - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST) 6. Macaque Heist - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST) 7. Golan Heights - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST) 8. Giraffe Fight - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST) 9. Unreleased track* – Steven Price (from the “The Hunt” blu-ray) 10. Nowhere to Hide – Steven Price (The Hunt OST) 11. Unreleased track – Steven Price (from the “The Hunt” blu-ray) 12. Snow Leopard - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST) 13. Master The Heat - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST) 14. Mammals (End Credits) - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST)
*Note: for the unreleased score from "The Hunt" - there is an option in the blu-ray where you can watch the series with just music (no foley or narration) so I just ripped them from there.
Episode 2: Eurasia 1. Mammals (Main Title) – Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST) 2. Suddenly Winter – Ben Bartlett (Walking With Beasts OST) 3. Keda’s Reflection – Micheal Stearns (Alpha OST) 4. Bison Hunt - Micheal Stearns (Alpha OST) 5. Mammoth Journey - Ben Bartlett (Walking With Beasts OST) 6. The Hunt – Jacob Shea (Asia OST) 7. Lifting the Veil – From The World 8. Dhole – Jacob Shea (Planet Earth III OST) 9. Ancient Kin – Tilman Sillescu (Total War: Attila OST) 10. Getting Old – Jacob Shea (Planet Earth III OST) 11. Shengshik Pema Jungney – Choying Drolma 12. Vengeance - Tilman Sillescu (Total War: Attila OST) 13. Unreleased track – Jacob Shea (Planet Earth III - Ep6: Extremes) 14. The Process of Extinction – Steven Price (A Life on Our Planet OST) 15. Mammals (End Credits) - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST)
Episode 3: Australasian Realm 1. Mammals (Main Title) – Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST) 2. Prehistoric Planet Suite – Anze Rozman (Prehistoric Planet 2 OST) 3. Hatzegopteryx Courtship – Anze Rozman (Prehistoric Planet 2 OST) 4. A Lifeline – Steven Price (Our Planet OST) 5. Pig-Tailed Macaques – Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST) 6. Prologue (Australopithecus) – Ben Bartlett (Walking With Beasts OST) 7. Etruscan Shrew - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST) 8. The Drought – Benji Merrison (Dynasties OST) 9. Coyotes Journey - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST) 10. Unheeded Warnings – Byron Metcalf 11. Hippos in Drought - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST) 12. Unreleased track – Jacob Shea (Planet Earth III – Ep3) 13. Surviving in the Vastness – Steven Price (Our Planet OST) 14. Fire – Jacob Shea (Planet Earth III) 15. Arrival (Of Sapiens) – Ben Bartlett (Walking With Beasts OST)
Episode 4: North America 1. Mammals (Main Title) – Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST) 2. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea – Steven Price (The Hunt OST) 3. The Feather – George S. Clinton (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee OST) 4. The Sifaka - Ben Salisbury (The Life of Mammals† OST) 5. Campfire & First Funeral – Micheal Stearns (Alpha OST) 6. Tracking the Kudu/ The Kill - Ben Salisbury (The Life of Mammals OST) 7. Barrio Hustle – Hermanos Gutierrez 8. Near Algodones – Carter Burwell (Ballad of Buster Scruggs OST) 9. Unreleased track – Steven Price (from the “The Hunt” blu-ray) 10. Sabre Hunters – Ben Bartlett (Walking With Beasts OST) 11. Humans on the Tundra – Ben Bartlett (Walking With Beasts OST) 12. Meat – George S. Clinton (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee OST) 13. Mammals Suite - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST)
†Note: the "Life of Mammals" score was only ever released as CD long ago, and never on streaming. Someone put the score up via a YT video, which is where I sampled it from. ---------- My personal favorite, or musical switch which I think worked best, was the "The Hunt" score in the final Smilodon hunt in "South America". Steven Price score here is especially intense and fits the scene really well in my opinion. Was there a particular musical switch you liked in the series?
I often get asked "how do you remove the music/narration?" from the shows featured in my fan-edits (eg. Prehistoric Planet), so I thought I'd make this BTS post on it.
The answer is: I don't, really. I try my best to clean up the sound and get as much audio from the show itself as is possible. For this, it is very useful to work with a copy of the material that has a 5.1 mix, because then you can isolate different channels and see if there are clean sounds in those.
More often than not, the narration itself is contained within the center channel of the 5.1 mix, and has very little music bleaching into it. In some shows (such as Surviving Earth and WWD25) there is no music whatsoever in the center channel. So the narration and the sound effects in that channel are completely isolated from the music (which is more pronounced in the right and left front channels), and so the center channel can be used for sampling isolated sound effects with little or no music bleaching (as well as isolating/muting the narration). In case of subtle music bleaching (often happens in PhP), one can try and tame it a bit with EQ filters and noise reduction filters. Or it might not be particularly noticeable once you apply your own music, so those sounds get drowned essentially.
But even with this bit of extraction, there is A LOT of re-work that I do - and that is the real "secret" (and the most time consuming portion of my fan-editing).
That means placing each individual foley sound effects applying new background ambiences and so on. Here in pictures you can see what the timeline looks like for Ice Age North America. The majority of layers seen in the timeline are sound effects. The visual editing looks quite messy to start with as well, but once I've figured that part out I can clean it down onto an individual track - and then I do the sound last (which eventually also gets cleaned into 3 individual tracks for a master mix, one with ambiences, one with foley and one with the music).
Having done these types of videos for 3 years now, I have built up quite a library of sound effects that I have sampled from these shows (including Planet Earth etc), as well borrowing sounds from video games (there is a lot of Read Dead Redemption 2 sounds here lol) different movies and so on, and I also own some purchasable SFX libraries that I use.
Like the visuals, the sound aspect of my videos is also remixed media (i.e. fan-editing), and so sampling sounds from TV shows and games is NOT something I'd recommend doing for original content or anything you'd want to monetize (this channel has always been, and will always be, de-monetized).
For original content, you have to either record your own sound effects, find royalty free sounds or buy sound effect packs (and of course play around with all the fun audio filters your software provides!).
I don't want to make it seem as if sound design is just tedious work, it is just as fun and creative a process as doing visual art even if people don't immediately think about it as much as that in which they see, and here too there is balance between accuracy and the rule of cool that has to be reached somewhere. :)
"The Chapada do Araripe, in northeastern Brazil, is one of the country's most important regions for biodiversity, water resources, geological heritage, and paleontology. Its Early Cretaceous deposits, particularly the Crato and Romualdo formations, preserve an internationally significant fossil record that has transformed our understanding of ancient ecosystems and the evolution of vertebrates, including one of the world's most remarkable records of pterosaurs."
Read more about why it is threatened via the link above.
The accompanying book for Blue Planet III releases on 12 Nov 2026. The series itself will likely release around that time as well, plus/minus a week or two. 🐬🪼🐙
On Dinocon yesterday (a paleo-art convention in the UK), in a room full of committed paleo-artists and dinosaur fans, Tim Haines (creator of the original Walking With Dinosaurs) held a talk on Surviving Earth and on using generative AI for future productions (of which he has shown interest in using during prior interviews on youtube); while showing the audience AI-generated clips, or in my opinion: slop. Haines was appropriately boo'd, did not take any questions as planned and immediately rushed out to do a meet.
Note that I was not there. Just hearing different takes from people who were.
It's also important to note that Surviving Earth, which finished production in 2024, did not use any generative AI in the production. It features 3D animations from several different VFX studios, photographic matte painting compositions and some practical effects - but no gen-AI as far as has been confirmed. Having said that, I hope Tim Haines does not do another paleo show (or any kind of show for that matter) so long as he is planning to use gen-AI. According to some, he is a tech-bro first, a dinosaur/art fan second. And now, he appears to have washed out.
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All right!, here is the full tracklist of music used in the fan-edited Ice Age series:
Episode 1: South America
1. Mammals (Main Title) – Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST)
2. The Arctic Fox - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST)
3. Unreleased track – Steven Price (from the “The Hunt” blu-ray)
4. Independence - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST)
5. Sifaka - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST)
6. Macaque Heist - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST)
7. Golan Heights - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST)
8. Giraffe Fight - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST)
9. Unreleased track* – Steven Price (from the “The Hunt” blu-ray)
10. Nowhere to Hide – Steven Price (The Hunt OST)
11. Unreleased track – Steven Price (from the “The Hunt” blu-ray)
12. Snow Leopard - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST)
13. Master The Heat - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST)
14. Mammals (End Credits) - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST)
*Note: for the unreleased score from "The Hunt" - there is an option in the blu-ray where you can watch the series with just music (no foley or narration) so I just ripped them from there.
Episode 2: Eurasia
1. Mammals (Main Title) – Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST)
2. Suddenly Winter – Ben Bartlett (Walking With Beasts OST)
3. Keda’s Reflection – Micheal Stearns (Alpha OST)
4. Bison Hunt - Micheal Stearns (Alpha OST)
5. Mammoth Journey - Ben Bartlett (Walking With Beasts OST)
6. The Hunt – Jacob Shea (Asia OST)
7. Lifting the Veil – From The World
8. Dhole – Jacob Shea (Planet Earth III OST)
9. Ancient Kin – Tilman Sillescu (Total War: Attila OST)
10. Getting Old – Jacob Shea (Planet Earth III OST)
11. Shengshik Pema Jungney – Choying Drolma
12. Vengeance - Tilman Sillescu (Total War: Attila OST)
13. Unreleased track – Jacob Shea (Planet Earth III - Ep6: Extremes)
14. The Process of Extinction – Steven Price (A Life on Our Planet OST)
15. Mammals (End Credits) - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST)
Episode 3: Australasian Realm
1. Mammals (Main Title) – Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST)
2. Prehistoric Planet Suite – Anze Rozman (Prehistoric Planet 2 OST)
3. Hatzegopteryx Courtship – Anze Rozman (Prehistoric Planet 2 OST)
4. A Lifeline – Steven Price (Our Planet OST)
5. Pig-Tailed Macaques – Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST)
6. Prologue (Australopithecus) – Ben Bartlett (Walking With Beasts OST)
7. Etruscan Shrew - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST)
8. The Drought – Benji Merrison (Dynasties OST)
9. Coyotes Journey - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST)
10. Unheeded Warnings – Byron Metcalf
11. Hippos in Drought - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST)
12. Unreleased track – Jacob Shea (Planet Earth III – Ep3)
13. Surviving in the Vastness – Steven Price (Our Planet OST)
14. Fire – Jacob Shea (Planet Earth III)
15. Arrival (Of Sapiens) – Ben Bartlett (Walking With Beasts OST)
Episode 4: North America
1. Mammals (Main Title) – Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST)
2. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea – Steven Price (The Hunt OST)
3. The Feather – George S. Clinton (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee OST)
4. The Sifaka - Ben Salisbury (The Life of Mammals† OST)
5. Campfire & First Funeral – Micheal Stearns (Alpha OST)
6. Tracking the Kudu/ The Kill - Ben Salisbury (The Life of Mammals OST)
7. Barrio Hustle – Hermanos Gutierrez
8. Near Algodones – Carter Burwell (Ballad of Buster Scruggs OST)
9. Unreleased track – Steven Price (from the “The Hunt” blu-ray)
10. Sabre Hunters – Ben Bartlett (Walking With Beasts OST)
11. Humans on the Tundra – Ben Bartlett (Walking With Beasts OST)
12. Meat – George S. Clinton (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee OST)
13. Mammals Suite - Thomas Farnon (Mammals OST)
†Note: the "Life of Mammals" score was only ever released as CD long ago, and never on streaming. Someone put the score up via a YT video, which is where I sampled it from.
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My personal favorite, or musical switch which I think worked best, was the "The Hunt" score in the final Smilodon hunt in "South America". Steven Price score here is especially intense and fits the scene really well in my opinion. Was there a particular musical switch you liked in the series?
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I often get asked "how do you remove the music/narration?" from the shows featured in my fan-edits (eg. Prehistoric Planet), so I thought I'd make this BTS post on it.
The answer is: I don't, really. I try my best to clean up the sound and get as much audio from the show itself as is possible. For this, it is very useful to work with a copy of the material that has a 5.1 mix, because then you can isolate different channels and see if there are clean sounds in those.
More often than not, the narration itself is contained within the center channel of the 5.1 mix, and has very little music bleaching into it. In some shows (such as Surviving Earth and WWD25) there is no music whatsoever in the center channel. So the narration and the sound effects in that channel are completely isolated from the music (which is more pronounced in the right and left front channels), and so the center channel can be used for sampling isolated sound effects with little or no music bleaching (as well as isolating/muting the narration). In case of subtle music bleaching (often happens in PhP), one can try and tame it a bit with EQ filters and noise reduction filters. Or it might not be particularly noticeable once you apply your own music, so those sounds get drowned essentially.
But even with this bit of extraction, there is A LOT of re-work that I do - and that is the real "secret" (and the most time consuming portion of my fan-editing).
That means placing each individual foley sound effects applying new background ambiences and so on. Here in pictures you can see what the timeline looks like for Ice Age North America. The majority of layers seen in the timeline are sound effects. The visual editing looks quite messy to start with as well, but once I've figured that part out I can clean it down onto an individual track - and then I do the sound last (which eventually also gets cleaned into 3 individual tracks for a master mix, one with ambiences, one with foley and one with the music).
Having done these types of videos for 3 years now, I have built up quite a library of sound effects that I have sampled from these shows (including Planet Earth etc), as well borrowing sounds from video games (there is a lot of Read Dead Redemption 2 sounds here lol) different movies and so on, and I also own some purchasable SFX libraries that I use.
Like the visuals, the sound aspect of my videos is also remixed media (i.e. fan-editing), and so sampling sounds from TV shows and games is NOT something I'd recommend doing for original content or anything you'd want to monetize (this channel has always been, and will always be, de-monetized).
For original content, you have to either record your own sound effects, find royalty free sounds or buy sound effect packs (and of course play around with all the fun audio filters your software provides!).
I don't want to make it seem as if sound design is just tedious work, it is just as fun and creative a process as doing visual art even if people don't immediately think about it as much as that in which they see, and here too there is balance between accuracy and the rule of cool that has to be reached somewhere. :)
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Hey! Been a minute since the last one but, premiering Ice Age North America tomorrow! (21:00 CEST). Be there or be square
Running time: 26 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9C9V...
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Please sign this petition to protect the Chapada do Araripe paleontological and environmental heritage:
www.change.org/p/protect-the-chapada-do-araripe-sa…
"The Chapada do Araripe, in northeastern Brazil, is one of the country's most important regions for biodiversity, water resources, geological heritage, and paleontology. Its Early Cretaceous deposits, particularly the Crato and Romualdo formations, preserve an internationally significant fossil record that has transformed our understanding of ancient ecosystems and the evolution of vertebrates, including one of the world's most remarkable records of pterosaurs."
Read more about why it is threatened via the link above.
Thank you!
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The accompanying book for Blue Planet III releases on 12 Nov 2026. The series itself will likely release around that time as well, plus/minus a week or two. 🐬🪼🐙
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First episode of Eons: 'Life and Death on Pangea' premieres today! Be there, link below : )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY8mi...
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[Post has been edited for better wording]
On Dinocon yesterday (a paleo-art convention in the UK), in a room full of committed paleo-artists and dinosaur fans, Tim Haines (creator of the original Walking With Dinosaurs) held a talk on Surviving Earth and on using generative AI for future productions (of which he has shown interest in using during prior interviews on youtube); while showing the audience AI-generated clips, or in my opinion: slop. Haines was appropriately boo'd, did not take any questions as planned and immediately rushed out to do a meet.
Note that I was not there. Just hearing different takes from people who were.
It's also important to note that Surviving Earth, which finished production in 2024, did not use any generative AI in the production. It features 3D animations from several different VFX studios, photographic matte painting compositions and some practical effects - but no gen-AI as far as has been confirmed. Having said that, I hope Tim Haines does not do another paleo show (or any kind of show for that matter) so long as he is planning to use gen-AI. According to some, he is a tech-bro first, a dinosaur/art fan second. And now, he appears to have washed out.
Dinocon's respone:
x.com/DinoConUK/status/2081447513064685822
Rallying call against gen-AI in art:
bsky.app/profile/raftingzalmoxes.bsky.social/post/…
x.com/raftingzalmoxes/status/2081797122215772390
Generative AI has no place in art whatsoever.
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Made a video with @billnguyen4148 , check it out below!^^
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeOdW...
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