[neolog]

I wonder why they're using illustrations instead of 3D models.

[AlotOfReading]

They probably had an illustrator already availabile and didn't want to make an unrealistic secondary model while fighting the modeling/rendering toolchain to do so.

[Someone]

Drawings can better show what the bones look like than photographs (https://thenode.biologists.com/illustrators-see-camera-cant/...)

I would think that is true for “drawing vs 3D model”, too, but of course, 3D models could be used to check the interpretation by the illustrator.

[jazzyjackson]

Not everybody's got a high res 3D scanner laying around

[bigiain]

/me looks at the front facing camera and tof sensor on his phone and sighs...

[TeMPOraL]

Technology, meet business goals :(.