Danielle Dufault

Danielle Dufault (born 1988 or 1989) is a Canadian paleoartist and biological illustrator based in Toronto, Ontario.

She is the in-house paleontological illustrator with the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). She is also the illustrator and main host of the zoological YouTube channel Animalogic.

Career

Paleontological illustration Dufault's interest in paleoart started when she visited Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto at eight years old and saw the dinosaur skeletons on display. In addition to drawing and sketching, she enjoyed exploring nature as a child, spending hours outdoors, digging up worms and collecting insects.

Dufault uses both traditional and digital resources to create art and scientific diagrams. She then gathers information about what is known about the subject's habitat; what other creatures from the same area looked like; and how the subject's role as a predator or prey might have affected the patterns and coloration of their exteriors. She illustrated the a 500-million-year-old worm-like creature called the Ovatiovermis cribratus for Assisting Associate Professor Jean-Bernard Caron of the University of Toronto.