Someone Just Explained How The First Jurassic Park Created Realistic Dinosaurs, And It Will Blow Your Mind
With ‘Jurassic World’ series hitting the cinemas, many fans looked back at the original ‘Jurrasic Park’ with awe and wonder. While the current day CGI is so advanced that it is used in almost every movie, it wasn’t exactly there back in 1993 when the ‘Jurrasic Park’ dinosaurs first graced the silver screens. Yet that didn’t stop Steven Spielberg from creating the glorious prehistoric creatures that shocked everyone in the cinema. Spielberg’s dinosaurs seemed real, too real. And it wasn’t CGI. Tumblr users grouped up together to find out how the beasts were created for the iconic cinematic masterpiece. Scroll down to read the full post and find out about the marvelous process!
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Some users grouped up to find out how dinosaurs in ‘Jurassic Park’ were created, and it’s fascinating!
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I can't believe the article doesn't credit Stan Winston anywhere, he was the the special effects genius behind making all those animatronics, he was responsible for so many of the cool special effects from 80's and 90's, he worked on the Xenomorph in Aliens, the terminators in the first two movies, the alien in The Thing, the Predator. He is one of the only special effects artist to have a star on the walk of fame. The man is totally an unappreciated genius.
When we were watching Jurassic Park on the tv, our cat Salem was scared of the TRex. Later he crept out from behind the sofa and smacked the TRex on the tv screen!
Oh and yes, dinosaurs do walk among us. When my hens, Buttercup and Shelley, are walking in the garden, I hum the theme tune from Jurassic Park. Shelley, I am sure, remembers when hens were dinosaurs, and has decided that she is still is on.
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Yeah the T-Rex is quite a good puppet BUT, watch it without sound! Without the roaring/music and other noise going on to distract you you can see how mechanical the movements of the T-Rex actually are, they are quite clunky/jerky and not fluid like the movement of an organic creature would be.
Of course its not fluid, its a 90’s animatronic. The first A100 animatronic figure was created after JP. The rex was still very, very smooth for it’s time though
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I'd say at least half the stuff mentioned in this "article" is BS. If you really want to know how it was done, find a copy of issue 55 of Cinefex magazine.
Exactly! "The Beauty In The Beasts" by Jody Duncan. Also issues 70, 87 and 142 for the sequels.
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The original release of the movie had the Behind the Scenes look. My daughters were 2 & 3 when they watched this movie for the first time. They begged to see it, so we watched exactly what this post showed us on the DVD. The girls adored the robotics and were not scared by the movie at all, knowing it was just a robot or a guy in a suit. Had we not watched the behind the scenes, I am sure they would have had nightmares for years.
There are only 15 minutes of actual dinosaur footage in the film: 9 minutes are animatronics, 6 minutes of it is CGI.
I can't believe the article doesn't credit Stan Winston anywhere, he was the the special effects genius behind making all those animatronics, he was responsible for so many of the cool special effects from 80's and 90's, he worked on the Xenomorph in Aliens, the terminators in the first two movies, the alien in The Thing, the Predator. He is one of the only special effects artist to have a star on the walk of fame. The man is totally an unappreciated genius.
When we were watching Jurassic Park on the tv, our cat Salem was scared of the TRex. Later he crept out from behind the sofa and smacked the TRex on the tv screen!
Oh and yes, dinosaurs do walk among us. When my hens, Buttercup and Shelley, are walking in the garden, I hum the theme tune from Jurassic Park. Shelley, I am sure, remembers when hens were dinosaurs, and has decided that she is still is on.
Load More Replies... Yeah the T-Rex is quite a good puppet BUT, watch it without sound! Without the roaring/music and other noise going on to distract you you can see how mechanical the movements of the T-Rex actually are, they are quite clunky/jerky and not fluid like the movement of an organic creature would be.
Of course its not fluid, its a 90’s animatronic. The first A100 animatronic figure was created after JP. The rex was still very, very smooth for it’s time though
Load More Replies... I'd say at least half the stuff mentioned in this "article" is BS. If you really want to know how it was done, find a copy of issue 55 of Cinefex magazine.
Exactly! "The Beauty In The Beasts" by Jody Duncan. Also issues 70, 87 and 142 for the sequels.
Load More Replies... The original release of the movie had the Behind the Scenes look. My daughters were 2 & 3 when they watched this movie for the first time. They begged to see it, so we watched exactly what this post showed us on the DVD. The girls adored the robotics and were not scared by the movie at all, knowing it was just a robot or a guy in a suit. Had we not watched the behind the scenes, I am sure they would have had nightmares for years.
There are only 15 minutes of actual dinosaur footage in the film: 9 minutes are animatronics, 6 minutes of it is CGI.
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