The hard work of Jim Henson's Creature Workshop mean that you never really realise it's just a man in a costume...
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apparently Speilberg was going to do the dinosaurs using stop-motion plasticine figures until he saw T2 and realised that computers were getting quite good.
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apparently Speilberg was going to do the dinosaurs using stop-motion plasticine figures until he saw T2 and realised that computers were getting quite good.
From the Hollywood Premakes challenge. See all 595 entries (closed)
( , Mon 1 Sep 2003, 23:01, archived)
Did he fuck.
He got Dennis Muren of ILM to do his best with stop-go animation and also some of the new guys at ILM to do test shots in pure CGI. CGI won hands down.
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Mon 1 Sep 2003, 23:09,
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yeah,
he had the CGI tests done because he saw T2. There's not actually that much CG in the first film. Most of the dinosaur scenes actually are puppets.
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Mon 1 Sep 2003, 23:14,
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