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[challenge entry] 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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(, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 23:01, archived)
# hahhahaah
tops.
(, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 23:02, archived)
# man in costume?!
YOU KNOW NOTHING!
(, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 23:04, 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.
(, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 23:09, archived)
# 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.
(, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 23:14, archived)
# Bwahahahahahaaa!
Most? Close up's, maybe.

I ain't gonna waste my time clocking the minutes animatronics vs cgi, got more in my life.

*runs off and fetches DVD*
(, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 23:20, archived)
# yeah most
read the making of book when the film came out. i'm pretty certain there are only 4 CGI sequences in the whole film
(, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 23:30, archived)