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Before special effect artists can bring a creation like a T-Rex to life with robotics and animatronics, they first have to build and sculpt a life-size detailed mockup of the creature out of clay. And while it’s probably one of the best jobs on earth, seeing the artists at Stan Winston Studios having to hand-carve every single scale on the Jurassic Park T-Rex somehow makes your own to-do list seem a little less daunting.
Once completed this massive clay T-Rex would have been used to create molds that let the studio cast a flexible skin cover for the dinosaur’s animatronic guts. And it most likely gave the effects shop a good idea of what renovations would be needed to the building so they could transport the Rex to the set. We’re gonna need a bigger door.
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When special effects were good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4J9TBlFxAg
Seems like ppl agree, CGI is shit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAzQr3Ml0UI shows the Raptors.
Stan Winston was a genius.
I wish it wasn’t acceptable to hand off huge proportions of films to digital animators these days. All films look fake when real props and locations aren’t used.
I want directors to get their hands dirty and spend money filming on location, not paying teams of animators for their version of the film.