In shots where they were seen walking, Jurassic Park's resident brachiosaurs were realised with ground-breaking computer animation. But for shots when the film's human characters interacted with them high in the trees, the brachiosaurs were brought to life with complicated animatronics created by Stan Winston Studios. Read More >>
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. Read More >>
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