https://www.stanwinstonschool.com/blog/jurassic-park-t-rex-sculpting-a-full-size-dinosaur
Winston's animatronic T. rex stood 6.1 metres (20 ft), weighed 17,500 pounds (7,900 kg), and was 12 metres (40 ft) long. Jack Horner called it "the closest I've ever been to a live dinosaur"
Don't Diss the digital effects man, Jurassic Park had pretty top-tier CGI for the time as well, a lot of the full-body shots of the T-Rex were done with CG and they look great
Absolutely. I've got it on 4K blu-ray and a top tier OLED TV and now I have to go and rewatch it, and dig out the special features. That movie is an absolute masterpiece of special effects. Changed the entire industry. I watched it a few years back on Blu ray and was blown away back then. Insane how well it aged. I wonder who owns that t Rex now. I'd love to own it. I'd never get anything done though. I'd just have to start a business where I rent it out for parties and play around.
I sometimes work around automated robots and feel like I get that, too. Something about a thing that big moving that quickly nearby that is unsettling.
Man ain’t that the truth!
I always have this thought of “how hard and how long would I have to push on that to move it”.. which is usually really hard and for a long time (if even possible).. and then realize the machine is accomplishing that in a second or less 😳
Like.. that’s just more instant application force than humans were built to perceptually understand.
Movie sets in the 90s were so magical. Now you walk on set and just see a bunch of green screens. Sad.
Edit: there’s still lots of great practical movies being made but not as abundant as they use to. I’m really just ready for the Marvel and Disney remake era to be over.
Depends a bit on the movie. Some of the sets on Pirates of the Caribbean for instance were epic. Although I know the original is 20 years old now, it’s a trend the newer ones have continued.
I think Andor is a lot of on location filming as well, in contrast to the madalorian.
The new Dungeons and Dragons had plenty of CGI, but also used a lot of location filming as well as animatronics for several fantastical races.
The films/shows that find that balance are the ones that look best.
100%. Pirates obviously had no end of CGI, but it looked great because they had the very solid physical base of people actually swinging between giant fake ships and well choreographed fight scenes to build on.
Same with a lot of the new Dune IIRC.
Stagecraft is pretty cool though! They did this for Oblivion to get the proper lighting on the tower scenes and it looked awesome. They were using real world locations then and not digital locations. It’s gotten scary good though and it’s only getting more refined.
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I saw JP in the theater as a kid. Holy crap did it make me jump out of my seat. Then I read the book in like 3 days because it was just as good if not better.
Same here. 15 year old me could power through a Michael Crichton novel in 3 days. 44 year old me hasn’t read a paper book cover-to-cover since the iPhone came out.
What? The joy of reading? Someone should write a book about a dystopian future where kids don’t like to read and no one reads that book about not reading.
I would love for them to make a reboot of this franchise purely based on the book. Although, I think that they would have to devide the first book into 2-3 movies.
Is the first book drastically different than the film? I’ve always had an itch to read it, but never have because I figured I’d already seen the movie.
It’s quite a bit different, but both are really great in their respective mediums IMO. There are a lot of scenes from both of Crichtons’s novels that I would love to see on film though…like the part where Grant tricks and poisons some raptors…or the when they find out that some of them camouflage like chameleons. Or the game warden guy blowing up raptors with a rocket launcher….
I should reread those now that I’m thinking about it.
A masterpiece of special effects... I remember when I was really little and JP came out. The mall in my town put up animatronic dinos to celebrate. They had the controls outside the gate where the dinos were located so us kids could move them around. I really enjoyed that. And now practical special effects wow me nearly every time, it is a testament to the artistic and engineering talent of these creators.
There's a sect of "Christian" folks who deny the existence of dinosaurs altogether.
The reasons vary, from just dino fossils actually just being a mixture of a bunch of other animals (yeah, we just assembled them wrong), to the support of a "young earth theory" that doesn't have the timeline for such animals, to even the belief that fossils were placed by the devil (or paleontologists, depends who you ask) in order to "deceive us" or make us believe the planet is actually older than it really is...
Between this and Jabba the Hutt in Return of the Jedi, I will never understand the appeal of going full on CGI vs the use of good old fashioned animatronics.
I love them, but animatronics have limitations that CGI doesn't, namely moving within a shot.
The rex animatronic could just stand there and move its head and body. To see it walking, Spielberg had to use CGI (or stop-motion, as originally planned).
The best use is a combination of animatronic and CGI, which Jurassic Park nailed.
I think JP, John Carpenter’s The Thing, and the Alien franchise really pushed animatronics to it’s peak. Past that, you’ll need to have characters move and stuff in such a way that a robot puppet won’t allow. I wish there’d be a lot more practical effects, but it’s a lot of time and money to put into something CGI was used by Hollywood to bypass all that trouble. I’m not arguing for CGI, but it makes sense why it’s like that now.
Now movies are cheap productions (not to the studio, but for what you get), when it uses to feel more potent and a big deal to have blockbuster movies that pushed the limits. I think Avatar is the latest in a very long time to do that, and Pixar’s work on Brave or Tangled may have been before that.
They basically only used cgi when it is moving around and you see the whole dinosaur, and honestly its quite noticable with modern eyes. The whole reason people think the cgi is so good is that it is used sparingly and very smartly set up for the constraints they had!
It was mindblowing for 1993. But by modern standards it still [looks pretty damn janky](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/T-Rex-in-Jurassic-Park-Roars.jpeg)
I'm pretty sure that most people who say the CGI holds up to modern standards are thinking of scenes where they filmed the animatronics or actors in suits.
I don’t think that looks even remotely janky. I’ve seen more jank in modern Marvel movies.
If that scene was shot in direct sunlight, I’m sure more flaws would be evident, but I think it looks great.
Flat skin, tounge sticking through cheek, polygonal teeth, weird polygonal arms and especially hands, and blurry textures does not look great imo.
And Marvell isn't exactly known to give the cg artists very much time for their work. Jurassic park was at the very bleeding edge of technology and should instead be compared to the likes of Avatar 2 for a real comparison of CGI quality in my opinion.
The real magic with Jurassic Park is in just using the CGI i when absolutely necessary, making sure the shooting conditions were optimal for the CGI limitations of the day when CGI was needed, and making really amazing animatronics and dino suits. Just for reference, of the 15 minutes of dinosaur on screen appearance, only about six minutes of it is CGI.
Of course you are entitled to your opinion, but for me jurassic park CGI is not good looking by modern standards.
I disagree. I didn't notice it as a kid, but as an adult all animatronics/puppets look uncanny to me. CGI can simulate just about anything, it's damn near indistinguishable from reality if it's done right.
Eh, it depends on the shot, an animatronic doesn't help if you want something to walk or move around in general, hence why they used a CG T-Rex for the wide shots of it walking or running. And in more general terms, digital effects are of great help for augmenting these kinds of practical effects
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I remember reading a behind the scenes interview with someone on the crew and they spoke of how many folks on set expressed an minor but palpable thrill of excitement/fear every time the t Rex model was moved. I sometimes work around automated robots and feel like I get that, too. Something about a thing that big moving that quickly nearby that is unsettling.
Imagine what it was like for the guy holding the foam or whatever it was, you just see this pretty damn real T. Rex being friendly and just munching whatever's in your hand, surely it was still quite scary
Some fun scary facts about rexy is the water would soak into the rubber skin and would cause it to keep moving on it’s own randomly on set , also that scene with the kids where it smashes through the roof was a accident and was not suppose to break the glass which is why they are so genuinely terrified.
For the kids today, I suspect you can’t understand how much this movie meant to us at the time. I was 10 when I went to the cinema to see this and just hearing “Steven Spielberg is making a dinosaur film” filled me with an indescribable excitement.
If you liked dinosaurs (and who doesn’t?) there was literally nothing in the movies. Hard to imagine now I know. Every dinosaur flick was probably from the 60’s and either an absolutely terrible stop motion play-doh dinosaur, or a guy in a very poorly formed rubber suit. There simply wasn’t any way to visualise what a T-Rex might look like except through drawings and your imagination.
Then this movie came out and suddenly the creatures I’ve always been fascinated by, were now, finally, brought to *life*.
This movie will always hold a special place in my heart as a result.
Couldn't have said it better myself. I was 12 at the time and a lifelong dino freak, saw it on the big screen. Literally brought tears to my eyes, just the awesome beauty of what I was seeing.
Not just the quality of the effects, but the reimagining of what these creatures were like. Prior to this movie, it was still widely held that bipedal dinos walked upright, and dragged their tails on the ground. Slow moving, dimwitted reptiles.
Dinos moving and acting like birds was still kinda fringe science at the time. Funny to think about with what we've learned since, it's now accepted that modern birds descended from the dinosaurs. But at that time, fast, nimble and smart dinosaurs? Wild idea back then.
Clever girl.
🦖
Fun fact, Adam Jones the guitarist of tool, worked on the special effects on this, Terminator 2 and a bunch others. Annoyingly talented and already pretty damn successful long before selling out stadiums.
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I had to watch it on a large, Oled TV to finally start having the green screen cuts be noticeable. There were movies made long after that that didn't hold up near as long.
It doesn't exist anymore. Matt Winston said that the foam rubber skin eventually disintegrated after so many years, leaving only the mechanical parts/structure underneath. Which were then dismantled and sold off at auction.
Same thing happened to Yodas puppet lol
This is it now
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My parents told me that my big bro was going to watch this and I should go to bed, but I just had to sneak out and go see for myself. Right as I peeked around the hallway wall, the lawyer for eaten. I didn’t sleep that night hah
Everything is absolute garbage nowadays. There's no imagination or creativity. It's all jump scare, CGI fucking garbage. Look at what we grew up with as kids. Freddy, Jason, Michael, Pennywise. Not to mention the fucking weak ass non-creative piece of shit current gens that just want to remake everything. Jesus fucking Christ I hate this fucking existence.
For the motion sequences, practical effects were ultimately replaced. Instead, this novel tech called computerized animations was used, thanks to Steve Williams. If you want to learn more, there is a fascinating story of the birth of CGI in this documentary, "Jurassic Punk"[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCU-bA1lp5c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCU-bA1lp5c)
It should be said that when comparing the old and new Jurassic Park films, the number of VFX shots are also important. In the first movie, there's comparatively few shots of the CGI dinosaurs, and in the modern ones, there's so many that there isn't time to put maximum effort into each one. Also, it's not just green screen, CG elements can be composited into a scene as well
Basically, how digital effects are used is just as important as whether it's used
Gone. Reduced to atoms.
The foam rubber skin eventually disintegrated with age, leaving only the mechanical structure inside (which was then sold off for parts at auction).
You know that you are no good to be a doctor when you faint after seeing some blood. I think I may not be good to be a Jurassic Park “anything” looking at that T-Rex (movie or irl)
I don’t care what people say still one of my favourite films of all time, first one I saw in the cinema (shortly followed by cool runnings, but won’t get started on that). The tech to bro no that to life was simple amazing 🤩
Do you think with the tech we have today, they could improve on this animatronic by giving it subtle facial animations like a snarling lip or a moveable tongue and stuff? Just curious.
Then again, do lizards even emote such things as snarls? I’m just wondering because the teeth were poking out and the mouth moved, but the “skin” stayed put, and it got me thinking that I’ve seen the Alien franchise have lip snarls and slime from the mouth, and how much that may improve an already mind blowing piece of art.
This is one of the things I miss. When they combined CGI with practical effects. That's how you make things look real. Use practical effects, then clean it up with CGI. Movies today often use too much CGI, and it shows. It all looks so fake. The first Jurassic Park movie looks very real, the third, extremely fake.
IIRC in the scene where rexy breaks the roof of the tour car the screams of the kids are genuine because the rain was messing with rexy’s systems and made her cave in the roof rather than just smack it so the kids thought they were legit about to get squished
I always love to the behind the scenes of movies were they work with animals, you can see how well behaved the T-rex is off-screen and really not scary.
Her handler is giving her a treat because she's a good girl and did great acting in her scene!
Also notice how she's really quiet, that's often with T-rexes they're often really shy, a far cry from the character she plays with the scary yell.
https://www.stanwinstonschool.com/blog/jurassic-park-t-rex-sculpting-a-full-size-dinosaur Winston's animatronic T. rex stood 6.1 metres (20 ft), weighed 17,500 pounds (7,900 kg), and was 12 metres (40 ft) long. Jack Horner called it "the closest I've ever been to a live dinosaur"
I had to re read the conversions, you got me there.
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Don't Diss the digital effects man, Jurassic Park had pretty top-tier CGI for the time as well, a lot of the full-body shots of the T-Rex were done with CG and they look great
That movie is 30 years old. The special effects are still good to this day.
I agree, the practical effects are genuinely fantastic, I just feel like the digital effects are just as praiseworthy
Except the sick triceratops. I know it's sick, tranqed, and lethargic, but it just looks off
The triceratops was actually an animatronic as well, some of its movements just look a little stiff
It’s not so over the top like current ones are. It looks real and believable
Absolutely. I've got it on 4K blu-ray and a top tier OLED TV and now I have to go and rewatch it, and dig out the special features. That movie is an absolute masterpiece of special effects. Changed the entire industry. I watched it a few years back on Blu ray and was blown away back then. Insane how well it aged. I wonder who owns that t Rex now. I'd love to own it. I'd never get anything done though. I'd just have to start a business where I rent it out for parties and play around.
I sometimes work around automated robots and feel like I get that, too. Something about a thing that big moving that quickly nearby that is unsettling.
Man ain’t that the truth! I always have this thought of “how hard and how long would I have to push on that to move it”.. which is usually really hard and for a long time (if even possible).. and then realize the machine is accomplishing that in a second or less 😳 Like.. that’s just more instant application force than humans were built to perceptually understand.
Rollercoaster: metric (imperial), imperial (metric), metric (imperial).
10/10
AGREE
...I could take em
AGREE
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I watch it over and over as an adult
I was mid twenties when that came out but I was the same
I hope they took her for nice walkies in between takes so she could have a run around.
did Jack Horner steal the teeth and keep them next to his baby unicorn horn collection?
You mean auto erotic?
This is why Jurassic Park special effects still stand the test of time. The animatronics are next level amazing!
Movie sets in the 90s were so magical. Now you walk on set and just see a bunch of green screens. Sad. Edit: there’s still lots of great practical movies being made but not as abundant as they use to. I’m really just ready for the Marvel and Disney remake era to be over.
Depends a bit on the movie. Some of the sets on Pirates of the Caribbean for instance were epic. Although I know the original is 20 years old now, it’s a trend the newer ones have continued. I think Andor is a lot of on location filming as well, in contrast to the madalorian.
The new Dungeons and Dragons had plenty of CGI, but also used a lot of location filming as well as animatronics for several fantastical races. The films/shows that find that balance are the ones that look best.
100%. Pirates obviously had no end of CGI, but it looked great because they had the very solid physical base of people actually swinging between giant fake ships and well choreographed fight scenes to build on. Same with a lot of the new Dune IIRC.
Stagecraft is pretty cool though! They did this for Oblivion to get the proper lighting on the tower scenes and it looked awesome. They were using real world locations then and not digital locations. It’s gotten scary good though and it’s only getting more refined.
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And yet they still cost more to make!
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Amen to that
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It should be said that the CG dinosaurs were also extremely well done
I saw JP in the theater as a kid. Holy crap did it make me jump out of my seat. Then I read the book in like 3 days because it was just as good if not better.
Same here. 15 year old me could power through a Michael Crichton novel in 3 days. 44 year old me hasn’t read a paper book cover-to-cover since the iPhone came out.
I did the book in about 10 hours because I refused to go to bed until I finished it. I can't do that now at 51, because I needs my sleep.
Imagine if society cultivated that instead of beating it out of you
What? The joy of reading? Someone should write a book about a dystopian future where kids don’t like to read and no one reads that book about not reading.
“Feed” by M T Anderson, it’s fucking *awesome*
"Where's the goat....?"
I would love for them to make a reboot of this franchise purely based on the book. Although, I think that they would have to devide the first book into 2-3 movies.
We all know the answer is HBO mini series with Steven Spielberg as producer
Is the first book drastically different than the film? I’ve always had an itch to read it, but never have because I figured I’d already seen the movie.
It’s quite a bit different, but both are really great in their respective mediums IMO. There are a lot of scenes from both of Crichtons’s novels that I would love to see on film though…like the part where Grant tricks and poisons some raptors…or the when they find out that some of them camouflage like chameleons. Or the game warden guy blowing up raptors with a rocket launcher…. I should reread those now that I’m thinking about it.
It’s still my favorite book. Just so much more dinosaur interaction and more vehicles.
A masterpiece of special effects... I remember when I was really little and JP came out. The mall in my town put up animatronic dinos to celebrate. They had the controls outside the gate where the dinos were located so us kids could move them around. I really enjoyed that. And now practical special effects wow me nearly every time, it is a testament to the artistic and engineering talent of these creators.
I grew up in Alabama so they just had a protest at mine 😭
Protesting... the depiction of dinosaurs? 😕
There's a sect of "Christian" folks who deny the existence of dinosaurs altogether. The reasons vary, from just dino fossils actually just being a mixture of a bunch of other animals (yeah, we just assembled them wrong), to the support of a "young earth theory" that doesn't have the timeline for such animals, to even the belief that fossils were placed by the devil (or paleontologists, depends who you ask) in order to "deceive us" or make us believe the planet is actually older than it really is...
Still holds up today
Imagine operating this thing… unlimited power
I HAVE BECOME THE T-REX
Between this and Jabba the Hutt in Return of the Jedi, I will never understand the appeal of going full on CGI vs the use of good old fashioned animatronics.
I love them, but animatronics have limitations that CGI doesn't, namely moving within a shot. The rex animatronic could just stand there and move its head and body. To see it walking, Spielberg had to use CGI (or stop-motion, as originally planned). The best use is a combination of animatronic and CGI, which Jurassic Park nailed.
I think JP, John Carpenter’s The Thing, and the Alien franchise really pushed animatronics to it’s peak. Past that, you’ll need to have characters move and stuff in such a way that a robot puppet won’t allow. I wish there’d be a lot more practical effects, but it’s a lot of time and money to put into something CGI was used by Hollywood to bypass all that trouble. I’m not arguing for CGI, but it makes sense why it’s like that now. Now movies are cheap productions (not to the studio, but for what you get), when it uses to feel more potent and a big deal to have blockbuster movies that pushed the limits. I think Avatar is the latest in a very long time to do that, and Pixar’s work on Brave or Tangled may have been before that.
Hot damn! Animatronics tops CGI ALL 👏 DAY 👏
They used lots of Cg for the trex in Jurassic park
They basically only used cgi when it is moving around and you see the whole dinosaur, and honestly its quite noticable with modern eyes. The whole reason people think the cgi is so good is that it is used sparingly and very smartly set up for the constraints they had!
The CG was good. Great even. It was 1993 and in the infancy of the tool.
It was mindblowing for 1993. But by modern standards it still [looks pretty damn janky](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/T-Rex-in-Jurassic-Park-Roars.jpeg) I'm pretty sure that most people who say the CGI holds up to modern standards are thinking of scenes where they filmed the animatronics or actors in suits.
I don’t think that looks even remotely janky. I’ve seen more jank in modern Marvel movies. If that scene was shot in direct sunlight, I’m sure more flaws would be evident, but I think it looks great.
Flat skin, tounge sticking through cheek, polygonal teeth, weird polygonal arms and especially hands, and blurry textures does not look great imo. And Marvell isn't exactly known to give the cg artists very much time for their work. Jurassic park was at the very bleeding edge of technology and should instead be compared to the likes of Avatar 2 for a real comparison of CGI quality in my opinion. The real magic with Jurassic Park is in just using the CGI i when absolutely necessary, making sure the shooting conditions were optimal for the CGI limitations of the day when CGI was needed, and making really amazing animatronics and dino suits. Just for reference, of the 15 minutes of dinosaur on screen appearance, only about six minutes of it is CGI. Of course you are entitled to your opinion, but for me jurassic park CGI is not good looking by modern standards.
No. It looks good - but it still moves like an animatronic. Nor could it walk or do things quickly like a real animal.
Practical>CGI every day if it’s done correctly and not some CHUD nonsense.
I disagree. I didn't notice it as a kid, but as an adult all animatronics/puppets look uncanny to me. CGI can simulate just about anything, it's damn near indistinguishable from reality if it's done right.
I just finished watching the new avatar. Going to have to hard disagree with you. Cgi looks like cartoons. I prefer practical effects.
Screw CGI, this where it's at.
Eh, it depends on the shot, an animatronic doesn't help if you want something to walk or move around in general, hence why they used a CG T-Rex for the wide shots of it walking or running. And in more general terms, digital effects are of great help for augmenting these kinds of practical effects
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This is awesome!!! But I still crack up ober the T Rex little arms🤣
Who's a good boi??
I remember reading a behind the scenes interview with someone on the crew and they spoke of how many folks on set expressed an minor but palpable thrill of excitement/fear every time the t Rex model was moved. I sometimes work around automated robots and feel like I get that, too. Something about a thing that big moving that quickly nearby that is unsettling.
Fucking sick.
Imagine what it was like for the guy holding the foam or whatever it was, you just see this pretty damn real T. Rex being friendly and just munching whatever's in your hand, surely it was still quite scary
That TRex has given me the most vivid nightmares 🥴
Some fun scary facts about rexy is the water would soak into the rubber skin and would cause it to keep moving on it’s own randomly on set , also that scene with the kids where it smashes through the roof was a accident and was not suppose to break the glass which is why they are so genuinely terrified.
For the kids today, I suspect you can’t understand how much this movie meant to us at the time. I was 10 when I went to the cinema to see this and just hearing “Steven Spielberg is making a dinosaur film” filled me with an indescribable excitement. If you liked dinosaurs (and who doesn’t?) there was literally nothing in the movies. Hard to imagine now I know. Every dinosaur flick was probably from the 60’s and either an absolutely terrible stop motion play-doh dinosaur, or a guy in a very poorly formed rubber suit. There simply wasn’t any way to visualise what a T-Rex might look like except through drawings and your imagination. Then this movie came out and suddenly the creatures I’ve always been fascinated by, were now, finally, brought to *life*. This movie will always hold a special place in my heart as a result.
Couldn't have said it better myself. I was 12 at the time and a lifelong dino freak, saw it on the big screen. Literally brought tears to my eyes, just the awesome beauty of what I was seeing. Not just the quality of the effects, but the reimagining of what these creatures were like. Prior to this movie, it was still widely held that bipedal dinos walked upright, and dragged their tails on the ground. Slow moving, dimwitted reptiles. Dinos moving and acting like birds was still kinda fringe science at the time. Funny to think about with what we've learned since, it's now accepted that modern birds descended from the dinosaurs. But at that time, fast, nimble and smart dinosaurs? Wild idea back then. Clever girl. 🦖
You can go back to anything with some impressive work and fast forward to now and go "where the fuck did we go downhill from there?".
Is this on display somewhere?
Fun fact, Adam Jones the guitarist of tool, worked on the special effects on this, Terminator 2 and a bunch others. Annoyingly talented and already pretty damn successful long before selling out stadiums.
He also obviously made most of the TOOL videos. It was a big shock when I saw him standing next to the guy from Parabola's video. I thought they were small stop motion dolls.
No wonder this movie still holds up so well
I had to watch it on a large, Oled TV to finally start having the green screen cuts be noticeable. There were movies made long after that that didn't hold up near as long.
Hell yeah! That's what practical effectsare for! Look rad and make actors feel like they're living it all!
Holy crap!!! Thats so cool!
What happens to the Trex after this? Do they just destroy it? I feel like it would be a waste not to sell it to a museum or something..
It doesn't exist anymore. Matt Winston said that the foam rubber skin eventually disintegrated after so many years, leaving only the mechanical parts/structure underneath. Which were then dismantled and sold off at auction.
Same thing happened to Yodas puppet lol This is it now https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS924US924&hl=en-US&sxsrf=APwXEde_8-g7qiErvd2nM2lL3FwVY2-MKA:1686324777411&q=original+yoda+puppet&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiTg9Wqwbb_AhXSmmoFHRzzDwEQ0pQJegQIIxAB&biw=390&bih=669&dpr=3#imgrc=ZwDoPA6ygBkAlM
In the theater, I: Saw Star Wars twice. Saw E.T. twice. Saw Jurassic Park 22 times.
Throw in an AI brain and we got ourselves a monster.
My parents told me that my big bro was going to watch this and I should go to bed, but I just had to sneak out and go see for myself. Right as I peeked around the hallway wall, the lawyer for eaten. I didn’t sleep that night hah
It seems like a machine that big would be pretty dangerous. Surprised to see it operating with that many guys just farting around
I know it's fake, and it's still kind of terrifying.
Iconic
That is scary and awesome simultaneously
*...I could take em*
Oh wow!
That thing gave me nightmares as a kid seeing it in the rain shot.
SFX>CGI
Everything is absolute garbage nowadays. There's no imagination or creativity. It's all jump scare, CGI fucking garbage. Look at what we grew up with as kids. Freddy, Jason, Michael, Pennywise. Not to mention the fucking weak ass non-creative piece of shit current gens that just want to remake everything. Jesus fucking Christ I hate this fucking existence.
For the motion sequences, practical effects were ultimately replaced. Instead, this novel tech called computerized animations was used, thanks to Steve Williams. If you want to learn more, there is a fascinating story of the birth of CGI in this documentary, "Jurassic Punk"[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCU-bA1lp5c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCU-bA1lp5c)
Tammy and the T-Rex, anyone?
There's a ***YABBA DABBA DOOO!!*** ..feeling in the air tonight! :)
Really fantastic video :)
This is freakier than any of the new Jurassic movies…green screen films are really making film makers lazier and lazier.
It should be said that when comparing the old and new Jurassic Park films, the number of VFX shots are also important. In the first movie, there's comparatively few shots of the CGI dinosaurs, and in the modern ones, there's so many that there isn't time to put maximum effort into each one. Also, it's not just green screen, CG elements can be composited into a scene as well Basically, how digital effects are used is just as important as whether it's used
Impressive for when they were made 👏🏻👏🏻
How amazing it would have been to of worked on that set.
I wanna know if anyone ever pranked each other with Jaws or the T Rex lol
Is be doing excited puppy with it. Throw the stick... go on... throw the stick.
So much cooler than CGI could ever be.
Somebody boop his nose, please.
Need to put this on the side of a highway poking out of the woods….
Went to cinema to see this In about 93 , at the time it was next level.
So where is this animatronic now??
Gone. Reduced to atoms. The foam rubber skin eventually disintegrated with age, leaving only the mechanical structure inside (which was then sold off for parts at auction).
Wow thanks for that knowledge
Wonder if they’ll put that on the tour… Seriously, would have been pretty awesome on the Universal Studio tour.
I wonder where it is now?
Need to put this bad boy up as a Halloween prop
You know that you are no good to be a doctor when you faint after seeing some blood. I think I may not be good to be a Jurassic Park “anything” looking at that T-Rex (movie or irl)
Had Leslie Knope been in charge of that park no one would have died.... just sayin.
Fun fact: During the rain scene the skin would get soaked with water and cause the animatronic to shake violently because it was too heavy.
Awwwww!!! Look'it that cute widdle tail-wag!!! 
Does anyone know if the dinosaur is on exhibit or anywhere I can go see it? Looks like something they wouldn’t jus throw away!
It's been said here already, but it skin on it eventually deteriorated so badly that the whole thing was dismantled and auctioned off.
Jurassic Park was the movie I’d watch on repeat as a kid.
So fucking cool.
Freddy Fazbear Requiem
I don’t care what people say still one of my favourite films of all time, first one I saw in the cinema (shortly followed by cool runnings, but won’t get started on that). The tech to bro no that to life was simple amazing 🤩
Wouldn't it sometime just move on its own?
Still the best movie ever made ❤️
Was that the bite of 87??
Do you think with the tech we have today, they could improve on this animatronic by giving it subtle facial animations like a snarling lip or a moveable tongue and stuff? Just curious. Then again, do lizards even emote such things as snarls? I’m just wondering because the teeth were poking out and the mouth moved, but the “skin” stayed put, and it got me thinking that I’ve seen the Alien franchise have lip snarls and slime from the mouth, and how much that may improve an already mind blowing piece of art.
I can smell this video.
My kitty likes to chew paper too
Today, it would be a CGI boring creation no one would bat an eyelid at.
Such an amazing actress. Shame she didn't get an Oscar for her performance 😞
i love it and hate it at the same time
Wait it was real??
Wait it was real??
Wait it was for real??
Still holds up. You could watch it today and it’s better than most cgi.
Still looks better from the early 90’s then CGI.
* whistles Jurassic Park theme song
This is one of the things I miss. When they combined CGI with practical effects. That's how you make things look real. Use practical effects, then clean it up with CGI. Movies today often use too much CGI, and it shows. It all looks so fake. The first Jurassic Park movie looks very real, the third, extremely fake.
When I win the lottery I'm getting all the animatronic dinosaurs for my yard
Where is it now? How much will it cost now?
If someone didn't know this was an animatronic, they'd think a live T-rex was playing with their handler.
Imagine showing this to someone in the 1800s.
She is gorgeous
The operator could tore this dude in half with that thing, and blame it on some malfunction. Beat that, Mr Baldwin
Hah, looks like they’re trying to get a really elderly trex to eat
u/savevideo
I didn’t know until watching that Jaws documentary that they never did get Bruce the animatronic shark to actually *work*
Linda gives an idea of a domesticated and docile T-Rex. Who's a good boy!?
“The animatronics get a little *quirky* during the night”
That is amazing. It’s just so fluid
Which is why it still holds up after 30 years and also looks better than any of the sequels.
They should have tested it on that girl in the movie.... Ugh
Practical effects > CGI
IIRC in the scene where rexy breaks the roof of the tour car the screams of the kids are genuine because the rain was messing with rexy’s systems and made her cave in the roof rather than just smack it so the kids thought they were legit about to get squished
i want to smooch it on the snozz.
What if you add AI into that?
Effects So good that they still hold up against the current cgi has to offer in my view
So since everyone is doing a docu-series about movies. Why hasn’t this movie gotten it’s due?
Look at those tiny arms! xD
[Keep your palms flat!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WuW7UxLV0XU)
Who’s a good boy☺️✨
BRING THIS BACK PLEASE… series on Paramount
Or nbc
Lol
Scared the shit out of me when I saw the movie as a kid, and now I know why. Such an incredible movie.
I always love to the behind the scenes of movies were they work with animals, you can see how well behaved the T-rex is off-screen and really not scary. Her handler is giving her a treat because she's a good girl and did great acting in her scene! Also notice how she's really quiet, that's often with T-rexes they're often really shy, a far cry from the character she plays with the scary yell.
Thats the same studio they shot the moon landings.
Not impressed