When Jurassic Park first hit the cinema screens 20 years ago, Pixar was still two years away from releasing Toy Story and Fellowship of the Ring was eight years away. The state of the art for computer generated imaging wasn't yet up to the task of creating the high-resolution digital models needed for such a movie.
Stan Winston Studios created a full scale animatronic model of the T-Rex using a steel armature actuated by hydraulic systems to achieve the speed and range of motion required for the film.
Watch ‘Jurassic Park’ engineers build the movie’s giant mechanical T. rex
Jurassic Park may have helped revolutionize modern CG animation in movie-making, but out of the 14 minutes of dinosaurs in the movie, only four were completely generated by computers. Practical…
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