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From: catizone@usaor.net (Rick Catizone)
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Subject: Re: Jurassic Park
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I've been following this through several responses, and there seems to be
varying differences as to what was CGI.
A very old friend of mine sculpted the T rex models for the stop-motion
puppets, as well as as a fifth scale model and supervised the full size TRex,
with his main sculpture work being the face. Mike Trcic did a great job on
those models; and although he was getting a kick out of the fact that Phil
would actually be animating one of Mike's sculptures on the big screen, that
never came to pass. They did no stop-motion that reached the screen, all that
is there is the full size and CGI stuff, but most of the Trex was CGI.
You can also check out the laser disk "Making of..." which has the full stop-
motion animatics from Tippets crew for the Rex entrance, as well as the
kitchen raptor sequence. Phil's stop-motion tests looked great, but there is
NO ( I repeat) NO stop-motion in JP.
The raptors are almost exclusively CGI.
But I think the thing to remember here is that ANIMATORS made the creatures
move. And to aid in that process they built an armatured skeleton with
connections to input the hpb, xyz positions quickly into the computer to
transfer hands on animation into data. And you only have to look at Phil's
animatics to see that he and his crew defined every action that made THE
PERFORMANCE of those creatures.
As to Jumanji, the lion waass great. Better than any real or animatronic lion
because of the way it was slightly overplayed . Great lingering moments that
would be hard to stage anyway. The perfect walk, breathing,etc. I only saw
it once, and it's possible that one of the shots has the animatronic, but it
all seemed to have that "slightly over the top feel", and I have seen the
puppet that can do that. (No offense to Rick Baker, who does superb work.)