Wednesday, March 13, 2013
JURASSIC PARK: Making Of The Venom-Spitting Dinosaur (Video)
www.comicbookmovie.com: Mechanical FX Designer Rick Galinson had only been working at the Stan Winston Studio for about a year when he raised his hand and offered to work on the animatronic Dilophosaurus (aka The Spitter). In the video below Rick provides insightful commentary over some amazing never-before-seen footage of the making of The Spitter puppet.
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This dinosaur is so cool!!! this job sounds like it would be extremely stressful but also extremely rewarding and fun. I really want to go on to work in film so i love when i get to read and watch articles about the behind the scenes of things.
The way the effect changed when the skin was added to the dinosaur was just astounding! it went from being something with potential to an extremely realistic looking and moving dinosaur neck! the anamatronics are so interesting.
While watching this one of the only thinks i could think of was what if we used these and put on a musical with jsut these dinosaurs, or something similar. i definietly think we could harness this technology for the theater!
This is amazing! I am curious to see if the engineers looked at the history of puppetry when figuring out how the legs would move. And I wonder if future films and theatrical productions learned from this specific movie about puppetry. The legs of the spitter reminded me of the cheetah in the Lion King on Broadway. I found the fluidity of the neck movement incredible and was surprised that it was due to the weight of the springs. I wish they showed a little more on how the tongue movement worked because it looked very complex. It is incredible how far puppetry has come. These creatures look real. We went from Alien in 1979 with a man in an alien suit to a mechanical dinosaur in 1993. It is sad that most movies now replace puppets with CGI. The puppets are charming and realistic, whereas the CGI looks unrealistically perfect. All I can say is that I have never seen so many wires come out of dinosaur's ass.
So amazing and impressive, short and sweet. Developing the Spitter and creating all of the mechanisms to create a walking dinosaur is incredible. I am just blown away by the how intricate the puppet is and how well the dinosaur works. Just the from rough design and mechanics to skin layering and a full dinosaur. One thought I had during the entire video, is this type of puppetry going to die a slow death because of things like the green screen. I just wonder which is cheaper a digital or physical dinosaur. I not a large fan and putting everything under a computer but a digital dinosaur should do more things, I would think. I am also thinking would the puppet just go to less detail and be covered in it own green screen. This way they could combine the abilities of both green screen and puppetry. I am not sure, it will be interesting to see how puppetry continues in the future.
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