Jurassic Park Appreciation

[allosaur176]

I wont watch it again until its out on Blu-Ray!!! Tried watching it when I got my 47" Sony HDTV and I just couldnt

 

[CTF]

Wow, I was lied too. Very interesting.

ILM had their "Rebel Mac Unit," but they definitely weren't used on that show; it was all SGI.

 

[Treadwell]

push the CGI envelope with those huge close-ups

Close-ups were the Stan Winston animatronic versions.

 

[Cutest_Sandgirl]

Hands down, JP is my favorite movie of all time. I was 16 when I saw it and the theater was so packed, my sisters, friends, and I were only left with the front row as an option.

When that Raptor lunged at Lex in the ceiling, everyone hitched their legs into their seats. Some boys a few seats down looked so embarrassed. :lol

If I recall correctly, I saw it at least 5 times. It's the sole reason I got a degree in multimedia (though I regret not persuing it further :$ ).

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Close-ups were the Stan Winston animatronic versions.

Guess you didn't see the finale - all CGI!

 

[Colin Droidmilk]

Yep, the close-ups occur within long CGI shots - and besides, Muren tells us they're CGI close-ups. Toward the end of post-production he really wanted to see how close in on a CG dino he could get without it falling apart, and tried it - totally successfully - in that rotunda sequence. Earlier in the film we had gone fairly close in on some of the Brachiosaur skin, but that looked less photographic to me - gorgeous, though, like a moving painting. But the final Tyrannosaur close-ups were something else.

Still, the confusion between animatronic and CGI in JP is great. On the whole, I spotted Winston's stuff from ILM's, but there was a Winston shot which I took for cgi at the time - the standing raptor that forces them onto the skeleton display.