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> 1.) CGI has getting astonishingly good relative to what people were used to seeing Wasn't the first one done with animatronics and costumes?

jccooper 8y ago
Largely. But what CGI it did use was very good for the time (and even today), and represented something if a watershed moment.
codeulike 8y ago
There's plenty of CGI in the first JP. At the time it was groundbreaking. The first big reveal of the brachiosaur munching on trees is CGI (this famous clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJlmYh27MHg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJlmYh27MHg). I think most of the big dinosaurs were CGI. Some of the raptor stuff was costumes. And some of the close-ups were models. Its interesting to ponder that before Jurassic Park released in 1993, no-one had ever seen a photorealistic moving image of a dinosaur. Every attempt beforehand was glaringly obvious stop motion. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hxSws2W0-E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hxSws2W0-E
- ghaff 8y ago
  This is one of the films whose visual impact at the time is hard to appreciate today. That scene was one in which the impact on the audience was almost as great as it was on the characters in the clip. The opening of Star Was was similar (although that was more models-based).
  - bonesss 8y ago
    I think a lot of the impact can be recreated, with the appropriate score: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w-58hQ9dLk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w-58hQ9dLk
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- chc 8y ago
  IIRC the T. Rex was mostly CG but they had a real animatronic head and I think a foot for when it was interacting with things. (This is based on my recollection of the 10000 making-ofs I watched at the time.)
  - pr0zac 8y ago
    There was a complete full-size T-Rex animatronic model that was used for most of the car scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZtJVh3nUyU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZtJVh3nUyU
    - codeulike 8y ago
      Holy crap, I didn't know that. I just watched this and it seems they switched between CGI and animatronics for that sequence depending on what would work best. I think CGI was still basically being invented then and was crazy expensive. https://youtu.be/oelBtZHkL4c?t=9m5s https://youtu.be/oelBtZHkL4c?t=9m5s
toast0 8y ago
CGI that's not actually CGI usually looks better and lasts better (baring periodic rerenderings). ;)

jccooper 8y ago

Largely. But what CGI it did use was very good for the time (and even today), and represented something if a watershed moment.

codeulike 8y ago

There's plenty of CGI in the first JP. At the time it was groundbreaking. The first big reveal of the brachiosaur munching on trees is CGI (this famous clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJlmYh27MHg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJlmYh27MHg). I think most of the big dinosaurs were CGI. Some of the raptor stuff was costumes. And some of the close-ups were models. Its interesting to ponder that before Jurassic Park released in 1993, no-one had ever seen a photorealistic moving image of a dinosaur. Every attempt beforehand was glaringly obvious stop motion. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hxSws2W0-E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hxSws2W0-E

ghaff 8y ago
This is one of the films whose visual impact at the time is hard to appreciate today. That scene was one in which the impact on the audience was almost as great as it was on the characters in the clip. The opening of Star Was was similar (although that was more models-based).
- bonesss 8y ago
  I think a lot of the impact can be recreated, with the appropriate score: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w-58hQ9dLk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w-58hQ9dLk
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chc 8y ago
IIRC the T. Rex was mostly CG but they had a real animatronic head and I think a foot for when it was interacting with things. (This is based on my recollection of the 10000 making-ofs I watched at the time.)
- pr0zac 8y ago
  There was a complete full-size T-Rex animatronic model that was used for most of the car scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZtJVh3nUyU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZtJVh3nUyU
  - codeulike 8y ago
    Holy crap, I didn't know that. I just watched this and it seems they switched between CGI and animatronics for that sequence depending on what would work best. I think CGI was still basically being invented then and was crazy expensive. https://youtu.be/oelBtZHkL4c?t=9m5s https://youtu.be/oelBtZHkL4c?t=9m5s

toast0 8y ago

CGI that's not actually CGI usually looks better and lasts better (baring periodic rerenderings). ;)