Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was likeâŚthe end all, be all of special effects?
not gonna lie that still looks intimately real
Iâm still somewhat convinced that someone sold their soul to create the special effects in Jurassic Park because that shit is over 20 years old and it still really, really holds up, better than the stuff in a lot of current movies, even.
Fucking witchcraft, man.Â
fucking look at this shit though
Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so Iâll say it for this one myself:
THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THATâS WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AINâT CGI. AND IT AINâT GUY IN A COSTUME. ITâS A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.
amazing
And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the âskinâ of the rex and would slow down and mess up its movements. So they would stop filming and have a crew out there drying off this massive, fake dinosaur, and then theyâd start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.
They used animatronics and detailed costumes for most if not all of the dinosaurs in the first movie.
The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.
And the raptors were dudes in suits. I shit you not.
One of my favorite anecdotes Iâve read on tumblr is how the t-rex robot from Jurassic park would malfunction while it was drying out. How did it malfunction, you might wonder?
Motherfucker randomly started moving.
So apparently if you were on the jp set you would sometimes hear people screaming bloody murder even though they were all well aware that it was a giant animatronic puppet and wouldnât actually, you know, eat them.
(link to said post about malfunctioning t-rex)
I NEVER KNEW THE RAPTORS WERE DUDES IN SUITS I KNEW THE REST BUT NOT THAT
^ I second thatâŚ..I knew about the T-rex and TriâŚbut Raptors! fuhhhhh!!! love that movie
There were so many practical effects (aka real life on set sfx) that were insanely good and hold up amazing to this day (*coughs we need more of that kinda thing nowadays cough*), but even the CGI PARTS still look afuckingmazing. The lighting and animation were spot on. They did that for any time they were full body shots from far away/jumping/running dinosaurs. ( basically anything they couldnât get an animatronic or a raptor guy in a suit to do). I am in awe of this movie.
