Okay so way back in the ancient times, that
is exactly 20 years ago in 1993, the world witnessed for the first time a film
that made us forget we were even watching one!
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ROAR! |
Jurassic Park
This sci-fi adventure film directed by one of the most iconic directors, Steven Spielberg, earned as of this May 2013, $400 MILLION in North America alone as well as worldwide total of $967 MILLION.
So in honour of the film's 20th Anniversary, we can go back and look at how this classic film became extremely successful.
The technology used in the 90s is much different then what it is today. Therefore the methods used to make this film were much more complex. If film directors TODAY wanted to create a dinosaur for a particular scene they could simply use computer-generated images and achieve a high-quality scene. However, back in the 90s, it was much more difficult to create a realistic-looking animated figures.
Spielberg and his hard-working team had actually chose to create a FULL-SIZE T-Rex completely and exclusively for the film. The dinosaur you see above was actually sculpted in real life, a 9 000 pound (so about 4 082 kg) robotic machine.
MUST WATCH (only a minute!)
Cool right?
The film did have certain limitations. This horrific robotic creature was designed with numerous cable cords, wires etc that it actually limited the movement of the model. Therefore, on top of this full-size T-Rex, CG images that were utilised in the 90s still had to be used the create the full effect.
We can clearly see the difference between today's technology and 90s. But Spielberg created quite an impressive despite the circumstances!
Denis Muren, who took part in the Visual Effects team, said
"It takes years to learn this, just to learn the computer part of it."
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