Movie making and distributed robotics

From: Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Sat Jan 5 21:28:02 2002

Chris wrote:
> Movie studios don't generally make any "puppets" that are THAT big. If it
> is entirely anamatronic, then it is probably done on scale. Something of
> that size would be limited to basic movements, and probably not for a
> movie prop. They would just build dinosaur "parts" (sets and props are
> never made to more than what the camera sees anyway).

Get the DVD of Jurassic park #3 .. they a nice segment on the special
effects.
> But by #3 were these still anamatronic, or entirely CG? (even #1 was
a
> good chunk CG, but I haven't seen #2 or #3, so I can't give my opinions
> on the "look" of it). I would think by the 3rd, the only scenes that
> still had "real" dinosaurs would be close ups of the actors interacting
> directly with the beast.
The effects 1) Mat backgrounds 2) CG effects 3)anamatronic are so
good you can't see any flaws when they switch shots between formats.
In the version narrated by the special effects people you get all the
details.
>
> <http://www.mythtech.net>


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