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[challenge entry] The hard work of Jim Henson's Creature Workshop mean that you never really realise it's just a man in a costume...

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apparently Speilberg was going to do the dinosaurs using stop-motion plasticine figures until he saw T2 and realised that computers were getting quite good.

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(I helped save b3ta! brianftang www.brianftang.co.uk, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 23:01, archived)
# hahhahaah
tops.
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 23:02, archived)
# man in costume?!
YOU KNOW NOTHING!
(I helped save b3ta! Lora, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 23:04, archived)
# Did he fuck.
He got Dennis Muren of ILM to do his best with stop-go animation and also some of the new guys at ILM to do test shots in pure CGI. CGI won hands down.
(Fellmeister, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 23:09, archived)
# yeah,
he had the CGI tests done because he saw T2. There's not actually that much CG in the first film. Most of the dinosaur scenes actually are puppets.
(I helped save b3ta! brianftang www.brianftang.co.uk, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 23:14, archived)
# Bwahahahahahaaa!
Most? Close up's, maybe.

I ain't gonna waste my time clocking the minutes animatronics vs cgi, got more in my life.

*runs off and fetches DVD*
(Fellmeister, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 23:20, archived)
# yeah most
read the making of book when the film came out. i'm pretty certain there are only 4 CGI sequences in the whole film
(I helped save b3ta! brianftang www.brianftang.co.uk, Mon 1 Sep 2003, 23:30, archived)