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Sir David in 'Fabulous Animals' - 1975

In celebration of Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday

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Bestie had on Prehistoric Planet last night, and it was cool to see. The Beeb definitely put the time and effort and money into making dinosaurs fully realized and made it feel like all the other Attenborough docs I’ve seen.

There’s just one thing.

Just, one tiny thing.

There’s a moment in the documentary where they show a dinosaur taking a shit in a lake. Like, you hear a SOUND, and then it cuts to underwater, and there’s this shit just sinking to the bottom of the lake while Attenborough merrily remarks that it’s fertilizing its food supply.

And, like, I was not prepared to watch a shit disintegrate in water. It was a rather odd experience to have.

But.

The animator.

Some poor bastard working on the show was tasked with “dino shits in water.” and then they had to do the whole build of a shit in water. And then they had to do the secondary build of the shit disintegrating in the water.

And then that poor bastard’s supervisor had to WATCH the various stages of animation of this shit in water and give notes.

I can’t stop thinking about it. Like, the animator probably worked on this shit in water for WEEKS. For weeks, their main animation chore was “make a realistic looking disintegrating shit in water.”

Like.