#the lost world

[stydixa]

THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK (1997) Dir. Steven Spielberg

[joitiks]

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[chernobog13]

An old timey guy getting chased by an old timey dinosaur!

Illustration by Harry Rountree for Sir Artur Conan Doyle's The Lost World when it appeared in The Strand magazine.

[amautifect]

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

[junkfoodcinemas]

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

[swan2swan]

A Sound of Thunder

[alangbandala]

I think one of the main reasons of why people tend to still portray dinosaurs innacurate/outdated since the 90s is because of the impact it had during it's time.

Not for how diferent were, but in how realistic they looked.

Like. These look like actual living animals, with the movement according to a creature of it's size and with realistic behavour.

And yet, they still look alien in sight. Not like any creature seen today. I even had problems conceptualizing a Diplodocus that doesn't have the spikes on it's back.

If Jurassic Park or Walking with Dinosaurs came out with the CGI rigging and animations that modern documentaries or movies have, their impact will not be the same. I mean, look...

Serpentine tails instead of stiff ones. More pronounced skin wrapping than usual. Disheveled plumage. Exaggerated proportions. Disordered scales... and the thing that hirt my eyes the most: No actual weight on the animations. Like of they were made out of jelly.

I'm not saying it is impossible to do something good with this (Terra Nova is a great example) and some scenes on thesw movies look good compared to the rest of the film. But imagine this with Jurassic Park, Walking with Dinosaurs or Disney's Dinosaur with that, and it doesn't matter how good the movie is, people will see the dinos as monsters and not animals.

I developed the idea further here:

I'm studying Digital Animation. Now I can critique and complain like a pro!