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[terrifiedascendant]

My apologies for the lack of content. I’ve been busy with work, research, and the recent hurricane that I haven’t posted any of the stuff I’ve made lately. Have this picture of a cute snake from work as my apology.

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Does anyone know where I can find a cute and full deck of tarot cards that arent outrageously priced???

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So I started volunteering at an animal hospital and.... all the animal pictures were taken

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And... here is the dysfunctional couple together. Turned out great!

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I finally remembered I didn't post pics of the sangwoo I made! I'll do a separate post with both of them~☆

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Okie dokie so I’m working on styling this wig I had. Adding some dry shampoo to dull the shine and working on making that cute floof to his hair. Got a free pair of glow in the dark fake glasses that I painted too

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Ummm…. yeah so I also watch the finale for bee and puppycat… so I want to do a robot arm bee costume too…. (so now have this prelim wig)

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Haha.... I'm trash but I'm proud~☆

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I took up embroidery so I could make nerd patches

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Feeling a little sad now that my digital dinosaurs class is over so I'm posting pictures from our virtual reality lab with the HTC vive. I saw a bunch of cool dinosaurs including a brachiosaurus (why I stared @ the ceiling in one pic) and the alien from the alien covenant movie

[plotsjotsandespressoshots-deact]

Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was like…the end all, be all of special effects?

[suicunesrider]

not gonna lie that still looks intimately real

[drtanner-dickery]

I’m still somewhat convinced that someone sold their soul to create the special effects in Jurassic Park because that shit is over 20 years old and it still really, really holds up, better than the stuff in a lot of current movies, even.

Fucking witchcraft, man. 

[fanboyingoverdemigods]

fucking look at this shit though

[mauridianhallow]

Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so I’ll say it for this one myself:

THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THAT’S WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AIN’T CGI. AND IT AIN’T GUY IN A COSTUME. IT’S A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.

[mizushimo]

amazing

[shadowthorne]

And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the ‘skin’ of the rex and would slow down and mess up its movements. So they would stop filming and have a crew out there drying off this massive, fake dinosaur, and then they’d start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.

[mad-dyspunktional]

They used animatronics and detailed costumes for most if not all of the dinosaurs in the first movie.

The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.

And the raptors were dudes in suits. I shit you not.

[datneeks]

One of my favorite anecdotes I’ve read on tumblr is how the t-rex robot from Jurassic park would malfunction while it was drying out. How did it malfunction, you might wonder?

Motherfucker randomly started moving.

So apparently if you were on the jp set you would sometimes hear people screaming bloody murder even though they were all well aware that it was a giant animatronic puppet and wouldn’t actually, you know, eat them.

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(link to said post about malfunctioning t-rex)

[alessariel]

Did not know this, had to reblog for awesome movie history insights.

[brainsforbabyjesus]

So, I knew about the animatronics bit but I did not know the raptors were guys in suits and the malfunctioning t-rex sounds terrifying.

And i just googled malfunctioning t-rex and was not disappointed. Apparently in order to put the skin on over the steel frame a guy had to crawl inside the t-rex while it was turned on and glue the skin down. And if somebody turned the t-rex off or the power went out the guy in the t-rex stood a very real chance of getting mangled and killed by the hydraulics.

So of course, the power goes out.

And this guy is still in there gluing the skin down.

Apparently the way to survive getting sheered to death by huge sheets of metal while you’re inside a giant t-rex robot is to curl into a ball and hope for the best.

And this guy hoped for the best and got it.

Some other people on stage pried open the t-rex jaws and glue guy crawled out of its mouth and was totally okay.

[alessariel]

This is getting better and better.

[red-dirt-roads-deactivated20161]

I think they only had like 6 minutes of CGI

[teslasturtle-deactivated2023011]

I’m just waiting for the T-Rex to come to life and leave its stand.

[perspectivemax-deactivated20181]

@spinosaurus-the-fisher is this the kind of content you love?

[myloverhammurabi]

Realism comes at a cost, it seems.

[gorsime]

i mean ok but why has nobody posted this:

[myloverhammurabi]

It’s a three piece raptor suit.

[flamingbluepanda]

Old movies had the best special effects

[skafuller-deactivated20180122]

The thing about this that gets my special effects nerd going is the fact that EVERY single dinosaur was sculpted by artists based on the current existent archeological evidence of the time.

[witwitch-deactivated20160508]

@jurassicparkandrecreation

[senkirowolf]

@shepfax

[prettyarb]

Even better than that, this movie ADVANCED our best understanding of dinosaurs at the time.  They were blowing out a budget bigger than anything Hollywood had ever seen, and along with employing almost the last hurrah of incredible physical FX, they had a bank of those newfangled digital SFX computers.  Nobody’d ever really created convincing dinosaurs in a movie before.  It’d all been stop-motion animation, and even when the models were exquisitely crafted, you could just tell there was something OFF about them.  Spielberg wanted THE BEST DINOSAURS EVER, and he figured on using the cutting edge of digital modeling and animation technology to build them for him.

So they got hold of some of the best paleontologists they could find and said, “We want you guys to take this tech that your labs could pretty much never afford and use it to build us the most realistic, accurate dinosaur models the world has ever seen.”

The paleontologists knew an opportunity when it bit them in the ass.  They plugged in everything they knew about dinosaurs, all the skeletons and their best guesses about soft tissue and all that.  And when they’d created those dinosaur models, they had the computer start moving them as they realistically would with anatomy like that.  One guy took a look at those walking t-rexes and velociraptors (really utahraptors, but whatevs, fam), and he said, “Wait a minute, I’ve seen movement like that before.”

He called up film of a chicken walking.  Everyone in the room said, “Holy shit.”

Prior to 1989, the idea that birds were descended from dinosaurs existed–we knew about archaeopteryx, we knew there was some minor connection there–but the idea that DINOSAURS LIVE IN THE MODERN WORLD AND THEY ARE CALLED BIRDS was not pre-eminent.  Jurassic Park changed our scientific understanding of dinosaurs.

[bastlynn]

That paleontologists’d be Kevin Padian. Who is awesome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Padian

[thistherapylife]

This post just gets better and better with time

[cruxfat]

I still love everything about this film as much as little me did the day it came out. It also inspired a whole generation to get interested in science and paleontology. People joke about how inaccurate the animals in the film were but so much of what we know now we owe to the fact that this franchise existed and ignited such a renaissance in dinosaur enthusiasm and research funding.

[terrifiedascendant]

just had to add in on this cause we always referred to the jurassic park movies in my digital dinosaurs class. They actually animated a good chunk of the movie’s dinos using a program called Maya. This program is AMAZING. No joke my professor who does actual fossil research using it for skeleton animations and all kinds of stuff. The amount of work they put into using this program when it was a lot less advanced than now is staggering! I felt so special when we got to use Maya to animate an archeopteryx flight movement and learned first hand how complex yet amazing the program capabilities are! this documentary gives you the low down & it is so worth watching

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Makin a digital exhibit for my digital deinonychus skull while learning how they used the same program to animate dinosaurs in jurassic park This is the best college class ever

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3 I made 2 cute victors for me and a friend~☆ {Pattern not by me}

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Finally remade yurio so here he is with otabek! They turned out pretty cute

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I’m official ®trash

I made up the pattern myself so I’m very proud of this~ I accidently knocked the table @ 1 point and his head exploded

I thought about selling it on my storenvy but idk is anyone interested?

Also should I make a Sanwoo? {Do not copy, repost, or use pattern without my permission please}

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Tried my 'hand' @ some nail art!

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:D cute new cat socks! I love puns~♡