Pan's Labyrinth by contrast had great acting. the whole film was great. very different than the MacDonald's we seem to be getting from hollywood these days. also , someone mentioned King Kong. Kong's acting as a cg element is amongst the best i had ever seen. the creature had so much emotion. unfort...

ok, as usual, i am behind the times. i have been doing a lot of '20th anniversary of Jurassic' talks with Mark Dippe and Stefen Fangmeier. we were in Vancouver doing a SPARK conference. we presented Abyss, T2 and Jurassic behind the scenes. me and Fangmeier had dinner with John Knoll who was present...

the talk went great. it was so interesting to be back together with all those guys. i got to tell the whole story. here is a pick of the motley crew.
l to r

dennis muren, randy dutra, steve spaz williams,phil tippett, stefen fangmeier

well the prehistoric gods must be smiling at us, cause on Sunday at ILM, myself, Stefen, Randy Dutra, Phil Tippett and Dennis Muren will all be presenting Jurassic 3d and later doing a q and a. it has been 20 years since we were all together. spoke with Phil for a long while yesterday. it was great.

more fun . MR10 and JC4

http://vimeo.com/64815871

this is the way i chained the raptor once Eric Armstong built the data. once again, the units had to be measured and identified for Tippets' DID (Dinosaur Input Device)

this is the lo-res SI2.6.1 version of the rex. once i completed this, i had to provide exact coordinates of the SI effectors so Tippet studio could match there DID system which used potentiometers along the spine to transmit the rotational data via SCSI port to an Silicon Graphics 420 Indigo and ult...

this is an old sketch of the way i divided up the b-spline patches and named them

this is the original scan i used to build the bones starting in June of 1991, a month before we delivered T2

Ben, the bone test which you see, is the one i did secretly. Stefen did the shader. no one including Dennis knew about this. i had it playing on a monitor in "large gfx" ( a room at ILM ) on the morning of Monday November 18 1991 purposely when Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshal walked in. i remembe...

here is a segment of the real story. more to come

http://vimeo.com/64499408

Hey Ben, it was just a link to some demo crap. http://www.camoandplaid.com It's not going to be ILM? Then my WAG would be WETA ;) they did some exceptional work on T-Rexes in King Kong few years ago and there is this close bussiness relationship between Spielberg & Jackson recently... Does it make a...

it is not JP 4 related, but this is where the modeling software started for Abyss.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=496656927786

http://vimeo.com/

who is doing fx this time ?

i was an animator on jumanji of which joe directed. it was a peculiar film sadly shot in the over-cast climate of Vancouver making compositing scripts difficult. what i found with joe is that he is a nice guy. experienced. not a prick like the self-proclaimed ILM elite. joe successfully made the tra...

i like joe johnston. he get's it. he was very successful with captain america. i wish joe had been around for the 1st jurassic. it would have not been so political; rather, he would have embraced the revolution of how the rex was conceived and built from a trench level (because he is a true artist) ...