{"id":1690,"date":"2013-04-06T14:39:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T13:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/up\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/06\/jurassic-filmmakers-recall-video-effects-nightmare\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T16:50:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T15:50:28","slug":"jurassic-filmmakers-recall-video-effects-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/jurassic-filmmakers-recall-video-effects-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Jurassic’ filmmakers recall video effects nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The makers of the original “Jurassic Park” film are recalling the “nightmare” of using pioneering visual effects, as a 3D version of the Oscar-winning movie is released.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steven Spielberg’s 1993 blockbuster used a combination of stop motion filming with dinosaur models and primitive computer generated technology, which was unprecedented at the time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The filmmakers talked about the challenges involved at a screening of “Jurassic Park 3D” hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). The film released in the UAE on Thursday, 20 years after the original.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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William Sherak said the most difficult scene was when the T-Rex attacks the visiting guests in their car, in the rain, calling it “my personal nightmare” because of the complexity of effects needed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“The best moment is the sequence of the car falling down the tree,” he added, referring to a later scene in the landmark movie.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Adapted from a Michael Crichton novel, the movie starred Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum and won three Oscars in 1994, while making $920 million at the box office globally.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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There have been two sequels, in 1997 and 2001, and “Jurassic Park 4” is due out next year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The 3D version gives extra depth and colour to the original, although critics may argue that the adaptation – rather than making a film in 3D from scratch – adds little to what was already a gripping and spectacular film.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“This was really the first time the computer graphics were used to make what appeared to be a living animal in a feature film. And we didn’t know if we could do it,” visual effects specialist Dennis Muren told AFP.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“We started very slowly doing tests to see if we could have a computer image like a dinosaur because if you can do that, you can give them a performance that you can never see with robotics or stop motion or any other way.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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He also pointed to his work on 1991’s “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” which helped pave the way for the Jurassic Park special effects.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Aged 66, Muren is a Hollywood institution – he has won six Oscars, notably for special effects for Spielberg’s “E.T.” (1982), and some of the “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” movies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“The learning curve for me was very steep on Jurassic Park, because I didn’t know the tools,” said Phil Tippett, another special effects guru who has worked on “Star Wars” and the recent “Twilight” movies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“It was a time where computer graphic animation wasn’t at a very high level, so we developed technology that allowed stop motion animators to be able to manipulate [dinosaurs] – it wasn’t software, it was more mechanical device.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Presenting the Beverly Hills screening, David Cohen said: “If we didn’t have ‘Jurassic Park’ in 1993, we wouldn’t have had Richard Parker last year” – referring to the computer-generated tiger in Ang Lee’s stunning “Life of Pi.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Tippett, who shared the 1994 Oscar for special effects with Muren for “Jurassic Park,” added: “Technology is always a pain in the a**.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“What you need is creative people, an artist. The technology doesn’t do anything. It gets in the way,” he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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