KK Raptor (best shot I could find that wasn't a mess of motion blur)Īlso, why doesn't anyone use puppets anymore? The Nedry scene is classic, and is accomplished without a single CG shot. Whenever I would complain, people would explain that the dinos were supposed to be "stylized", but I don't buy it, what with the level of detail that went into Kong himself (which does look REALLY good). The "brontos" look cartoon, every piece of the raptor moves independently of every other piece, the T-Rex looks great, but moves kinda goofy. The textures and lighting are better in KK, but the dinos, well, not as good. I mean comparing JP to Peter Jackson's King Kong is almost no contest. Just great work, still a high water mark for animation.
Their movement doesn't suffer from that weird CG wiggle (where muscle and skin seem to get WAY over animated). The gallimimus look a little cartoony, but those points aside, I think the dinos look far better than anything we've done recently. Often the dinosaurs have a slight "green screened" look to them. The lighting and shadows don't always look quite right. OK sure, looking back there are some flaws and we have improved animation since then. So why don't movies look any better today?
It made a huge impact on movie special effects, and along with T2, ushered in the CG era of film making. I blew my allowance on seeing this movie over 10 times in theaters (maybe even more after it hit the $1 theater). I was already a HUGE dinosaur nut, and had read the book twice before the film was released. Great jump moments, incredible creatures, fantastic music, dismemberment without being too icky, watered down plot, it's pretty much everything you could hope for in a family friendly creature feature. I am an audio guy, and really have no business talking crap about visual effects, so I'm kinda just rambling on as a movie fan, not an authority, but JP still looks awesome.ĪMC is touting the 15th anniversary of Jurassic Park (though it's technically not til June), and Mrs Audio Guy, Biggelow, and I are watching it now. He still has the same busy schedule, only now his facet as an actor weighs more than his sports career.Now bear with me here. At the same time, Dwayne Johnson’s fame has increased exponentially since then. The figure continued to rise to reach $435 million worldwide. The film grossed $23 million on its first day of release, surpassing toy story 2 Y The Lost World: Jurassic Park. The Mummy Returns It has some very forgettable visual effects, yes, but that didn’t stop it from becoming a hit.
“When you have something like this, you always have to overcome the pain and think about what you learnedand I knew we needed a reference, but we couldn’t get it,” Berton Jr. Recreating a human face by computer is a complex task, and if you don’t have a model to compare it to, the result is what we all remember. This explains very well why The scorpion king it looks like it does on tape. Since he was so busy with his incredible career in WWE, it was not possible“, he assures. We needed a day with Dwayne Johnson to photograph his face, the details of his eyes and everything that goes with it. says that they asked for just what they needed to do a good job, but the actor’s schedule Dwayne Johnson he made it very complicated. It’s not really an excuse, but it’s an explanation of how things work sometimes in movies.īerton Jr. The biggest thing about this movie is that we didn’t have the reference we needed. In an episode of VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGIfrom the YouTube show Corridor Crew, has talked about everything that happened behind the scenes that caused some effects to be so lackluster. “I was looking around the internet and Google was like, ‘Hey, check this out, you’re probably interested in it: Worst VFX Ever.’ And I thought: ‘Wait a minute, it’s The scorpion king, should I watch it?’ I saw it and I felt bad”says John Berton Jr., the supervisor of The Mummy Returns. Dwayne Johnson recreated by computer for ‘The Mummy Returns’.