CGI 3D/VFX Behind the Scenes : "Resurrecting the Dodo" - by Fido

Take close look at this insightful BTS for "Resurrecting the Dodo" created by the fantastic artists over at Fido! We all think we know how the extinct Dodo looked, but in "David Attenborough"s Natural History Museum Alive" the legendary naturalist shows us an all new view of the iconic bird based on the latest scientific research.
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Fido worked closely with the world"s most renowned Dodo experts to bring the poor old bird back to life, all in stereoscopic 4K. And it resulted in the most accurate recreation of a Dodo ever made on film. This is a look behind the scenes of how they did it. For more information, please see the credits below.
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"David Attenborough"s Natural History Museum Alive"
produced by Colossus Productions
Fido crew:
VFX Executive Producer:: Claes Dietmann
VFX Producer: Nils Lagergren
VFX Line Producer: Hanna Bengtsson, Anders Singstedt
VFX Supervisor: Staffan Linder
CG Supervisor: Cameron Scott
Lead CG Artists: Rickard Enqvist, Magnus Eriksson, Johan Gabrielsson, Daniel Norlund
Anders Nyman
CG Artists: Fredrik Höglin, Håkan Jonsson, Jonathan Harris, Martin Borell, Sven Ahlström, Tomas Näslund, Anna Hilding, Björn Liljequist, Damir Filipovic
Filip Orrby, Joakim Eriksson, Peter Aversten, Anders Freij, Dan Faxe, Dan Santos, Martin Joas, Mikael Aktan, Alexander Kafoussias, Kenneth Nyman
Pipeline and system administration: Erik Johansson, Thomas Ericsson

[@sulaimaanahmad]

i would love to meet david attenbrough, he's seems to have such a gentle, knowledgeable demeanor.

[@snorlzsnorly6250]

They have ONE specimen of soft tissue to use for DNA They better not screw it up.

[@otdoud]

+Snorlz Snorly I WANT ONE. They are so interesting from a physical point of view. Very strange look about them.

[@Federico84]

In Budapest i saw a Dodo in a museum

[@toastedghostuu3761]

Dodos are so cute

[@ocktonmcozgarfleunts2218]

so what happened to the experiment ? Did they make it ?

[@jayjames1376]

Snoring, I think you are mistaken we have plenty DNA of the dodo, the White House is full too overflowing with the damn things.😇

[@DarthBiomech]

I like how these are educational in both CGI and a bit in zoology as well

[@anthonygordon9483]

If you want to know how it moves, I would say CGI is probably your only choice regardless. You can create a skeletal mesh that resembles the Dodo's skeletal structure, by that its easier to do backward mechanics to figure out how the bird actually walked. If it wasn't for technology in general, we would know nothing about the past right now. Hell we wouldnt even know black matter existed.

[@blackdover2713]

Who Wants A Pet DODO When They Are Now Brought back to life Today

[@ThatBaconFanatic]

Me

[@MTmonster14]

Me

[@iamarizonaball2642]

Me

[@lllIIllIIlllIIlllII]

ME........🦤😢

[@JaniceGhostHunter13]

Me

[@mesner5x]

I want David Attenborough and Morgan Freeman to co-narrate a documentary.

[@frostbitetheannunakiiceind6574]

same

[@deborahsilcott9867]

I want a pet dodo if they get cloned back

[@kagiza4003]

Same

[@CJCroen1393]

I would enjoy that too :3

[@remtard2272]

Yes

[@suhaimimie2723]

N

[@brettbaxley4289]

u think we bring them back and we will trust Ur butt to protect them?????? ugh. some people!

[@laurasoares4150]

dodos were so cute

[@nmheath03]

I know they're fake,and just animations,but I feel so happy seeing 2 dodos interacting at 1:45

[@ottovonbismarck4920]

nmheath03 axisallies.com/rules/axis-allies-rules-1942-2nd-edition.pdf

[@kagiza4003]

I want to clone them

[@sirfloss]

Gerald Snowman na I'm glad we got rid of some species that look like they came straight from hell

[@AlexxChris]

@@sirfloss we will get rid of you next now shut up dodos they have feelings!

[@zizzypearl9921]

@@sirfloss Dodo bird are adoribal and i want them back so 😡😡😡

[@Blackclaw1000]

were is my Dodo-inator when I need it

[@frostbitetheannunakiiceind6574]

1:55 David: this one is a fake Dodo: *YOUR A FAKE*

[@MTmonster14]

Lol

[@ricarbo.]

You respect the dodo! It wants your life savings?! You give it your life savings

[@vibezproducerr]

amazing real models

[@magmafur6713]

I love dodo birds

[@bassafratz]

I WANT DODO RIGHT NOOOOOOOOOW 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@nnnnn3477]

Hola porque habláis en inglés 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸

[@zizzypearl9921]

Me too

[@alihtes1239]

Me three

[@smilingweirdo5605]

I like the ending

[@jjdjj5392]

I hope the scientists bring them back!!

[@emmaduncan2991]

I love Dodo birds!

[@jasonhatt4295]

It was named after the sound it made? So it's a pokemon then?

[@calvinfujii5921]

I suppose it is.

[@climatechangeisrealyoubast3231]

Yes

[@frostbitetheannunakiiceind6574]

DODO, I CHOOSE YOU dodo: dODo DoDo

[@OrbbKlesk]

CUTE LITTLE BIRDIE

[@paulo.cesar.gomez.paredes]

reconstruyendo Historias!

[@eamonflaherty5325]

People even claim to have seen live dodo birds running free on the island they went extinct on over the years , they still think they r alive

[@MrJinscoe]

Lol when the bird pecked him at the end. XD XD XD

[@deborahsilcott9867]

I dare you to reanimated caucus race sing from Alice in Wonderland Disney version using this dodo

[@dylangeltzeiler946]

0:13 Ridicules looking dodo. 1:51 Better looking dodo.

[@kirby7411]

what a wonderful vid guys, great job please make a video on the lord "precurseur"

[@jackmccarthy5786]

I love how it bit him

[@rikosakurauchi7161]

It like dinosaur

[@Irken_Invader_Zim]

Vila Delvia because it is one, all birds are dinosaurs

[@Ceres4S2D1]

@@Irken_Invader_Zim Yep ^U^ Chicken is the closest to the T-rex. "Prehistoric KFC"

[@dodomakers3242]

I want dodo now means now

[@unkownchannel7348]

Dodo Bird i want saber now means now

[@htfamily]

Awesome dodo model, but considering that the dodo's pigeon relatives blinked with their upper eyelids, they should've added eyelid dynamics to their dodo like others did in to theirs Alice and Primeval.

[@NewspeakMedia]

What if in an alternate dimension they are not extinct and you can just buy them at the pet store xd

[@frostbitetheannunakiiceind6574]

oof

[@Heresans]

They are extinct

[@LeKnightStudios13419]

Where can I find this documentary???

[@deathspeaker742]

Hahaha lol the end payback

[@РусланТкачев-ц6ъ]

Как этот фильм называется?

[@davidgrace4054]

I argued with my dad over this because he said its wrong to try and bring back extinct species which is bullshit in the case of the Dodo.

[@jjdjj5392]

I agree

[@elsavepico361]

efectos especiales genial

[@alfie_tabs5948]

I would hide the dodo somewhere safe

[@zizzypearl9921]

Same ill be the crazy Dodo Lady that keeps them safe 😊😊

[@LuminantYT]

Me too

[@Lola___471]

Love dodo😀😀

[@elijahjoshua9973]

Dodo bird will be back in 15 years

[@user-ze3lk1ov5b]

It's impossible to bring the animal exactly as it was let's just focusing to the animals that they are still alive we can't fix past mistakes.

[@Heresans]

@@user-ze3lk1ov5bactually it $150 million yeah we don't have that much money to bring dodo bird back

[@harrisongerdes7078]

@@user-ze3lk1ov5b true, but there is a company that's planning to bring it back

[@eliasmedina9060]

It use to be short and then it learned to stand up and it lost it's tail feathers

[@CJCroen1393]

And it lost a lot of weight and learned how to talk like a Pokemon.

[@frostbitetheannunakiiceind6574]

@@CJCroen1393 XD

[@properprops698]

Do a mammoth

[@shingodzilla5078]

I want a pet dodo

[@blank7008]

Same wanted pet dodo

[@peterpan-zu3fm]

i wonder how they felt when they killed the last dodo bird

[@mjwhiteglove2723]

peter pan It died in captivity, of old age.

[@haytamhibra2953]

Can you do tutorials

[@merybaldeonramirez]

Ami me gusta mucho los pájaros dodo 🦤

[@doctoraxgaming4241]

Mauritius 🇲🇺

[@mattnoir9674]

here's your 999th like. you're welcome!

[@HumbertoMendoza1898]

2:00 jajajajajajaja

[@kevinnash5092]

😢😢😢😢

[@Familly_Adventure]

Mirip bebek

[@elijahjoshua9973]

I have some made of wood

[@dings215]

think of all the meat those things could have provided. would have put the chicken right outta business.

[@deadpool3131]

but noooo. what happened? The Dutch came to Mauritius and made them extinct :(

[@61btod]

Actually, no. According to journal entries from those early Dutch settlers, dodo meat was rather unpalatable, being slow to cook evenly and having a very oily taste.

[@dings215]

thanks for shooting down my fantasy. now I'll have to dream a new dream.

[@snorlzsnorly6250]

61btod It also lays only one egg at a time, so they would be hard to farm on a mass scale.

[@teddsong9725]

R u kidding! The dodo is bird that is so gentle that it doesn't even run away!!

[@chase1146]

XD more studied people would know this as a diricawl. And know it's not extinct ;)

[@firewolfgod6417]

chase1146 teleportation

[@riotbreaker3506]

Studied people? Don't you mean Harry Potter fans?

[@christablythe8763]

How do we know what a dodo looks like when we haven’t seen one in real life?

[@tazboy1934]

Kentuky fried dodo ...this will make mauritian economy rise

[@gulag8040]

Tazboy dodo is extinct

[@ceratopsiandavedraws8548]

speakable gaming no duh it's a joke

[@scotpens]

Not likely. Dodo meat tasted like shit.

[@epixell3957]

It tasted like a squab

[@gettingbigforskinny]

i will love to eat that dodo

[@teddsong9725]

Seriously, a bird that is harmless, and gentle?

[@CJCroen1393]

+gettingbigforskinny According to journal entries by the people who encountered them, dodos didn't taste very good. And to +Tedd Song, they weren't gentle either. They were actually pretty aggressive if provoked (though I can agree with you on them being harmless; their beaks might hurt, but I doubt they would have caused too much damage to humans).

[@teddsong9725]

Oh ok

[@CJCroen1393]

Tedd Song Granted, they probably wouldn't be MEAN, I think they'd only bite people if they were given a reason to (you know, like most animals do).

[@Nameless82284]

The meat tasted nasty actually.

[@leoallan2225]

They were originally super fat,and could barely walk.

[@unkownchannel7348]

this bird isnt cute even the babys the are not cute

[@scotpens]

Well, imagine what you must look like to a dodo!