Jurassic Park T. rex Animation / VFX Breakdown | Blender 2.80

A quick test animation of my T. rex model in a Jurassic Park environment, inspired by a shot from the 1993 movie.
Rendered in cycles, took about 2 1/2 days to render in total. Scene setup & animation took about a day. Was a fun experimenting with procedurals and particles in a way I don't usually to create the rain and foliage effects.
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[@bernardogriz]

OMG, i tought it was from original movie. Great work!

[@latezki9941]

Me 2

[@ancoravero7991]

ok technically, it's way better then the original picture. Again, technically

[@SirKolass]

Then get yourself eyeglasses...

[@mrorange90]

Shit so did I so much is I was going to aske a question about the T-Rex scene

[@monkeyjb1988]

Same here :)

[@BenJewer]

Hi all, The response to this video has been fantastic and I'm a bit overwhelmed by all your comments! Obviously there are a lot of issues with this (including the rex not looking wet enough), but it was a quick test more than anything that I knocked out in an evening and then left to render for a few days while I was at work - so I never expected it would get this amount of attention! I'm working on more videos like this and hopefully getting some more tutorial-like content out there. I have some issues with using screencapture while I'm working which I'm not sure how to resolve quite yet, but hopefully I can get something out at some point. So stay tuned as I'm really hoping to do more blender/VFX/film experiments in the near future! Thanks again, Ben

[@ZURISADDAI]

keep up the great work! Would love to see more practicals like these and maybe some tutorials in the near future!

[@kullenberg]

please do another version with a wet T .rex.

[@dragonstone6594]

Dude, the video has 15K views. That's nothing. It deserves millions! I even think it deserves to be in the news. Because you're just 1 talented guy and by using an amazing and free software. You managed to create a Hollywood caliber sci-fi scene in one day from your bedroom. That's an amazing story if I have ever heard one! Sorry If I'm a bit too excited, but this is just amazing to me. And I just discovered you. I'm just thinking about all the possibilities. Subed!

[@xxirion]

I honestly thought it was from the movie.... Well done Ben, bloody awesome homage mate!!!!

[@josepizarro3283]

Great work

[@M8cool]

And to think...all of this started with a cube.

[@pedrocjr.93]

Before time began, there was the cube... Oh, wait! Wrong movie.

[@jesusalonso4405]

it most likely was the first thing being deleted... like every other default cube in blender :(

[@NullObjectVFX]

Tree generated

[@JoaoSilva22222]

It all started with a molecule.

[@WibblyWobblyBob]

Like everyone says, this is absolutely stunning.

[@spinnerboyz]

Dude I thought this was the animatronic TRex. It looks that real!

[@Lumibear.]

Me too, I was confused till I read beneath the video

[@corralzin4909]

Wtf it looks insanely fake and bad compared to the real animatronic

[@Nago15]

Why is it looking so much better than the big budget Jurassic World T-rex? I really love the eyes, it looks so real. Hire this man for Jurassic World 3!!!

[@JohnSmith-rn3vl]

This is by far the best reproduction of this scene I have ever seen. Fantastic work.

[@JamieDunbar]

Oh ho! Give this man a job! At first I thought you were showing the shot from the movie that you were going to recreate. Had to rewind before I realised it was your own work.

[@scottl1155]

I just love the weight of it, it looks like it's actually moving its big heavy head

[@justinseau]

The T-Rex not swallowing the goat and lack of lightning were the only things that gave away that this was not the original animatronic. Well done!

[@telekinesticman]

You have some of the most film-accurate Jurassic Park dinosaur models I've seen out there, well done! Can't wait to see more in future.

[@marcotronic]

Awesome job! The color grading was really the icing on the cake to make it totally look like a scene from the original movie!

[@theActionMovieKid]

Amazing work, Ben!

[@stevenrogerfineart5866]

I NEVER would have thought this was anything other than a segment from the original movie. Thats awesome !

[@richierich8085]

Looks like the shot from the 1993 film. Amazingly done.

[@ULTRAWIDE.]

Looks more convincing than both the Jurassic World films CGI. Good work.

[@dudepersonvids]

I would have believed this was a shot of the original animatronic. The motion even looks like the motion of the animatronic T-Rex. Fantastic rendering, and the color grade really brought it home. Well done!

[@drekaava2363]

Holy shit! This 7 second clip looks better than anything in the Jurassic world movies. Hell it looks better than the third JP movie.

[@ArcticFox63]

Let's not get hyperbolic. Night time scenes are always forgiving with regards to CGI. Which is why the CGI in the '93 movie T-Rex attack looks super realistic and when you get up close with the Raptors in the kitchen the effects look very dated.

[@ArcticFox63]

@Solid Snake When the Rex steps into the road, when it walks between the cars and then eats Gennaro were all CGI. Nigh time is extremely flattering for CGI.

[@FlippytheMasterofPie]

I think what makes this work is that you nailed the lighting. So often bad cgi looks bad because people light it flatly. But you not only lit it in an interesting way, you lit it like Spielberg would’ve done it. Well done.

[@ziolepr8393]

I swear, I watched the movie like 100 times and for a brief moment I wondered if at the start of the video you were using the original shot as reference for the viewers. Keep up the great work.

[@dennisbarac2773]

The grading is top notch. I can’t tell the difference between this and the real footage when using my memory. Amazing job

[@Dinophile]

This is brilliant! What I really want from a talented vfx artist like you is to replicate the entire main road attack from but from different angels and perspectives than what we saw in the movie. I think this would be awesome.

[@RuthwikRao]

Amazing work, mate! It took ILM to create entire technologies and work with the CG and practical FX pioneers of the time, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a shot that was almost mirrored by one person in 2019 in a free software probably somewhere in a bedroom on a desktop PC, shows just how far we've come! I think the grade actually helped a ton in tying the scene up to look like the original! One criticism would be something the original actually exploited and that would be actually making the dinosaur look wet from all the rain!

[@amitrana2756]

jeffh can you please mind your language? Really takes away the weight from your argument. It sounds a bit retarded when you compare a single artist’s work with the glut of talent at ILM.

[@el_loote]

@@amitrana2756 no, please don't hate him - jeffh is supercool! I just looked at his channel and my Mind literally exploded! He's such a master of all masters. @jeffh: Is it true that you did all that when you were only 4 y old? With an 15 y old smartphone and a 3D-Software you have written when you were 3? I can't believe it! SO MUCH TALENT!

[@amitrana2756]

Christian S. 😂 bro I think that level of sarcasm is too much for his head.

[@dannymorales787]

This looks good but no where near comparable to the thousands of hrs of work an animator does. As an animator I do applaud his effort! Kid has potential. Coming from a Maya user.

[@RuthwikRao]

@jeffh where did I say it comes close to ILM's work *these days* ? I'm not stupid to admit something like that, neither would be the actual artist who made this here. I said the result here came close to the look in the original movie that came out over *25 years ago* . You're essentially saying we're not in 1993 yet, which is an objectively ignorant thing to say and there was no reason to turn this into a "LoL acKtuAlLy lEt Me TeLl U Y u'Re WrOnG bLenDer KiDdIe" software war by ignoring what the entire intention of my comment was, which was to simply illustrate just how far we've come as an industry from ILM who started this revolution with Jurassic Park to CG being truly democratic today and how anyone could recreate the blockbuster hits of the era in their desktop PCs today which is true and being demonstrated everywhere. I thought the blender community was supposed to be this dense when it came to software acceptance, but no, it can come from everywhere apparently, even when unprovoked. :/

[@johnprudent3216]

It's funny. I actually thought this was a Before shot from the film. Very nice work. What sold me was the lighting and subtle movement.

[@dreamzdziner8484]

Wow this is epic....I really loved the whole setup. That lighting in the final render is on another level..You got a new subscriber buddy!

[@birdflox1337]

hold up, i thought i was gonna watch a "behind the scenes" video, this is amazing! the thumbnail had me expecting to see the animatronic lol

[@harikrishnan_g]

Oh man... it looks like a footage from the movie.. Good work. Keep inspiring♥

[@coolsagu]

Anale

[@adamromero]

Better than any CGI today.

[@rohitghumare7515]

That t-rex looks like a cute squishy huggable creature in Ambient Occlusion pass

[@Notacet]

Woah, that grading really sells it. I think I can spot cgi quite well, but I thought that was the animatronic. The walking through the fence next! It was done with ancient cgi so it could be improved even!

[@InvertLogic]

very nice and close to the actual shot. great work!

[@TheRubberStudiosASMR]

That is absolutely beautiful

[@JeanYanb]

Man! This is one of the best blender clip i've seen so far! You're a beast! A tutorial one day would be awesome!!! stay safe.

[@CrazyStarN]

At first, i thought it's the real footage from the movie. Amazing work man.

This is brilliant! It looks really amazing!! Congrats! If I had to nitpick, there are no splash of water on the dinossaur's skin from the raindrops. You achieve that, and it's perfect.

[@nicholascureton933]

First, I thought it's from original movie scenes. And I saw the breakdown and I was like OMG!

[@ep8778]

incredible work. absolutely amazing. congratulations !

[@sagniknath5537]

Extremely impressive!!! Dare I say I am actually envious even though I know next to nothing about 3d animation

[@craethedreamer267]

You my good Sir are obviously a wizard cos Jesus Christ that's fantastic!!!

[@hatedbytheworld1373]

Blender became serious competitor in 3d software 👌✌

[@brentpolk2431]

I have been thinking about how to animate static plant models for weeks now and you just showed me! I'm using C4D, but a displacement modifier is genius.

[@dougieladd]

wow excellent work Ben. Superb.

[@kungpowgeek]

😮 This was just a quick test?! I didn’t need to think twice about subscribing. 👍

[@StackPH]

You should do a side by side comparison at the end! Great work!

[@Blayken]

Amazing!!

[@JB_inks]

That's incredible. Looks exactly like it's from the movie and what's even more amazing is after watching a 1 hour tutorial on Blender I only worked out how to move the stupid box around.

[@HagenvonEitzen]

now learn to make it roar ...

[@subasurf]

Looks great, but looks way to dry for something that's out in the rain.

[@ElverGalarga-yy8hf]

Man this looks better than the horrendous jurassic world CGI

[@KHamurdik]

T-Rex looked CGI to me in second half. Something about the movement was slightly off. But OMG. First half of Rex animation looks so believable. And environment is indistinguishable from real footage without close inspection. Great job.

[@Caesaurus]

Spaz would be proud! 🥲 Imagine he moved those joints with 1 fps at best, and rendered one frame / day.

[@agoniavr]

I also thought this could be the original shot, you did a phenomenal job!

[@matthewmitchell5636]

this 7 second clip looks better than both of the Jurassic World movies combined

[@EspSettzer]

Looks (realistic) even better than Jurassic World

[@pcguidelk]

This is colossal mate! Hope ur Hired by a big studio or something. the only thing wrong to me is the big teeth out of T rexes mouth.Normally any living animal will have it's teeth covered within the lips. Great work!

[@BenJewer]

Thanks very much! Agreed on the rex teeth, this is just based on the Jurassic Park rex which doesn’t really have proper lips. I’d love to do a realistic/accurate Tyrannosaurus when I have time.

[@BenJewer]

@@RW_CreativeMedia Crocodilians are a bit of an exception when it comes to teeth because they're so specialised and spend so much time underwater. Most animals have their teeth covered by lips to protect the enamel, including all large lizards alive today. There's arguments for and against dinosaurs having lips but I think it seems more likely that they did. Here is a good article about it: www.skeletaldrawing.com/home/the-lip-post1

[@BenJewer]

@@RW_CreativeMedia Even at the time JP was made, scientists knew Velociraptor looked nothing like the movie. Maniraptorans (inc. Velociraptor) have been known to have had feathers since the late 70s, and the real Velociraptor was the size of a turkey. The dinosaurs in JP were already outdated at the time scientifically speaking, but they were still much further ahead than any other depictions in mainstream media. While a lot of things about dinosaurs will never be known, quite a few species (especially Tyrannosaurus) are known very well from almost complete remains, and a lot can be deduced (not guessed) about them from that.

[@ahmedshakib3883]

this was really nicely done.

[@Waqulah]

Absolutely amazing. Now one critique that you should take into consideration to make this perfect. The rain. That t-rex should be glossy with rain. Not only was the dark rain used for the optimal believability in the old days of cgi but give tribute to the constant difficulties of shooting with the animatronic t-rex who had to be dried out between takes because he weighed the hydrolics down so badly he would shake. Also, the fact that the t-rex is dry looking, it removes him from the enviroment. However, it is incredible what you did.

[@Ridgerunner2270]

That was very well done. Would love to see a longer shot.

[@TheRazoredEdge]

Wow. Universal need to hire this dude for Jurrasic World 3. This looks better than anything they've done with the last 2 movies. Well done!

[@rds6129]

That's it. Blender is the future.

[@tobi6758]

Well done! Whats your PC Specs?

[@Streamcatcher]

Good question, because my pc crashes even with the most simple blender scene. I have Q6600 and Nvidia 580gx (or gt). So my pc is quite old...

[@colincampbell3679]

WOW some super hard cool work done in Blender there.. Now we know how Spielberg did the Dinosaurs : P

[@Zensurist]

Insane! I also thought it was the real movie : - O

[@ReinOwader]

Very well done. Only thing I miss is more reflections on wet skin. Basically I would make him just more reflective.

[@sottozen]

Awesome!

[@GyanPrakash]

I thought you posted a clip from the movie then I realised and I BOW to you now.

[@samchaves6063]

Very good the video

[@QuestionAnswerXOXO]

Stunning work, dude!

[@creativecorner2071]

Bro I legit thought this was the actual scene from the movie! Well done!

[@WesleyO05]

This T. rex model belongs in a movie

[@hishay6]

absolutely love this ! would love to see the Dino with high specular highlights, as it is raining.

[@dodokodokodok1118]

Better than cgi in jurasic park! Almost like partical effect. Great job!!

[@j.vonhogen9650]

Simply amazing!!

[@footwear4579]

Isn’t that a part where it’s done by a large animatronic T-Rex body?

[@mudokin]

Not anymore because of money and beeing able to bankrup cg companies, for not delivering the result in time after 100 change requests.

[@buda3d2007]

Looks great! Can you do another pass with the de-noiser in 2.81? I think this scene with all its motion and shadows etc would be a great test subject for the denoiser.

[@danimourinho]

wow! i got completely confused as i knew that scene was practical effects! Amazing work dude🤘

[@dudepersonvids]

The original Jurassic Park scene actually used both a practical full-sized animatronic T-Rex, as well as a 3D animated version. In at least one shot in the original movie scene, the T-Rex is practical at the beginning of the shot, and CG as it walks away by the end of the shot.

[@nedstudios6490]

I thought this was Dennis Muren, giving us a peak BTS on his work. Then you read Dennis Jewer. LOL I mean really pulled it off, many have tried, but not like this, I could've swore this was the original work. The very Best representation I've ever seen, and I loved the original. So This is what Ian Hubert meant when he said at his conference "this is what happens when you just keep going and it's never finished". Brilliant, Absolutely Brilliant. What would it take to get some water physics pouring off his big scary head? Stan Winston still made animatronics, right along side the VFX. That's how they got that big sucker to get the shot of water running off his back was using the actual model in that long shot after this one. I don't know, Id call I.L.M. if I were you Ben.

[@fabianernestopacheco]

Man, that was fucking awesome!!!

[@geemongeorge9651]

Awesome

[@rickjames5998]

wow thats awesome. 8 seconds of awesome that probably took hours to make.

[@rally5005]

That's insane dude

[@jfk4852]

This is incredible Truly

[@MattproThe]

holly f"ck, i think you'll put first the original scene and then yours, i was waiting for yours and the "breakdown" text appear... AMAZING

[@PaleozoicProductions]

looks so damn real,

[@dannyg1812]

Great work, this is awesome. Very well done.

[@pgp]

Beautiful 😍❤️ Incredible work!

[@ScuttlesPlays]

Just found your channel with this video. Big fan of the Jurassic films and I’m loving this! Any chance you have more in depth videos on how to do this process? Still kinda new to animation. Thanks!

[@Rambo....]

Nice. what is your pc specs ?

[@lunapictures7989]

Great job. It looks amazing 😁

[@jurgenvantomme]

amazing! wow speechless

[@dion9781]

looks perfect only thing i would do is making him look a little more reflective and wet on the top since it seems to be raining in the scene

[@nsaurabh25]

Wow! Unbelievable!!

[@Kinsanth_]

Impressive how far cgi had come since 1993. I really thought that zhis was the animatronic from the film

[@graemiller]

That looks insane!

[@mathewt1893]

Amazing! really proud to learn blender.

[@Mamori3D]

dude you just earned a new subscriber, amazing work

[@santiagotosoni4667]

Great work ben!!!

[@brandon3784]

WOW! Great work man!

[@m.l.v.barrios1585]

It was already good at render

[@viczav]

HOLY SHIT! IT LOOKS DOPE AF!

[@JurassicJordan808]

This is fantastic keep up the good work!!!