Moments That Changed The Movies: Jurassic Park

[@ia5662]

Still has the best and most realistic CGI effects I've ever seen to date, no BS.

[@ia5662]

Well apparently I'm not the only one, and no one asked you to come here either. Transformers!? You must be kidding. Those things look further from "real" than Avatar. Since when do robots who "transform" have every inch of their body covered with anime sharp accents of ridiculous metal? It looks like Bay took the original G1 Transformers and threw them into a blender and said "here you go, America". There is absolutely no physics or engineering involved in how they transform back into car form. They just magically do it, it's so lame. The cartoons looked more real! You really think Avatar looked "tangible"? It was a great fantasy, but it's not realistic looking, just very nice in 3D and HD. Godzilla got closer, but still a bit less believable. Man of Steel's effects were most people's gripe with the film in the first place, including mine. That totally ruined any kind of realism the film built with Clark and his dad in the early stages.

[@07foxmulder]

Yes, Jurassic Park has better CGI than every movie you mentioned. You have to remember that Jurassic Park was released in 1993 and CGI was still primitive; the movies you listed came out 14+ years later. The CGI in JP looked incredible in '93 and still looks amazing today. Every movie you mentioned (excluding Godzilla) is already dated.

[@ia5662]

***** Please don't give me "facts" about MY view, you're a fool for trying to do so. Bay did a shitty job if what you say is even true, his robots look completely senseless compared to their vehicle modes. You're clearly blinded by shiny newness and flock with the sheep to the box office for the next Bay explosion extravaganza. It's not even that they looked dated in any way, they look overblown, they look fake. I love that you call practical transformations "lazy". Gravity, to me, is the only movie that comes close, although it's slightly farfetched and even physicists have disclaimed some of it's reality. It looks better than 99% of the CGI out there though. In JP, T-Rex and the rest of the dinosaurs looked real. They are not just good for their time, they are STILL some of the best ever. Literally everything you consider good CGI from Bay is exactly what JP already had: lighting, texture, interaction, environment, fluidity and motion. Most intelligent filmgoers tend to agree with me, but you don't so I won't waste anymore of your time.

[@07foxmulder]

***** Yes, Transformers' effects were pretty impressive. There's no denying that. I just think that Jurassic Park's looked better. Maybe it's because we saw the dinosaurs a lot less than the Transformers; maybe it's because Spielberg used animatronics along with special effects and you couldn't tell where the practical effects ended and when the CGI started... I don't know. Saying that, I do believe that Transformers had the best effects since Jurassic Park. Maybe filmmakers just step up their game when Spielberg is attached to their project lol

[@paranoid1367]

You need to see more movies than. You saying JP has the best CGI is like saying the Model T is still the best car on the road.

[@levicowan2650]

I saw Jurassic Park for the first time at 5 years old, and it changed my life forever! Amazing movie-thank you

[@JurassicCollectables]

Thank you for not listening to the words 'you will never'. You are pioneers of the imagination. Thank. You.

[@theJF7]

Indeed. And this is why 3D animation/CGI not only fascinates me(when done right), but extends the boundaries of what's possible in film, limited only by our imaginations... and budget. All because a few determined people decided to go against the grain and accepted techniques to try something new. Valuable advice from incredible people involved in an ever dynamic and changing industry.

[@JurassicCollectables]

+James Foster (theJF7) and yet comparably Jurassic Park seemed to have more care than Jurassic World with regards to VFX work. It's important that people don't take the technology for granted and forget to put in the craft where needed. Jurassic Park succeeded where Jurassic World failed because the people involved wanted the Dinosaurs to look REAL

[@shinndig1293]

You have no credibility considering you seriously think Fallen Kingdom is a worthy & respectful addition to the franchise when it's NOT! JP3 and JW were comparatively WAY more satisfying than that piece of shit.

[@Penguin2923]

Hey JC! And Fallen Kingdom is absolutely Amazing. Edit: I love your channel!

[@JurassicCollectables]

@@Penguin2923 Hey!! Thanks for your comment - I did enjoy FK!

[@ViralKiller]

people ask why the CGI of Jurassic Park is still unmatched to this day...Most of it is due to Steve 'Spaz' Williams, he is just on a whole other level...

[@d0ntreply]

that's like saying, why the tape deck is still better than the ipod. i work in the cgi business. trust me and it's a given, that cgi is leaps and bounds above the Jurassic park days. that's just plain common sense. don't be naive.

[@ViralKiller]

D0NTREPLY technically it is better, still looks worse...people don't know how to composite seamlessly...so what has beaten the T-Rex so far?

[@d0ntreply]

***** viral, are you mysteriously commenting from the past, somehow communicating to us in the future? are you stuck in the 90s or something? rise of the planet of the apes, district 9, gravity, gollum, benjamin button. you think jurassic park is better than that? you will eat the wigger from thy fuck my shoulder.

[@d0ntreply]

hsu912174 bruised? hmmm... i don't get it.

[@ViralKiller]

D0NTREPLY gollum did not look realistic...T-Rex still beats gollum for sheer photo-realism and scene integration

[@DallasMay]

Funny that this video was produced by the Academy of Motion Pictures. Jurassic Park remains the most snubbed movie by the Academy of all time. JP more than deserved at least a nomination for Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screen Play, Editing, Cinematography, Art, Costume, VISUAL FREAKING EFFECTS! It should have been at least nominated for nearly every category, and only got nominated sound editing. But, hey, everyone knows by heart the score of "The Age of Innocence", right? Oh, right, no one does.

[@Fiury68]

Dallas May it won visual effects

[@0807jacob]

Jurassic Park was one of the most respected films from the Academy. However, Spielberg’s other film, Schindler’s List was more successful and won most of the Oscars. Jurassic Park was nominated for Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and Visual Effects, and won all of them. We loved the film.

[@vhmmaragh]

Dude First off, Directing, Spielberg did a good job but he was better in Schindler's List Score, I admit that it should've been nominated and could've won Supporting Actor, no. Goldblums performance is iconic (or as others say disgusting) Best Picture, I suppose so. Screenplay, no, Schindler Art, versus Schindlers List? Cinematography, its good but Oscar worthy???? And no fucking way would it win any of these except maybe score. And it won 3 oscars not 1.

[@DallasMay]

@@vhmmaragh Thanks for sharing your opinion 6 years later.

[@vhmmaragh]

@@DallasMay oh shit lol never noticed how long ago and you replied 7 minutes later

[@DidrickNamtvedt]

I remember being absolutely blown away by how real the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park looked when I saw it in the movie theater for the first time as a kid (I was 9 or 10 at the time) and my favorite scene is when T-Rex breaks the fence and steps out on the road between the two guide cars and roars. Actually, the entire sequence with T-Rex causing havoc on Lex and Tim's car and everything happening inbetween remains my favorite scene in any movie ever. I still get blown away by the special effects of the movie to this day and how the use of animatronics and CGI just seamlessly works to really make this a movie that stands the test of time.

[@bulletshotfromgun]

The biggest part to me with T2 and JP is that they were STORY Driven.... most CGI movies of today are good,great, sometimes better looking in CGI... but, they are not story heavy worth a damn... That plays a huge part in making movies, T2 and JP did not let CGI tell their stories :) Thats why those two movies Standout :) The movie even with the CGI STILL hold up as great movies did not Age worth a damn

[@12Paolaaa]

This is really inspiring, doing things that's never been done before, and creating new tools and new opportunities for future filmmakers. I love this.

[@nathanthesubzeromangold4615]

The movie is so beautiful. For the fans thank you for making the movie. CGI came a long way and movie making Jurassic Park was a great movie. A epic story journey

[@Raditram]

The reason a lot of people are saying that "oh this is still the best cg I've ever seen" is because these guys were combining it with practical effects, the best movies are often a combination of practical and cg effects, the balance needs to be right, and these guys weren't overdoing it, it's at the right "consistency" so to speak.

[@scottb3034]

7 years late but it has a lot more to it than just blending with practical effects. ID4 did that as well but their effects haven't aged well in some areas. It also has a lot to do with lighting of both the composited assets AND the lighting of the scene itself. Plus a lot of these guys at ILM at the time had cinematography or other film degrees that informed their work whereas guys now just come in with effects degrees foremost.

[@VistaDoes707]

Spaz Williams spoke at my school earlier this year! Really cool guy, down to earth, with a rebel heart. One thing he told the animation students was start in the physical. Pick up a rock and feel it in your hands. Break a piece of wood and carve it out. Awesome approach to learning!

[@Alex_R19]

what's crazy is that their work still holds up to this day. amazing!

[@josephmora5230]

After 21 years, Jurassic Park is still thrilling, and a technical marvel!

[@arenstikai27]

7:53 couldn't agree more. Melding both mediums creates very immersive experiences at the cinema

[@MANIAKRA]

So much respect for these artists!

[@avi4francis]

This was my first movie in a Theater. I remember I was so shocked that I had to close my eyes at some scenes. I didn’t order anything at half time. I was just 4. This was one of the greatest moments of my life.

[@thatguy4142]

These effects still even look better than some of the effects for some films being made today.

[@CJODell12]

Jurassic Park won all three of its Oscar nominations that year; Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing and Best Visual Effects.

[@BlokeOzzie]

The reason JP looks good to this day and can still compete even with modern CGI fare? The attention to detail is just about unmatched, short of something like Avatar. Part of making CGI look realistic isn't just having a high-resolution model. It has to move believably, and be lit and blended with the background correctly in order to make you believe what is there is actually *there*, and not just plastered on top of the film. The folks responsible for the CGI and compositing in JP made every little detail on *all* levels count.

[@LennieAppelquist]

This is an amazing example of the precise moment that a game changes. WOW!

[@WeRdesigningFutures]

thanks

[@irina1296]

One of my all-time favorfite movies. Even nowadays its effects look amazingly impressive

[@zamardii12]

Isn't it weird that the CGI from Jurassic Park looks better than some of the CGI from today? I guess it's because it was JUST dinosaurs, but they look fucking great. Kathleen Kennedy's filmography is incredible. She was involved in almost all the greatest movies of all time. lol

[@VFXLtd]

+zamardii12 Cant agree more. No random color grading. Everything looked realistic as if they were there. God, the cgi in JW was bad, especially the t-rex at the end. It was as if it were a cinematic shot from a video game! :(

[@petitio_principii]

Human characters were also inserted on scenarios where they were not really physically there. Like when Hammond is pointing at the dinos far on the BG, and I believe also the kids on the car flipped upside-down, when the T. rex is trying to eat it.

[@coolida23511]

This movie has aged gracefully well throughout the years.

[@thegreatga]

Even as a kid I always thought that movie was ahead of its time!

[@ConstantXplorer]

I can remember seeing this movie for the first time and all I could say was this is a killer movie. I've never seen anything like it before. I loved every moment of it. The behind the scenes stuff and deeper into the behind the scenes is the stuff you don't see very often. Now the real story comes to light and it makes movies like this even more groundbreaking. And they're right when I saw T2 and The Abyss etc, I was blown away, again because the effects were so life like. I sat and just wondered how on Earth did they do this.

[@jaKthemighty]

Definitely think we now need to find a new balance between CGI and practical effects. Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are was a brilliant step in that direction and both the new Star Wars and Jurassic Park movies are experimenting with this and I'm really excited to see the results.

[@CollinJosephNeal]

Love these mini-Doc's keep it up Academy Originals!

[@FyremaelGlittersparkle]

Wow, it looks like Jurassic Park might actually have almost sucked...I am stunned by this! I'm so glad they gave the go-ahead to the CGI masters to make the movie what it eventually became!

[@scottb3034]

the movie would have still been good, just not iconic nor as well remembered.

[@Aeon2Flux]

My favorite scene is when T Rex Gets out and walks in between the jeeps . On the trailer tease I remember being blown away with that shot alone. The Rain Lighting..Oh and the pure mass and speed when Goldbloom Wavin flare"Get the Kids!" RAHOHRR!! Grants like "GET RID OF THE FLARE! Then Jeff like starting to Backpeddle into a sprint Away as this thing Crushes the Earth and air with Like Three Steps and She s already Caught up to him! Oh my that is still best CG ever The weught and mass of the Rex ,along with that sound. Just takes breath away in astonishment as I merely think about it..Spielberg and ILM /Stan Winston are the Shit and always will be.

[@kimemasal]

thank you for a great childhood.

[@BeRoyal37]

What a brilliant movie. Way before its time

[@MM-NolascoPH]

I really wish that ILM will give us the framework and the models of their CGI dinosaurs.

[@TheBitBlock]

The best shots with dinosaurs are still the animatronics though.

[@MrSirFluffy]

+TheBitBlock That part where the T-rex is stepping on the SUV and the children are underneath.... all cgi. It blew my mind. The truck is cgi, obviously the T-rex, even the kids are green screen onto the image.

[@moto4zz306]

Good in our expectations is more Thank you for give a marvelous movie to us

[@mrjoanofarc]

Hands down favorite movie of all time. 🙌😂

[@SpontaneousWeasel]

It was definitely a defining moment for both movie goers and movie makers. I was always fascinated by visual effects as a child and after this I always remember thinking 'well now they can do everything cgi'. Of course as with JP the best visual effects on live action projects are a combination of live action elements and cgi combined (imo).

[@TheShadowedOne1]

Jurassic Park is my favorite film of all time and the best film of all time.

[@The_RedVIII]

Can you imagine Jurassic Park with stop motion? Thank god they changed their mind.

[@tom_reagan]

Steve “Spaz” Williams did not get the credit he deserved. HE is the reason why Jurassic Park had CG dinosaurs.

[@VFXking]

Did you watch Jurassic Punk?

[@whitelion44]

I agree, this one of those rare watershed moments in film history

[@thatdesignerguy0]

This was an event movie something that really can't be replicated. Films like Avatar and Godzilla came close but just couldn't capture the little details.

[@marcoleone393]

You took the words out of my mouth. Jurassic Park was an actual game changer. If we take Avatar as a contender, you’ll find that, other than the technical advancements in 3D technology, there’s really little being left to consideration. Jurassic Park had great visual effects at the service of an equally great story, with well rounded characters and an effective screenplay. Last, but certainly not least, the grace of having the best director behind the camera.

[@JoshWithrow]

Ran across this just browsing; wasn't disappointed.

[@jakehouseholder4951]

Steven Spielberg is a legend

[@Floreum]

At 6:29, does anyone know where there are gaps in the geometry? I've seen that with The Hobbit behind the scenes with Smaug, is it that the gaps there are where the deformers are, and the test renders just don't support it? Or they were turned off for previewing?

[@zitaengeljakob8485]

Damn, this made me teary-eyed. 🥲

[@sonicmaiden]

They didn't mention this in this video but on the bluray extras, they incorporated "stop motion," digitally. They took dinosaur skeleton like structure and moved it frame by frame. Those real time movements translated to the digital model in the computer. So some of those dinosaur movements were actual done by hand in real life not just by a mouse. True stuff. Having all those mixed media's made this movie so great and I also agree that that CGI had to be the best and most realistic to date. Believable. Today's is really good and smooth and super detailed but why does it not feel Believable. I think it's cause it's not film and its really really clean and sharp. Looks too good?

[@GanjaClaus]

Been watching the movie again in 3D. Now Im hoping for "Godzilla vs Transformers" ..and Godzilla surely enough is going to win.

[@Jasheon]

Man you dumb as a sum bitch.

[@GanjaClaus]

sorry but I dont speak gibberish..

[@hugheggs]

GanjaClaus Considering your name is GanjaClause, I bet you speak gibberish very well.

[@GanjaClaus]

Considering your avatar, I bet you are an ass :P

[@Jasheon]

GanjaClaus Let's first make a good get a good Godzilla movie with him fighting monsters that he has fought before.

[@DualStupidity]

Blows my mind they did all this on (albeit beefed-up) 90's computers and CRTs.

[@scottb3034]

your phone probably has more computing power now than their server room at ILM back in 93.

[@BensBoringVideos]

... and then Michael Bay happened.

[@ia5662]

yeah, ick.

[@antona.8659]

Michael Bay films have some of the best VFX in modern film history. What is that supposed to mean?

[@animaxindustries]

@@johannlopez1097 there was tons of those movies long before 1993

[@vhmmaragh]

@@animaxindustries but jurassic park did the CGI special effects carefully and cautiously and made sure to have a good setup good characters and of course the effects, but Michael Bay only used the effects and cranked it up to 1000. His movie's effects can be impressive but they get tired and lazy after a while.

[@animaxindustries]

@@vhmmaragh you missed my point. My point was that bad movies didn't start with Michael Bay. To say "then Michael Bay happened" is to insinuate that he started an overall decline in the quality of fx heavy films. There were bad, pointless fx heavy films long before 1993 and JP. Bad movies started when they started to make films in the first place. Also you had terrible cgi heavy films long before Michael Bay even started to really use the technology. And my other point was that when it comes to the vfx in Michael Bay's films, his movies have some of the best and most impressive vfx in the industry. Without Transformers, ILM probably wouldnt have been able to do what they did with Iron Man, and the rest of the MCU.

[@lyledeyounges1276]

It still looks amazing! It has aged gracefully

[@BigmikeTruck]

I was amazed by the CGI in Young Sherlock Holmes, The Abyss,and T2, and I knew that this would change the special visual effects in movies from then on.

[@Dinoslay]

A perfect BLEND of practical and computer effects sums up Jurassic Park's magic. But contrary to popular belief also displayed in this video, CGI is not a magic bullet, the brunt of the work still goes for the artists themselves with a more or less successful end result.

[@MattWorkman]

This is amazing

[@nathanthesubzeromangold4615]

Steven Spielberg is a legend film director bringing us a good film. Michael Crichton is the one who pulled off the impossible Inspired the best book. Very good movie of the year

[@KamiKitsuneVA]

gotta love those SGI machines :)

[@Casarzino]

Jurassic Park was probably the last time something genuinely new was achieved in filmmaking

[@HieMan-g1n]

I'm confused about the timeline of events. So there were three CGI tests: gallimimus skeleton run, T.Rex skeleton on black background and T.Rex with skin and in full daylight. In various documentaries: 1995 making off, 2011 Return to Jurassic Park and in the episode of Movies That Made Us the events look different each time or lacks some detail. For example according to Movies That Made Us, Williams Dippe made that T.Rex skeleton test, showed to Muren was unhappy but run with it That documentary and this video are where I learned about Muren's hesitation in official documentaries it's presented as if it was Muren's idea all along but I think some of the confusion is a result of secrecy. The initial T.Rex test was seen by Kathleen Kennedy and later ILM got some funds to do a full test that was seen by Spielberg, Lucas , Winston etc. But where does that gallimimus sequence fit in because Spielberg did see that one? I suspect that came between the both tests of CGI T.Rex.

[@scottb3034]

i think the gallimimus test was after the rex tests. it was either a computer render stress test or a sample to work out kinks of the gallimimus animation for the eventual stampede sequence. remember in the 1995 making of they were showing the crew pretending to be gallis in the parking lot of the facility so it was after they were approved imo.

[@qikqbn77]

Thank you to all the talented artists at ILM and especially Steven Spielberg for making this movie. It was the spark that ignited an entirely new industry in how visual effects and computer animation are done for live action movies. JP was also a movie, like star wars, that has inspired so many to chase a dream and get in to the visual effects and computer animation industry. I know it was for me! Looking forward to the exciting possibilities computer animation will continue to create for movies. ;^)

[@gewgulkansuhckitt9086]

Lately some videos (like this one) on KZbin won't load for me. The little whirly thing in the middle of the video just spins forever and ever, but the video never starts. If I hover over the progress bar, I can see single frame thumbnails, but no video. It will not let me skip ahead either.

[@Dalshok]

that never bothers me. when that happens, I just hit the down arrow on my keyboard, and start playing Snake.

[@Baronstone]

What's amazing to me is that with the high speed connections that many people have these days, we still see instances where things load slowly. It drives me crazy when that happens.

[@jonm1013]

Seriously that shits been happening a lot lately to me. KZbin also shows me a message regarding it.

[@coolida23511]

I thought I was the only one.

[@SianaGearz]

+Baronstone usually when this happens to KZbin, it's a software bug that the server-side software gets confused on cookie/session data and can't load the video. It doesn't happen to all videos then, but to some. Weird one. I hope they have it fixed by now. Other sites... well, you have a high speed connection, but running a lot of servers is expensive, and a common issue is that the servers containing popular videos are just overloaded and either their local network node or their harddisk or CPU just aren't fast enough to take the load. But the ones suffering are not predominantly the ones watching the popular video, but the ones watching the less popular ones that happen to share the same server. :)

[@minalchachad6209]

Whoahoah!! Superb!! Can you plzz teach me how to do it!??

[@donkunjumon9817]

Amazing ❤️😘😘❤️🥰🥰

[@dmtd2388]

Thats what you call real animators & designers and was done on Silicon Graphics Computers and i think some overlays with Amiga and now days PCs they have like 50.000 more power to do it and precise physics with nVidia Quatro and Tesla but not many real designers around to do that so good . Technology is not always the point but talent to ,and now days studios are in so much rush to so they can get a movie out fast.

[@catherinekittykat]

Very Very Cool!

[@WarTornProductions]

Very nicce!

[@animateangus]

I know this was groundbreaking for its time, introducing CGI to cinema, but honestly you can't get anymore realistic than Practical Effects, in my opinion.

[@plaguedoct0r]

Why isn't this video downloading properly? 25kb/s! I opened another just to check, it's only this video that's playing up

[@krhawkins91]

CGI is way better than primitive Stop Motion special effects.

[@Baronstone]

True, but some people still claim that the stop motion stuff is better. I've no idea why they think that way. but some of them do.

[@jaysplace01]

watch any ray harryhausen movie

[@ziegogoboy]

Baronstone It's that stop motion lends a certain flair and personality to a film. Realistically speaking, no, it's not better, but artistically, it really depends on how it benefits each movie. For example: Toy Story, or Wreck It Ralph. FANTASTIC CG, should never be anything but. Fantastic Mr. Fox or NIghtmare before Christmas, same thing though with stop motion. In terms of Dinos or monsters made with stop motion nowadays, I could see it attracting a certain crowd, as it's an aesthetic choice with it's own fan base.

[@HabitualJoker]

I don't know if I would say way better, you have to think about what was available before CGI. You have to respect stop motion effects for what it is. It is very time consuming (as is CGI, but that's on a computer) and the physical aspect is incredible when considering how much time goes into it. Nightmare Before Christmas is stop motion and it is a beautifully made film, story wise and visually. It's funny looking at how long stop motion reigned as the go-to form of animation. Watch The Lost World from 1925, one of the first films that featured some form of dinosaur in it. It's remarkable what filmmakers did back then with the models. It looks cheesy to us, but the film was made almost 90 years ago. I'd argue that we would not have CGI today if it wasn't for stop motion animation. It deserves respect, especially in an age when most people can't bear to watch anything that isn't CGI. Sad, really.

[@ziegogoboy]

Right now, I would DEFINITELY want to see sfx done in stop motion in a new blockbuster film now, if only because there have been INCREDIBLE advances in the stop motion medium, such as dragon frame, which allows stop motion people to actually use onion skinning and such to achieve an even greater fluency in animation.

[@hugo-garcia]

The most powerfull computers at the time were like 64mb Ram. They squished everyrhing from it. Even smartphones nowadays are powerfull

[@greggv8]

The first movie that used real computer graphics as computer graphics instead of hand drawn animation to simulate them was "Westworld" in 1973. "Looker" in 1981 had a scene with a lot of real computer graphics, featuring a 3D model of Susan Dey and simulating a full body scan. The first major use of CGI to do scenery and vehicles was in "TRON" in 1982. The effects in those were very tedious to do, rendering a frame at a time because they didn't have render farms to split up the tasks. "TRON" had several companies working on CGI, each doing different scenes. One built a special, faster version of their regular production computer just for their part of the movie, then couldn't get anyone to buy the model so it was one of a kind. It would be another two years before anyone did anything else big in movie CGI. "The Last Starfighter" in 1984 was the debut of realistic looking computer graphics intended to represent real vehicles and scenery. The movie was a box office dud due to poor marketing, which led Atari to cancel their "Starfighter" game for the 5200 console and also to shelve plans for a 3D arcade game (though the experience from designing it would end up in some other Atari 3D arcade games a few years later once the tech was less expensive). This movie used an early Cray supercomputer to do the graphics rendering. "Young Sherlock Holmes" had the first animated CGI character in 1985, created by John Lasseter. (Who would later be part of Pixar.) "Labyrinth" in 1986 had the first animated CGI animal, an owl flying in the intro. "Willow" in 1988 was the debut of image morphing. "Beauty and the Beast", digital layered animation and a huge 3D CGI ballroom scene, 1991. "Death Becomes Her" showed off realistic digital human skin and the most fluid character animation to that point in 1992. With the exception of "Beauty and the Beast" every movie prior to "Jurassic Park" that had invested a lot of time and money into CGI was a financial and/or critical failure. It's no wonder that the people working on it on their own time weren't super confident about showing it to the people writing the checks. Without the pioneering of those movies, "Jurassic Park" wouldn't have had the technology available to have its innovation of realistic looking CGI animals. There was quite a bit more computer work in movies before JP than just "The Abyss" and "Terminator 2"! In the next few years, CGI for video and film took off. By 1997, personal computers were powerful enough and affordable enough that large numbers of them could be used to speed up the processing. 1998's "Planetary Traveler" used beta versions of Bryce 3.0 running on standard Macintosh computers to render the direct to video alien travelogue. This was also one of the first uses of distributed processing for making a movie. Shares of the frames were spread across many locations, then later collected to be put into order for the finished video. More info about it can be found in the book "Real World Bryce 2.0" by Susan A. Kitchens, who used one of the Macs used to make "Planetary Traveler" to write and design that book. Today a single personal computer is powerful enough to outdo the CGI of any movie in the 90's or earlier, and do the rendering in finished quality, in real time.

[@scottb3034]

Bit disingenuous to say every movie that had significant time and money spent in CGI was a failure. tron was not. i am just going to assume you mean the items you listed as well because star wars was definitely not a failure. eh whatever. probably shouldn't have dredged up a 7 year old comment.

[@scottb3034]

Besides Star Wars this is probably the most important movie in modern film history from a technical standpoint. Completely course-corrected the industry and changed it forever. The jury is out on whether that truly is a good thing but i'd like to think it is.

[@actionimagesphotography]

At 9:23, Don Cherry in a poster on the wall. Somewhere their is a Canadian :-)

[@Oscars]

Steve "Spaz" Williams is from Ontario en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Williams_(animator)

[@pluckyduck11y]

Interesting to learn that the majority of the dinosaurs in JP were physical, practical models, not CGI. Both practical and CGI effects were terrific in this.

[@GamEchGT3299]

That was legendary

[@matteofiorani6380]

mindblowing!

[@Brunoxtr]

What computer platform they did all this?

[@TomDuhamel]

Macintosh

[@Alessiucciocaro]

Looks more like Silicon Graphics to me...

[@TomDuhamel]

Alessiucciocaro You might be right. I remember having seen a reference back in these days that they were using Macs.

[@SianaGearz]

+Bruno S SGI Irix. The main software is Softimage 3D.

[@JParkL0v3r]

HAPPY 21st ANNIVERSARY!!!

[@pindabubble]

Jurassic Park wouldn't be the masterpiece that it is if it weren't for the bold maverick geniuses who dare challenge the established norms. Same can be said also about the guys behind the DTS playback system which incidentally was first introduced in Jurassic Park.

[@rwongusa]

1 animatronics dinosaur didn't like this video...

[@Baronstone]

They used both in the movie.

[@sheepsnoopshep]

no, new hollywood CGI disliked this video.

[@LiLgPnoy15]

It's lack of CGI is what helped make this film so amazing. Nowadays movies use CGI and it takes away from its quality.

[@nebulousy]

and those people went on to never make another good Jurassic Park movie ever again. The End.

[@andrewgordon173]

Awesome video about the dawn of CGI.

[@californiaspaceship7504]

respect

[@ClayBrice]

Jurassic Park is an awesome movie!

[@TK_Brainslug]

damn i don't know, but this video made me cry

[@Sunomis]

Kinda reminds me of that demo with the T-Rex when the first Playstation was released.

[@SharpDesign]

0:26 B.O. Monster..... in that moment, I'm a 12 year old, giggling

[@ThreeDaysOfDan]

To this day this movie holds up. I believe a mix of both CG and traditional effects will always be superior to pure CG , the cg in the newer star wars films sucked ass =/

[@marcoleone393]

I’m not that sure tho. If you look at the latest Jurassic World movie dinosaurs, which were made mostly with CGI, but in some capacity also with animatronics, they still look off. I think having a visionary and talented director like Steven Spielberg is what helped this movie to really shine.

[@HazeBanga4]

yes

[@artisthespoonman]

Always see a lot of CGI nerds on these vids claiming that the 'modern' CGI in say Jurassic World is so much better than JP. But, they always miss the fact that believable CGI is more than just rendering and compositing. These techniques and the ability to do them more efficiently have undoubtedly improved, but as someone else mentioned, JP just crossed that threshold where it will always look good. The other point, which is bizarrely always missed, is that the CGI dinosaurs in JP look great because they are very anatomically accurate - excluding some things like the absence of feathers on the raptors and some minor quibbles. They look like real dinosaurs not the cartoon animals we see in Jurassic World. They also move and behave like real animals, especially like birds. For instance, Steve 'Spaz' Williams went to great lengths to check the running cycle of the T-rex was correct and consistent with how modern animals move. I think the audience intuitively recognise this difference. This attention to detail doesn't get done anymore and it's a large reason why the effects on Jurassic World look so crap by comparison.

[@luisrizo8813]

The 'Spaz' doc may affect the historical honesty of some of these comments.

[@VFXking]

"may"

[@luisrizo8813]

@@VFXking Also, get ready to dislike Dennis Muren.

[@VFXking]

@@luisrizo8813 already did

[@adamguray3126]

They say 3 Times Spielberg changed the cinema Jaws Indiana Jones & Jurassic park But I say it was 3 times Spielberg changed the world

[@scottb3034]

Indiana Jones is a great series. Raiders is tied with JP and Empire strikes back as my favorite movie in fact, but i would be hard-pressed to say he changed cinema with that. Jaws sure. it created the summer blockbuster/movie season, revived orchestral music, etc. JP of course as well.

[@LightWarrior2000]

Being proactive like that really sets you apart.

[@AramiGGs27]

The CGI is fantastic in the film, but the dinos would've looked less realistic without animatronics. That's another thing that makes them so realistic.

[@sheepsnoopshep]

they are using animatronics on jurassic worlD!

[@richardoctovianusoey]

that old computer probably better than mine lol

[@Xervello]

Hmm... Star Wars (pre CGI) or The Phantom Menace (post) ... tough decision, lol.

[@DallasMay]

The comparison has nothing to do with CGI vs no. It's about the story and the characters. If Jurassic Park was just about the Dinosaurs running around eating people, it would have been forgotten too. But it was the characters and the story that made it timeless.

[@Xervello]

Dallas May Does to me. The effects in Star Wars looked way better. The Phantom Menace era, though pretty effects, lOOked less authentic. I'll take miniature models and inventive camera-work to CGI anyday.

[@DallasMay]

But you missed my point. If Episode 1s story and acting didn't suck, it wouldn't be as hated even with the excess CGI. Consider LOTR or Harry Potter or the Avengers. Those movies had no less CGI than Ep. 1 did, but people love them because their stories didn't suck.

[@WolfenmarK]

Dallas May And their CGI didn't suck either. :)

[@CaiominTwin]

It's weird how they call movies "shows". That feels funny.

[@alexanderleeart]

didn't know they could do 3d texture painting back then

[@thegreatagitator4675]

***** The research and first implementation of texture mapping was done in the mid-to-late '70s. Go figure.

[@alexanderleeart]

The Great Agitator yeah I knew texture mapping was really old, but what I didn't know is that they had Mari-style painting tools where you could actually paint the object in 3D, rather than just in 2D like in Photoshop.

[@thegreatagitator4675]

***** Not entirely 3D. In Viewpaint you could project your canvas along a fixed axis onto the model and then draw over it.

[@alexanderleeart]

The Great Agitator oh I guess that makes more sense. I think that's how some of the first versions of Zbrush were too

[@VFXLtd]

+Alexander Lee I still can't believe how the hell they rigged, textured, and animated all that on those silicon graphics and those inferior software. The XSI software looked as if it only had 4 buttons equivalent to that of 2000 MS Paint!

[@MUSICTEACHER2012]

I was amazed when i first saw the T rex in jurassic Park. It looks so real. I thought it was animatronics.

[@MUSICTEACHER2012]

Mark Martin The first time the T rex showed itself, was it CGI or animatronics?

[@MUSICTEACHER2012]

Yes i agree the close ups are animatronics. I can tell.

[@Mark_o_Helm]

Between the shots the T-Rex needed to be dried with towels because she was sweating. Understandable, it was her first big role in 65 Million years.😊

[@KamalPremvedhanikkunnakodeeswa]

Heavy

[@earllemongrab2]

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