Making The Dinosaurs | Jurassic Park Documentary (1993) | Screen Bites

To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Jurassic Park, we go behind the scenes with the original crew who created the incredible Dinosaurs. Check out how they made the most epic film of the 20th century!
0:00. Introduction
0:10. King Kong Animatronics
00:48. Special Effects Design Team
01:39. Sculpting The Dinosaurs
03:09. Stop-Start Animating
04:26. Involving The Paleontologists
05:42. Testing Motion
06:54. Using CGI
10:18. Mixing animation and CGI
10:59. Editing And Post Production
11:39. Adding The Dinosaurs
12:16. Dinosaur Movement
14:47. Referencing Animals
15:58. The T-Rex
16:48. Final Steps
17.13. The Finished Sequence
Jurassic Park (1993): Experience one of the biggest films in motion picture history with director Steven Spielberg's ultimate thrill ride, Jurassic Park. Featuring Academy Award®-winning visual effects and groundbreaking filmmaking that has been hailed as "a triumph of special effects artistry" (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times), this epic film is sheer movie-making magic that was 65 million years in the making. Jurassic Park takes you to an amazing theme park on a remote island where dinosaurs once again roam the earth and five people must battle to survive among the prehistoric predators. Starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough, discover the breathtaking adventure you will want to experience again and again.
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[@Loonaluv]

30 years later, and that trex scene still holds up

[@allanflynn2704]

It's incredible isn't it.

[@bigtechisbigbrother8690]

Looks better than special effects today.

[@mr.adventure0142]

It is the magic behind all them.

[@GalibM.]

What do you mean by still holds up it will be there forever. It’s an emotion, childhood emotion.

[@cookiesontoast9981]

​@@GalibM.I think it's obvious what they mean. Visually it still looks just as realistic as it ever did, even with all these new CG films with tons of details packed in.

[@chloesmurf]

As a 90s kid who grew obsessed with dinosaurs, seeing someone being called "Dinosaur Supervisor" 3:36 is the coolest thing ever

[@noahwhitehawk3405]

As a kid I always wanted to apply at Jurassic park & work there. Lmao that would be on every paper with the question “where do you see yourself when you grow up” lmao 💀 I was stupid up until 10.

[@lemonskunk1238]

Darth Vader doing commentary on Jurassic Park is like a dream come true

[@DieWitness]

you mean Thulsa Doom ?

[@gochem3013]

James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader.

[@standj21]

Beat me to it I was thinking the same (James E Jones)

[@supme7558]

Mufasa

[@dwightk.schruteiii8454]

The 80’s and 90’s were peak movie era.

[@LiLgPnoy15]

100 % agreed.

[@Lumerdrums]

back then, when there was love in the movie production. Even today, it looks awesome. I can't get over the fact that with computers 100000x faster than 1993, there are still movies put out that can't reach the "creature" quality of the original JP. that shows how much effort was put in every single shot instead of releasing a mass product for the sake of money. this right here is pure art.

[@EFP__98]

I agree. Studios are now so over dependent on CGI to the point where even whole environments are fake. It really takes you right out of the film when you're just watching an animation fest for 90 mins+ (cough cough marvel)

[@shawncamp333]

"The Greats" are patient and take the time to make perfect. They sit and analyze. And they always have self relection of "am I doing this right" and this is true in ALL industries. Today, everything is fast-paced back then people bad to generally wait for an email or phone call

[@Avsfan23]

That T-Rex scene is still one of the coolest movie scenes ever

[@TheArnebaby]

James earl Jones voicing this is an added treasure.

[@JohnSmith-gu9gl]

Without Steve 'Spaz' Williams there would be no Jurassic Park and other milestone movies like Terminator 2. He never got an Oscar for his work in Jurassic Park, which is very sad.

[@aecsummer]

Would be awesome if they released all these claymation type storyboards as a full length feature 😎

[@brycevo]

Spielberg and Winston did such a fantastic job bringing the Dinosaurs back

[@derekcourneya6080]

Seeing Jurassic Park as a kid in theater was a life changing, unforgettable experience. Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make it happen!

[@DMalltheway]

Did you watch Schindler’s List later on?

[@derekcourneya6080]

@@DMalltheway I was too young to see Schindler's List in theater, but I saw it on video when I was 10. It also made a big impact on me even though I didn't fully understand what was happening in the film.

[@DMalltheway]

@@derekcourneya6080 Watching it that young is difficult, but as an adult it hits very hard.

[@bobsiyt6548]

It’s amazing with as much as technology has advanced in 30 years - this CGI is probably better than anything today. Truly remarkable

[@DieWitness]

Stan Winston was a creative genus

[@davidmckayii752]

I'm glad they found Phil Tippet a good job, like he evolved too!

[@therealalexmullins]

The extreme focus on the movement and behavior of real animals is what took this to another level even compared to today's movies. They said it themselves, they didn't use 3rd party fantasy interpretation of movement and yet that's what everyone does now and it removes the realism even with computers orders of magnitude more powerful.

[@evilmarik24]

You see all the stuff and hard work they put in, it’s no secret to why it’s a movie that still holds to this day . They actually cared

[@Anomize23]

YOU THINK THAT IS WHAT MOST WOULD UNDERSTAND TODAY! Now we get cartoons for movies 🙄

[@KonstantinosStathopoulos]

All this amount of dedication, time and work makes this film until now impossible to surpass.

[@shaunpenne1840]

32 years later, and the Animatronic dinosaurs still look vastly superior to the Jurassic World films!!

[@Mac14329]

Rest in peace, Stan Winston.

[@ryanOGab]

These puppets and CGI are 30 years old and were the ultimate in technology then, given how far the technological revolution achievements have come and the advancements we've since gone through, honestly the effects from this film have aged better than other films' post-its benchmark and even recently released ones. The plastic sheeness and flatness of CGI now. That doesn't factor in light and weight, is just lingrely obvious and a complete distraction that brings you out of the film. I still can't understand however since it's first step we've been heading backwards ever since.

[@deslow7411]

LOTR and The Hobbit are a great example how the same studio evolved backwards in visual effects.

[@RachelOfArcadia]

Mufasa doing commentary on the making of my favorite film of all time is just so incredible. This film is in every single way, a masterpiece. This film is perfect.

[@ApolloVIIIYouAreGoForTLI]

1:58 Thats Adam Jones right there...

[@crabsynth8761]

Right at 2:00 you can see Adam Jones, the guitarist from the band 'Tool' working on a dinosaur... now we know why all Tool videos are so Amazing! 😊

[@darkgoth69]

Golden age of filmmaking here. you'd think people would just use this template and make greater things

[@jdos5643]

But instead it went downhill. Sadly. You would think by now everything would look and feel real. But it’s meh.

[@darkgoth69]

@@jdos5643 lol

[@Wiiggz]

Fun fact about this movie. Here in the uk when it was the red carpet event premiere in London. My local town in Carmarthen, wales also premiered this movie the same night. This is totally unheard of but the local theatre here called the lyric wrote to Steven Spielberg to ask for a special permission to see if they could get early access to the movie to save the theatre from closing. They didn’t expect it but Steven got in touch and gave them permission to play it the same night before it was released to the public. Thanks to Steven, the lyric theatre is still open to this day. Although now it doesn’t show movies, it’s still a theatre for shows. A movie was made about it on sky (our uk satellite tv provider here) called “save the cinema” it starred Tom Felton from Harry Potter. Anyway, thanks for helping save my towns theatre Steven.

[@daitmonrroy4219]

A Great masterpiece The First movie of jurassic park The visual and animatronic effects still look spectacular 30 years after its release, the casting was perfect, the script, its message, soundtrack. all 10/10 something they couldn't match with their disaster and mediocre of a Jurassic world trilogy.

[@jackmorrison8269]

Rex has the best entrance of any character in any movie ever made.

[@JayceeVoZuri]

That's some passion in making this movie. That's why it's such a good movie nowadays it's all cgi and greenscreen

[@jdos5643]

Just like most music is auto tuned and not much singing or talent.

[@JayceeVoZuri]

@jdos5643 especially mumble rap its so horrible its making my ears bleeding 🤮🤮🤮

[@jdos5643]

@@JayceeVoZuri I feel like either youtube deletes my comments or changes the words in it. Many times I come back to my speech comments and I find words that I did not put there.

[@redcanvasltd3267]

Well, not if you watch Christopher Nolan's films which is the result of obsessively doing nearly everything live, in camera. He definitely took cinema back to its golden age as no one was believing anything anymore, everything felt fake and he knew it. Go watch 2001 Space Odyssey (Kubrick) and you'll see just how beautiful effects can be without CGI which was a massive inspiration for Nolan. But this here, is the best CGI along with T2 that I have ever seen and perfectly used.

[@evil_chuck]

I'm sure the problem isn't the CGI. The real problem is the speed at which CGI scenes happen in today's movies and the number of such fast-paced scenes in movies. If you watch these films, you can notice that the scenes have their time, they are slower and allow you to see a superior result, because the artists manage to imbue the final CGI with a greater amount of detail. The same thing happens in Terminator 2 and The Abyss. The CGI that is seen in those films is present in scenes that show it in detail and to this day they continue to be unbeatable scenes in terms of CGI.

[@mikemoss6045]

3:22 such a beautiful artform

[@grimmer2005]

I think there is room for stop-motion, if they just add those smoothening effects. Makes it look real, and smooth, no hacking.

[@Melissa.1989]

Best movie ever

[@ShutUpCatProductions]

Still better than most things out nowadays

[@Anomize23]

People have lost their vision

[@edwardsmusic6195]

The original still looks more realistic than the sequels. Such a ground-breaking film. I was 8 when this came out and it changed my life.

[@dylancompton2941]

Wasn’t expecting to see Adam Jones, making dinosaurs by day and playing guitar in Tool at night. Talk about a dream job.

[@bigbowlowrong4694]

Yeah, that dude just straight up makes an honest living being an artist and expressing himself. He’s a lucky and talented guy.

[@leonardocefalo2931]

That's what you call a life devoted to art

[@stefanobaggio1724]

Ce film a émerveillé mon enfance un véritable chef d’œuvre ! merci Mr Spielberg 🤩🙏🏻

[@El-Mac795]

2:01 Adam Jones from the band tool! 😱👌

[@entertainmentgaming8738]

Yeah. Hes been my childhood and adulthood. He worked on a nightmare on elm street. The scene were Freddy pulls up his shirt, and you see the faces of his victims souls screaming and trying to push through his skin

[@Cas_anova]

Good spot.

[@Studeb]

At least Steve Williams was in there for a moment or two, you wouldn't think he was responsible for Spielberg going for the CGI on how this was presented otherwise.

[@newbesocool99]

Said the same thing. He created it. His boss that got the award said not to😒

[@zamoreno25]

I agree, I missing here the credit of the real creator or CGI, Steve “spaz” Williams

[@KamalPremvedhanikkunnakodeeswa]

Cinematic game changer

[@P455W0RD__JDM]

I remember going to watch this in the theater 6 times in 6 weeks lol

[@oldiskool9328]

Still better than any sequence

[@JOSH-lw2jv]

Fun Fact: The five foot long animatronic baby Triceratops - 1:42 - was to be in a scene where Lex Murphy was to ride on it, but it got cut from the film. Years later, it'd make a quick cameo appearance in *"THE LOST WORLD: Jurassic Park"* where Sarah Harding & Nick Van Owen freed the caged "Site-B" Dinosaurs from Peter Ludlow and his InGen Hunters. The deleted sequence would be reused in the fourth film: *"JURASSIC WORLD",* but with a CG baby Triceratops at the "Gentle Giants Petting Zoo".

[@davidsklubal]

So interesting that the movie was locked before cgi was added, I feel like a lot of modern marvel type movies use cgi to fix, rather than enhance what is already there and decided on.

[@thedevilsreject23]

If anything the dinosaurs got worse with everything after the second film - the first were awesome and very believable

[@Bagelgeuse]

The models are more detailed in the newer movies, but yeah, they are less believable (and uglier) than they were in the first and second film. The baby Carnotaurus in Dominion looks awful.

[@gunzooray]

Wow! THE Jurassic Park Making Documentary That Narrated By Darth Vader!! This Is Where We fun Begins!!

[@haydencooper_]

I was thinking narrated by Mufasa 😄

[@blanketstarry7725]

I've never heard of Jurassic Park. I should check it out.

[@user-bl6ne3hc6n]

What huge difference from this to Jaws, came along way, 😊

[@eldoblixtlo1058]

I had never seen stop motion being used as animatics for live action before!

[@jimmymccartney2049]

Music:John Williams(1993)

[@jimmymccartney2049]

Narrated by:James Earl Jones

[@letseat-street5873]

With limited technology how was that possible- great job wow

[@1serious0mfr]

Incredible

[@gloriatrevishow8639]

Amo está producción ❤ Jamas superada y siempre recordada

[@jeanmichel2642]

Thanks to the netflix documentary we know now that the cgi story is different. Contrary to what they say It was not planned at all by all these prestigious fx directors that didn't want to hear about cgi, so it was done in secret by 2 guys. Finally they made a trap to make spielberg see the result and he was surprised and amazed.

[@bobmclennan1727]

"Jurassic Punk" did a pretty good job of telling the untold story of "Spaz" while also explaining why he's not better remembered. It reminded me of a quote from Ty Cobb: "I think if I had my life to live over again, I'd do things a little different. I was aggressive, perhaps too aggressive. Maybe I went too far. I always had to be right in any argument I was in, I always had to be first in everything. I do indeed think I would have done some things different. And if I had I believe I would have had more friends." Cobb was a far worse person than Spaz Williams, but I think they both had some similar demons.

[@JoshuaModerwell]

I wish the visual effects that were seen in Jurassic World, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, and Jurassic World Dominion had still look like that. (8:46)

[@bradleyjohnson6107]

Easily one of the top ten greatest movies ever made.

[@LiLgPnoy15]

I love the 90's!

[@karlhinkelstein6130]

1:42 The Triceratop cub model was ultimately not used in the first film. But it was used in the second film.

[@luzpizango9637]

Increíble

[@gabrielasancheznolazco3074]

Excelente video 🙌🏻

[@user-ty3pf9ov4x]

Technology with windows 95 amazing

[@drewbearden1]

The sharp eyed viewer will see Adam Jones of Tool painting the scales on the model at 2:02

[@Reypunk666]

Awesome video❤

[@benbaccas939]

Is that James earl jones?

[@TheGhost-rp3ko]

Yes

[@tylercaramella2213]

Without ALL of the these amazing individuals at ILM, movies wouldn’t be what they are today. Though we need more directors like Steven And George. Those two guys are probably the most creative directors in movie history. Jurassic Park and Star Wars will ALWAYS be Classics and they’ll always rank high on any list. You’ll see one title of the franchise if not more.

[@chandermotwani3493]

Awesome 🎞🤘🏻🎬🎥💯

[@georgebendall7401]

Jurassic Park 1993 had cool Dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus Rex,Brachiosaurus,Velociraptor,Dilophosaurus,Gallimimus,Triceratops and Parasaurolophus

[@PlayNowWorkLater]

Weird having Darth Vader narrating a documentary about making dinosaurs

[@Shady00018]

8:53 "i'm extinct. Wow, I'm happy they kept that in the movie.

[@supme7558]

13:54 that interface is why this movie works and none have since except avatar

[@CrashHeadroom]

huh...anyone else notice the concept art AND skulpture for the dilophasaurus is actually accurate to real life? I wonder how far along in the production they changed it to the frilled dragon look.

[@memestealer6348]

Given that the movie is still based off the book they most likely took some artistic liberties by giving it a Frill. It stills spit venom in the novel, hence the name they gave it during pre-production (the spitter). However the Frill wasn't mention in the novel and it was still the correct size there too. The changes more than likely came from Stan Winston or Spielberg. It does seem fitting tho, Michael Crichton wrote the dinosaurs as monsters since InGen was essentially playing god

[@CrashHeadroom]

@@memestealer6348 YEah my bad forgot they spat in the book too XD The only thing I can think of is they looked at the size of the statue and thought "this is gonna be too big and might make the raptor's less intimidating / take alot of attention away from them", so shrunk them just after that behind the scenes was filmed lol.

[@theanalyst-du9sk]

A huge amount of money, research and hard work is involved in making these movies. But people are saying lost world and jp3 were not good. They should appreciate the hard work and dedication involved in making these movies.

[@jdos5643]

Ppl with bad taste. Jurassic park 1-3 are the best. Everything about those films was done right.

[@SevenEllen]

For me, Jurassic Park was the only good (excellent) one. I wasn't impressed by the second, and thought the third was downright silly.@@jdos5643

[@AmberSantana-is3dq]

@@jdos5643yup these same ppl got their hands tied considering everything after those three has been hot garbage

[@mmclaurin8035]

Part of me still wants to see a full length Jurassic Park with Tippett's Go-Motion instead of CGI.

[@kyodizzy]

13:17 one dinosaur with a basketball 😂

[@evatafurmori2766]

Una de las mejores pelis

[@larrydiaz7432]

Gran película

[@user-go7nj4vw4k]

Grandes escritores de la industria del cine

[@drummercarson896]

I love the T Rex

[@videogamehunter820]

Just remember, it was Jack Hornet’s idea for the Spino to kill the Trex in JP3 because he said it was “accurate”.

[@JhaisonFernando]

Excelnte película

[@ameliapotter627]

I totally get why they had to do this, but I can’t help but laugh at the grown men running around pretending to be gallimimus 😂 13:06

[@joshuahawkins2743]

God I remember when I was a kid I went to the theater 8 times to see this 3 of those times I rode my bike to what they called a $1 theater which I don't think they exist anymore

[@cMARVEL360]

3:05 For The Love Of God!!! Can We Have A Terminator x Jurassic x Predator Cross Over Movie! Make it a Alternate Universe where a T-800 is sent back through time but something goes wrong, which causes the T-800 to go back several Million Years back in time to when th Dinosaurs roamed. And at that same time, The Predator Species had sent those who have come of age to go Hunt Dangerous Prey to Gain Rank in their Culture. They came for th Dinosaurs, but then ran in to a T-800!

[@supme7558]

The raptors feet in the kitchen is soooooo cheesey

[@starby1243]

Funny how Phil Tippet still got something to do in the movie even though they clearly didn't need him😅

[@The_MegaClan]

Its everything I wanted it to be.....no less and a lot more

[@ito2789]

Long Live Steve "SPAZ" Williams!

[@danielnuno3781]

Wait a sec, at the end of the documentary, when it showed that the movie is available for download, blu-ray, dvd, etc., it showed the movie as rated R. Since when?! 🤨

[@ThomasLover-fr8nh]

With James Earl Jones narrating this documentary, I can imagine Mufasa from "The Lion King" telling the history of the dinosaurs to a young Simba.

[@joeyjohnson38]

The guy thats narrating used to do the Atlantic commercial for the yellow pages

[@christosdoesthings]

"Jurassic park was never meant to be accurate!!!" Meanwhile, the crew working on JP1: 4:24

[@Starlynightlight]

Like animals not monsters is the key, modern Jurassic movies make unrelatable dinosaurs, animalistic is the relatable, monsters is not captivating.

[@MaxPower-zw7go]

And now 30 yrs later we use CGI for everything and most of it looks horrible. We long for the days of the mechanical aspect and stop go motion. This is one reason why movies today are terrible. Generic

[@ocpofficialrep7026]

Fun fact - 2:01..that's Adam Jones the guitarist for the greatest progressive rock band of all time TOOL.

[@HugoBacagarcia-ws8ln]

Interesante

[@waynemcternan3123]

Rember going c it first cinema with the suramic sound it was magic hearing the footsteps was 21 me and the girl freind took me mum and dad quality😂

[@davideminnei4409]

2.01 Adam Jones : D

[@stryper444]

0:50 Mufasa???😅😅

[@peterosipov400]

2:01 isn't it Adam Jones of the band Tool?

[@supme7558]

12:59 this os why some seens do not hold up

[@Dreaklock]

Is this documentary on the bluray or 4K?

[@jdos5643]

Both

[@MWK1995]

💖💖