Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was like…the end all, be all of special effects?

not gonna lie that still looks intimately real

I’m still somewhat convinced that someone sold their soul to create the special effects in Jurassic Park because that shit is over 20 years old and it still really, really holds up, better than the stuff in a lot of current movies, even.

Fucking witchcraft, man. 

fucking look at this shit though

Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so I’ll say it for this one myself:

THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THAT’S WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AIN’T CGI. AND IT AIN’T GUY IN A COSTUME. IT’S A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.

amazing

And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the ‘skin’ of the rex and would slow down and mess up its movements. So they would stop filming and have a crew out there drying off this massive, fake dinosaur, and then they’d start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.

They used animatronics and detailed costumes for most if not all of the dinosaurs in the first movie.

The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.

And the raptors were dudes in suits. I shit you not.

One of my favorite anecdotes I’ve read on tumblr is how the t-rex robot from Jurassic park would malfunction while it was drying out. How did it malfunction, you might wonder?

Motherfucker randomly started moving.

So apparently if you were on the jp set you would sometimes hear people screaming bloody murder even though they were all well aware that it was a giant animatronic puppet and wouldn’t actually, you know, eat them.

(link to said post about malfunctioning t-rex)

Did not know this, had to reblog for awesome movie history insights.

So, I knew about the animatronics bit but I did not know the raptors were guys in suits and the malfunctioning t-rex sounds terrifying.

And i just googled malfunctioning t-rex and was not disappointed. Apparently in order to put the skin on over the steel frame a guy had to crawl inside the t-rex while it was turned on and glue the skin down. And if somebody turned the t-rex off or the power went out the guy in the t-rex stood a very real chance of getting mangled and killed by the hydraulics.

So of course, the power goes out.

And this guy is still in there gluing the skin down.

Apparently the way to survive getting sheered to death by huge sheets of metal while you’re inside a giant t-rex robot is to curl into a ball and hope for the best.

And this guy hoped for the best and got it.

Some other people on stage pried open the t-rex jaws and glue guy crawled out of its mouth and was totally okay.

This is getting better and better.

I think they only had like 6 minutes of CGI

I’m just waiting for the T-Rex to come to life and leave its stand.

@spinosaurus-the-fisher is this the kind of content you love?

Realism comes at a cost, it seems.

i mean ok but why has nobody posted this:

It’s a three piece raptor suit.

Old movies had the best special effects

The thing about this that gets my special effects nerd going is the fact that EVERY single dinosaur was sculpted by artists based on the current existent archeological evidence of the time.

@jurassicparkandrecreation

@shepfax

Even better than that, this movie ADVANCED our best understanding of dinosaurs at the time.  They were blowing out a budget bigger than anything Hollywood had ever seen, and along with employing almost the last hurrah of incredible physical FX, they had a bank of those newfangled digital SFX computers.  Nobody’d ever really created convincing dinosaurs in a movie before.  It’d all been stop-motion animation, and even when the models were exquisitely crafted, you could just tell there was something OFF about them.  Spielberg wanted THE BEST DINOSAURS EVER, and he figured on using the cutting edge of digital modeling and animation technology to build them for him.

So they got hold of some of the best paleontologists they could find and said, “We want you guys to take this tech that your labs could pretty much never afford and use it to build us the most realistic, accurate dinosaur models the world has ever seen.”

The paleontologists knew an opportunity when it bit them in the ass.  They plugged in everything they knew about dinosaurs, all the skeletons and their best guesses about soft tissue and all that.  And when they’d created those dinosaur models, they had the computer start moving them as they realistically would with anatomy like that.  One guy took a look at those walking t-rexes and velociraptors (really utahraptors, but whatevs, fam), and he said, “Wait a minute, I’ve seen movement like that before.”

He called up film of a chicken walking.  Everyone in the room said, “Holy shit.”

Prior to 1989, the idea that birds were descended from dinosaurs existed–we knew about archaeopteryx, we knew there was some minor connection there–but the idea that DINOSAURS LIVE IN THE MODERN WORLD AND THEY ARE CALLED BIRDS was not pre-eminent.  Jurassic Park changed our scientific understanding of dinosaurs.

That paleontologists’d be Kevin Padian. Who is awesome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Padian

This post just gets better and better with time

*slams hands* man im curious. People following me who haven’t read or watched FMA (bless your patient hearts) what’s the most confusing thing about the series you’ve seen me say/reblog/tag?

I’m a huge slut for out-of-context interpretation

I still refuse to believe there’s any context for Mr Muscle Wizard

What the heck is this guys deal, man?? Why is everyone else just a regular-ass wizard type with fire or water or electricity powers… and then there’s this super friendly muscled guy whose magic power is punch???

ALEX LOUIS ARMSTRONG DOES NOT NEED ANY KIND OF EXPLANATION HIS ALCHEMIC ART HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN THE ARMSTRONG LINE FOR GENERATIONS

Настроение этой осенью: грустняво тюленить в кроватке…

My beautiful, cuddly kitty.

@land-of-deserts-and-metronomes @samas0789

this is a quartz sized bed!

I love the blue flame on that cat on the right in the last picture

Happy National Feral Cat Day 🐈😺

Feral cat colonies can be maintained through the program of Trap, Neuter, Release (TNR)

Basically you get all the kitties neutered in the colony. (A colony is a group of feral cats) After they are neutered they can live longer by about 5 years. Help to keep the colony small by neutering. “Remember, help control the pet population by having your pet spayed or neutered!” (Thx Bob Barker👍#tpir)Then just let them live their wild lives! Interact by feeding them and look out for injuries, new additions, etc. Bedding in winter if possible. Some may be strays and become trusting or even adoptable, but a true feral cat is wild and will NOT like you trying to pet it (here kitty kitty? Hell no😾) This is very important! They are beautiful, wild and wonderful cats; they are also part of the food chain as nature’s rodent control. Cats are great! Spread the word! I love all cats. There are no bad cats. Happy National Feral Cat Day! 😺🐈🐈💖🐈🐈❤️🐈🐈

@mostlycatsmostly @prettykittysafespace @kittenwitchandthebadvibes

OKAY WHY ONLY TWO NOTES? This is so important and real information to help cats! Please boost up! Meow?!?

@mostlycatsmostly and other kitty blogs (don’t know many rn) I’d really appreciate the signal boost!

THIS WEBSITE IS SAYING RA CRIES BEES CAN ANYONE CONFIRM

Wiki says:

“In Egyptian mythology, bees grew from the tears of the sun god Ra when they landed on the desert sand.”

Don’t let Ra cry around sand.

oh my god

@theartofwingingit we need a meme level picture with the words “save the bees” on top and “make ra cry” on the bottom

I chose to go in a different direction with this

Sunrise at Elk Lake

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Who sits like this ?

(submitted by @helvegen69)

I groom one of these guys every week and he’s quite possibly the love of my life. We play a game called “brush, brush, kiss” because as long as I say “brushbrushbrushbrushbrush” he’ll stand nicely, but the second he gets impatient or I need a break I say “KISS” and he explodes into a ball of joy and kisses my entire face and anywhere else he can reach. It’s the best part of my week sometimes!

Well this is the best possible comment on any photo ever.

YOUR LOCAL LESBIAN WISHES YOU ALL A HAPPY COMING OUT DAY 🏳️‍🌈💖