![]() Narrator: So instead of foam latex, the tongue and the back of its throat were made entirely out of silicone. John: When the tongue lifts up, you want a bit of light to pass through the tip. The final layer of foam latex was crucial for flexible movements and made a good, realistic-looking stand-in for the Giga's rough and opaque exterior.īut the Giga also needed physical features that reacted to light realistically while being filmed, and foam latex lacked the translucency needed for moments like this, where the Giga opens its mouth wide. There was still a risk of the foam pieces splitting apart during filming, so each piece was also backed with netting for further protection. The finished foam pieces were then glued together. So instead of doing this step in one piece, they split it up into seven smaller sections, baking them in pieces in two ovens. To set the skin, the foam needed to be baked into the mold, but the head was so large that it wouldn't even fit in John's oven. The head was then covered in a fiberglass mold to hold it all together while John injected it with foam latex. Narrator: It took a team of 20 sculptors to give the Giga its rough skin texture, with references ranging from historical evidence to crocodiles. John: We skimmed the whole thing, almost like icing a cake. First, it was covered in oil-based clay to prevent drying out and cracking. John used that head as the basis for a more camera-ready puppet. Narrator: This helped them match the CGI and physical versions from the start and avoid drastic design changes in postproduction. They then printed just the Giga's head and cut it out of polystyrene.ĭavid Vickery: Even though we only made the head from the tip of the nose to just about the shoulders, we needed to understand exactly what that entire creature looked like before we started making the animatronic. ![]() Narrator: So the creature effects team started with a digital model based on sketches and sculpts from the film's production designer. John Nolan: The head is the biggest dinosaur that's ever been seen in any of the "Jurassic"s. The production team had just three months to construct the entire head. Building out the whole dinosaur would've made it impossible to move, so the practical and digital teams had to collaborate to make this into this. The real Giga was 20 feet tall and nearly 50 feet wide.īut as for the puppet, the rest of its body isn't there. Those reactions all happened in-camera from this animatronic Giga puppet, built to look and move like a real dinosaur. Notice how the Giganotosaurus' tongue bounces when it opens its mouth, or how its skin reacts when it roars. Narrator: Look closely at these shots from "Jurassic World: Dominion." It often indicates a user profile.įollowing is a transcription of the video: Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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