How A 9-Ton Dinosaur Was Made For 'Jurassic World: Dominion' | Movies Insider | Insider

The animatronic Giganotosaurus from “Jurassic World: Dominion” (2022) was the largest practical head built for any “Jurassic Park” film. The practical and digital effects teams worked hand in hand to bring the Giga to life. Live-action-dinosaur supervisor John Nolan led a team to create a Giga puppet that looked and moved like a real dinosaur could.

The head was placed on a rig that weighed around 9 tons and could move up and down and interact with Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeff Goldblum, and Laura Dern on set. While only the Giga’s head and neck were created, visual effects supervisor David Vickery and his team at ILM built the CG body to perfectly match the puppeteered movements on set.

“Jurassic World: Dominion” (2022) is now available on 4K ultra HD, Blu-ray, and digital. The release comes with an extended edition, featuring 14 extra minutes of never-before-seen footage.

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[goofballproductions]

This wasn't the best film in the Jurassic Park franchise, but I respect the effort that went into practical effects.

[dan_hitchman]

Stan Winston Studio's puppets on Jurassic Park 3 seemed to be a lot less fragile and they built so much more of the Spino and the T-Rex as full body rigs. They even had them fighting each other in close ups and it didn't seem like they were too worried that the animatronics would break. Many of the medium to close-up shots of the Raptors were puppets as well. Stan was a stickler for using in-camera effects as much as possible and that's why their work holds up so well today.

[Gerald]

A practical puppet is also an advantage for the CGI, giving them a real on-set lighting reference to match.

[TellItAnimated]

Super cool they still use some practical puppets for this movie series :)

[rhetiq]

It’s nice that they went back to their roots for this movie. It had the best blend of practical and CG effects in the new trilogy and I admire Dominion for that

[SomeBoiJuice]

"Building up the whole dinosaur would've made it impossible to move", but... that's *exactly* what they did for Jurassic Park 30 years ago...

[Daniel]

I’m more impressed by the development of the movie than the movie itself!

[zennyfieldster]

The entirety of the puppet is amazing!The details, the design, I love it. The only thing that lacks was it’s use for the story. It was just there to be killed.

[_GeneralMechanics_]

CGI can make the impossible possible, but real animatronics bring the unimaginable to life!

[afrovenatorprime]

I have to say I really like how realistic the eye blinking is. The animatronic is amazing and so much work was put into it I wished they've showcased more of the animatronic in the film rather than just a few scenes towards the end.

[inuit]

Almost 30 years has passed and they cannot make a better puppet than the Stan Winston crew

[sammurabi]

The film's overall quality aside, I appreciate the return of practical effects to the series. Though I wish they would have gone and created a Stan Winston style whole body animatronic. I get it's expensive and time-consuming, especially with how domineering CGI is in the film industry nowadays. Still, with the technological advances made over the past 30 years since the first film was released, I feel a puppet of that size could not only be a bit easier to build but also more advanced in its movement abilities. You can already see quite a bit of improved engineering in the head, with the improved eye blink mechanism and the movable tongue. Imagine the level of articulation that could be accomplished in a full-body figure.

[Ev]

"... building it full scale would have made it impossible to move..."

JP and Stan Winston: Hold our beers.

[marywinchester]

Man…if only they put this much effort toward the script.

[chelseylin]

I will never not be in awe of what these people create! Whether you liked this movie or not you can’t say that these animatronics aren’t anything but a work of art! I could just watch videos like this all day! I love to see the behind the scenes stuff that goes into making a movie.

[bestomator]

While stunning, I think Stan Winston pulled the animatronic better for the Spinosaurus in Jurassic Park 3. It is the largest dinosaur animatronic to date and it’s so insanely strong that during production of the fight scene, it tore the T. Rex animatronic in half.

[DaveAbad]

Jurassic Park CGIs looks real-life animatronics; Jurassic World real-life animatronics looks like CGIs.

[eddie]

Recreating their rig for the animatronic to make sure the CGI model matched it's movement was pretty frickin clever.

[wishmaster]

... wait... making the giga's full body would have been impossible? *looks back at the first JP with a full size T-rex animatronic" I BEG TO DIFFER! ... negativity aside its still a pretty impressive animatronic

[Legendary_Godfather]

CGI "100"
VFX "100"
Practical FX "100"
Dinosaurs "100"
Actors "100"
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