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Rex is by far the most popular character on the show! Every animator wants to get a shot with him to say they have animated him. This shot was pretty straight forward, the only trouble i had with this and some other shots on the show was trying to get our cg characters eyelines to meet up with the actors. I can’t believe that this show was shot without reference to where the eye line of the CG characters were!

This sequence of shots needed to be put through the pipeline very quickly. The brief required lots of aggression and panic. So i animated every possible controller i could get my mouse pointer on! When the textures arrived on the characters it started coming together and looked amazing in the final shots.

This was again great fun to work on. Getting the jump just right took a while. At first i had too many steps to catch the G-Rex when he landed, but soon i realized with the stride of a creature that size, it needed much  less. I even animated the helicopter which is fake

Great shot this! This character was one of my favourites. The G-Rex actually existed and was bigger than any other dinosaur. It was taller than a boeing 747 and required a much slower and heavier approach to animating. Being so heavy getting the weight right was tricky but once you nailed it, with the textures on it looks fantastic!

This shot was so complicated that it nearly got cut! There is a piece of metal that supposedly gets knocked over by the Dragorex but if that was to happen the timing of the shot wouldn’t have worked because the Dragorex would have caught up to the actor much earlier. It kept going back and forth from Comp to animation but after a week or two i managed to make the animation work with the metal bar. (kind of!)