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There's plenty of CGI in the first JP. At the time it was groundbreaking. The first big reveal of the brachiosaur munching on trees is CGI (this famous clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJlmYh27MHg). I think most of the big dinosaurs were CGI. Some of the raptor stuff was costumes. And some of the close-ups were models.

Its interesting to ponder that before Jurassic Park released in 1993, no-one had ever seen a photorealistic moving image of a dinosaur. Every attempt beforehand was glaringly obvious stop motion. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hxSws2W0-E

⬐ chc

IIRC the T. Rex was mostly CG but they had a real animatronic head and I think a foot for when it was interacting with things. (This is based on my recollection of the 10000 making-ofs I watched at the time.)

⬐ pr0zac

There was a complete full-size T-Rex animatronic model that was used for most of the car scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZtJVh3nUyU

⬐ codeulike

Holy crap, I didn't know that. I just watched this and it seems they switched between CGI and animatronics for that sequence depending on what would work best. I think CGI was still basically being invented then and was crazy expensive. https://youtu.be/oelBtZHkL4c?t=9m5s

⬐ ghaff

This is one of the films whose visual impact at the time is hard to appreciate today. That scene was one in which the impact on the audience was almost as great as it was on the characters in the clip.

The opening of Star Was was similar (although that was more models-based).

⬐ bonesss

I think a lot of the impact can be recreated, with the appropriate score: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w-58hQ9dLk

⬐ None

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No one is disputing how awesome it looked when it first came out, but the same thing could be said for quake 1. As our eyes adjust to the ever increasing details in movies and games, what used to look awesome begins to look awful. Here is the scene with the Brontosaurs While it seemed photo-realistic when it first came out, it now looks choppy, grainy, and artificial. Most low-budget T.V. shows have better CG now. But that's just the way computer animation works.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJlmYh27MHg

⬐ jeffool

I have to agree with you. If any film needs a special edition, it's this, not Star Wars or E.T.

Honestly? I may even be up for a 3d conversion... If anyone's able to do them well?

⬐ BrandonM

I appreciate the link, but I definitely disagree with you.