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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A practical puppet is also an advantage for the CGI, giving them a real on-set lighting reference to match.
Plus actors have a better time reacting to the dinosaur.
I see vfx artists are reacting
@@memesouls8653 yep, their faces look like they're really attacked by a giant carnivor dinosaur! Just like in the first movie
90% of the time they have a person holding a little face of the dinosaur there
Which makes you wonder why they would want only cg if it's more difficult
This wasn't the best film in the Jurassic Park franchise, but I respect the effort that went into practical effects.
true
eh they all sucked in compare to the original which did all the same things but better
@@satch4684 yeah, the first Jurassic park remains without rivals, but this last movie was pretty good imo
I love that people hating on movie for being awful but when they see the behind the scene which they act that they love it😒
@@x243zechY-gw1bq then they say that the movie is awful when they have no reason to show that is true ahahah
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.
why use JP3 alot of ppl consider the original the only good movie and that had amazing animatronics
Yeah, and I find it funny they couldn’t fit them out of the warehouse they built them in so they had to destroy a part of their warehouse.
@@satch4684 The T-Rex was rebuilt to be stronger. They had issues with the puppet in the rain on the first film because the skin got water logged. The mechanisms originally weren't built to take the extra weight.
@@dan_hitchman007 yea I know about all that but they were building that stuff in the early 90's, FX wise JP was nothing short of mind blowing (animatronic and CGI) on it's release.
Didn't the animatronic Spino break the T-rex or something?
Super cool they still use some practical puppets for this movie series :)
love your content keep it up!
Will you do a Tell It Animated on Jurassic park??
not how they used it, sadly
@@imdliamdragonlucha6827 wdym
@@Whisky2000 the giga did pretty much nothing
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
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"admire" lol.
That is nice ❤
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.
It was there to create good action scenes just like every dinosaur in every movie of the franchise, they're there to make the audience say "wow! This was such a good action scene with that big dinosaur!"
@@lore3752let’s face it guys, it was there so that they could sell more toys😉
Yeah the problem with the film was that they over promoted the giga as the main villian when it basically did nothing
@@lore3752 yea I loved the scene where it just stood around while the entire cast was behind the car moving a inch a second not doing a single thing until they were far away, just so it can run and fail to get a single one of them despite several of them being literal senior citizens or a child. What a waste of a dinosaur XD
@@unknownflickz1289 lmfao you didn't get anything of this scene ahahah, did you realize that the giga is not a creature like the indominus or something? The way he acted in that scene makes totally sense, he literally acted like a regular carnivorous animal like how he's suppose to be: you must move slowly to keep him calm but if you run or move quickly the animal would start to be aggressive because he will get that you're his prey, then i want inform you that the giganotosaurus was one of the dumbest theropods of the cretaceous era 'cause his tiny braincase; manage him wouldn't be that hard, in fact in the movie was actually managed a quite well by the main characters' group but they were still so close to be eaten, so inform your self before you speak because it would be just a waste of time XD
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.
Also the film it self was pretty good imo
I’m more impressed by the development of the movie than the movie itself!
That's because they spent all this time trying to create realistic animatronics that they forgot to have somebody do a script that made a lick of sense.
This is the one Jurassic movie I just can't watch in its entirety. So much cringe, so many embarassingly obvious nods to previous JPs. Waaaay too much cheez.
@@Teeb2023it’s so bad that it’s good
"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...
I mean they only had 3 months to make it so...
yes but they have the advantage of 30 years better technology in every aspect 😂
@@greymyst6945 it’s still only three months, they didn’t have nearly enough time to make the whole thing, and they had to make it up to modern day standards so…
And those full-sized models didn't move. They were only used for shots of them standing in place.
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.
Recreating their rig for the animatronic to make sure the CGI model matched it's movement was pretty frickin clever.
"... building it full scale would have made it impossible to move..." JP and Stan Winston: Hold our beers.
So why not build a half scale full body for in camera moments? It would have been a 1/8 as massive and using forced perspective... been amazing.
@@wetterschneider That's a step in the right direction. I miss the days of movies being made on film with practical and miniature effects. I guess I prefer something that could be physically tangible than any cgi render.
Seriously, credit where it’s due to John Nolan and his team here for pulling this practical effect off (👏)!
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.
While the Spino was a lot more durable and had a lot more of the dinosaur made, it didn't have as much animatronic detail that the Giga had. The subtle eye sink and second lid upon blinking, the tongue movements, the rotational axis matching the vertebrae of the skeleton, the complex transition process between the animatronic head and the CGI body, etc. puts this animatronic in it's own category of amazing.
Spino was also the largest animatronic of all time too :)
There wasn’t as much detail on that as there is on this
I guess less truly is more
@@darkonyx6995 are you sure? Have you seen 98 Godzilla model?
This is truly its own art-form of its own. Animatronics and puppeteering of such size is pure dedication and team effort, truly a masterpiece. well done to the team who were involved for creating this Gigantosaurus. Happy too see these movie preps things are used still to this day for movies.
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.
Me too, ever since DVD's started coming with all the extra stuff like the 'making of' featurettes I have been completely obsessed with how movies/shows are made.
Its not bad but there is something of about that movement, Stan Winstones Rexy was more alive, its unmatched till today, Masterpiece
Nice detail with the eyes! Animatronics have come so far over the years
Almost 30 years has passed and they cannot make a better puppet than the Stan Winston crew
Studio execs want a large return on investment and CGI is cheaper and faster. Practical effects, while better looking in most regards (at least in my opinion), are the opposite. Honestly it baffels be that they gave them the funds to build an animatronic at all. It would be cool to see what they could have done with proper budget and time, especially given how animatronic engineering has improved over the thirty years since the first film released.
It’s passed 30 years, Rexy animatronic was build in 1992 (with early prototype in 1991), so it’s now almost 32 years. And yes, Stan Winston did much better job for all JP movies. His animatronic spinosaurus is the pinnacle of dinosaurs animatronics and that was in 2001. They can’t still top even that… 😂
why didn't they just hire Stan Winston School, they're still active
@@Uselessmouth12The JP3 raptor animatronics were also great. They looked so real.
Practical effects are dirty words to Hollywood execs
The amount of work and ingenuity that goes into breathing life into these creatures is just astonishing!!!
... 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
They even had a full sized Spino and T-Rex in Jurassic Park 3 and they did some hero close-up fighting with the two puppets. Many of the raptors were puppets too. It's not impossible, it's just that effects these days are rushed and as cheap as possible.
The giga is waaay bigger than the t-rex tho', keep that in mind.
@@TimovanVliet yea I recognize that I do but like... if it was done before it can be done again, especially when this movie has 80mil more of a budget compared to the original even adjusted for inflation. Like again I'm not hating on the Giga animatronic it looks amazing but like when the excuse is because it would of been impossible to make... I can't accept it
The put the budget into the other -dinosaurs- bugs and actors I guess
@@captainsprinkles6557 I see what you did there
Man…if only they put this much effort toward the script.
And the desing
Nothing will ever beat the T-Rex that the Stan Winston team built for the first Jurassic Park
CGI can make the impossible possible, but real animatronics bring the unimaginable to life!
Thank you for the update, Insider..!! Wow, I thought they were all CG..!! 😱
All this work for possibly the least scary and most dull “antagonist” dinosaur, having absolutely 0 influence on the plot whatsoever
I personally don't take it as an antagonist It was just like rexy from JP Just showing off dominance and being a normal animal
@@venkatramanpadmanabhan1346 agree they should have atleast just heavily damaged it and left it to live with a scar
@@earth7631 yea
Totally agree with you while its cool for me that its realism just acting out of dominance, i hope they just fix the plot of him to have more importance rather than roaring randomly and waiting, my hopes for this movie is high but when i watch it, i was just sad.
@@venkatramanpadmanabhan1346 which is kinda the problem, it just animal defending it Territory but yet the movie treats like antagonist by giving a villain death that it didn’t deserve
Shame I'll never see that film again ever. This looks pretty amazing.
Why?
Now they gotta make more of those and give it to Universal Studios parks.
Facts
Agreed (😊).
They have some there don't they?
@@captainsprinkles6557 they are of very poor quality unfortunately
The dinos were done really well in this film, particularly the giga and the therizinosaurus.
This is such a dream set
Great work Jurassic world team. Love the realistic props.
thats insane! really cool to see how they did all that , i wonder where they store the animatronic
Bad news. There is no or has been a Giganotosaurus. What a crap.
@@foreverpinkf.7603 what does this even mean
@@jackbennett6689 im also confused
@@jackbennett6689 what a crap!!!
@@foreverpinkf.7603 what
In real life, the Giganotosaurus wasn't 20ft tall and 50ft long. In the movie maybe, but in real life it was closer to 13-14ft tall and 43ft long. And it was also 8t
I was just about to say the same thing lmao
In real life, there was no Jurassic Park.
No here it was more or less the same size as t rex which is accurate. What was not accurate was the size of mosasaurus because it too was like t rex
Who remembers, when the first image of the Animatronic Giganotosaurus was leaked in 2021?
Yes!! 🦖
Amazing! So much talent! Good job
Great Work, looks awesome, it would be lovely to see the animatronic in a museum of movie "monsters'
Stan Winston and Steven Spielberg really have made something wonderful back in the day they gave platforms for us to build on
It's so beautiful!
this is what needs to happen more in Cinema. Blend the two effects methods !
I completely agree but oh boy it would be very expensive
If only the writing was given even a hundredth of the effort they put on this, it could’ve been solid.
CGI "100" VFX "100" Practical FX "100" Dinosaurs "100" Actors "100" Movie "-99999"
Somehow they still screwed it up! 😂
I thought I was the only one that thought the movie was not right
For a final movie it really lacked story and anything in between action scenes, it felt like they got too excited about their budget and splurged it all out on chase scenes and close-ups
Plot and directing is the bad part
Giga design? 0
I absolutely love the Giga’s design even if it isn’t accurate to its real counterpart. I wish it did more, its appearance was intimidating to me but it did absolutely nothing. I like Jurassic World Dominion a ton, but there’s so much wrong with it coming from a critical point of view. But I had a good time watching the original trio get back together and you can never have too much dinosaurs!
Honestly I loved this movie.
I wish they could've used Stan Winston's studio Dinosaurs for the Jurassic World film....hard to beat a classic.
Seems fair, this video is already longer than the giganotosaurus screen time, so no need to put too much effort into making a full puppet.
Not a single dinosaur will ever look as scary as the T-Rex in the Jurassic Park universe. They managed the make the T-Rex look so scary, nothing can compare, not even the Indominus Rex. The T-Rex just has this look which scare u when i see him on screen. The Giganontosaurus should have had more air time or more important plot like the Indominus Rex or the Spino before, but it didn't. He didn't look as scary as the T-Rex anyway. And no matter how hard they always try to bring a bigger carnivor than the Rex, Rex was superior to all of them with his enormous jaw and muscles.
THAT'S ONE HUGE PUPPET!
"Couldn't make the entire dinosaur for Dominion"... Original JP Tyrannosaurus Rex: "Hold my beer"
Even though i thought the movie was mediocre and the Giganotosaurus itself was underwhelming as a villain, the practical effects were amazing. I could not tell what was CGI and practical.
But he wasn't a real villain... He was there as an "enemy", the villain is Dodgson
Wish they made Dodgson more evil like in the novels. Here he just seemed like a whiny old man child. After that freak out scene, I could not take him seriously anymore.
And it still doesn’t look as good as the 1993 Trex. Funny.
Actually seeing that they made a functional glottis and with visible vocal cords is wild.
that's so much work
That's not a dinosaur... It's a movie monster.
"Building out the whole dinosaur would have made it impossible to move". Correction it would have required effort, money, and patience. Something all major studios seem to lack now-a-days. Stan Winston made a whole Tyrannosaurus Rex, and while it was not a flawless, fluid animatronic by any stretch of the imagination the genius of Winston was his ability to get the behemoth to function and deliver a performance (IN ARTIFICAL RAIN NO LESS) that to this day remains one of the most intense scenes in film history. It was said that the giga was expected to take "six months to build, but his team only had about four months to finish it," and it shows.
Yeah, and the whole time the T-rex puppet was on the verge of imploding due to its weight. Said artificial rain was enough to make the puppet heavy enough to exceed the capacity of the motors. While it would have been "neat" for them to do the whole dinosaur, it just wouldn't have made much practical sense, given that the lion's share of the action just needs the head and neck. You'd put all that work and expense to do the remaining 90% of the dinosaur, and for what? So it can stand in one place like the T-rex did?
Cry more 😂
Honestly that wasn’t even artificial rain that was filmed in the middle of a literal hurricane which if ya ask me makes that animatronic even more impressive
Yea I was gonna say the same thing lol it was a money thing for them now. I had been wondering like why do we get heads only? Not fully body or most of the body like the Rex lol but I still like it
Gotta remember this flick was being produced right around when Covid became a big issue, so that probably did a number on the production time.
Man ILM did again a stunning Work with the cg Version
Fantastic Job!
It’s absolutely gorgeous, but nothing will compare to the thirty-seven-foot long full-sized animatronic of the T-Rex in Jurassic Park. 🦖❤️
The Spinosaurus animatronic topped in size and technicalities
@@Dektoonics_inc. I know, I just love Rexy…
Roberta❤️❤️❤️
@@loapimatlapeng2924 Yes! Thank you! I was trying to remember the name of the original animatronic!
They did a very good job with this puppet! I just wish the design they used for the dinosaur didn't stray so far from the actual dinosaur.
It's still super dope
They also used the Wrong Skeletal references the Giga head on this shown Sketal is to long
@@Blackclaw1000 it's still good
@@omarkarem8445 It's cool, but far from being as epic as it could have been if handeled as good as the T-rex was on the 1st film
@@itande0551 yep
Those eyes are incredible!
Completamente dedicato al mio preferito ? Fantastic!
I always wondered why they couldn't build the rig in such a way that it was on wheels or on treads like a bulldozer? I just think it's cool imagining some one driving this thing.
It's so good to see practicals are in use in this moren era..its a luck that we didn't see marvel makeing this film...
Only if the practical affects look good but the ones in dominion looked really bad it would have been way better if they used more cgi
Glad to see these animatronics making a comeback
Amazing brother....I liked🙂❤👍
Jurassic Park CGIs looks real-life animatronics; Jurassic World real-life animatronics looks like CGIs.
I'm amazed coz the trex animatronic in TLW literally tore through a Mercedes on film. And the spino animatronic in JP3 ripped off the head of the trex animatronic during the fight scene. And then there is the giga animatronic that couldn't rip through a piece of glass...mayb it's the change in safety standards that called for a less powerful animatronic. Or mayb Stan was crazy 🤪
Shout out to everyone who was involved in making Jurassic World: Dominion.
Incredible
I want one of those if I had enough space and money
I love how you can see the features of what was used for the Indominus.
You mean Indoraptor
@@spider-man500 The Indoraptor does not have Giganotasaurus DNA, the Indominus Rex, however, did. after it died, DNA was taken from the Indominus Rex to make a new Hybrid, the Indoraptor. didn't you watch Both jurassic world and JW fallen kingdom?
Difficult downfall
THIS IS SUPER COOL!
imagine acting in front of this and the engineering too - How amazing!
What makes this annoying is how Hollywood has the funds to allow each aspect of a films creation to be done at the highest level -- except the writing.
And even then they are pushing and pushing SFX studios to the breaking point and paying them as little as possible.
it's so weird how they gave the Giga such a monstrous-looking design and hyped it up as "basically the Joker", when in the film it's just a normal animal. it's not even villainous or cruel like the indominus or the indoraptor were, it's not unnecessarily aggressive, it wisely retreats from attacking people when they put up resistance, it only fights Rexy and the Therizinosaurus when forced into close quarters with them while fleeing a forest fire, it's just a regular creature minding its own business most of the time and is just a minor obstacle while the real villain was the bug swarm
Amazing work.
iit's incredibly cool, I really want to visit such a film set
"The real Giga was 20 feet tall" *Who told you people this?*
Right?!
Gigachadosaurus
Can't they make the Dinosaur realistic looking like they did in the Jurassic Park like 30 years back?!
How they finally used more animatronics, but still didn't capture the feeling of sentient beings and instead just made a lackluster monster flick.
So the gigas head wasn’t CGI
Nope, they just did an incredible job
Watched the movie and wondered how they made the entire dinosaur out of visual effects
5:50 I swear, that's the Indominus's head. Considering the Giganotosaurus genes place in the Indominus Rex's genome, I have one question: Did they plan this from the start? Way to go Jurassic World Dominion film team!
Congratulations to all who worked hard to make this, nothing is impossible for man, best movie
I couldn't tell what was CGI or animatronic
Partly reasons why many movies started to use cgi more
That's really interesting, it's just a shame the Giga was such a non-entity in the movie, they didn't even care enough to di the research to realise that the Giganotosaurous was only the second biggest carnevour to ever walk the earth, especually since the character who said it, has already met the biggest.
In real life at least, Tyrannosaurus was the largest theropod, it weighed around 10 tons. Making Giganotosaurus the second largest carnivore at around 8 tons, and Spinosaurus the third largest (possibly competing that position with Carcharodontosaurus, Acrochantosaurus...) at around 7 tons.
@@hplovecraftcat Actually you habe that backwards, Tyranosaurus was third, Giganotosauros was second, and Spinosauros was the largest.
@@samaron8970 Tyrannosaurus may have not been the longest but was the largest by mass.
@@hplovecraftcat Being as they've only found bones, that isn't really possible to determine.
@@samaron8970 With all of the fossils found of all of the three species, we have the complete skeleton of tyrannosaurus, almost the intire skeleton of Spinosaurus and Giganotosaurus. Also: yes, it is possible to determine that, if you know the anatomy of the animals. You know, muscles are attached to bones. And leave marks. You're basically saying that paleontology is guess work. It isn't. Tyrannosaurus is the largest known terrestrial predator.
I actually love this movie and seeing all the work that goes behind it is really awesome also if I saw that giga puppet in real life I might poo myself
This is still pretty fantastic even after the movie was out and that why I really like Dominion
let’s be honest, the best movie used puppetry for our boy Giganoto and ended in a masterpiece
They literally made an innocent dinosaur the main antagonist of the movie. That's quite disappointing for the fact that it's the last movie of the Jurassic franchise. Therizinosaurus was more of a villain that giga.
The fricking Stygimoloch had more kills than the "main antagonist".
That's insane really cool to see they did all that i wonder where they store the
Very intresting. Nice
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Really admire all this kind of work, shame the movie is garbage, but the work these people do is nothing short of magnificent! It's a shame when such hard work and creativity is wasted by bad scripting, poor dialogue and a crap plot! JP is an amazing film, every film after has got worse and worse. The new ones are unfathomably mediocre and commercialized dross!
make a full one for Lost Lands!!!! 🦖🦕
I love the Giganotosaurus
To bad it all still looked like a CGI crap fest, and i will forever love that the first JP Rex and its (VFX) shots was made on windows 92 computers and still to this day looks 100x better than any of the dinos made with more powerful computers 100x better than 92 but yet still look far far worse.
20 feet tall and nearly 50 feet long, no wonder Alan said “biggest predator that ever lived” it’s truly the most massive theropod in the series Sucks we didn’t see more of it
So amazing
Giga is my favorite design so far in the Jurassic Franchise yet.