Walking with Dinosaurs: The Making Of

Name: The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2000-04-17
Duration: 50 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Ken Carpenter, Karen Chin

Original title: The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs

TV Movie
1999
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50m

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7.5/10

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Walking with Dinosaurs: The Making Of (1999)

Documentary

A behind-the-scenes look at how the animators, sculptors and palaeontologists, using the latest state-of-the-art animatronics and computer graphics, collaborated to re-create not just these ... Read allA behind-the-scenes look at how the animators, sculptors and palaeontologists, using the latest state-of-the-art animatronics and computer graphics, collaborated to re-create not just these pre-historic behemoths but their behaviour as well for the BBC natural history documentary... Read allA behind-the-scenes look at how the animators, sculptors and palaeontologists, using the latest state-of-the-art animatronics and computer graphics, collaborated to re-create not just these pre-historic behemoths but their behaviour as well for the BBC natural history documentary series _"Walking with Dinosaurs" (1999) (mini)_.

Director
- Jasper James
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IMDb RATING

7.5/10

456

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Director
- Jasper James
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
The scientists talk about how fossils don't preserve pigments, so the colors of the dinosaurs had to be guessed. Ever since 2010, several spectacular findings have shown preserved pigments, so now we do know what color several dinosaurs were, partially or fully.

Goofs
When the filming crew is shown shooting the Tyrannosaurus family, the third baby Tyrannosaurus can be seen walking in place to the left before it enters the shot.

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No dinosaurs were harmed in the making of this programme

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10/10

I found it really interesting

The making of walking with dinosaurs was interesting because - I liked the way you came up with the "walk" for Ornithocherus; the "hop" made me laugh, because it was so unusual!! I still wonder how they came up with a colour scheme for the dinosaurs, and I liked the "weight-gaining" part of the process, because the skeletal structure changed into the final image of the dinosaur itself. Although the images were so obviously computer-created, that did not detract from the enjoyment and fascination of the concept. Kenneth Branagh's voice-over (as always) contributed to the overall attraction, and increased the "compulsive viewing" of the whole production.