Creature animation Creature animation Creature animation is a specialised part of the animation process which involves bringing realistic animals and creatures to life. It is often distinguished from character animation, which involves breathing life into animated characters and creating the illusion of thought, feeling and emotion. Creature animators create highly realistic motion in animals or creatures; examples include the dinosaurs animated in the 1993 Steven Spielberg film "Jurassic Park". Since dinosaurs cannot be filmed or observed in motion, the animators studied other living creatures such as birds and lizards in order to re-create how a dinosaur might move and behave. Fours year
Raptor Red such as chimpanzees and alligators. Bakker received a large advance for the novel from Bantam Books, rumored to be in the six-figure range. The book was prominently featured at the American Booksellers' Convention in Chicago, alongside Michael Crichton's "The Lost World". Coverage of the event noted that both novels were on the trailing end of the dinosaur fad fueled by "Jurassic Park", as the new trend in American books was shifting toward politics in the aftermath of the 1994 US elections. "Raptor Red" was initially published as a mass-market paperback and hardcover book, and was later released as an audiobook