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
Jurassic Park (novel) Jurassic Park (novel) Jurassic Park is a 1990 science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton, divided into seven sections (iterations). A cautionary tale about genetic engineering, it presents the collapse of an amusement park showcasing genetically recreated dinosaurs to illustrate the mathematical concept of chaos theory and its real world implications. A sequel titled "The Lost World", also written by Crichton, was published in 1995. In 1997, both novels were re-published as a single book titled "Michael Crichton's Jurassic World", unrelated to the film of the same name. In 1993, Steven Spielberg adapted the book into the blockbuster film "Jurassic