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 (film) the original film's 25th anniversary. "Jurassic Park" became the highest-grossing film released worldwide up to that time. Following $3.1 million from midnight screenings on June 10, the film earned $47 million in its first weekend, with the $50.1 million total breaking the opening weekend record set by "Batman Returns" the year before. By the end of its first week, "Jurassic Park" had grossed $81.7 million, and remained at number one for three weeks. It eventually grossed $357 million in the U.S. and Canada. Box Office Mojo estimates the film sold over 86.2 million tickets in the US in its initial