Isn't it amazing that the CGI in Jurassic Park still holds up today? To think we were all playing on our Super Nintendos when it was released.

zavaro · 1 year

What CGI? That's a real Jeff Goldblum.

mysterx · 1 year

Why is the image reversed?

(Yep I went there!)

slickerypete · 1 year

I just recently re-watched this movie and realized this exact thing. I also realized it has got to be one of my favorite movies. I am very happy this movie came out at a part of my life where I was obsessed with dinosaurs and was dazzled by movies. Honestly, it's a masterpiece in my book. Now only if there was a sequel that could live up to the first.

bill_clay · 1 year

This comes up every week.

Yes the CGI was great for the time, but it's the puppets & animatronics that are really amazing

Railboy · 1 year

This comes up at least once a month, so I'll repeat my earlier points:

The main reason it looks so good is because ILM alumn Phil Tippett animated them, and he knows his shit. It's not about the technology, it's about making the creatures feel alive.

Look at this stop-motion test that Tippett did for JP and tell me it doesn't look amazing.

Also, they were intercut with some spectacular Stan Winston animatronics. RIP Stan.

rxi · 1 year

< comment detailing how subsurface scattering makes a big difference when rendering dinosaur skin rather than human skin, or something like that >

voxorz · 1 year

Uh...duh, real dinosaurs. FTFY

nightzirk · 1 year

The particular scene you're referring to has amazing CGI for its time. It even lives up to today's standards. However, you can't really say the same thing about the whole film. I mean, the scene where Alan Grant sees the apatosaurus for the first time, really isn't that impressive. It wasn't even that great for its time.

dirtystevie · 1 year

I bet it will be more noticeable if they ever release it on god damn bluray.

TiredMold · 1 year

And how much less okay does that make Wolverine's shitty CGI claws in Origins?

perpetual_motion · 1 year

I think we're nearing a point where good CGI now is going to be good CGI 50 years from now. There's not that much more to change, though I'm sure other ways to innovate will be invented.

RickVince · 1 year

There's a Jurassic Park thread every few weeks and every single time I come in here to say when the hell are they gonna release this on Blu-Ray already?!?!?

I mean honestly...I wants it. :(

geoman2k · 1 year

why the fuck is this movie not out on bluray yet?

Junior1919 · 1 year

There is something special about Jurassic Park. It is pure cinema. It is the best of what cinema can be. It shows us a world we can create only in computers and foam/plastic puppets. The moment where they see the first dinosaur is simply astounding, even if it isn't perfect CGI. The sense of wonder is palpable.

jenkies · 1 year

I think it's because so much of it actually ISN'T CGI. They made all those dinosaur robots, which are awesome! When you're just filling gaps and whatnot, as opposed to only using CGI throughout, the effect is much more realistic.

toxicFork · 1 year

I watch it every year. Never gets old.

repocode · 1 year

Ian, FREEEEZE!

theghostofme · 1 year

Does it bug anyone else that the image is mirrored? Or is my OCD just particularly bad today?

spacem00se · 1 year

Remember when they released the gamecube and claimed it would have Jurassic Park graphics?

onyxleopard · 1 year

Btw, many have probably seen this, but there's an awesome 'making of' series on youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_TFEFA3eAM Really cool how the CGI and animatronics were pushed to their limits.

DanWallace · 1 year

You should probably watch it again. It was great for its time and it stood up for many years, but we are far beyond Jurassic Park CG now.

ours · 1 year

More amazing - the non-CGI movies that are still fun to watch.

smurfjoe · 1 year

I disagree. I was playing my Sega Genesis.

Genmaken · 1 year

I'm a die hard Jurassic Park ever since I stepped in that theater. I got the VHS when it came out and basically watched it once a day for months. I got the action figures for XMAS and still have them boxed somewhere for when/if I have kids.

Also, I've read both Michael Crichton books and loved them, and I loved the Mega Drive / Genesis game, despite the average reviews.

The CGI and animatronics still hold well today, and just confirm the CLASSIC status that this film deserves.

Also, when I went to NY for my honey moon in 2009, I got a picture taken in Time Square's Toys'R'Us... I was almost weeping when I saw they still have a Jurassic Park feature.

joakim_ · 1 year

A lot of it wasn't CGI. I think that this scene might actually have been animatronics.

ElliotofHull · 1 year

Oh look, it's this post again.

Alaric2000 · 1 year

So, just to clarify, you're telling me those aren't real dinosaurs?!

thegreatgoldenbaby · 1 year

thats back in the day when CGI was still used to enhance and perfect things that could not be done with Animatronics or animation. now, its done as a way to save money and produce as much shit in a short amount of time as is humanly possible.

it worked here because it was new, and it was being used in a way that was made to create creatures on screen that no longer existed. they were helping make a great movie better by using computers.

its like with "Where the Wild Things Are". they used CGI to clean up the facial movements and enhance somehting that was already established.

BAD CGI takes me out of a movie like nobody's business

bigrich1776 · 1 year

There's one shot in particular when Dr. Grant and Lex are hanging by a wire in the rain. The Jeep looks quite flat and untextured, kinda takes me out of the movie. Other than that, super solid stuff.

kymry · 1 year

I just watched this again a couple of weeks ago with my 9 year old daughter for her first time, and yes, it was still as amazing as ever!

studiosupport · 1 year

Yeah, does anyone remember the Super Nintendo version of Jurassic Park? You had to go that WHOLE game without saving. Picking up ID cards, finding dinosaur eggs, fighting more than one T-rex.

Amazing when I finally beat it though. First-person mode scared the hell out of me.

sniggity · 1 year

I think the constant rain helped with CGI in that movie, it helped a lot ! Genius idea in actuality.

TheDemonClown · 1 year

CGI actually seems to be getting worse because, with all the power available, it's almost as if the SFX teams are wanting to say, "LOOK AT ALL THIS SHIT! A COMPUTER DID THIS, ISN'T IT AWESOME?!" Compare the CGI shots of the T-Rex and the raptors from "Jurassic Park" with Jeff Bridges' younger head in "Tron: Legacy". The goddamn dinosaur looks more real than an actor who is actually alive today!

[deleted] · 1 year

I feel like the third movie had terrible CGI compared to the first two. The para sailing scene looks so bad.

aaaaaasdfgrdgbfzs · 1 year

If only the rest of the movie held up or ever held any water at all.

NerdTronJJ · 1 year

one of the many reasons this movie is time less

ImPolish · 1 year

I thought they used real dinosaurs :o

KingPharaoh · 1 year

Super Nintendo's didn't cost millions and millions of dollars.

filmfiend999 · 1 year

Then there's Starship Troopers, The Langoliers, and Pitch Black creatures. Same things. Boxes with sharp teeth.

MR_Rictus · 1 year

Sega Genisis > Super Nintendo

carn1x · 1 year

I beg your pardon, I spent most of my time in the mid-90s LOOKING at SNES games art in my Gamesmen Catalogue. I did not, as you so delicately put it, "nail her in the stink tube."

perspectivism · 1 year

What makes you think it's CGI?

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