Set recreation and VFX · 2021

Jurassic Park, 1993

A concept opening shot for Jurassic Park: a fossil in a procedural desert, with dust in the air.

A dinosaur fossil partly excavated from sandy ground
Year

2021

Type

Personal project

Modeling

Five days on the bones alone

Tools
  • Blender

Each bone was modeled by hand, tracing vertices over a concept illustration, before the environment and animation began.

Process

  1. Mood board

    A concept illustration to trace from.

  2. Bones

    Five days of modeling by hand.

  3. Environment

    A procedural desert with plant assets.

  4. Atmosphere

    Dust and specks in the air.

  5. Shots

    A second shot with a different shake and wobble.

Stills

Animation

Details

Bones
Hand-modeled by tracing a concept illustration
Environment
Procedural desert with plant assets
Effects
Dust and specks in the atmosphere; camera shake and wobble
Also on
Behance