Re: Dinosaur Secrets (Jurassic Fight Club)

[Amtoine Grant <rascienz@shaw.ca>]

On 23-Jan-09, at 10:05 AM, john hunt wrote:

> Watched Tom's latest talking head performance last night in what I am
> assuming was the UK version of Jurassic Fight Club, T-rex vs Nano.   
> Two
> observations;
>
> Why do dinosaur's have such white teeth in US CGI TV programmes.   
> Was there
> a cretaceous T rex dentist?

Speaking of mouths, I just wish they could keep theirs shut for  
longer than barely 5 second intervals. What kind of hunter exactly  
goes around making its presence known, "murmuring" to itself  
CONSTANTLY and then thinks it can somehow surprise itsprey?

> The Nano just looked wrong - like some cartoon dinosaur out of Land  
> Before
> Time.  The CGI in WWD was just more convincing and that was 10  
> years ago
> (nearly - first broadcast October 1999)!


I completely agree. I don't mean to disrespect the CG modelers/ 
texture artists & animators. They all have skill that much surpasses  
my own, but the legs on most of the theropods remind me of that movie  
where dudes' hand has a life and intentions of its own, independent  
of the original host.