Industrial Light & Magic

• 1993’s Jurassic Park used pioneering computer-generated imagery (CGI) to bring dinosaurs to life in Steven Spielberg’s adaption of the novel of the same name.
• Jurassic Park originated in 1983 as a screenplay by Michael Crichton, whose previous foray into film as writer and director of Westworld (1973) featured an immersive amusement park where androids malfunctioned and caused havoc.
• But his dinosaur-themed story first found publication as the novel Jurassic Park, which was released in 1990 and became a bestseller.
• Of these methods, a combination of stop-motion animation for long shots and animatronic puppets for close ups were initially chosen by Spielberg for Jurassic Park.

CGI and animation

• Dennis Muren from the visual effects company, Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), provided an alternative approach by using CGI modelling and animation.
• Off the back of pioneering CGI work in The Abyss (1989) and Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991), Muren and his team produced a test sequence of skeletal dinosaurs.
• Jurassic Park features 15 minutes of on-screen dinosaurs, of which approximately nine minutes feature Stan Winston’s animatronics and six minutes of ILM’s CGI animation.
• Although the CGI sections are relatively short, they have a huge impact on the overall storytelling, not to mention the believability that the event is actually happening in front of us.

Impact

• It also presented the perfect opportunity to develop and showcase the latest advances in CGI.
• Jurassic Park inspired a number of similarly themed movies such as Disney’s Dinosaur (2000) and the award-winning BBC television series Walking with Dinosaurs (1999).
• But more than that, it helped bring about a revolution in the use of CGI in filmmaking.

• Head, Salama, Bourne, and Olivieri-Dancey will report to Metaphysic's Chief Innovation Officer, Jo Plaete.
• The new hires mark a significant investment in Metaphysic's creative team following an extraordinary year of high-profile partnerships and projects in the entertainment industry.
• Metaphysic created live hyperreal performances of Elvis Presley, bringing generative AI to TV for the first time ever and effectively changing the future of entertainment.
• As the newest members of the development team, Head, Salama, Bourne, and Olivieri-Dancey collectively bring decades of experience to their roles.

• "Bringing stories of innovation and discovery to the public in an immersive and interactive way is at the heart of what The Franklin Institute has done for the past 200 years.
• The result was an authentic recreation of Walt Disney and a collaboration across all parts of The Walt Disney Company.
• The Franklin Institute is proud to present and play host to the world premiere of Disney100: The Exhibition through August 27, 2023, in the Nicholas and Athena Karabots Pavilion and the Mandell Center.
• PECO, the Premier Corporate Partner of The Franklin Institute, is the Local Presenting Sponsor of the exhibition, and PNC is the Associate Sponsor.

• LONDON, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Metaphysic, the industry-leading hyperreal AI company, is pleased to announce the appointment of VFX expert Jo Plaete as the company's first Director of Product Innovation.
• Plaete brings nearly two decades of experience in VFX, innovation, and post-production in the entertainment industry to Metaphysic.
• Jo Plaete, Director, Product Innovation at Metaphysic, says: "I am delighted to be joining a company as innovative, enterprising, and forward-thinking as Metaphysic.
• In his new role as Director of Product Innovation, Plaete will direct the development team, creating software to produce hyperreal AI and continuously improving Metaphysic's models to produce hyperreal avatars.