Imagine an entire feature-length movie created in this fashion. No narrator or actors voices. Just the movie, sound effects and almost-realistic stop-motion Dinosaurs!
this is as good as Walking With dinosaurs, ...and it was made 11 years earlier! Amazingly well done, though I think the Monoclonius should have won :(
My god this stop start animation is amazing, also fairly paleontological acute, the only mistake was the position of the centrosaurus tail and possibly feathers on the tyrannosaur.
I remember this! When I was in grade school they had us watch this (not that I hadn't already seen it a million times, being one of those 8 year olds who knew everything there was to know at the time about dinosaurs). Films like this, Jurassic Park, and reading the work of Horner, Bakker, and their ilk are the reason I am now a geo major with a focus on paleo. XD
Over 20years ago, when I was a kid, I saw this film via VHS tape from US. I was really impressed and moved. I wonder i made a mistake, I made a response my short movie for tribute this beautiful movie. Thank you very much, Phil.
It still looks great to this day. I think Phil was the first animator to portray T Rex not as a big lumbering Godzilla-wannabe but as a cunning and deadly killer.
What's frustrating about battles like this is that, typically in the wild a predator will give up after its putative prey puts up such a stiff struggle and moreover, brutally wounds it. This is a generalization and is contradicted by countless examples of extraordinary duels to death, some of which can be found on Youtube. But it remains true more often than not.
Portrayals of dinosaurs rarely depict them in this light - as animals that constantly make trade-offs between risks and rewards.
Way ahead of its time. Curious if anyone out there has read THE ICE GORILLA? The Founder of Prehistoric Channel put it together. I haven't read THE ICE GORILLA book yet, but rumor has it that movie producers are trying to make THE ICE GORILLA into a movie. I'd love to see that. Has anything read anything different about the movie part???
I remember this.....at least it looks strikingly similar to another dino stop-motion animated sequence. And I saw it when I was like 5-7 year old (so around 1995-97). I had my mind blown and I am glad to say, it still blows my mind to this day.
Best dinosaur Stop-motion animation I've seen in my entire life. Some parts really look like CGI in 3D. It's not only well made but it has an artistic and cinematographic element. These guys really know how to film action, modern Dinomentaries can learn a thing or two from this.
Without computers, life was beautiful :) I remember a fragment of this film from my childhood days at a time when CGI was not yet popular on the FX market, it was the most magical thing I've ever seen, and so to this day. Thank you Phil.
very awesome but i find it unlikely that a apex predator would hunt and corner a large prey animal after such a big meal. unless the dead dinosaur was supposed to be much older than it looked.
oh my god. i remember seeing this footage used in a 20-odd year-old documentary on dinosaurs. i must have watched that thing 50 times. thank you so much phil for having such a profound impact on my childhood.
Thats amazing how it almost seems like this short was made to help prepare you to help create Jurassic Park. Apart from this being an awesome piece, this just shows again how big timing plays in our lives!!
It's very awesome! And look's just as good as CG to me.xD.I also like the lighting alot,I'd expect nothing less,from the guy who brought us so many cool monster's,like the Dragon from dragonslayer,the Garthock,ext...
This is just beautiful, and such a nostalgia bomb for me. I remember being amazed in kindergarden by the stop-motion animation clips that were on the Dinosaur! program Christopher Reeves hosted (it was on a VHS tape I borrowed frequently from our local library - I think the program was from the '80's?).
Good stuff. I remember watching this on a computer when I was a kid. I want to say it was MS Dinosaurs but this was on a Mac...maybe it was the Mac version of that software.
omigod, i swear i saw that scene at 4:31 before but i cant remember. it might hav been from a pc game or something but i swear ive seen that before! can someone help me remember???
I've seen some work from a guy named Adywan on the stop-motion in his edit of The Empire Strikes Back. The Taun-tauns look so realistic in their movements and appearance because of that. If you were to smooth out the motions of these dinosaurs, this would look phenomenal. Then again, I'm not sure exactly how Ady does it.
This is amazing! A masterpiece! I do have only 1 thought: and that is that it may have been a bit unneccessary to have like 3 minutes of the movie being the Styracosaurus eating grass...
Wow - not only was I unaware of this being a short outside of "Dinosaur!" (which I still adore my VHS of) I didn't even know there was a Phil Tippett youtube channel. I learned two cool things today... and I have been a big fan for over 30 years. Kudos!
Great to see this again after many years! I had the Christopher Reeve doco on VHS,lent it to an ignorant "client" and never saw it again. I remember being exited to show it to a friend of mine, the late ,great animator Paul Berry!
Even though Jurassic Park's computer animated dinosaurs are better, I still think it would be interesting to see what the movie might have looked like if they used stop-motion.
thing is, in that scene where the rex had a hold of the monoclonius, I really don't think their size was that close, even a full grown bull monoclonius
Great to see this in its entirety, it blew me away in 1985. Thanks Phil! I had the honor of visiting Doug Henderson a few years back and saw one of the original sculpts of the Tyrannosaur head, so impressive.
That was awesome! The restoration looks great. Only one complaint: What happened to the blood on the horn of the Monoclonius after it pierced the Tyrannosaurus? Not trying to be a stickler. I'm just wondering if that was an unfortunate mistake in the complex process of making this great film. :)
Incredible work - like many other commenters I've been wanting to see this for 20-odd years. What an inspiration you've crafted for a generation of dinosaur nuts, and technical craftspeople. I count myself as both, and Prehistoric Beast stands the test of time flawlessly. Well done on the restoration! Is there any possibility of restoring the hadrosaur footage created for DINOSAUR! or is it adrift in a sea of broadcaster rights??
Phil, look on youtube for this guy's account. It's kezadrone. He has a new software that creates incredibly realistic motion blur for stop motion animation. He took some of your work and added his Megamotion to it and it looks amazing. Check it out.
This is absolutely amazing, but I am very disappointed in you. In the ending credits of Jurassic Park, you were credited as the Dinosaur Supervisor.... And by the events that occurred during the movie, you were not doing your job. I understand that some people need breaks every now and then, but you had a responsibility, and now a lot of people are dead... and the world can never see a live dinosaur.
This is wonderful Phil you are quite the divine sculptor and animator.
I was wondering when you guys at ILM were sculpting the dino maquetes how was the detail applied to the skin. Did you use stencils or was every scale and wart individually sculpted? Just something I know new generation digital sculptors are curious about.
What I love is it's an actual story. After a minute, you forget you're watching a stop motion special effects reel and you're deep into a story of a day in the life of dinosaurs.
ok so here's the the question: does anyone know how the dinos really moved or what kind of sounds they really made? sure we can determine it by fossils but really? do any of us know???
Holy...I do not believe for a second you shot that in your garage. I think you went back in time with a film camera and shot those dinosaurs, having you shutter speed so fast that motion blur wasn't recorded. :D Seriously, that was great, and that was the first time this 22 year old who was raised on CG saw this. This beats so many CG stuff, both cartoons and visual effects. It was photographed well with great camera moves. Awesome short film and makes me wish for more stop-mo visual effects.
Wow, hard to believe there was a time when Stop-Motion-Animation was the poor man's CGI. Nowadays everyone will go for CGI first, cause it's so cheap and you can do it on your PC at home, but 90% of the time it just looks cheap too. I hope there will be a big budget movie with state of the art Stop-Motion soon. Who knows, maybe this great art will be resurrected someday, like dinosaurs.
By The Force! I watched this on GWN aka Golden West Network, back when I lived in Bunbury Western Australia with a review about Dinosaurs back in 1986 I still have that footage on VHS btw!! Thank you greatly for posting this man, damn it brings back a lot of memories, I think that Phil Tippet also made a similar shot with the Deinonychus and the Hadrosaurus, the show was called The Dinosaurs btw.
Wow! The models are fantastic, the animation is realistic and beautifully shot. There is still something about stop motion that cgi just cannot beat! Wonderful.
@timbox129returns Oh, wow! I totally agree. Great animation... and the dinosaurs are fucking AMAZ- AWESOM- NO THEY'RE AMAZAWESOME! OH YEAH THAT'S THE GOOD STUFF! Look at that cute triceratops and cuuuuute T-Rex. So cuuuuuuute. Awwwww.
Wow. this really made my day. for YEARS I've searched for this. The 'dinosaur!' special had a lot, but it never showed the entire fight sequence like this. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this footage. I watched the scenes from 'Dinosaur!' over and over again until the tape broke. haha. Now I finally found the entire fight scene. Thanks for posting this legendary footage, and Good times.
There was so much beauty and horror in that eerie silence. There were no words needed to show off the disturbing power that was coming forth. Disney should have taken note of this with that Dinosaur film they made.
Looks like 1 person was so transfixed by the amazing animation, they accidentally hit the 'dislike' button. That's how brilliant this is, I myselff migt start misspelling simble words.
I'm another one of the many people who saw snippets of this years ago as a child. These images were my definitive impression of dinosaurs from age 4 until...well, until today! I had no idea those clips came from a larger feature. I've tried to track down "Dinosaur!" for years, but this is even better.
I remeber this animation, I never realized it was a short film though. I hate to say this but the stop motion animation looks more realisitic than anything Ray Harryhousen has done.
I remember seeing clips of this on Dorling Kindersley VHS and CDs when I was a kid and wanting desperately to see the whole thing, thanks for uploading it.
Unbelievable. I've only ever seen bits and pieces of it patched together in documentaries but it had always been a huge influence. Now that I've seen it all I'm completely blown away by it. Thanks Phil.
Films like this are why I love the use of physical objects in movies. Puppets and models have textures and depth to them that CGI just doesn't capture. It's subtle, but important. I'd rather watch stop-motion than CGI. Great job on this!
Films like this are why I love the use of physical objects in movies. Puppets and models have textures and depth to them that I just can't believe from watching CGI. I'd rather watch stop-motion than cig. Great job on this!
Loved it! The smooth dolly panning really gets me.. I assume all of the foreground elements were shot against a blue screen separately live, then combined with the stop motion footage.. just incredible!
THANK YOU PHIL, Rex was my dear friend. I love this film and it is wonderful that you ded it to him, : ) also I put it in the S.J. Film fest back in 85 I do not know if u recall
An incredible amount of work, beautifully shot and deserving of thunderous applause! With a full understanding of what it must have been to shoot something this awesome in 1984, I can say that this work is unparalleled in it's time.
This is so amazing. I remember it being on a Dinosaur documentary hosted by Christopher Reeve but it was cut up and had a much more pulse pounding score. It is so great to see this in its original unedited glory. I would love to see your other dinosaur work with the hadrosaurs and raptors remastered with this level of care! Thank you again for posting this!!!
I last saw this nearly 20 years ago when I was just a kid, and I've been trying to find it again ever since!
Thanks for posting this great bit of nostalgia!
crapmunky99 2 days ago
Imagine an entire feature-length movie created in this fashion. No narrator or actors voices. Just the movie, sound effects and almost-realistic stop-motion Dinosaurs!
Philosphyfanatic 3 weeks ago
the original version is scarier by a good margin
chevy327sm 4 weeks ago
@chevy327sm is that the one on Microsoft Dinosaurs?
B1izzardHawk 2 weeks ago
I've waited for ages to see this short! Thank you so much for putting it here!
aedant 4 weeks ago
this is as good as Walking With dinosaurs, ...and it was made 11 years earlier! Amazingly well done, though I think the Monoclonius should have won :(
KantoIkari 4 weeks ago
some sweet info here
khijasmith 4 weeks ago
some sweet info here
staranjela 4 weeks ago
Very enjoyable thank you
chrispikeyp 1 month ago
really informative and interesting
staranjela 1 month ago
My god this stop start animation is amazing, also fairly paleontological acute, the only mistake was the position of the centrosaurus tail and possibly feathers on the tyrannosaur.
Meerkatmatt2 1 month ago
@Meerkatmatt2 This was made in the 80's,so they did not know about this then.
Shadowspino2004 1 month ago
@Shadowspino2004 I thought juvinile t-rexs had feathers
B1izzardHawk 3 weeks ago
Wow, this is incredibley haunting and beautiful work!
paulod27 1 month ago
I remember this! When I was in grade school they had us watch this (not that I hadn't already seen it a million times, being one of those 8 year olds who knew everything there was to know at the time about dinosaurs). Films like this, Jurassic Park, and reading the work of Horner, Bakker, and their ilk are the reason I am now a geo major with a focus on paleo. XD
sonbuhitsunei 1 month ago
Tyrannosaurus rex vs Monolconius!!!! A very good fight!
hentesgyik95 1 month ago
Over 20years ago, when I was a kid, I saw this film via VHS tape from US. I was really impressed and moved. I wonder i made a mistake, I made a response my short movie for tribute this beautiful movie. Thank you very much, Phil.
teddycookswell 2 months ago
It still looks great to this day. I think Phil was the first animator to portray T Rex not as a big lumbering Godzilla-wannabe but as a cunning and deadly killer.
TheGreaterGood80 2 months ago
What's frustrating about battles like this is that, typically in the wild a predator will give up after its putative prey puts up such a stiff struggle and moreover, brutally wounds it. This is a generalization and is contradicted by countless examples of extraordinary duels to death, some of which can be found on Youtube. But it remains true more often than not.
Portrayals of dinosaurs rarely depict them in this light - as animals that constantly make trade-offs between risks and rewards.
Borhyaenid 2 months ago
Oh my god I've been looking for this video for YEARS! I remember watching this as a kid around 1988/89!
handen 2 months ago
Best short film of all time! Chilling, dramatic, beautiful!
Brownyman 2 months ago
the stop motion is so smooth that you wouldn't think this was stop motion
good work
MoochagraProphet 2 months ago
Woow, classic! I was looking for DiD pictures to make a rigg for stopmotion character in 3D. And I found this. Fan! Big Fan!
JorenEUROPENL 3 months ago
Nice work. I wish i had a garage i could do my movies in.
Themaniacnextdoor 3 months ago
You know, this scared sequence me when I was younger.
MissingMandible 3 months ago 2
@MissingMandible I hear there, even now it still creeps me out
B1izzardHawk 2 weeks ago
Wow. Stunning. Totally atmospheric and beautifully produced.
GojiGuy 3 months ago 8
Way ahead of its time. Curious if anyone out there has read THE ICE GORILLA? The Founder of Prehistoric Channel put it together. I haven't read THE ICE GORILLA book yet, but rumor has it that movie producers are trying to make THE ICE GORILLA into a movie. I'd love to see that. Has anything read anything different about the movie part???
prehistoric28 3 months ago
@PhilsAttic
I remember this.....at least it looks strikingly similar to another dino stop-motion animated sequence. And I saw it when I was like 5-7 year old (so around 1995-97). I had my mind blown and I am glad to say, it still blows my mind to this day.
DASBIGUN 3 months ago
Best dinosaur Stop-motion animation I've seen in my entire life. Some parts really look like CGI in 3D. It's not only well made but it has an artistic and cinematographic element. These guys really know how to film action, modern Dinomentaries can learn a thing or two from this.
Pssybart 3 months ago
I don't care what anyone says but stop motion is still awesome
Inkbleedful 3 months ago 3
This was also used in a documentary hosted by Christopher Reeve and I believe Tippett did additional work for that involving a family of duckbills.
Kooshmeister3 3 months ago 2
Phil Tippett come back for Jp4
3452te 4 months ago
thank you for posting this I saw this as a kid one time and I loved dinosaurs ever since :)
fastold 4 months ago 2
so the lesson here is never walk deeper into a dark forest when you hear loud footsteps and growling the idea is to gtfo asap
fastold 4 months ago
They should make dino-documentaries like this again... 3D is so overrated!
jolorulz 4 months ago
Somebody post Monsterland!
KTKomedy2813 4 months ago
tyrannosaurus que preda a un monoclonius
lycandarkwolf 4 months ago
i remember seeing this when i was a little kid!!!!!! it scared me sooo much and still gives me the creeps...but i luv it!
DDR1610 5 months ago
Do you have the one of the extinction
slakecoldblade 5 months ago
Man I love stop motion.
TheWhistlesGoWooWoo 5 months ago
Awesome! Now I can truly die fulfilled!
trexhunter73 5 months ago
Without computers, life was beautiful :) I remember a fragment of this film from my childhood days at a time when CGI was not yet popular on the FX market, it was the most magical thing I've ever seen, and so to this day. Thank you Phil.
jesvschristvs666 5 months ago
Awesome! This is what all dino movies should be like. No talking heads, no narration, just animals living out their lives and interacting.
trexhunter73 5 months ago
very awesome but i find it unlikely that a apex predator would hunt and corner a large prey animal after such a big meal. unless the dead dinosaur was supposed to be much older than it looked.
jvry8c 5 months ago
oh my god. i remember seeing this footage used in a 20-odd year-old documentary on dinosaurs. i must have watched that thing 50 times. thank you so much phil for having such a profound impact on my childhood.
fr0wningcat 5 months ago
This amazing animation made my day.Thanks!
MaxterandKiwiKing 5 months ago
Brilliant work. This short cemented my love of paleontology when I was a kid. Thank you.
ArtGuyDeluxe 5 months ago
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great lighting! thanks for putting it up. Paul.
StopMotionPro 5 months ago
This I like.
DrXIII 5 months ago
someone should remake walking with dinosaurs using this animation style.
ColdSideOfPillow136 5 months ago
Gah this thing gave me nightmares when I was younger...and years later still does lol.
gatoneko 5 months ago
Thats amazing how it almost seems like this short was made to help prepare you to help create Jurassic Park. Apart from this being an awesome piece, this just shows again how big timing plays in our lives!!
animark11 6 months ago
totally awesome!!!
TREXPRODUCTIONS3190 6 months ago
It's very awesome! And look's just as good as CG to me.xD.I also like the lighting alot,I'd expect nothing less,from the guy who brought us so many cool monster's,like the Dragon from dragonslayer,the Garthock,ext...
cloudvol7 6 months ago
The tagline for this film should've been "Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the forest..."
DoomRulz 6 months ago
quick question
how many frames did you use per second?
because it really looks smooth for being made in a garage
HoneyIShrunkTheKids2 6 months ago
This was incredible Phil!! Thanks so much for uploading this, I've always wanted to see it :)
Have you considered adding in the hardrosaur and dino death scenes from DINOSAUR! in and mixing it all together to make it one whole film?
DoomRulz 6 months ago
Really an amazing beginning of a great career
andreartista 6 months ago
This is just beautiful, and such a nostalgia bomb for me. I remember being amazed in kindergarden by the stop-motion animation clips that were on the Dinosaur! program Christopher Reeves hosted (it was on a VHS tape I borrowed frequently from our local library - I think the program was from the '80's?).
BeardedFrog7 6 months ago
Good stuff. I remember watching this on a computer when I was a kid. I want to say it was MS Dinosaurs but this was on a Mac...maybe it was the Mac version of that software.
booksak 6 months ago
that T-rex(in my opinion) is scarier than the one from Jurassic park
jakezilla382000 6 months ago 2
@jakezilla382000 and at 4:14 Silent BUT DEADLY!
DinoWrassler620 6 months ago
@jakezilla382000 It certainly scared the shit outta me when I was a kid and saw this! ha ha
SpikeDubbs 5 months ago
poor guy just when you thought it was safe to go back into the woods......
winniethethrough 6 months ago
this scared the crud out of me as a kid and is still scary to watch and im a teenager!!
winniethethrough 6 months ago
omigod, i swear i saw that scene at 4:31 before but i cant remember. it might hav been from a pc game or something but i swear ive seen that before! can someone help me remember???
snowcloud8 6 months ago
@snowcloud8 Microsoft Dinosaurs?
DoomRulz 6 months ago
@snowcloud8 Could have been the documentary Dinosaur!, it has a lot of footage from this.
trexhunter73 5 months ago
How beautiful...
nietsdoener 6 months ago
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you gonna be working on the fourth JP?
DarthKraytuos 6 months ago
This is what Disneys Dinosaur should have been like! no talking!
AungUnElric 6 months ago 12
@AungUnElric EXACTLY! =)
Glyph2040 3 months ago
@AungUnElric That's what I thought it was when I saw the trailer as a kid...then the movie came out and my smile vanished :-/
sonbuhitsunei 1 month ago
I've seen some work from a guy named Adywan on the stop-motion in his edit of The Empire Strikes Back. The Taun-tauns look so realistic in their movements and appearance because of that. If you were to smooth out the motions of these dinosaurs, this would look phenomenal. Then again, I'm not sure exactly how Ady does it.
chylerreckeaolgodhul 6 months ago
This is amazing! A masterpiece! I do have only 1 thought: and that is that it may have been a bit unneccessary to have like 3 minutes of the movie being the Styracosaurus eating grass...
dinodude162 7 months ago
@dinodude162
That was a Monoclonius (a Styracosaurus has a "crown" of horns around its frill), and it was eating flowers, not grass.
Stopmotionist 6 months ago
Wow - not only was I unaware of this being a short outside of "Dinosaur!" (which I still adore my VHS of) I didn't even know there was a Phil Tippett youtube channel. I learned two cool things today... and I have been a big fan for over 30 years. Kudos!
VWVVWVVWV 7 months ago
Great to see this again after many years! I had the Christopher Reeve doco on VHS,lent it to an ignorant "client" and never saw it again. I remember being exited to show it to a friend of mine, the late ,great animator Paul Berry!
StuoVision 7 months ago
I've waited my entire life to see where Dinosaur! got those clips from. Best short film ever to have dinosaurs in it.
MrSuperCroc 7 months ago
Fantástico trabajo, lo vi en un documental de Discovery channel pero incompleto y ahora gracias al youtube lo veo completo, gracias Sr Tippett
rodmusicalmex 7 months ago
That was awesome. I've only seen breif clips of it before but not the whole thing. Thanks for uploading it! :)
FestArc 7 months ago
Even though Jurassic Park's computer animated dinosaurs are better, I still think it would be interesting to see what the movie might have looked like if they used stop-motion.
antisora13 7 months ago
Wow i haven't seen this in decades, or at-least it feels that way... Still awesome as it was when i first saw it.
I Loved Tyrannosaurus Rex then an will forever love the Tyrant Lizard King.
XxComablackxX1937 7 months ago
Damn I didnt remember this video, I saw clips of it when I was 5 or years old...
Good old times movies !!! :D
INCREDIBLEG22 7 months ago
I want this, along with any other Dinosaur oriented stop motion films, on DVD. Where can I find them?!
Paleohunter05 7 months ago
Thank you. This video reminded me of why I love dinosaurs truly amazing.
Kaninjadog 7 months ago
thing is, in that scene where the rex had a hold of the monoclonius, I really don't think their size was that close, even a full grown bull monoclonius
B1izzardHawk 7 months ago
what was done to it that was "digital restoration" what did you change?
matt9736 8 months ago
cool animation!
MEGADOKURO 8 months ago
Great to see this in its entirety, it blew me away in 1985. Thanks Phil! I had the honor of visiting Doug Henderson a few years back and saw one of the original sculpts of the Tyrannosaur head, so impressive.
parallax1968 8 months ago
Any chance that you'd make this, and some of your other dinosaur footage, available for purchase on iTunes? I'd love to have these clips on my iPod.
avian1304 8 months ago
whoever disliked this, wanted an animal to die
bioclaymotions 8 months ago
@bioclaymotions yeah
ultimatetrex1999 7 months ago
That was awesome! The restoration looks great. Only one complaint: What happened to the blood on the horn of the Monoclonius after it pierced the Tyrannosaurus? Not trying to be a stickler. I'm just wondering if that was an unfortunate mistake in the complex process of making this great film. :)
BBallertt 8 months ago
A production that would make Willis O'Brien Proud! Excellently done!
dryspud 9 months ago
I can see why Steven Spielberg hired Phil to work on Jurassic park.
godzilla964 9 months ago
Phil, do you have any intention of releasing or remastering the other scenes you did for the "Dinosaurs!" special?
illiteratedino 9 months ago
THis brings me back to childhood when I feared of this and wouldn't go to bed at night!
carlyroxlol5 9 months ago
@carlyroxlol5 I hear you buddy, even now it still kinda creeps me out
B1izzardHawk 8 months ago
Wow. this really made my day. for YEARS I've searched for this. Thanks for posting this legendary footage, and Good times.
JoeyDeBird3 9 months ago
Incredible work - like many other commenters I've been wanting to see this for 20-odd years. What an inspiration you've crafted for a generation of dinosaur nuts, and technical craftspeople. I count myself as both, and Prehistoric Beast stands the test of time flawlessly. Well done on the restoration! Is there any possibility of restoring the hadrosaur footage created for DINOSAUR! or is it adrift in a sea of broadcaster rights??
taloston 9 months ago 8
@taloston working on it
PhilsAttic 9 months ago 9
@PhilsAttic
Phil, look on youtube for this guy's account. It's kezadrone. He has a new software that creates incredibly realistic motion blur for stop motion animation. He took some of your work and added his Megamotion to it and it looks amazing. Check it out.
illiteratedino 9 months ago
Finally!!!! I've been waiting 15 years for this! Thanks so much Mr. Tippett :)
mozizzy 9 months ago
TYRANNOSAURUS REX VS MONOCRONIUS ,
lycandarkwolf 9 months ago
@lycandarkwolf Looked more like an albertosaurus to me, wouldn't you say? Also, it's spelled monoclonius.
Krayorik2point0 9 months ago
nice
B1izzardHawk 9 months ago
I remember watching this as a kid, scared the living shit outta me and it still kinda creeps me out
B1izzardHawk 9 months ago
just two words describe this Stop Motion dinosaur film...
Absolutely stunning!!
I've never seen anything as good as this for a very long time.
You get a definite thumbs up from me Phil :)
theseus27 9 months ago
This is absolutely amazing, but I am very disappointed in you. In the ending credits of Jurassic Park, you were credited as the Dinosaur Supervisor.... And by the events that occurred during the movie, you were not doing your job. I understand that some people need breaks every now and then, but you had a responsibility, and now a lot of people are dead... and the world can never see a live dinosaur.
haha, jk.
JELLOFACTORY 9 months ago
This is wonderful Phil you are quite the divine sculptor and animator.
I was wondering when you guys at ILM were sculpting the dino maquetes how was the detail applied to the skin. Did you use stencils or was every scale and wart individually sculpted? Just something I know new generation digital sculptors are curious about.
vegas9879 9 months ago
I have to say, this is pretty great.
Despite me liking CGI these days, you could totally see the menace in the scene between the fight scene.
PrimeYandereHeika 9 months ago
the dinosaurs look really real, the lighting and stop motion animation is GREAT, BEST MOVIE EVER!!!
mrmahsalt 9 months ago
SEEING THIS VIDEO COMPELETY IS A DREAM COME TRUE =] THANKZ PHILI
mrmahsalt 9 months ago
Alright!
I have seen clips of this on some documentaries in my youth and now I could finally watch the whole thing.
Tyrannozero82 9 months ago
Thank you so much for posting this. 26 years later, this film still gives me goosebumps.
Slinus27 10 months ago
Was this shot on 16 or 35 mm? This looks fantastic!
dsbiehl 10 months ago
The forest reminds me of my backyard.
godzilla964 10 months ago
the soundtrack is original ?
Dakeyras91 10 months ago
Thumbs up if Jhonen Vasquez brought you here.
NnyAndDibOfDoom 10 months ago
What I love is it's an actual story. After a minute, you forget you're watching a stop motion special effects reel and you're deep into a story of a day in the life of dinosaurs.
artfrankmiami 10 months ago
ok so here's the the question: does anyone know how the dinos really moved or what kind of sounds they really made? sure we can determine it by fossils but really? do any of us know???
p33bo 10 months ago
Holy...I do not believe for a second you shot that in your garage. I think you went back in time with a film camera and shot those dinosaurs, having you shutter speed so fast that motion blur wasn't recorded. :D Seriously, that was great, and that was the first time this 22 year old who was raised on CG saw this. This beats so many CG stuff, both cartoons and visual effects. It was photographed well with great camera moves. Awesome short film and makes me wish for more stop-mo visual effects.
monkeyjb1988 10 months ago
I have a little question about a dinosaur species, what is the tyranosaur?
thanks for your time.
pasandonomas 10 months ago
Phil, I have another question. Is this wonderful music (by Mark Adler) the same music that was used in 1984 ?
HectorsShadow 10 months ago
Wow, hard to believe there was a time when Stop-Motion-Animation was the poor man's CGI. Nowadays everyone will go for CGI first, cause it's so cheap and you can do it on your PC at home, but 90% of the time it just looks cheap too. I hope there will be a big budget movie with state of the art Stop-Motion soon. Who knows, maybe this great art will be resurrected someday, like dinosaurs.
Love your work, Phil!
eydukackbratze 10 months ago
Fantastic models and animation beautifully photographed!
artguy53 10 months ago
By The Force! I watched this on GWN aka Golden West Network, back when I lived in Bunbury Western Australia with a review about Dinosaurs back in 1986 I still have that footage on VHS btw!! Thank you greatly for posting this man, damn it brings back a lot of memories, I think that Phil Tippet also made a similar shot with the Deinonychus and the Hadrosaurus, the show was called The Dinosaurs btw.
obiwankenobi28 10 months ago
A clasid dinosaur movie! I sawed it when i was a little child and i loved it! Thanks for remingming me those dino moments!
00RExProductions 10 months ago
Wow! The models are fantastic, the animation is realistic and beautifully shot. There is still something about stop motion that cgi just cannot beat! Wonderful.
artguy53 10 months ago
@timbox129returns Oh, wow! I totally agree. Great animation... and the dinosaurs are fucking AMAZ- AWESOM- NO THEY'RE AMAZAWESOME! OH YEAH THAT'S THE GOOD STUFF! Look at that cute triceratops and cuuuuute T-Rex. So cuuuuuuute. Awwwww.
Derpinator3000 10 months ago
Phil I have a question. This short is totally remade?
torvovenator 10 months ago
@torvovenator No, we digitally restored it. We did not completely remake it.
PhilsAttic 10 months ago
@PhilsAttic
Wow. this really made my day. for YEARS I've searched for this. The 'dinosaur!' special had a lot, but it never showed the entire fight sequence like this. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this footage. I watched the scenes from 'Dinosaur!' over and over again until the tape broke. haha. Now I finally found the entire fight scene. Thanks for posting this legendary footage, and Good times.
JoeyDeBird3 9 months ago
Thanks to umpload phil! Its beautifull. This reminds
torvovenator 10 months ago
That fucking dinosaur, what an asshole.
eriko23 10 months ago 2
There was so much beauty and horror in that eerie silence. There were no words needed to show off the disturbing power that was coming forth. Disney should have taken note of this with that Dinosaur film they made.
Gernam12 10 months ago
this is beautifully shot, set the standards, love the trademark tippett creature emotes and shot placement, Fantastic
Rockhopper1 10 months ago
If this was made after the year 1950, that should be a pachyrhinosaurus.
MammothProductionInc 10 months ago
That was such a treat! Thanks to Phil and the gang.
Vortex42 10 months ago
Looks like 1 person was so transfixed by the amazing animation, they accidentally hit the 'dislike' button. That's how brilliant this is, I myselff migt start misspelling simble words.
ritualpenguin 10 months ago
I'm another one of the many people who saw snippets of this years ago as a child. These images were my definitive impression of dinosaurs from age 4 until...well, until today! I had no idea those clips came from a larger feature. I've tried to track down "Dinosaur!" for years, but this is even better.
comandantedavid 10 months ago
Those close-ups of the jaws are just astonishing.
Sorvos 10 months ago
Who is the idiot who disliked this masterpiecec?
Sorvos 10 months ago
Saw parts of this on PBS' "The Dinosaurs" almost 20 years ago. Glad to finally get to see the whole thing.
Bobhodge50 10 months ago
@Bobhodge50 - Dinosaur! was a separate project that we did. It did not include shots from Prehistoric Beast.
PhilsAttic 10 months ago
I cannot thank you enough for posting this. So awesome!
Arrhinoceratops 10 months ago
I remeber this animation, I never realized it was a short film though. I hate to say this but the stop motion animation looks more realisitic than anything Ray Harryhousen has done.
Philosphyfanatic 10 months ago
0:20 to 1:02 is actually quite nightmarish.
This stop-motion film is AMAZING.
BigBrotherMateyka 10 months ago
when i was little this gave me nightmares for some reason Jurassic park never did but this it creep-ed me out!
Waterbendingwolf 10 months ago
I remember seeing clips of this on Dorling Kindersley VHS and CDs when I was a kid and wanting desperately to see the whole thing, thanks for uploading it.
lamnaa 10 months ago
Beautiful. I've heard of it, and this tops all of the hype.
anatotitan 10 months ago
The tyrannosaur in this film was actually an Albertosaurus.
Jurassic150 10 months ago
@Jurassic150
Is it true that that particular Dinosaur is a fan of the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Stampeders?....;-)
DevilFish69 10 months ago
Is this the whole movie? Because I don't want to miss a second of it.
Sorvos 10 months ago
I'm VERY happy to see this finally uploaded. One of the coolest things I've ever seen.
troodon311 10 months ago
I have been waiting so long to see this again! Thank you so much - it's still fantastic!
MagicMongoloid 10 months ago
Shivers went through my spine when I saw this on my subscription list. Fantastic movie, a true pinnacle of stop motion animation!
SpelKille 10 months ago
Unbelievable. I've only ever seen bits and pieces of it patched together in documentaries but it had always been a huge influence. Now that I've seen it all I'm completely blown away by it. Thanks Phil.
ruadhribrennan 10 months ago
amazing ! I love stop-motion :)
AleXX1995XX 10 months ago
Ah, the 80's super-slim Tyrannosaur.
Tomozaurus 10 months ago
Films like this are why I love the use of physical objects in movies. Puppets and models have textures and depth to them that CGI just doesn't capture. It's subtle, but important. I'd rather watch stop-motion than CGI. Great job on this!
paleeoguy 10 months ago
Films like this are why I love the use of physical objects in movies. Puppets and models have textures and depth to them that I just can't believe from watching CGI. I'd rather watch stop-motion than cig. Great job on this!
paleeoguy 10 months ago
Loved it! The smooth dolly panning really gets me.. I assume all of the foreground elements were shot against a blue screen separately live, then combined with the stop motion footage.. just incredible!
dragnink09 10 months ago
incredible.....
bitterbri 10 months ago
Finally! Thanks Phil!!!
bassplaya1549 10 months ago
Man I love stop Motion. Thanks for the Tweet Jhonen.
Uchihafan445 10 months ago
THANK YOU PHIL, Rex was my dear friend. I love this film and it is wonderful that you ded it to him, : ) also I put it in the S.J. Film fest back in 85 I do not know if u recall
EdwardAMartinez 10 months ago
1 person is going to be eaten by a t-rex
hobbitstalker 10 months ago
Ya, Alberta!
MrFushigiYami 10 months ago
An incredible amount of work, beautifully shot and deserving of thunderous applause! With a full understanding of what it must have been to shoot something this awesome in 1984, I can say that this work is unparalleled in it's time.
animatorIsomer 10 months ago
This is so amazing. I remember it being on a Dinosaur documentary hosted by Christopher Reeve but it was cut up and had a much more pulse pounding score. It is so great to see this in its original unedited glory. I would love to see your other dinosaur work with the hadrosaurs and raptors remastered with this level of care! Thank you again for posting this!!!
ryno720 10 months ago