You Never Knew How Much CGI These Shows and Movies Really Used

Jurassic Park

Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park didn't use as much CGI as might would expect from such a complex artistic endeavor. Spielberg, ILM, and Stan Winston managed to create one of history's most iconic films by combining computer imagery with real-life animatronics. Surprisingly, only 14 to 15 minutes of the dinosaur scenes were entirely computer-generated. The rest used Winston's physical dinosaur models.

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