I.Intro
-I will explore the use of human made substitutions for animals and characters, such as with animatronics and CGI.
-the two films i will explore for this are Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and Jurassic Park 3
-I will focus on the AT-AT and the Spinosaurus
II. Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
-Uses stop motion, when they originally planned robotics
-Uses a multitude of different sized models for different shots
-large 50 centimeter walkers for closeups down to simple cut outs for back ground walkers in the distance
-Matte paintings where used for backgrounds along with baking soda snow
-They wanted to produce a "staccato" like feel, to fit the mechanical nature of the war machine
-They succeeded, to an extent, in making the scenes believable, especially since they regularly mixed these scenes with models with those of life sized sets featuring different parts of the AT-ATs body.
III. Jurassic Park 3
-Uses animatronics to make its creatures move.
-Uses Hydraulics and a steel track for movement
-Completely remote controlled
-The machine, moldings, maquettes and all where life sized
-To this day i believe that Jurassic Park has successful mastered the art of creating realistic creatures in film, surpassing CGI and stop motion models.
IV. Conclusion
-These two films went two different routes when creating large beasts for their films, animatronics and stop motion with models.
-Stop motion allowed fro work to begin as soon as they received the models, but the animation was slow and tedious, producing 5 seconds a day.
-Animatronics produce a mechanical actor to perform, but takes an entire year to produce the working machine.
-Both also have completely different budgets, stop motion being relatively cheap, and animatronics being incredibly expensive.
http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/animatronic1.htm
http://mentalfloss.com/article/54235/animating-walkers-star-wars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_(Star_Wars)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIlYk7KQe-s
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