

Theropods are often depicted as standing quite upright, but he told us they would have walked a little more planked out. Steve would advise us on different poses for creatures, too.

We looked at holotype specimens of dinosaurs’ skeletons to understand how muscles attach in different positions and where there are pressure points in bones, and that helps you understand how dinosaurs move and walk. It’s pretty much a golden rule in visual effects: You don’t try to make stuff up unless it absolutely doesn’t exist. It’s awesome to work with somebody who absolutely, 100% understands dinosaurs and has such a passion for them.īasically, we always start with science. We worked with Jack Horner previously, and Steve L. We had a new consultant paleontologist on this one.
