Re: Dinotopia Movie...?

["Cunningham, Betty" <bcunning@nssi.com>]

>[JP] One could say that it's the most well done,  
>trying to be factual dino-movies yet done (I am interested in seeing 
>the forthcomming Dinotopia movie), [...]
     
>>What forthcoming Dinotopia movie...?!
>>Could you (or anyone else) enlighten me about this?

   Phil Tippett is doing the animations of the dinosaurs, but I am not sure at 
this time if it will be ALL stop-motion, stop-motion plus go-motion (which 
Tippett invented with others at ILM), or stop-motion plus computer animation 
(using the DID armatures as in JP), or all computer animation.  The sketches are
on the walls of his studio during a recent airing of a show on special effects 
on one of the cable stations.  You know, sauropods pulling wagons and such.
   I DO know that the DID armatures used for Jurassic Park are in Tippett's 
studio, and that he is currently hiring more computer animators, but his history
has been primarily as a stop-motion animator, regardless of the work done on JP.
   Some of the work will HAVE to be computer graphics as they are also using 
motion capture to do some of the animations.
   I've 'heard' that the story will be an amalgamation between "Dinopia" and 
"Dinopia:The World Beneath".
     
     
     -Betty Cunningham
     illustrator, animator, and likes to collect dead things.