See how Jurassic Park's T-Rex was born [video]

The video above, released by Stan Winston studio staff, shows how the artists at this renowned art school created the creepy tyrannosaurus that freaks out in Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park." According to the artists, they created a clay sculpture of the monstrous life-size dinosaur, which later came to life thanks to robotics and animatronics. You can enable subtitles in Portuguese in the video menu.

According to the report, the first step was to create a miniature scale, which served as a guide to produce the animal over 6 meters in height. The artists sliced ​​this small replica into segments and created a kind of puzzle on a larger scale - also in slices - that was assembled piece by piece to the shape of the tyrannosaurus.

Puzzle

Then the slice set was covered with wire mesh and fiberglass, leaving adequate spaces for internal ventilation and the necessary openings for the robotic gears. The last layer was clay, which was gaining scales, wrinkles, folds and textures. The arms were molded separately and coupled to the structure later, but the group's biggest difficulty was reproducing a real-looking animal.

The artists had four months of hard work just to sculpt the clay - not to mention the time needed to design, shape and assemble the tyrannosaurus - which resulted in a super-detailed and realistic mechanical model weighing over 4, 000 pounds!