#sick triceratops

GIFs are fun. Even if I can’t make much more than fade overlays.

Supposedly, just before filming began for the Triceratops scene in Jurassic Park, Stan Winston had his puppeteers rub dirt into the puppet in an effort to make it look more realistic. His reasoning was that large mammals like elephants and rhinos often take dust baths to protect their skin from the sun. And with a somewhat similar body size and niche, Triceratops likely would have too. I’m not sure if this is still a reasonable assumption given what we currently know about the animal, but word is this made the texture artists (understandably) pretty mad.

So I made a dirt overlay during the process of the Triceratops palette just to see how it looked and it ended up being a great match to the film. I figured I’d share the results with people for fun/perspective on what was built and what ended up on screen.