Battle At Big Rock - A Jurassic World Short Film

The story is set in the redwood forest of Northern California, and is about a family of campers and their unexpected and life-threatening encounter with two types of dinosaurs: a trio of horned herbivores, Nasutoceratops, and the antagonist of the story, the Allosaurus.

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Behold, The Allosaurus

The Allosaurus is a large theropod dinosaur that lived and terrorized North America, parts of Europe, and Africa, during the Late Jurassic Period.

As a large predatory dinosaur, it is often confused with its more famous counterpart, the T.rex, who lived 83 million years after it, in the Late Cretaceous Period, also in North America.

Allosaurus fragilis is classified as the type species, meaning, the specimen that describes the type of creature, based on its anatomical characteristics. There are currently five species of Allosaurus. The other four are the:

• Allosaurus amplus
• Allosaurus europaeus
• Allosaurus jimmadseni
• Allosaurus lucasi

Since the Allosaurus and the T.rex are both well-known dinosaurs in popular creature, people often mistake one for the other. Many have also wondered how the two would have acted if they bumped into each other.

They probably would have fought viciously, but it's something that could not have happened, with both creatures' existence separated by some 83 million years between them.

Yes, that's 83 followed by six zeroes. And, either creature would have certainly needed a time machine, if one wanted to fight the other.

Hurts your head, huh? Yeah, I know. The idea of two seemingly similar creatures living within, or at opposite ends of a large chunk of geologic time, that occurs within an even larger chunk of time, is just too much for some to handle.

But, that's just how science is. The scale of geologic time is something that is hard for most people to wrap their heads around, especially for a lot of people who think that all dinosaurs lived at the same time period in our planet's past. So, just feast your eyes on the images below.

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So, here is a 3D model of this famous dinosaur that I was using for the portfolio I was working on last year, in my spare time. This detailed, fully-rigged, animation-ready model was created by a friend who gives them away for free.

However, I got so busy with work that this personal project got shelved, which I then eventually decided to revamp. This decision was due to my desire to cut down on my dependence on third-party assets, and just create my own exactly the way I want them to look. That would certainly ensure the scientific and anatomical accuracy that I want to see in such creations.

Another reason for my change in plans was my decision to switch to Blender 2.80, and use it as my main software for creating and animating my own 3D models of these creatures. I see that Blender 2.80 is fast becoming an industry tool, with its rapid acceptance by many industry pros, and even some big name companies too.

Since the short film featured this dinosaur, I decided to share some images from the portfolio I was working on last year. This is the Maya model I downloaded from my friend's website. All of the poses you see here were done in Maya, and then exported to Blender for scene integration and rendering.

Here it is in Blender. My plan was to animate something similar to the short film above, with my two nephews interacting and playing with this dinosaur who happens to be the our pet. But my nephew flew back home to New York before I could even shoot the scenes. I'll try again next year.

Lighting test and render. I still need to tweak it and maybe create those power cables that cast shadows on the ground. Then I'll erase those shadows and use the generated shadows of the CG cables instead. That way, it wouldn't be hard to use up all space that the creature can walk on, and have perfectly-looking cable shadows casted on it. Since the backplate is just a single image, this wouldn't be that hard to accomplish.

This shot is supposed to be for a scene where the kids pose and have their pictures taken with the dino, with the creature playing along and mugging it for the camera.

...and a test render of the scene.

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And, that's a wrap for now. I hope you enjoyed the short film, as well as the sneak peek of my work. I hope they make more Jurassic World short films, as I could certainly use the inspiration and the reminder to keep working on my own, no matter how difficult it is. I will start making my own dinosaurs soon, and you people will be the first to see them. Stay tuned, and God Bless!

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Hello there, tasty-looking humans. I thank you for reading this little blog about me and the films I appeared in. Now, would you be so kind to appease my master by upvoting, commenting on, and re-steeming it? That way, you get to avoid my knocking you out with a blast of my toxic carrion breath, if being so near to these banana-sized daggers in my mouth doesn't make you soil your underpants and make you pass out first. Thank you in advance.

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This blog was created with eSteem Surfer, Autodesk Maya, Blender, and GIMP.