My color design chosen for the Stegosaurus. Drawn with colored pencil over the excellent b/w concept drawing by Mark "Crash" McCreery.
Adding some detail to the Steg maquette. This dino was headed by artist Mark Maitre.
Taking keys from Mark Maitre's details on the steg's body, I detailed the legs to match.
Taking keys from Mark Maitre's details on the steg's body, I detailed the legs to match.
Beginning the detail sculpt for the stegosaurus back plate details.
All the steg back plates lined up for adding details. I kept them together to match styles and would take each off separately for ease of access while sculpting.
At times the plates had to be placed on the back of "stego" to blend the edges to the body.
Painting 3 exact copies of the maquette next to lead artist Mark Maitre. Between us is the original "master" painted stegosaurus done by Mark so we could assure to match style & color.
Painting 3 exact copies of the maquette next to lead artist Mark Maitre. Between us is the original "master" painted stegosaurus done by Mark so we could assure to match style & color.
Many light layers of paint were required to get the natural look of it's skin.
We sent 1 painted miniature to Industrial Light & Magic so they could reference them and match for their computer generated dinosaurs. One went to production the the last was for keeping in the studio.
Helping Mark Maitre out on the full sized head plates of the stegosaurus.
The final stegosaurus sculpt maquette was sent to a company to be scaled up to full scale and milled in sculptable foam. Then we had to add details back into the soft form of the foam.
I sculpted the details into all four tail spikes.
Sculpting details into the full sized foam back plates.
A couple of final foam stegosaurus back plates.
Me and Mark Maitre moving the full sized stegosaurus left foam leg into place on the body.
Me, Mark Maitre and Rob Ransdell moving the full sized stegosaurus left foam leg into place on the body.
Placing one of the sculpted back plates onto the full sized steg. Just like on the maquette, we had to continually place the individual parts on the body to match and blend details.
The full stegosaurus sculpting team at work. L to R - Christopher Robbins, Mark Maitre, Rob Ramsdell, Ian Stevenson, Me, Paul Mejias.
The full stegosaurus sculpting team at work. Counter Clockwise from back left: Christopher Robbins, Ian Stevenson, Me, Mark Maitre, Rob Ramsdell, Paul Mejias
The final stegosaurus body sculpt.
Final steg tail spikes on the tail.
Painting the final steg tail spikes. Michael Ornelaz paints one of the back plates behind me.
Painting the final steg tail spikes.
The full artist, mechanical, foam running, and fabrication stegosaurus crew in front of the final animatronic puppet.
The puppet on location in Eureka, CA. Mark Maitre and Michael Ornelaz look on.
Painting Compsognathus "Compy" puppet.
Painting Compy Puppet.
Painting a Compy along with artist Jason Matthews. The male T-Rex is behind us in pieces.
Cleaning edges of the foam where it blends with the hard "bone" material on the steg head.
Production photo taken at the Universal Studios Lost World set.
Production photo taken at the Universal Studios Lost World set.
Production photo taken at the Universal Studios Lost World set.
Production photo taken at the Universal Studios Lost World set.
Production photo taken at the Universal Studios Lost World set.
Production photo taken at the Universal Studios Lost World set.
Production photo taken at the Universal Studios Lost World set.
Production photo taken at the Universal Studios Lost World set.
Production photo taken at the Universal Studios Lost World set.
Stan Winston Studio artists with our dino friends. L to R: Richie Alonzo, Christopher Robbins, Scott Stoddard, Mark Jurinko, Eric Ostroff, Bill Basso, Me, Christian Lau.
