As someone who did sculpting as a hobby for a while, I can imagine the frustration of redoing and recreating the design over and over again. But it was definately worth it, the JP Rex is iconic and extreamely recognizable
Thats just how any desing proces is and as long as there is mutual respect between studio and client it's not really frustrating, these people known that every unused sketch and sculpt contribute to the masterpiece they created.
@@wingedhussar1453 looking back when this Rex was introduced in media, it became the standard. Almost everything Rex related tried to have a similar look soon after. Rex designs before it were very different to each other, only now are we seeing designs that try to branch out of the JP design
The trex would a realistic yoshi with duck feet and a salamander tail, idk you but that sounds scary just imagine Malcom get eaten by it in the break out scene
I also recall somewhere that Spielberg wanted to make the Tyrannosaurus nearly identical to the 30's Kong version, and got into many disputes with Mike Trcic. In fact, Trcic was so frustrated that he sculpted a 1/8 scale Daspletosaurus to ease his frustration.
Of course Spielberg wanted an old school look. He apparently saw the writing on the wall, with every new discovery or grant needing spin, paleofolk keep putting out there, the dinosaurs keep getting less & less cool. The Jurassic Park franchise wouldnt be near what it is now, if they used the latest versions of the fish chaseing Spinosaurus, & of course, gobby, fat, & slow, T- rex. lol Thank god for cool old school dinos!
@@ronniepatterson2827 Hell Yeah!!! a T-rex that can’t even smell and see properly is so much cooler than a T-rex which could hunt in co-ordinated packs,had a brilliant smell,hearing and the best terrestrial eyesight of all creatures able to spot someone from miles away with depth perception and being virtually silent in movement,able to burst a human eardrum by producing a low-frequency sound being still fast enough to catch a human with juveniles and younger rexes straight up outrunning the fastest humans and predating on them.
Are you a time traveler, or kool - aid drinker? lol Nobody knows the truth about the habits of an animal that went extinct millions of yrs before we came along, let along what they really looked like. I stand by what I said, our "guesses" of dinosaurs keep getting lamer with every new grant needed lol @@asmagamer728
@@ronniepatterson2827 They sure as hell didn’t look like some half assed iguana figurines lmao. You can cope all you want but new dinos are pretty much basically better
Soo, you think the most recent Spinosaur should have been the one snapping a T- rex neck in JP3? Cause. . . You know, shorter arms designed to grab slippery fish, snap muscles, & vertebrate better? lol Got it ; )@@asmagamer728
Hypothetically, they still could incorporate these early designs into official lore, as versions or the earliest attempts in trying to clone a viable T. rex? But like Crichton said in The Lost World about cutting edge technologies, intial yields are very very low and perhaps some of these designs could be recycled in official Jurassic lore as some of the various first attempts to get a viable T. rex, but due to genetic errors, missing or damage segments that couldn't function properly, the early efforts were rather deformed and unhealthy. Anyhow, that could have been a creative nod to the works of all the artists into Jurassic lore itself, maybe?
That'd be fantastic but the movies lean more on the fiction side than the science one, unlike the novels. The books are almost hard sci-fi in the way they treat the subject matter
…good idea. Putting it as the official Rex in the original film would have been suicidal and robbed it of its public perception-changing status… …but yeah, depicting it as an early experiment would be the way to go with this concept.
This is really interesting seeing the different concept art and pictures of different t.rex designs. I'm not a fan of the frog mutant, but I actually think the green one with spikes looks good.
@@jimbratton7467 but with all the information they had at the time concerning palaeontology the T. rex in the 1993 film was very accurate and now of course we know that it didn’t look exactly like it does in the franchise but by no means does that mean the design we have now is bad at all.
@@jimbratton7467 to a point yes, but he wouldn’t have made it complete unrecognisable hence why he went for the design he went for instead of something you’d see in the dinosaurs movies of old which I don’t think I have to say this but were mostly inaccurate but we are able to figure out what dinosaur is what because of some being more popular than others. Like I don’t think too many people are gonna have heard of the Giga before JWD and will probably only know that what killed the Rex at the start of the movie (if the prologue will be there) being a Giga if a character in the movie says so if it’s cloned in the present day (I’m mainly saying this because the Giga we’ve seen looks like a shark dinosaur and I’m okay with the design I’ve grown on it but not many people are gonna look at it and know that it is a Giga)
To be honest the T-Rex design is a classic. because it was genetically engineered it probably wouldn’t look exactly like a T-Rex, even Dr Wu said they might look very different in Jurassic world, so it still gave you the monster version everyone was hoping for and being afraid of it, but at the same time still portraying them as animals which is what Steven Spielberg and Michael Crichton was trying to convey.
"even Dr Wu said they might look very different in Jurassic world" That's just a retcon, a way to explain why the dinosaurs back in the 1993 version, the trademarkable ones, don't look like actual dinosaurs as a means to appease the modern audience that now knows how these animals actually looked like.
@@mgacy2957 You’re absolutely right if anything it was a very clumsy way of trying to justify it, although in their defence at the time they didn’t really have much more evidence than the ones they designed. However DNA dictates how we look to our smallest details, if they were mutated and spliced with other genes they would in truth probably have very different characteristics. So it’s not entirely a bad explanation. At least one that’s very plausible. In the book they even went further on into this when Wu wanted to make them look more ferocious, but Hammond wanted them to be as they were which at the time was a very good appearance of them.
The artists working on Peter Jackson’s King Kong had a similar issue with the V. rex. They went through dozens of designs before coming to a final product. And just like Jurassic park, it really paid off.
Welcome back and Happy 2022, Klayton (😃)! I actually first became aware of these early T-Rex designs thanks to Derrick Davis' Facebook page for his "Jurassic Time" channel & site. The 'Frog Mutant' one definitely gives off more 'classic 1950s dinosaur movie' vibes, and Derrick even posted pre-production photos of a full-size sketch showing that the T-Rex was _initially_ going to walk *upright* before the more up-to-date paleontology knowledge was incorporated into the design process.
I think what made the Tyrannosaurus work so well in JP was not how they looked, but how the acted and moved. They were fast and predatory compared to the plodding beasts in previous dinosaur movies. One's that formally used stop action models.
That’s an amazing video and new way to start a new year to your amazing UA-cam channel. I pretty much agree everything you said about the Jurassic Park T. rex of what it almost looks like and not mention the concept of the Jurassic Park T. rex looks a lot like a live action version of Sharptooth from the Land Before Time because of how terrifying and deadly the character really is in my opinion. Man. I’m still excited for Jurassic World Dominion and as always, Take It Easy and Life Finds A Way. Also, Happy New Year and stay strong Klayton Fioriti.
I love the Jurassic Park T-Rex design, and I think the film wouldn’t be as memorable if they went for one of the earlier designs (especially the frog-like T-Rex head bust).
God that design compared to the T. rex we all know in love today is just bizarre. It looks like something out of the old old dinosaur movies such as 100 million bce.
I love to see a history of the dilophosaur design- the novel came up with the venom and had a leopard pattern camouflage thing going but the movie came up with the cobra hood intimidation behavior- both iconic imaginings for a obscure dinosaur that really brought it to life.
The fandom would be extremely triggered if they found out the T. Rex was intentionally designed as a monster than an accurate dinosaur design and would also have spikes like how they're all getting mad over the Giganotosaurus
It's honestly kinda irritating watching the fandom demand scientifically accurate dinosaurs in this franchise when they KNOW that genetic engineering altering the dinosaur's appearances was already an established plot point. There are so many dinosaurs designs that are exclusively unique to the Jurassic franchise that scraping them this far into the game for the sake of "accuracy" would be, in my opinion, spitting on the franchise's legacy and iconography. Which is why for me, I'm not particularly critical of dinosaurs in the newer films being scientifically accurate as much as I'm critical of them being well designed. I think the JW designs of the baryonyx, allosaurus, and pteranodons look awful and are among my least favorite Jurassic movie dinosaurs, because they look scrawny, generic and come off as last minute pitches. They don't have that raw, powerful Stan Winston flare. People could argue with the inaccuracy of the JP Spinosaurus, Pteranodons and Dilo, but those dinosaurs were so iconic and well designed during the Stan Winston effects era that they got away with it. At the end of the day, Jurassic Park and Jurassic World are movies, not documentaries. People who demand scientific accuracy in these films after all these years seem to forget this.
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I’ve always loved the Rex from the first film because of how animal like it is. It’s not just some movie monster hellbent on killing everything in sight, you can tells it’s just a large carnivores behaving naturally in a new environment, which keeps the move so grounded. So I’m glad they chose a design that reflects that. I feel like bright colors, spikes, or alien like wrinkles would have really taken away from the creditability of the creature.
I find the design process of the JP T. rex design very interesting because the JP T. rex is the most iconic and recognizable dinosaur design in film. Hearing the early stages of the JP T. rex having more of an amphibian look and making the T.rex to have a monstrous look is very interesting based on the pictures from this video. Thankfully the Jurassic Park production finalized the final look for the T. Rex and those it make movie history.
i don't know, i kinda get skull island Meat eater vibes from it, or really any old school movie dino, which isent bad, in fact i really like the look of it since i love thouse kinds of film dinosaurs, but i guess it was for the best they went with the more scientifically accurate one, both since it's instantly recognizable and works for what they were going for...i still want to emphasis that it main works because that's what they were going for, scientifically accurate dosent automatically mean good
I’m like a lot of people here so glad that they settled with the final product. Just everything went right from the CGI to the animatronics, puppet use, supper iconic roar and the use of them instead of just mindlessly throwing them on screen just for the “it’s cool” reason is what made this Tyrant lizard queen so iconic. I’ve just watched the original trilogy and I see why the first is such a masterpiece.
As a fan of the jurassic park/world franchise except the animated one, I actually didn't know this old rex design and thanks for all the info and I like all your videos especially Canon info and jurassic park stuff.
@@TrexTamer yeah exactly ! It has such a strong "90's vibe" to it, It would be a waste to not recycle it in some animated show and/or some prequel to the original movie
Spielberg wanting to make the dinosaur less biologically accurate for the sake of spectacle is just a perfect parallel to the theme of the novel. Truly a John Hammond move 10/10
Hope you had a good holiday! I hit the like button as always Klayton! I actually had no idea about any of this, that’s why I love Klayton’s channel! Still to this day it informs me and everyone of new things we didn’t know about the Jurassic Franchise!
First of all, thank you so much for always finding these super obscure facts and info. I have no idea how you do this, but I'm very that you do! Secondly, yeah, not that the other designs were...bad...but Rexy is definitely the best. I'm glad she ended up looking the way she does. I think she's awesome and I know I'm not alone. ❤
What an absolutely phenomenal video! I knew about how much design work went into the trex , and to this day I keep buying the books and, hoping that one day discarded design concepts will be included. So far to no avail. I’d love to see that fourteen different headsculpts. So very interesting. I fully understand the repulsion of Mike Trcic and I actually read that he thinks that the head of the JP Trex is like a shoe box and “what was I thinking”, I think it’s quite simply a great looking design. Love it.
It's a good thing the end result was the badass T-Rex design we all know and love!! Also Happy New Year Klayton! We're now all another step closer to Dominion!!
5:46-5:48 this design of the T-Rex was deemed “not fierce enough?” They must’ve been looking at the T-Rex blindfolded because that model right there he looks terrifying and a colossal force of nature that is either ravenous for meat, aggressively territorial, or both it’s a saltwater crocodile (the modern day T-Rex) multiplied by a million!
@@etinarcadiaego7424 check out the saltwater crocodile the largest and most dangerous crocodile in the world and you will see what I mean. Even the crocodile hunter called the salty the modern day T-Rex.
These designs could work as designs for other large Tyrannosaurs within the Jurassic series like Tarbosaurus,Zuchengtyrannus,Bistahiversor,Gorgosaurus and Daspletosaurus, maybe with a little modification maybe even a Yutyrannus.
Well… Jurassic park changed the way the world saw dinosaurs and created the image of many dinosaurs. If those were the selected designs, we would think it’s just what a T. rex looked like.
I’m kind of a fan of the leaning more in on the amphibian details cus of the splicing but I am also glad they went with that badass and lovely design we know today
Loved this video! I had no idea the T. Rex went through so many designs. Keep up the great work Klayton, hope all is well and that your 2022 is off to a great start!
Hey, I found that design process article last year. Quite a wild ride. Aside from the brief bit about Bob Gurr and some of the concept art, it was pretty much new info. And occasionally quite weird.
The T rex's amphibious design almost looks like it could have been from Tim Burton's version of Jurassic Park where it would be an animated horror film.
Just imagine how bad it would be if Universal chose the more monstrous design. As it gets famous, the media will make out a general Tyrannosaurus as a monstrosity since they would compare it with the InGen rex (I know the final InGen rex is already meant to be a movie monster but it could have been worse). I'm literally imagining the meme of the Golden Lab and the Werewolf side by side and the Golden Lab being the final InGen rex or the accurate version and the Werewolf being the WIP monstrous design. I'm glad Universal used their influence wisely.
Ethan S., the paleontologist and consultant for Battle at Big Rock (who I'm friends with and who's appeared on this channel) said the same thing about these creative processes. He got to consult and send sketches for references, but in the end they only used like half or 2/3 of the stuff he suggested.
I am confident that if the TRex looked like that, I wouldnt have watched the movies, because these movies were one of the first movies i saw and it shpaed my life in so many ways.... Glad they made it the way it is now
Love how t-rex evolved in the preproduction and finally in dominion looks more like jp rex. One note, one friends and I months ago we notice the t-rex from JW and FK looked more like the phil tippett maquette used for go motion. Check it.
Klayton, your video on this matter was amazing! Put me right back in the people's minds when designing the T. rex. To me this shows the triumph of team effort. If we got only one individual's input on the design it would probably not be iconic at all. The design we do have, though, is pure genius and derived from ideas from everyone involved, which, I don't know why, feels very comforting and epitomizes what is Jurassic Park all about!
I'm so glad they dropped the frog features. Especially since in the book, Grant does tell Malcom that the animal is indeed "Convincing", meaning what he expected a Dinosaur to look like.
The Bull T-rex design IMO is the best tyrannosaurus rex portrayed on screen to date. I think they could have stuck to the anatomy of the dinosaur according to the fossil - just going off by the AMNH5027 specimen and still have that look the film version rex ended up with but oh well.
I always love seeing concept art of... well, anything, but especially those of my favorite films and shows. As for these early JP T. rex designs, I kind of like the frog-looking ones for its bizarre appearance and playing around with the gene-splicing concept, and also the more monstrous designs for working with their 'copyright' intentions. But even with all of that in mind, I'm very satisfied with the version we got the franchise. It's just so iconic and a great representation of what defines a T. rex; at least in terms of film designs.
After this got to say that the designs of the dinosaurs they got to put a lot of effort to it so whether some designs look great or not I got to admit it looks awesome once on screen I mean I can imagine doing that from one design to another it has me go through a lot since I like drawing it goes from one thing to next and it’s crazy but in the end turns out great.
I would not have minded seeing amphibian features on the T-Rex. It would really have really showed a major flaw in the cloning process and we could have got that scene where Hammond and Dr. Wu argue over researching the accuracy of the dinosaurs.
Yep, that's how it goes. If you try settling on the first draft when trying to make a masterpiece, you're just gonna crash and burn. Going through countless early versions before settling on a final perfect design is the mark of a dedicated professional. Also that frog T-rex sounds like it could be cartoonishly silly, yet horrifying to deal with. Just imagine it having a giant frog's tongue that lets it gobble people up from a distance, and it being able to just jump over the electric fences and cut people off from escaping. Edit: Also combining the T-Rex roar with a frog's croak would probably turn it into a really loud burp.
@@gergopiroska5749 Most likely, but the tongue and jumping would take things in new directions. Wait, I just realized the frog T-rex is basically just a giant Yoshi.
"We have always filled gaps in the genome with the DNA of other animals. And if the genetic code was pure, many of them would look quite different. But you didn't ask for reality, you asked for more teeth." Edit: If they had gone with the original design, it would look like Carnosaur, which was scary enough.
I love tyrannosaurus rex, in fact i love those early designs of the Jurassic park t-rex before the final was even made. In fact i think those early designs of the tyrannosaurus rex could make into the other tyrannosaurids if they ever choose to include them in other t-rex relatives such as Albertosaurus and Gorgosaurus.
Now that’s some interesting behind the scenes info , o honestly thought the indoraptor and indominus Rex were the only Dino’s with multiple concept art ideas.
The iguana rex could have been neat, not a fan of the spines, but I love the green & black coloring. The bull is my fav rex because of his coloring too. Ultimately I love Rexie's design and am glad she's what they went with.
As someone who did sculpting as a hobby for a while, I can imagine the frustration of redoing and recreating the design over and over again. But it was definately worth it, the JP Rex is iconic and extreamely recognizable
Thats just how any desing proces is and as long as there is mutual respect between studio and client it's not really frustrating, these people known that every unused sketch and sculpt contribute to the masterpiece they created.
Idk if it's iconic it's standard trex if anything
@@wingedhussar1453 looking back when this Rex was introduced in media, it became the standard. Almost everything Rex related tried to have a similar look soon after. Rex designs before it were very different to each other, only now are we seeing designs that try to branch out of the JP design
@@wingedhussar1453 that's why it's the standard...
Extremely*
The T-Rex final design is by far the best and so iconic I can't even imagine it any other way.
The frog t rex is simultaneously goofy looking but also potentially terrifying with the right lighting
The trex would a realistic yoshi with duck feet and a salamander tail, idk you but that sounds scary just imagine Malcom get eaten by it in the break out scene
Reminds me of a Skeksis from Dark Crystal
@Nuelosaurus Rex Mmmmmm~
it looked like the alien from star wars lmao
It looks like the scorpios rex
I also recall somewhere that Spielberg wanted to make the Tyrannosaurus nearly identical to the 30's Kong version, and got into many disputes with Mike Trcic. In fact, Trcic was so frustrated that he sculpted a 1/8 scale Daspletosaurus to ease his frustration.
Of course Spielberg wanted an old school look. He apparently saw the writing on the wall, with every new discovery or grant needing spin, paleofolk keep putting out there, the dinosaurs keep getting less & less cool. The Jurassic Park franchise wouldnt be near what it is now, if they used the latest versions of the fish chaseing Spinosaurus, & of course, gobby, fat, & slow, T- rex. lol Thank god for cool old school dinos!
@@ronniepatterson2827 Hell Yeah!!! a T-rex that can’t even smell and see properly is so much cooler than a T-rex which could hunt in co-ordinated packs,had a brilliant smell,hearing and the best terrestrial eyesight of all creatures able to spot someone from miles away with depth perception and being virtually silent in movement,able to burst a human eardrum by producing a low-frequency sound being still fast enough to catch a human with juveniles and younger rexes straight up outrunning the fastest humans and predating on them.
Are you a time traveler, or kool - aid drinker? lol Nobody knows the truth about the habits of an animal that went extinct millions of yrs before we came along, let along what they really looked like. I stand by what I said, our "guesses" of dinosaurs keep getting lamer with every new grant needed lol @@asmagamer728
@@ronniepatterson2827 They sure as hell didn’t look like some half assed iguana figurines lmao. You can cope all you want but new dinos are pretty much basically better
Soo, you think the most recent Spinosaur should have been the one snapping a T- rex neck in JP3? Cause. . . You know, shorter arms designed to grab slippery fish, snap muscles, & vertebrate better? lol Got it ; )@@asmagamer728
Hypothetically, they still could incorporate these early designs into official lore, as versions or the earliest attempts in trying to clone a viable T. rex? But like Crichton said in The Lost World about cutting edge technologies, intial yields are very very low and perhaps some of these designs could be recycled in official Jurassic lore as some of the various first attempts to get a viable T. rex, but due to genetic errors, missing or damage segments that couldn't function properly, the early efforts were rather deformed and unhealthy.
Anyhow, that could have been a creative nod to the works of all the artists into Jurassic lore itself, maybe?
That'd be fantastic but the movies lean more on the fiction side than the science one, unlike the novels. The books are almost hard sci-fi in the way they treat the subject matter
…good idea.
Putting it as the official Rex in the original film would have been suicidal and robbed it of its public perception-changing status…
…but yeah, depicting it as an early experiment would be the way to go with this concept.
That's an awesome idea! 😍😍😍
The monstrous Rex designs really make me wish Winston got to do the first American Godzilla. I bet it would’ve looked really interesting.
This is insane. This is just insane.
I'm so glad they made it this far with the final design.
This is really interesting seeing the different concept art and pictures of different t.rex designs. I'm not a fan of the frog mutant, but I actually think the green one with spikes looks good.
we all can agree that after all the designs they chose the perfect t rex the iconic t rex that we all love
No, a perfect Tyrannosaurus would be an accurate Tyrannosaurus not Roberta
@@jimbratton7467 but with all the information they had at the time concerning palaeontology the T. rex in the 1993 film was very accurate and now of course we know that it didn’t look exactly like it does in the franchise but by no means does that mean the design we have now is bad at all.
@@jacksonwhitby4300 it was inaccurate even then, Spielberg intentionally monsterized it
@@jimbratton7467 to a point yes, but he wouldn’t have made it complete unrecognisable hence why he went for the design he went for instead of something you’d see in the dinosaurs movies of old which I don’t think I have to say this but were mostly inaccurate but we are able to figure out what dinosaur is what because of some being more popular than others. Like I don’t think too many people are gonna have heard of the Giga before JWD and will probably only know that what killed the Rex at the start of the movie (if the prologue will be there) being a Giga if a character in the movie says so if it’s cloned in the present day (I’m mainly saying this because the Giga we’ve seen looks like a shark dinosaur and I’m okay with the design I’ve grown on it but not many people are gonna look at it and know that it is a Giga)
@@jacksonwhitby4300 the giganotosaurus is pretty awful , Roberta is inaccurate but at least it doesn't look like a starving deformed Zilla rip off
To be honest the T-Rex design is a classic. because it was genetically engineered it probably wouldn’t look exactly like a T-Rex, even Dr Wu said they might look very different in Jurassic world, so it still gave you the monster version everyone was hoping for and being afraid of it, but at the same time still portraying them as animals which is what Steven Spielberg and Michael Crichton was trying to convey.
"even Dr Wu said they might look very different in Jurassic world"
That's just a retcon, a way to explain why the dinosaurs back in the 1993 version, the trademarkable ones, don't look like actual dinosaurs as a means to appease the modern audience that now knows how these animals actually looked like.
@@mgacy2957 You’re absolutely right if anything it was a very clumsy way of trying to justify it, although in their defence at the time they didn’t really have much more evidence than the ones they designed. However DNA dictates how we look to our smallest details, if they were mutated and spliced with other genes they would in truth probably have very different characteristics. So it’s not entirely a bad explanation. At least one that’s very plausible. In the book they even went further on into this when Wu wanted to make them look more ferocious, but Hammond wanted them to be as they were which at the time was a very good appearance of them.
The artists working on Peter Jackson’s King Kong had a similar issue with the V. rex. They went through dozens of designs before coming to a final product. And just like Jurassic park, it really paid off.
The “Frog Rex” would have definitely given folks nightmares.
Agreed. It would have taken the franchise in a much more horror movie direction.
Welcome back and Happy 2022, Klayton (😃)! I actually first became aware of these early T-Rex designs thanks to Derrick Davis' Facebook page for his "Jurassic Time" channel & site. The 'Frog Mutant' one definitely gives off more 'classic 1950s dinosaur movie' vibes, and Derrick even posted pre-production photos of a full-size sketch showing that the T-Rex was _initially_ going to walk *upright* before the more up-to-date paleontology knowledge was incorporated into the design process.
I would be immensely grateful if you (or anyone else who happens to read this) could provide a link!
@@MechaGodzilla I would have to find it again, but when I do, then yes, I'll provide a link. ;)
I think what made the Tyrannosaurus work so well in JP was not how they looked, but how the acted and moved. They were fast and predatory compared to the plodding beasts in previous dinosaur movies. One's that formally used stop action models.
That’s an amazing video and new way to start a new year to your amazing UA-cam channel.
I pretty much agree everything you said about the Jurassic Park T. rex of what it almost looks like and not mention the concept of the Jurassic Park T. rex looks a lot like a live action version of Sharptooth from the Land Before Time because of how terrifying and deadly the character really is in my opinion.
Man. I’m still excited for Jurassic World Dominion and as always, Take It Easy and Life Finds A Way.
Also, Happy New Year and stay strong Klayton Fioriti.
I love the Jurassic Park T-Rex design, and I think the film wouldn’t be as memorable if they went for one of the earlier designs (especially the frog-like T-Rex head bust).
The Tarbosaurus from Jurassic World Alive was still used that Iguana design.
God that design compared to the T. rex we all know in love today is just bizarre. It looks like something out of the old old dinosaur movies such as 100 million bce.
I love to see a history of the dilophosaur design- the novel came up with the venom and had a leopard pattern camouflage thing going but the movie came up with the cobra hood intimidation behavior- both iconic imaginings for a obscure dinosaur that really brought it to life.
The fandom would be extremely triggered if they found out the T. Rex was intentionally designed as a monster than an accurate dinosaur design and would also have spikes like how they're all getting mad over the Giganotosaurus
It's honestly kinda irritating watching the fandom demand scientifically accurate dinosaurs in this franchise when they KNOW that genetic engineering altering the dinosaur's appearances was already an established plot point. There are so many dinosaurs designs that are exclusively unique to the Jurassic franchise that scraping them this far into the game for the sake of "accuracy" would be, in my opinion, spitting on the franchise's legacy and iconography. Which is why for me, I'm not particularly critical of dinosaurs in the newer films being scientifically accurate as much as I'm critical of them being well designed. I think the JW designs of the baryonyx, allosaurus, and pteranodons look awful and are among my least favorite Jurassic movie dinosaurs, because they look scrawny, generic and come off as last minute pitches. They don't have that raw, powerful Stan Winston flare. People could argue with the inaccuracy of the JP Spinosaurus, Pteranodons and Dilo, but those dinosaurs were so iconic and well designed during the Stan Winston effects era that they got away with it. At the end of the day, Jurassic Park and Jurassic World are movies, not documentaries. People who demand scientific accuracy in these films after all these years seem to forget this.
Ever since I got a Jurassic Park rubber stamp set back in the 90's that used Crash's "weak" T Rex design, I've always preferred that design the most.
Is it me or does the frog model and monster styles seem more like something you’d see in the carnosaur series of b movies.
Loved this type of videos! Your narration style + background on behind the scenes stuff is pretty cool! Keep the great work coming!
Started watching you 2 days ago and i can't stop, feels like binge watching a 10/10 TV Series ! :D
Incredible process that went behind our beloved Rexy! Very cool concepts overall and thank you Klayton for the awesome coverage!
Showing LOVE for my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE CHANNEL PERIOD hey Klayton hope you and everybody reading this had a wonderful holiday experience and we're finally just a few months away from Jurassic World Dominion I'm beyond stoked but hey I'm a huge fan and I truly do appreciate you and your channel, seriously man your channel has pieced together more to the Jurassic franchise than I knew and I'm very appreciative for that. Thank You again and have a Blessed day everyone
I’ve always loved the Rex from the first film because of how animal like it is. It’s not just some movie monster hellbent on killing everything in sight, you can tells it’s just a large carnivores behaving naturally in a new environment, which keeps the move so grounded.
So I’m glad they chose a design that reflects that. I feel like bright colors, spikes, or alien like wrinkles would have really taken away from the creditability of the creature.
I find the design process of the JP T. rex design very interesting because the JP T. rex is the most iconic and recognizable dinosaur design in film. Hearing the early stages of the JP T. rex having more of an amphibian look and making the T.rex to have a monstrous look is very interesting based on the pictures from this video. Thankfully the Jurassic Park production finalized the final look for the T. Rex and those it make movie history.
Regardless of why it was made to look more monsterous, it's design is still very unique and impressive.
The frog head looked too much like Godzilla
@Jurassic Hero Probably Showa since it’s head looked like a frog
@Jurassic Hero Showa
i don't know, i kinda get skull island Meat eater vibes from it, or really any old school movie dino, which isent bad, in fact i really like the look of it since i love thouse kinds of film dinosaurs, but i guess it was for the best they went with the more scientifically accurate one, both since it's instantly recognizable and works for what they were going for...i still want to emphasis that it main works because that's what they were going for, scientifically accurate dosent automatically mean good
I’m like a lot of people here so glad that they settled with the final product. Just everything went right from the CGI to the animatronics, puppet use, supper iconic roar and the use of them instead of just mindlessly throwing them on screen just for the “it’s cool” reason is what made this Tyrant lizard queen so iconic. I’ve just watched the original trilogy and I see why the first is such a masterpiece.
4:49, the design of the bulky Rex looks just like the Sharptooth from The Land Before Time.
As a fan of the jurassic park/world franchise except the animated one, I actually didn't know this old rex design and thanks for all the info and I like all your videos especially Canon info and jurassic park stuff.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but so I hear WARPATH music?!? 😍
I love that Frog Rex bust ! That's definitely a monstruous design and something i would like to see within the JP's franchise.
Preferably in something like chaos effect or something
@@TrexTamer yeah exactly ! It has such a strong "90's vibe" to it, It would be a waste to not recycle it in some animated show and/or some prequel to the original movie
I'm glad they made it the way they did
6:30 It's a shame we didn't get this version, as it's by far the most anatomically accurate (facially anyhow, arms notwithstanding).
Can fans just give up on wanting the dinosaurs to be accurate? I mean they are man made in the movies after all... so they won't be correct either way
Spielberg wanting to make the dinosaur less biologically accurate for the sake of spectacle is just a perfect parallel to the theme of the novel. Truly a John Hammond move 10/10
Do more of these videos with other dinos
I’m still convinced the T-Rex walked on all fours. I just like to imagine it honestly
Hope you had a good holiday! I hit the like button as always Klayton! I actually had no idea about any of this, that’s why I love Klayton’s channel! Still to this day it informs me and everyone of new things we didn’t know about the Jurassic Franchise!
First of all, thank you so much for always finding these super obscure facts and info. I have no idea how you do this, but I'm very that you do! Secondly, yeah, not that the other designs were...bad...but Rexy is definitely the best. I'm glad she ended up looking the way she does. I think she's awesome and I know I'm not alone. ❤
What an absolutely phenomenal video! I knew about how much design work went into the trex , and to this day I keep buying the books and, hoping that one day discarded design concepts will be included. So far to no avail. I’d love to see that fourteen different headsculpts. So very interesting. I fully understand the repulsion of Mike Trcic and I actually read that he thinks that the head of the JP Trex is like a shoe box and “what was I thinking”, I think it’s quite simply a great looking design. Love it.
That super frog Rex one looks horrifying. If it was in the movie, not many people would have a proper sleep.
Im glad they went with the final design of the T-Rex its look is iconic and most recognizable t rex in the movie industry.
It's a good thing the end result was the badass T-Rex design we all know and love!! Also Happy New Year Klayton! We're now all another step closer to Dominion!!
The brow bones of the jp trex is so iconic and gives so much more terror to it
The green iguana T Rex looks like the buck from The Lost World. Glad we got Roberta as she is.
5:46-5:48 this design of the T-Rex was deemed “not fierce enough?” They must’ve been looking at the T-Rex blindfolded because that model right there he looks terrifying and a colossal force of nature that is either ravenous for meat, aggressively territorial, or both it’s a saltwater crocodile (the modern day T-Rex) multiplied by a million!
Trex and salt water crocs have nothing common whatsoever. There is no modern equivalent of a Trex.
@@etinarcadiaego7424 check out the saltwater crocodile the largest and most dangerous crocodile in the world and you will see what I mean.
Even the crocodile hunter called the salty the modern day T-Rex.
These designs could work as designs for other large Tyrannosaurs within the Jurassic series like Tarbosaurus,Zuchengtyrannus,Bistahiversor,Gorgosaurus and Daspletosaurus, maybe with a little modification maybe even a Yutyrannus.
thanks for making the intro less noisy
Very interesting indeed regarding the design history of the beloved iconic Jurassic Park T-rex. Great video as always klayton.
The alt reminds me of the T-rexes from older movies where they walked pretty much upright and were animated in stop-motion.
3:06 Might I ask where did that T-Rex picture came from and where to find it. It looks wicked cool and retro and I love it.
Well… Jurassic park changed the way the world saw dinosaurs and created the image of many dinosaurs. If those were the selected designs, we would think it’s just what a T. rex looked like.
I gotta say, I think it actually looks kinda Cool like a mordern version of a classic movie dinosaur...and i unironically love it
I’m kind of a fan of the leaning more in on the amphibian details cus of the splicing but I am also glad they went with that badass and lovely design we know today
Loved this video! I had no idea the T. Rex went through so many designs. Keep up the great work Klayton, hope all is well and that your 2022 is off to a great start!
It's interesting how the design evolved into the one we know so well
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Hey, I found that design process article last year.
Quite a wild ride. Aside from the brief bit about Bob Gurr and some of the concept art, it was pretty much new info. And occasionally quite weird.
I think the T-Rex we got strikes a perfect balance between fictional and accurate.
The T rex's amphibious design almost looks like it could have been from Tim Burton's version of Jurassic Park where it would be an animated horror film.
I'm 100% certain the more frog/monster-like design was used in concept art to pitch the original universal ride
I’m perfectly fine with the final design for the JP T. rex. It’s just so iconic and badass. Also, Happy New Year, my fellow Jurassic fans!
Someday, could you make a video that tells what all the dinosaur sounds in the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies were made from?
Just imagine how bad it would be if Universal chose the more monstrous design. As it gets famous, the media will make out a general Tyrannosaurus as a monstrosity since they would compare it with the InGen rex (I know the final InGen rex is already meant to be a movie monster but it could have been worse). I'm literally imagining the meme of the Golden Lab and the Werewolf side by side and the Golden Lab being the final InGen rex or the accurate version and the Werewolf being the WIP monstrous design. I'm glad Universal used their influence wisely.
Ethan S., the paleontologist and consultant for Battle at Big Rock (who I'm friends with and who's appeared on this channel) said the same thing about these creative processes. He got to consult and send sketches for references, but in the end they only used like half or 2/3 of the stuff he suggested.
I am confident that if the TRex looked like that, I wouldnt have watched the movies, because these movies were one of the first movies i saw and it shpaed my life in so many ways....
Glad they made it the way it is now
Best T.rex design of all time
Love how t-rex evolved in the preproduction and finally in dominion looks more like jp rex. One note, one friends and I months ago we notice the t-rex from JW and FK looked more like the phil tippett maquette used for go motion. Check it.
Klayton, your video on this matter was amazing! Put me right back in the people's minds when designing the T. rex. To me this shows the triumph of team effort. If we got only one individual's input on the design it would probably not be iconic at all. The design we do have, though, is pure genius and derived from ideas from everyone involved, which, I don't know why, feels very comforting and epitomizes what is Jurassic Park all about!
I didn't know Mark Hallett and Gregory S. Paul were involved in making Jurassic Park, they are my favorite paleo artists.
I'm so glad they dropped the frog features. Especially since in the book, Grant does tell Malcom that the animal is indeed "Convincing", meaning what he expected a Dinosaur to look like.
The T-Rex Design Production in a Nutshell:
A Big Mess
Man, concepts show how many ideas they have in mind, and what will be final.
The Bull T-rex design IMO is the best tyrannosaurus rex portrayed on screen to date.
I think they could have stuck to the anatomy of the dinosaur according to the fossil - just going off by the AMNH5027 specimen and still have that look the film version rex ended up with but oh well.
I always love seeing concept art of... well, anything, but especially those of my favorite films and shows. As for these early JP T. rex designs, I kind of like the frog-looking ones for its bizarre appearance and playing around with the gene-splicing concept, and also the more monstrous designs for working with their 'copyright' intentions. But even with all of that in mind, I'm very satisfied with the version we got the franchise. It's just so iconic and a great representation of what defines a T. rex; at least in terms of film designs.
The frog one is neat but also, incredibly derpy looking. We'd be laughing when that thing started to chase the jeep. Derp! Derp! Derp!
The frog model/unused version makes me think of old dinosaur movies when they stood up straight lol very oldschool
After this got to say that the designs of the dinosaurs they got to put a lot of effort to it so whether some designs look great or not I got to admit it looks awesome once on screen I mean I can imagine doing that from one design to another it has me go through a lot since I like drawing it goes from one thing to next and it’s crazy but in the end turns out great.
6:38 the head of the t rex with its jaw open looks absoluty like something that would be in your nightmares cause of the teeth
i been wacthing your channel for a long time Love the videos
Yes i saw the clay sculpture that was immediately rejected, because it looked like the Rex from CARNOSAUR.
I would not have minded seeing amphibian features on the T-Rex. It would really have really showed a major flaw in the cloning process and we could have got that scene where Hammond and Dr. Wu argue over researching the accuracy of the dinosaurs.
Yep, that's how it goes. If you try settling on the first draft when trying to make a masterpiece, you're just gonna crash and burn. Going through countless early versions before settling on a final perfect design is the mark of a dedicated professional.
Also that frog T-rex sounds like it could be cartoonishly silly, yet horrifying to deal with. Just imagine it having a giant frog's tongue that lets it gobble people up from a distance, and it being able to just jump over the electric fences and cut people off from escaping.
Edit: Also combining the T-Rex roar with a frog's croak would probably turn it into a really loud burp.
I think there's a cyanide and happiness parody that has a frog trex
I think they would only have the looks of frogs
But no tongue and jumping
@@gergopiroska5749 Most likely, but the tongue and jumping would take things in new directions.
Wait, I just realized the frog T-rex is basically just a giant Yoshi.
@@pirateraider1708 that's nightmare fuel
For someone who has had genuine nightmares about the trex, im pretty sure its frightning enough
If there's one feature I'm glad they didn't use, was a frog/chameleon like tongue as was featured in the novel. Man, that would've been freaky.
"We have always filled gaps in the genome with the DNA of other animals. And if the genetic code was pure, many of them would look quite different. But you didn't ask for reality, you asked for more teeth."
Edit: If they had gone with the original design, it would look like Carnosaur, which was scary enough.
I love tyrannosaurus rex, in fact i love those early designs of the Jurassic park t-rex before the final was even made. In fact i think those early designs of the tyrannosaurus rex could make into the other tyrannosaurids if they ever choose to include them in other t-rex relatives such as Albertosaurus and Gorgosaurus.
can you do a breakdown video of the design of the raptors? Mostly in the 1 and 2 movies
1:57, that would have been an awesome alternative poster design.
I'm always a fan of concept art of dinosaurs
The snarky snarly T-Rex look is immortal.
Now that’s some interesting behind the scenes info , o honestly thought the indoraptor and indominus Rex were the only Dino’s with multiple concept art ideas.
I can’t believe how different the JP1 T. rex could have looked if they choose one of these designs
The iguana rex could have been neat, not a fan of the spines, but I love the green & black coloring. The bull is my fav rex because of his coloring too.
Ultimately I love Rexie's design and am glad she's what they went with.
Man that's a lot different designs for we get the proper T. Rex in the movie I wonder what they did but the raptor early concept
I love dinosaurs klayton fioriti and t rex is my favorite dinosaur and spinosaurus too
Interesting. I'm glad it turned out the way it did, but the image at 1:03 looks cool.
Great video, love learning about this stuff.
For me personally, I prefer the final t.rex design over the frog mutant version because of it's superior and accurate design.