Jurassic Park Interview - Steve "Spaz" Williams

Steve "Spaz" Williams, the creator of the T-Rex CG animation for the original Jurassic Park, explains some of the techniques he used to make the first blockbuster CGI movie. (Interview from June 2014)

[@JurassicCollectables]

Great interview, some nice insight in to Steve's animation background and techniques on Jurassic. He really shaped that film from being Stop Mo to CGI

[@damo220]

I still find it strange that Tippet and Muren won an Oscar for this film
And never mentioned Spaz

[@144wychwood]

If you haven't seen doc on Spaz "Jurrasic Punk" I suggest you watch it. Major bone of contention for Williams as it rightfully should have.

[@damo220]

@@144wychwood what service is it on? Can’t find it anywhere in the UK

[@Bit2brain]

Two scumbags. And Tippet has the nerve to still be passively aggressive when the subject of stop motion not being used for Jurassic Park.

[@Liquidamp]

I worked at Softimage back then, great to see this video awesome work Spaz!!

[@chrisgallagher85]

This is the kind of stuff that literally changes the film world. Bravo.

[@sgswaney]

That's Harland Williams brother.

[@AaronSaltzer]

Steven one of them must be adopted considering they’re a month apart in age.

[@shakeemwinn3647]

So why did Muren take credit for this when he had nothing to do with it?

[@daneoman1000]

Yep Murens another hack that stole Spazs creation of CGI as we know it, just like Bob Kane took all the credit for Batman from Bill Finger.

[@kservant71]

And the animation still doesn’t sit in its environment as well as JP’s T-Rex to this day.
The only thing that seemed to come close is in the second movie, the raptor chasing Ian Malcolm in and out of that building, and then when it jumped and slipped and fell down in the mud. It showed that they moved like a real animal, too.

[@luisrizo8813]

That new doc looks interesting.

[@disneyentertainment1361]

Hi Steve Williams