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In the lavish and technically complex six-hour television miniseries Dinotopia, two teenage brothers unexpectedly find themselves marooned on a fantastic lost continent where humans and dinosaurs peacefully coexist. Successfully portraying this near-utopian society required a similar harmonious coexistence--forged by postproduction studio FrameStore-CFC (The Computer Film Company)--among the live-action and computer-generated characters, environments, and props. "A large portion of the shots contained some type of integrated digital content," notes Mike McGee, the film's visual effects supervisor and creative director of London-based FrameStore-CFC.
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