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Beasts of Eden: in Dinotopia, live-action humans and digital dinosaurs live together in harmony.

Computer Graphics World

| June 01, 2002 | Moltenbrey, Karen | COPYRIGHT 2002 PennWell Publishing Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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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