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e d i t i o n 3 , 2 0 1 8 | c g w 4 9 J U R A S S I C E V O L U T I O N : 2 0 1 8 and Claire with a practical and CG T. rex in a container; practical when asleep, CG when she wakes up. All the CG dinosaurs have layers of muscle simulations applied aer ani- mation. For the Indoraptor, the creature development team added particular types of muscle sims that helped define the hybrid dinosaur's character. "He takes pleasure in killing," Rubinchik says of the Indoraptor. "He's a killing ma- chine. He twitches violently." Animators had specialized "twitch" con- trols that the creature dev team would use to drive the nervous energy simulations. Lockwood Mansion All this third-act action is taking place in the Lockwood Mansion supposedly located in Northern California. Production designer Andy Nicholson built large sets at Pinewood to fit the dinosaurs and still have enough room for the camera to move back far enough to see them. "Because they're dinosaurs, though, the camera oen looks up," Vickery says. "Usually, we'd have a one-story set with greenscreen above, but we didn't have that luxury. So we had cantilevered ceilings. We could li pieces up so Oscar [Faura, cinematographer] could bring lights in. Then we'd li another part, and he could bring the camera around." For the exterior of the Gothic mansion, which was supposed to be surrounded by a redwood forest, the filmmakers consid- ered shooting a miniature. But, they found Cragside, a mansion built in Northumber- land, UK, in the early 1900s by an arms dealer. It was surrounded by tall conifers – firs, cypress, spruce, and sequoia. "Oscar and I went up there with an Alexa mini mounted on a drone, and shot ap- proaches to the house at different times of day," Vickery says. We also had Clear Angle Studios do shots with a Sony a7R mounted on an AscTec Falcon 8 drone. We had full photogrammetry in a 500-meter radius around the house. It meant we didn't have to make up our CG shots in post from scratch. We could use practical photogra- phy shot by our director of photography." All told, the crew ended up with some- thing like 40,000 images. "Clear Angle built a completely digital photogrammetry-based house so we could MAISIE VIEWS DINOSAUR SKELETONS IN LOCKWOOD MANOR. OWEN, CLAIRE, AND MAISIE HIDE FROM THE INDORAPTOR. ILM ARTISTS CREATED DESTRUCTION AROUND THE CG INDORAPTOR.