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Prehistoric creatures dont come much more iconic than the Tyrannosaurus rex.
So, recreating the T-Rex forLife on Our Planetwas no mean feat.
And in many peoples eyes, its the most impressive animal thats ever lived as well.
So its some job to bring it up to date and to really do it justice.
Our version is still pretty mean and ferocious and looks fantastic, but is more accurate to the science.
But the science of that doesnt stack upT-Rex was a brute!
Adding extra mass was just a first step in makingLife on Our Planets T-Rex look real, though.
Ours has the heft you would expect on a healthy apex predator.
You have to think beyond that.
In the end, theyre a bit more of a solid model.
And the reason these quills are only on the male dinosaur?
So that was a nod to the science there.
Possibly the most disappointing thing for the producers was covering the teeth with lips, Fletcher laughs.
Their teeth are the size of bananas; they are ridiculously huge and most depictions show them exposed.
But I think its more terrifying because it looks more realistic.
That license has strict limits, though.
There are rules in nature today that we have to abide by.
As for the difference between the two dinosaurs?
Again, that was a bit of scientific inference, admits Privett.
The suspicion is that there is some dimorphism, but exactly how that presents itself is hard to know.
Often, the males are more brightly colored in a display way, so we inferred it.
We thought the end result looked believable and seemed appropriate.
For a while, people thought the two were completely different species.
The youngsters could chase things, but the adults couldnt.
So were the adults just scavenging, or were they doing something else?
Until we invent a time machine, were never going to see a T-Rex dance, says Fletcher.
Its important to see different sides of creatures, Mitchell adds.
The T-Rex is so iconicwere used to it being the big scary creature.
Just as withthe shows VFX, sounds were recreated based on scientific principles.
Well never know for sure, but by using anatomy and modern relatives, we can get pretty close.
Wounded Buffalo has a huge database of modern animal sounds.
So combining these things to make dinosaurs, I think, was quite fun for them.
For the T-Rex, my note was always to make it as low as possible.
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