Mark Hallett

Mark Hallett an American artist well know for his restorations of prehistoric life called "", a term Hallett himself coined. Hallet was consulted in early pre-production of in 1990.

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In early pre-production of the film in 1990, Mark Hallet served as a consultant for the film. Besides being a concept artist. his job was to give advice to the concept artists and computer animators so that they would make the dinosaurs accurate anatomy wise and that they were biomechanically probable. Hallet was contacted in 1990 by production designer Rick Carter who had seen Hallett's 1984 painting of Mamenchisaurus "crossing the flats". Carter offered him the job and invited Hallet to Amblin Entertainment's studio. Mark Hallet's first assignments from Carter was to create concept art of the breakout and subsequent attack of the film's Tyrannosaurus rex.

Mark Hallet was known to have primarily did concept art of the film's carnivorus theropods: Dilophosaurus, Velociraptor, and Tyrannosaurus rex. He also created 1:8 scale maquttee of a Tyrannosaurus head and a 1:5 scale Dilophosaurus head, both now lost. In addition Hallet was consulted for digital storyboards of the T. rex attack made by Stefan Dechant of Industrial Light and Magic.

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