Board Thread:Manual of Style/@comment-1187034-20160926070348/@comment-1187034-20160926211907

Tyrannosaurus Rex2.02456 wrote: Notice that the raptors and about every single dinosaur have that plain boring brown? I agree that the lego game did a good job making them more individual. Even in the lost world do the dinosaurs have this colour. In JP3 they have more colours. Well, this post is rather off-topic, but I could add my thoughts too for this one post.

A lot of the dinosaurs were brown mostly because of the lighting I believe. The Dilophosaurus animatronic was very colorful, but you couldn't see it very well in the dark. Rexy was brown just to make her seem scarier. The Brachiosaurus head animatronic was actually gray with a yellow underbelly. The Triceratops was made brown because Stan Winston felt that the Triceratops needed to be that color from his observations of large African savannah mammals. The Gallimimus was originally going to brightly colored, but they were changed to earth tones by ILM. Finally, the raptors actually had yellow and orange highlights in their color scheme, but these colors were canceled out by cool lighting.

So, yeah. Just about every animal on screen in JP1 ended up being brown. In The Lost World, or at least with the male raptors and I presume the other dinosaurs, they made the dinosaurs more colorful to help the audience identify which was male and female. In Jurassic Park III, they made them even more colorful because, according to Joey Orosco, Stan Winston Studio, thought that this would be their last film so they went "crazy" with the colors.

Now, let's get back on topic.