The Jurassic Park series taught us- five times and counting- that resurrecting the prehistoric master species is somewhat illadvised. Dinosaurs in the Wild caters for the same inate fascination, this time away from the comfort of your living room. Billed as‘ the greatest safari ever’, the multi sensory experience from the team behind the BBC’ s award-winning Walking with Dinosaurs and ITV drama Primeval, is also designed to be scientifically accurate, and informative.
Visitors are transported back 67 million years with the help of dramatic storytelling, high-tech animation and 3D audio-visual effects.
Producer Bob Deere told Access:“ We set out to build a unique event where you could truly experience that time seeing it with your own eyes. So we created an exciting story where time travel has been invented, and a TimeBase dinosaur research station has been built on the Cretaceous plains 67 million years ago.
“ When people come to the show they step into this wonderful science fiction story. But everything to do with the
“ It’ s the kind of quality experience associated with Universal Studios or Disneyland”
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dinosaurs they see is based on the latest science. Our scientific consultant, leading palaeontologist Dr. Darren Naish, has guided the science at every step of the way.”
More than 100 artists and technicians created the experience, which features eight prehistoric giants, including the iconic Tyrannosaurus rex, the threehorned Triceratops, the towering Alamosaurus and the amazing Quetzalcoatlus – the largest creature ever to fly.
“ The show is what we call‘ mixed reality’ – the TimeBase research station is a real, physical building where you walk around in the laboratories and the animal labs. You see an autopsy in progress on
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a dinosaur which died outside near the TimeBase, baby dinosaurs in cages, and others hatching from eggs,” says Deere.
“ And that real building is surrounded by an equally real digital world of dinosaurs which you see, hear and sometimes even feel threatened by as you look out of the research station windows.”
Designers Freeman Ryan Design created a realistic‘ research station’.
“ Creating the surrounding digital world in stereoscopic 3D, was a huge challenge. The dinosaurs had to look completely believable. For that we enlisted Milk, the London visual effects house. They’ ve worked on many top-end projects and have won
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Event: Dinosaurs in the Wild UK Where: Greenwich Peninsula, London and other venues across the UK When: February- September 2018 |