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 |