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by dr_zoidberg 4152 days ago
I thought the first Jurassic Park had little to none CGI, going with animatronics, puppets and on-stage vissual effects. Is there any article to read about where and how CGI was used in that movie?
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The canonical source for info would be Cinefex issue #55, which came out at the time and went through all the special effects shots. I think you can get it for $5 through their iPad app.

Apparently it is four minutes of CG out of fourteen minutes of dinosaur effects. But four minutes of CG is a lot of shots for the era.

Any shot where you can see the entire T-REX is CG AFAIK. FXGuide is always a great place for VFX related stuff: http://www.fxguide.com/featured/welcome-back-to-jurassic-par...
That was a very good read, thanks for the link.