To finish up this last run of dinosaur postings, here's a stop-motion T-Rex that I was contracted to do in 1996. The late Gairy Bialke did the sculpt over an armature by Jamie Haggerty which was molded and cast by Mark and Melinda Kendrick. I did the finish, which was quite extensive - lots of build-up work on the arms, teeth and tongue, then the paint job.
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It was animated against bluescreen and sent to a company in L.A. for use in station I.D. for The Learning Channel. I've actually never seen the finished piece, so if anyone has a link to it please let me know.
You can see this T-Rex animated briefly, as the raw element and then composited into a cityscape by John Barrick, at the end of my
old commercial demo reel.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhee7JsJohHa-Tqp5vSBMFuKJRD7NzNt8vW78ETu_oDMssh_mMd-QYhSpKzbz8nRrjoTe2jo4HBDbm2F3FSineFCgMdegeKa3pa5lNCB3q4lOYTSTHSSlfIW1kKejIE2GwIeF8jl-PhBDo/s400/TLC_Rex_02_resize.jpg)
This is the sculpt done by the late Gairy Bialke over the armature, which you can see below.
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Jamie Haggerty whipped this out quickly for us, unfortunately we had to cut a few corners - the ankles were wire which was difficult but we didn't have time to redo it.