![]() ![]() ![]() The production, which took 18 months to complete, was the largest ever filmed at London's Pinewood Studios, home to the James Bond films. Images courtesy Hallmark Entertainment and FrameStore-CFC. In an effort to restore harmony, the bickering brothers, aided by a multilingual stenonychosaurus named Zippo, embark on a daring journey to save their new homeland. However, dangerous human outlaws threaten this ideal world, as does the presence of deadly carnivores who lurk just beyond Dinotopia's capital, Waterfall City. The three-part miniseries brings to life the lost Dinotopian society that's ruled according to long-established principles of mutual respect. The Hallmark Entertainment mega-movie, which aired last month on ABC, is based on two books by author/illustrator James Gurney. "A large portion of the shots contained some type of integrated digital content," notes Mike McGee, the film's visual effects supervisor and creative director of London-based FrameStore-CFC. Successfully portraying this near-utopian society required a similar harmonious coexistence-forged by postproduction studio FrameStore-CFC (The Computer Film Company)-among the live-action and computer-generated characters, environments, and props. In the lavish and technically complex six-hour television miniseries Dinotopia, two teenage brothers unexpectedly find themselves marooned on a fantastic lost continent where humans and dinosaurs peacefully coexist. ![]()
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