THE DINOSAURS is out today on Netflix! I’m incredibly proud to be the Director & Producer of Episode 3 🦈🦖
It’s taken an amazing team and over three years to bring this epic journey into a lost world to life…
From executive producer Steven Spielberg, with Amblin Entertainment and Silverback Films, narrated by Morgan Freeman.
Proud that this poster shot fronting the series comes from the episode I directed. Go Spinosaurus go!
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Sharing storyboards by Matthew Meadows for Episode 3 of Netflix’s The Dinosaurs - A scene exploring the darker side of angiosperms, as one of the last young stegosaurs finds itself alone in a changing world @netflix@silverback_films@amblin@ilmvfx
Horror is rare in natural history, but I really wanted the visual language here to lean into it — eerie and unsettling from the outset. From this early storyboard by @finboyterartist to the brilliant teams across production, every department helped carry that vision through, building a world inspired by the tone of Children of the Corn. @ilmvfx@amblin@netflix@silverback_films
Yutyrannus is one of my favourite designs from Episode 3 of The Dinosaurs. I always hoped his camouflage would feel pulled straight from the landscape itself, so we used textured photographs I took during the recce at this location to help inform the final design. Mark P. Witton and @travelling_tom_l did a brilliant job shaping that idea, and the wider @ilmvfx team brought it beautifully to life. @netflix@amblin@silverback_films
Over the last eight years or so of directing CGI-heavy scenes, one of the techniques I’ve kept coming back to is 3D-printing the star of the scene to use as a puppet.
It’s one of the most useful ways I’ve found to help the whole crew properly visualise what’s happening on set — from composition and cinematography to choreography, behaviour, eyelines and scale.
That gets a little harder when the star is Yutyrannus.
Behind the scenes here with @c.ferris and VFX supervisor @jonathan.privett.9 helping stand in our “Snow King” for cinematographer @dave_baillie
For all the armour and weight of Pleuroplites, I loved finding moments where the character could still feel gentle, curious and even slightly funny.
This shot from Episode 3 was one of my favourite ways to do that…
