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Originally Posted by The SHOGUN
Holy ----.
Incoming the moron self-proclaimed experts demanding brown latte colored paint.
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I'm no expert but the message(courtesy of Behind the Gates FB group) below is from Michael Trcic, if you know who he is, it should shed some light on what's what.
Last year i was able to contact the lead artist Michael Trcic and ask him about the color scheme of the Jurassic Park Tyrannosaurus (The design for first movie only, not any of the rexes from the sequels) for a personal project of mine, Trcic seems to be very occupied and only answered one of my e-mails, now that i finished my project i can share the e-mail that he sent me, it is a bit of information that I used as guide on my research, but as many people nowadays still think that the original rex was flat black or even dark green this becomes an important piece of information on the design of that character in particular as it was in a certain period of time.
-Felipe
‘For an accurate JP T.rex paint palette think "Bruised Banana”.
At the time we were working on the dinos for the first JP many of us wanted to go with some daring color schemes. Being that the T.rex was the first one we began developing, Stan wanted to keep the colors fairly conservative, he didn't want to push the envelope & possibly scare off Spielberg, (although every time Spielberg came to visit he asked us questions about current scientific thought regarding the dinosaurs). As a consequence, John Rosengrant came up with a paint scheme composed almost entirely of tans, browns, yellows and black.........my first impression of the painted T.rex was of a bruised banana.
Stan got a little more daring with the subsequent dinos…’.