Animation artists are keen towards exploring extinct prehistoric creatures especially the dinosaurs as they can play around with their imagination to give a realistic touch to an unreal setting where human living with the dinosaur. Gertie the Dinosaur is the first animated film with interactions between dinosaur and human protagonist directed by Windsor McKay in 1914. The animation is presented in a formal presentation set as McKay stood onstage in front of a whiteboard where the silent animation of Gertie is screened, he commands Gertie to do something while Gertie responds to his instructions. McKay took a perfectionist approach to animation as he is careful in handling even the slightest details of the animation. He is also the first animation artists to use key frames in an animation.
Stop-motion animation was used conventionally to conjure up the image of realistic dinosaur that interacts with actors in films. Usually the film of the stop-motion animation is either combined together with the life action footage or being projected into a miniature animation sets. This technique was made popular by Wills O'Brien who is a pioneer model animator in the King Kong movie in 1933. It is a tedious process which needs to be well planned before being filmed.
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The vast technological advancement in the film and animation industry made it possible for computer-animated dinosaurs debuted in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park back in the 1990s. The use of CGI allows artists to apply intricate details and textures to the dinosaur's body that makes the dinosaur more dynamic, therefore, giving more realism to it, and ultimately give thrills to the audience with the film through groundbreaking visual effect. From these evidence, I think the development of technology in animation is to achieve realism based on concepts and imagination that is not real through the visual illusion of moving images.
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