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Various show footage 'Walking With Dinosaurs' AP Television London, 18th March 20092. SOUNDBITE: (English) Cameron Wenn, Associate Director :\"To even attempt something like this seemed...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eVNR - No re-use/re-sale without clearance\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various show footage 'Walking With Dinosaurs' \u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eLondon, 18th March 2009\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Cameron Wenn, Associate Director :\u003cbr/\u003e\"To even attempt something like this seemed ludicrous at the time. And we were all stood around before the dinosaurs were built thinking 'how is this going to work?' Thankfully we've made it work and not through any short degree of effort from a lot of people and a lot of combinations of technologies.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Various T Rex \u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sonny Tilders, Creature Designer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It all starts with the skin, because the skin is such a large surface area. So the lighter we can make the skin the lighter the structures are underneath, the lighter the hydraulic cylinders can be, the less batteries we need to have. If we didn't get the skin right we may have had to trail a load of batteries behind this thing, to keep this thing moving around the stage.\" \u003cbr/\u003e5. Various detail shots of T Rex skin and muscle bags working under the skin\u003cbr/\u003e6.  SOUNDBITE: (English) Sonny Tilders, Creature Designer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Hyrdaulics are generally designed to move really big objects very powerfully and very precisely. We don't need that for our dinosaurs. We need fluid, graceful movement. So we looked again at the ground up of how hyrdaulics is controlled and decided to take quite a radical approach to the way it's controlled and mimic very closely the way that we control our muscles. So there's give and sway in our hydraulic cylinders, so this thing has a lovely fluidic movement to it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Various TRex baby operated by legs\u003cbr/\u003e8. Close up puppeteer 'driving' the TRex \u003cbr/\u003e9. Close up puppeteer\u003cbr/\u003e10.  Wide of lead voodoo operator, Graeme Haddon with auxiliary voodoo operator, Brian Parker \u003cbr/\u003e11. Close up TRex blinking \u003cbr/\u003e12. Close up auxiliary voodoo controlling the dinosaur's eyes\u003cbr/\u003e13. TRex nuzzling baby T Rex\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Cameron Wenn, Associate Director (on the education the audience gets from the show) \u003cbr/\u003e\"It's all very well hidden amongst the spectacle but one of the successes of the show is you do come away knowing a lot more about the planet we live on and the dinosaurs that inhabited it than you did when you arrived.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Child member of the audience stroking the T Rex and being photographed\u003cbr/\u003eVNR - No re-use/re-sale without clearance\u003cbr/\u003e16. Various show footage 'Walking With Dinosaurs' \u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eLondon, 18th March 2009\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Cameron Wenn, Associate Director:\u003cbr/\u003e\"With a live performance, when you're dealing with this kind of animatronic technology it isn't like a film where you can just re-shoot something. These creatures have to be able to perform up to twelve shows a week in rapid succession for two hours on a stage without breaking down or doing a re-take. So there are many things that could go wrong. Thankfully we've covered off all of those with contingencies and we're very rarely in the position of having anything go wrong.\"\u003cbr/\u003eVNR - No re-use/re-sale without clearance\u003cbr/\u003e18. Various audience watching  'Walking With Dinosaurs' live show at Maddison Square Gardens\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eLondon, 18th March 2009\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sonny Tilders, Creature Designer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The really nice thing is that audiences forgive us. In fact I think they get something out of seeing a live show and seeing that we are fallible. And we've had moments when we've had to take the odd dinosaur off and they get pulled off to applause. People cheer them like sporting heroes that are injured and it's actually quite a buzz.\"\u003cbr/\u003eVNR - No re-use/re-sale without clearance\u003cbr/\u003e20. Various show footage 'Walking With Dinosaurs' \u003cbr/\u003eThey're not just big, they're super-sized and now they're walking the earth again in London. \u003cbr/\u003eWalking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience is said to be the biggest animatronic puppet show ever created. \u003cbr/\u003eAnd it's certainly expensive - costing some ten million pounds ( approx. 14 million USD).\u003cbr/\u003eIt's a breath taking spectacle that joins the prehistoric with cutting edge 21st century technology.\u003cbr/\u003e15 life-sized dinosaurs, including the Tyrannosaurus Rex, are part of the live theatrical show which aims to entertain and educate.\u003cbr/\u003eBased on the BBC's hit television series 'Walking With Dinosaurs', the show originated in Sydney where it opened in January 2007.\u003cbr/\u003eThe 'edutainment' spectacular tells the story of our prehistoric ancestors, from birth to extinction. \u003cbr/\u003eIt was an instant success and by July of the same year the show started it's American tour. \u003cbr/\u003eIt has since been seen by more than two million people, generating some $90 million in ticket sales. \u003cbr/\u003eAssociate Director, Cameron Wenn  says the show has created a new genre of entertainment. \"To even attempt something like this seemed ludicrous at the time,\" he says. \"And we were all stood around before the dinosaurs were built thinking 'how is this going to work?' Thankfully we've made it work and not through any short degree of effort from a lot of people and a lot of combinations of technologies.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSpecialist engineers, animatronics experts, mechanics and artists, many of whom worked on films such as The Matrix, and the Star Wars prequels, took six years to perfect the 3D monsters.\u003cbr/\u003eCreature designer, Sonny Tilders says the main challenge creating the 'puppets' is weight. \u003cbr/\u003eWhile developing the models it was vital to find a material for the skin that was both light weight and durable. Tilders and his team have achieved this, but will not reveal what the material is. \u003cbr/\u003e\"It all starts with the skin, because the skin is such a large surface area. So the lighter we can make the skin the lighter the structures are underneath, the lighter the hydraulic cylinders can be, the less batteries we need to have. If we didn't get the skin right we may have had to trail a load of batteries behind this thing, to keep this thing moving around the stage,\" he says.  \u003cbr/\u003eTo make the skin appear as realistic as possible, Tilders and his team fit muscle bags under the skin of each model. \u003cbr/\u003eThe bags are made from stretch mesh fabric and filled with polystyrene balls which roll and ripple as the creature moves. \u003cbr/\u003eIt takes a touring crew of 65 to stage each performance.\u003cbr/\u003eToday at London's O2 Arena the T Rex and her baby are being controlled by a combination of techniques. \u003cbr/\u003eGood old fashioned human legs carry baby T Rex around.  \u003cbr/\u003eBut it takes three specialist puppeteers and an army of technicians to deal with Mum.\u003cbr/\u003eThe first puppeteer sits in the chassis of the creature, barely visible behind a veil. His job is to move the model large distances. \u003cbr/\u003eFurther large movements of the body are achieved using voodoo rigs. These are miniature versions of the dinosaurs with the same range of movement as their counter-parts. \u003cbr/\u003eThe puppeteers operate the rigs that then transmit a radio signal to the hydraulic cylinders in the creatures. \u003cbr/\u003eThe dinosaurs which are now set to appear in the European tour have evolved since their first appearance in Australia according to Tilders. T Rex is now smoother than ever before. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Hyrdaulics are generally designed to move really big objects very powerfully and very precisely,\" he says. \"We don't need that for our dinosaurs. We need fluid, graceful movement. So we looked again at the ground up of how hyrdaulics is controlled and decided to take quite a radical approach to the way it's controlled and mimic very closely the way that we control our muscles. So there's give and sway in our hydraulic cylinders, so this thing has a lovely fluidic movement to it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e'Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience' starts by  taking the audience back in time 245 million years to the Triassic period. \u003cbr/\u003eSome of the highlights include watching baby dinosaurs being hatched, to a Brachiosaurus, who, at 36 feet is believed to have been the largest creature ever to have walked the earth.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Dinosaur show is educational as well as entertaining.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's all very well hidden amongst the spectacle,\" says Wenn, \"but one of the successes of the show is you do come away knowing a lot more about the planet we live on and the dinosaurs that inhabited it than you did when you arrived.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThere are 15 dinosaurs in all covering 10 separate species from the 200 million year reign of the dinosaurs.\u003cbr/\u003eEach large dinosaur weighs approximately 1.6 tons - that's about the weight of the average family car.  \u003cbr/\u003eThey're heavyweight actors, that can sometimes be unpredictable in a live environment. \u003cbr/\u003eWenn says that in a live show anything can happen. \u003cbr/\u003e\"With a live performance, when you're dealing with this kind of animatronic technology it isn't like a film where you can just re-shoot something. These creatures have to be able to perform up to twelve shows a week in rapid succession for two hours on a stage without breaking down or doing a re-take. So there are many things that could go wrong. Thankfully we've covered off all of those with contingencies and we're very rarely in the position of having anything go wrong.\"\u003cbr/\u003eBut as with any live show, if sometimes does go wrong, but as Tilders explains, the dinosaurs just improvise. \u003cbr/\u003e\"The really nice thing is that the audience forgive us,\" he says. \"I think they get something out of seeing a live show and seeing that we are fallible. And we've had moments when we've had to take the odd dinosaur off and they get pulled off to applause. 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