Episode 393: Animating the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World dinosaurs. Glen McIntosh joins us to explain how he helped bring the dinosaurs to life in the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World series.

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Interview:

Glen McIntosh, an artist an animator who has worked on Jurassic Park III, Jurassic World, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Jurassic World: Battle at Big Rock and the prelude to Jurassic World: Dominion. He’s also lectured on dinosaur movement and locomotion at many conferences, schools, and museums. Find his work on artofglenmcintosh.com

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The dinosaur of the day: Scorpios rex

• Hybrid dinosaur in Jurassic World
• First hybrid dinosaur Henry Wu made (even before Indominus rex and Indoraptor), and took many tries
• Looked very hybrid
• Scorpios rex design and some poses are similar to the human-dinosaur hybrids proposed for Jurassic Park IV
• Meant to be uglier, since it was the first (then Indoraptor looks the sleekest)
• Designed to have too long of arms, thinner than usual torso, and the quills, and the movements meant to be zombie-like, like it’s not totally in control of its movement
• Medium-sized theropod
• About 26 ft (8 m) long
• Bipedal, but could walk on all fours
• Smaller than Indominus rex but bigger than Indoraptor
• Had red eyes and slit pupils, as well as an overbite and jagged, uneven teeth
• Eyes were high on its face
• Dark grey or dirt brown in color
• Had charcoal black scales
• Had short, powerful jaws
• Had long, powerful arms
• Had flexible shoulder joints
• Had quill like spines on its head
• Had venomous spines on its elbows, tail, and neck (from scorpionfish DNA), which it could use like a porcupine (get spines stuck in flesh)
• Had opposable thumbs and talons that could grasp, as well as a somewhat prehensile tail
• Had infrared vision
• Had short spurs that grew out the back of its heels
• Considered to be too ugly to be seen by the public
• Behavior ranged from calm to very aggressive and unpredictable
• Had labored breathing
• Seemed to always be in pain
• Ruthless and violent
• Fast runner, could run faster than Gallimimus
• Able to climb
• Attacked by slashing, kicking, pouncing, biting, screeching, and with its quills
• Easily takes down a Ceratosaurus and kills other dinosaurs, including a Brachiosaurus
• Name means “scorpion king”
• Named for the scorpionfish (bottom dwelling, venomous fish)
• Also had claws like Velociraptor, and horns and scales like Carnotaurus
• Also known as E750
• Could survive for long periods of time in below freezing water, possibly because of its tree frog genes
• Matures in four months
• Attacks its own offspring
• Described as a failed experiment
• Two individuals, with only one created by Henry Wu, and it produced asexually (from its frog DNA)
• Held frozen in InGen’s secret tunnels, until it escaped in Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous
• Wu was attacked once and ordered to kill Scorpios rex (staff saved him with antivenom), but instead he put it in cryonic stasis
• Not many people knew of its existence
• Power overload and damage to the electrical grid after the events of Jurassic World eventually led to Scorpios rex thawing out and escaping in season 3 of Camp Cretaceous
• Caused the other dinosaurs on the island to change their behaviors and become more aggressive
• Attacks the kids in Camp Cretaceous, and only stops when it gets distracted by fire from a lightning strike
• Hurts Sammy with its quills, and Yasmina has to run to the lab to get the antidote
• Tries to attack Bumpy, but the herd of Ankylosaurus defends her (they have thick enough armor)
• Scorpios rex also attacks each other
• Blue ends up saving Darius and Ben from both Scorpios rex, and the Scorpios rex are crushed and killed when the Visitor Center collapses on top of them
• The campers destroy Wu’s laptop, so Scorpios rex cannot be recreated
• Available as an action figure, where it can chomp and roar, attack with its tail, and slash with claws

Fun Fact:

Dinosaurs can disable tracking devices.

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