Live actors were used for the anatomically modern humans and Neanderthals in "Mammoth Journey". Short fur was animated with tricks, and long shaggy coats (like the woolly mammoth's) with fur shaders. The fur coats and moving parts of mammals made the creatures in Beasts more challenging to animate than the scaly reptiles of Walking with Dinosaurs. Tim Haines attributed this to solid planning. The visual effects budget was around 7 or 8 million dollars, much lower than a feature film of the time. The animatronics' broad movements were controlled by puppeteers, while their more subtle movements were remote-controlled and operated via servo motors. Sometimes it was necessary to replicate the impact the animated animals would have on their environment-such as footprints left in the snow by a woolly mammoth.
Īs with Walking with Dinosaurs, the film crews would go to locations that matched the depicted time periods fairly closely and shoot either empty landscapes (when the animals would be created later with CGI) or animatronic animals for close-ups. Producer Tim Haines wanted to create a sequel to Walking with Dinosaurs so the general public could discover the fascinating mammals of the Cenozoic, which were less represented in popular culture than dinosaurs. Puppet heads used in the series, Horniman Museum, London It would later be re-edited and re-narrated for the second season of Prehistoric Planet for the Discovery Kids lineup, with Christian Slater providing the narration. In North America, Beasts was broadcast on the Discovery Channel with Stockard Channing replacing Kenneth Branagh as the narrator. Some of the concepts it illustrates are the evolution of whales, horses, elephants and humans. Like Dinosaurs, its narrative is presented in the style of a traditional nature documentary. Beasts takes place after the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs 65 million years ago depicted in Walking with Dinosaurs, and recreates animals of the Cenozoic with computer-generated imagery and animatronics. series and a sequel to Walking with Dinosaurs. It is the second installment of the Walking With. Walking with Beasts ( Walking with Prehistoric Beasts in North American releases) is a 2001 six-part television documentary miniseries, produced by the BBC Natural History Unit.
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