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Hell Creek...a lush, vibrant world.
Things that Lola Post Production, the VFX studios behind 'The Planets' (2019), 'Universe' (2021), #DinosaursTheFinalDay and #WWD2025 NEVER EVER FAIL TO DO FULL JUSTICE TO:
Celestial objects...and Triceratops.
The large scales of the Triceratops, as reconstructed in WWD2025.
Sir David Attenborough examining Triceratops integument fossils.
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Walking with Dinosaurs: the evidence.
66 million years ago Today
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Lola Post Production creating Hell Creek azhdarchids.
How it started How it's going
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Help, rex chasing me
Dying Triceratops in Dinosaurs the Final Day. This docu is Lola Post Production's first foray into the realm of creature design/animation.
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Saddened...and lost...
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THE GREATEST TRIKES OF OUR TIME.
Horsetails 'poking through' the snout of Olorotitan.
Trike's frill clipping through the upper and lower jaws of the rex (this is probably a WIP shot, but in the context of the trailer it is a goof...:) )
Pterosaur model not properly integrated with the surroundings.
Diplodocus models placed in Cretaceous North America.
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Goofs are something that...happen to even the very best paleo docus...But they don't usually take away that much immersion! ๐
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Lola Post Production sculpting theropod feet.
How it started How it's going
Lola Post Production's first trike. In Dinosaurs the Final Day (2022).
Lola Post Production's latest (and current finest) trike, in WWD2025.
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Lola Post Production has never failed to nail their trike!
How it started How it's going
Hell Creek Formation in 'T. rex: Ultimate Survivor' (2015).
Hell Creek Formation in Dinosaurs the Final Day.
Hell Creek Formation in PhP.
Hell Creek Formation in 'T. rex' (2024).
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Long gone were the days when Hell Creek Formation was portrayed as a barren wasteland in paleo docus.
Sir David Attenborough standing next to a T. rex mount in the NHM's old Fossil Reptile Gallery.
Screenshot from Prehistoric Planet: Sir David Attenborough standing next to a T. rex mount in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
Screenshot from Dinosaurs the Final Day: Sir David Attenborough standing before a VFX reconstruction of a T. rex.
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Sir David Attenborough and Tyrannosaurus rex.
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T. rex from WWD.
T. rex (VFX) from T. rex Autopsy (2015).
T. rex from Dinosaurs the Final Day (2022).
T. rex from LOOP.
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Often, paleo docus with at least a considerable portion of well-crafted VFX simply reach...strange outcomes when trying to nail the rex.
Screenshot from Dinosaurs the Final Day: 'Swimming may have saved the Thescelosaurus in the past, but not this time.'
Screenshot from Earth with Chris Packham depicting the arrival of the blast of radiation.
Screenshot from LOOP depicting surges of water washing away giant Alamosaurus.
Screenshot from Giant Screen Film's T. rex depicting a rex in a great forest fire.
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Death of a dynasty.
Screenshot from Dinosaurs the Final Day: a lone trike wandering in the Tanis landscape.
Screenshot from PhP: groups of female trikes and hatchlings.
Screenshot from Dinosaurs the Final Day: one trike challenging another.
Screenshot from PhP: large herds of trikes congregate during the mating season.
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Of all the paleo docus narrated by Sir David Attenborough, two feature trikes. They envision the animal's lifestyle differently.
In Dinosaurs the Final Day, trikes are solitary and territorial.
In PhP, trikes are sociable herd animals.
Fun #DinosaursTheFinalDay goof:
VFX footage of 'pterosaur crashing to earth' was shown twice in the docu (during the opening and during the final portrayal of the extinction event). However, on the second occasion the editor mistakenly used an unfinished version of the footage!
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The first trike made by Lola Post Production (the VFX studio working on #WWD2025 ).
Will we see an even more rigorously-reconstructed and realistic trike this year?
A young triceratops fighting an alpha male triceratops in PhP.
Two triceratops in combat in Dinosaurs the Final Day.
Lucas Mateus's 'The Life of Triceratops' also includes the classic 'locking horns'.
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TRICERATOPS LOCK HORNS!
Back in 2022, Lola Post Production gave a first try at creature modelling in Dinosaurs the Final Day, and yielded mixed results. On one end of the spectrum, we got well-made models like the trike model, on the other end, this rex...:)
Lola Post Production has returned to do VFX work for WWD2025. LOOK HOW MUCH THEY'VE UPPED THEIR GAME! ADMIRABLE!
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Lola Post Production creating tyrannosaurids: a brief history
How it started How it's going
The technique of shooting a practical FX set in front of a screen displaying a VFX background was first explicitly applied to paleo docus in #DinosaursTheFinalDay, and has now been taken to new heights by #SurvivingEarth...
Who else was worried David Attenborough would call the new Hell Creek excavation "the Pompeii of the Cretaceous?" #dinosaursthefinalday