Possible New Planet Earth Style Dinosaur Project by BBC?

[Dinoxels]

https://careerssearch.bbc.co.uk/jobs/job/VFX-Producer-CGI-based-Landmark-series-BBC-Studios-NHU/50539
BBC wants help on a new Dinosaur/Prehistoric Life Project, seemingly similar too Planet Earth 2. If anyone knows of someone that could preform the job their asking for please reach out.
Hopefully this will turn into something good!

[indohyus]

That could be really good. Hopefully can be as good as walking with, with real backgrounds.

[Dynomikegojira]

If this is up to the levels of Ice Age Giants CGI I'll be very happy hope it pulls threw we need all 3 eras

[Loon]

It could be good, I really hope it is. I'd love a new Walking with style documentary (please no cgi landscapes).

[HD-man]

It could be good, I really hope it is. I'd love a new Walking with style documentary (please no cgi landscapes).

Are you referring to Planet Dinosaur having CG dinos within CG backgrounds (as opposed to CG dinos on real backgrounds like WWD)? If so, the Dinosaur Guy quote sums up my opinion on the matter.

Quoting Dinosaur Guy ( https://whendinosaursruledthemind.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/when-dinosaurs-ruled-the-mind-50-top-10-best-and-worst-dinosaur-documentaries/ ):

You may think this would make the series look cheap, but I think it benefits from this in several ways. First of all, this allows many more species of dinosaurs to be featured. Most dinosaur documentaries are impressive to have more than 25 different species depicted. This series has over 50! Secondly, this allows them to create period accurate dinosaur landscapes. Any modern area they would like to film in would never be 100% accurate to the actual Mesozoic (the Mesozoic had very little to no grass, yet you would never know from most dino docs, which feature vast grasslands all the time). Thirdly, this allows the dinosaurs to flow seamlessly in their environment. In most dinosaur documentaries, you can tell where the camera footage begins and where the CG  begins, and can be distracting to some. But here, the dinosaurs actually look like they belong to the environment.

[Loon]

I'm not referring to Planet Dinosaur exclusively, there are plenty of other documentaries that are all cg. Sure, I can get that this allows for more accurate documentaries, and more dinosaurs. I guess my issue with these types of shows is that they just don't really look good. Kind of the reason I don't watch these documentaries anymore, they're just kinda boring and ugly. Hopefully, this thing has a better budget and creative team than any of those, but we'll see.

[HD-man]

I'm not referring to Planet Dinosaur exclusively, there are plenty of other documentaries that are all cg. Sure, I can get that this allows for more accurate documentaries, and more dinosaurs. I guess my issue with these types of shows is that they just don't really look good. Kind of the reason I don't watch these documentaries anymore, they're just kinda boring and ugly. Hopefully, this thing has a better budget and creative team than any of those, but we'll see.

Fair enough. I too am hopeful.

[stargatedalek]

Personally I thought Planet Dinosaur was terrible. The wider range of species and more control offered by the CGI sets didn't help them avoid the many glaring inaccuracies the series suffered from. If anything having so many species also made it feel watered down, and coupled with the serious lack of visual variety among the models it was hard to feel invested. If they weren't literally reusing the same model they were giving it the same dull brown colour.

If a documentary is just going to be an unentertaining stream of information (even if it wasn't largely inaccurate) with vaguely decent visuals in the background I might as well read a book or find better stuff on Youtube (PBS has a good program there right now).

I don't think I've enjoyed a dinosaur documentary since Dinosaur Planet. The smaller range of species meant they could focus more narrative attention on them, and on making their designs actually look distinct and recognizable.

I don't remember if it had CGI sets, I think it was a mix, but ultimately I don't think one or the other is inherently superior. CGI isn't at the quality where it can look as nice as practical effects in close-ups, and practical effects still don't have to technology to move large props around seamlessly. The best projects utilize both when possible.

[dyno77]

The thing i cant understand is why they couldn't just update walking with dinosaurs using the exact same techniques they did back then,with the same layout and same episode format. It would be so effective but i still dont get why they wont update it . Apart from that there simply isnt enough quality documentaries about prehistoric life in general  anymore in my view.

[HD-man]

@dyno77

That reminds me: Did you see my post in your dino doc thread ( http://dinotoyblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=8948.msg266970#msg266970 )? Just making sure.

[HD-man]

Just found out about The Mesozoic Life Project: https://www.patreon.com/MesozoicLifeProject