Who doesn't love dinosaurs?

We are all fascinated with dinosaurs at some point in our lives. Or like just a few wish you could grow up to be a t-rex or velociraptor.  Since the first Jurassic Park movie came out, it was the talk of the classroom for many days.  Kids talking about how cool the dinosaurs looked and to be honest at that time pretty life like and scary.   But did you ever stop to think how they make those dinosaurs come to life?  Because last I checked there are no actual real life recordings of dinosaurs.  As sound designer and  Sound Supervisor at Lucas Sound. Al Nelson puts it: "We don't have a whole lot of raw recordings of dinosaurs."

So with the new movie release Jurassic World came new bigger and scarier dinosaurs.  But how did the get those raws in? How did they get the sound design for the velociraptors?   I’ll tell you the secret.  It’s magic with a touch of brilliance.  In this youtube video you can see how they came up with some raws and movements of the dinosaurs.

Awesome right? But wait a minute that was the sound design for the new dinosaurs but what about the T-Rex I’m pretty sure her roar has been updated.  So lets look into what it was then compared to now.  Reading in the article you will never guess how the dinosaur’s sounds in Jurassic Park were made. Your right after reading the article I didn’t see the key sound was from Gary Rydstorm’s dog and the holly crap shivering roar elements are from a baby elephant! Dog and elephant there you go I would of never guessed.  So the next question I’m curious about is did they change the T-rex roar or did they keep it the same?  In the video Making of the sound of Jurassic World.  The T-Rex is a legendary sound and they didn’t want to change anything with the T-rex.