Disney Dinosaur News - Celluloid Dinosaurs - Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette

Credits

Pre-Production Art (Images are on the large side! Please be Patient)

Walt Disney Pictures
Dinosaur Logo (c)2000 Walt Disney Pictures

Dinosaurs
Over 100 species
Pterasaurs
Other Animals
Lemurs

Cast (Voices)
D.B. Sweeney
Alfre Woodard
Ossie Davis
Max Casella
Hayden Panettiere
Samuel E. Wright
Julianna Marguilies
Peter Siragusa
Joan Plowright
Della Reese

Filmmakers
Producer - Pam Marsden
Co-Producer - Baker Bloodworth
Directors - Ralph Zondag and Eric Leighton
Score - James Newton Howard
Screenplay -

Scenic Sketches
Dinosaur Sketches

Lemur Sketches
Sketches of other animals

Preliminary art for books and other products

Scenic Sketches

April 14, 2000
(c)1998, 2000 Disney Pictures

This early production painting shows the herd of dinosaurs on the march.
Artist: Brooks Campbell. (c)2000 Walt Disney Pictures.

May 8, 2000

Another early production painting showing landscape.
Artist Unknown (B.Campbell?) (c)2000 Walt Disney Pictures

Dinosaur Sketches
May 19,2000
Two dinosaurs playing (c)1997 Disney Enterprises, Inc.

An early sketch of two iguanadons playing in the forest. Artist Unknown.
(c)Walt Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Carnotaur 25-September-1998
A pre-production sketch from Disney Dinosaurs (c)1998 Walt Disney Pictures

Carnotaur attacks Some sketches from Dinosaur turned up on the web in 1999. Here are a couple of the more interesting one. They appear to be computer generated. They are from the opening sequence where a Carnotaur attacks. There are more examples at Ain't It Cool News. Sketch from Disney Dinosaurs (c) 1998 Walt Disney Pictures

Sketch from Disney Dinosaurs (c) 1998 Walt Disney Pictures

Carnotaur attacks

Dinosaur Herds

A computer generated sketch of an early scene in which hundreds of dinos appear
Dinosaur: Trailer1

The same scene in closeup from the first teaser trailer. 11/1999

Oviraptor

Oviraptor: Shown as an egg stealer!
Preliminary computer image from opening sequence.

Lemur Sketches

April 24,2000
Lemur preliminary drawing (c)2000 Disney Pictures, [13KB]
This preliminary sketch of a lemur was prepared around 1997. Notice the color differences from the final lemurs.

Another early Lemur Design. About 1998

Sketches of other animals

A Pteronodon

These are two views of the Mosasaur that spits out Aladar's egg in the openign sequence. 5/19/2000 Artist Unknown

Preliminary art for books and other products
Preliminary SIGGRAPH display poster (c)1998 Walt Disney Pictures

This poster was prepared for a SIGGRAPH meeting in about 1997.

Disney Dinosaur Book Cover Sketch (c)2000 Walt Disney Pictures [102KB]

This is a sketch of one of the Dorring Kindersley books which will be published in May 2000. The image is 102KB.
(You may also click on the image to pre-order the book)