I have a passion for Jurassic Park. I have had it since I first watched the movie when I was 9. As I grew older, I came to realize that only 30% of the original novel had mad it into the actual film. Reading the novel on made me hungry to see a novel-accurate screen adaptation, be it on the silver screen, or as a miniseries on HBO, etc. I am holding out hope that this will come to fruition, especially since (1) the series is still extremely profitable, and (2) because a growing number of fans are voicing their desires for a novel-accurate film. This piece, this "Passion Project" of mine, was an attempt to caption a single shot of a terrifying scene from the novel.
I began by re-reading the scene I wanted to capture, and then I made a simple black and white digital sketch...
Using the details of the novel, along with some updated science on the biology of the dilophosaur, I recreated the moments leading up to Dennis Nedry's death. Streaked with rain from a heavy tropical downpour, Nedry was confronted with a dinosaur he didn't recognize. It was ten feet tall, yellow and spotted like a leopard, with a red V-shaped crest on the head and a green underbelly. He didn't know the animal was venomous, let alone that it could spit its venom more than twenty feet at its prey. Just before he got back into his jeep, he looked back and felt the searing pain of acidic venom in his eyes. The novel continues with the moment I tried to capture:
"The hooting was louder as Nedry scrambled to his feet and staggered back against the side panel of the car, as a wave of nausea and dizziness swept over him. The dinosaur was close now, he could feel it coming close, he was dimly aware of its snorting breath.
But he couldn’t see.
He couldn’t see anything, and his terror was extreme."
This passion piece of mine was produced with Autodesk Sketchbook and Adobe Photoshop.
