Jurassic Park at 30: how its CGI revolutionised the film industry

By Peter Hodges, Lecturer in Contextual and Critical Studies for Visual Effects and Motion Graphics, University of South Wales

This month marks the 30th anniversary of a film that changed cinema forever. 1993’s Jurassic Park used pioneering computer-generated imagery (CGI) to bring dinosaurs to life in Steven Spielberg’s adaption of the novel of the same name.

The film quickly became a must-see event and audiences were left amazed by the spectacle of seeing believable dinosaurs grace the big screen for the first time. Jurassic Park not only made…

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