Monday Afternoon Inspiration: Walking With Dinosaurs

The live arena show Walking With Dinosaurs features some truly remarkable animatronic puppets.

Walking With Dinosaurs, a live show based on the popular BBC documentary series, has got to be one of the biggest and most expensive puppet projects ever attempted. A team of fifty artists, puppet builders and engineers with a $12 million budget has been labouring for months in Australia to bring 15 life-size animatronic dinosaurs to life. These amazing puppets have to be seen to be believed, they’re just absolutely incredible.

On the WWD web site you can watch video of the dinosaurs being built in the WWD workshop and see footage of two dinosaurs in action. The show’s head of Creature Design Sonny Tilders also discusses the design approach used to build the dinosaurs briefly in a slide show of behind-the-scenes pictures. The show makes its world premiere in Sydney January 10th and will visit Australia’s capital cities before embarking on a global tour. The shows looks like it will be incredible so I’m hoping it makes it to our shores in North America.

Special thanks to everyone down under who’s been keeping me in the loop about this project!