Popular Mechanics - USA (2018-07 & 2018-08)

ALL THE LAVA and debris ly-

ing through the air was CGI,

but the visual-efects people

needed a practical efect when

it came to the blobs splatter-

ing when they hit the ground.

Wherever the lava inter-

acted with the terrain, they

also needed us to create rib-

bon res that would be shown

burning the vegetation, with

smoke rising of of them.

For the lava bombs, our

charges were made of some-

thing called detonating cord,

a small-diameter cord lled

with explosive powder. We

spool out the length we need

and wrap it into a lat disc we

call a Frisbee. That goes into a

heavy steel tray that we can set

on the ground and conceal. We

put material in the tray that

will blow into the air and look

like whatever the indigenous

dirt is. The goal is to create

a simulation of these hard

chunks of lava hitting the

After a volcano destroys

their island, the dinosaurs

are brought to a sanctuary

in the United States, where,

instead of being protected,

they’re sold of to the high-

est bidders. The bad guys

genetically modify an even-

more-ferocious dinosaur.

It escapes.

As the characters run from

a volcanic eruption, blobs

of lava slam into the ground

around them, throwing up

dirt and lighting ires.

THE SCENE

THE PLOT

BY

Anthony Simonaitis,

pyrotechnics supervisor

THE MOVIE

JURASSIC

WORLD:

FALLEN

KINGDOM

JULY/AUGUST _ 201 63