Working at Royal Ontario Museum
"Meet The Maiasaur" was a permanent exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada. It was created as a companion exhibit to a paleontological lab, built right into the exhibit, where scientists would slowly uncover the fosilized bones of a particularly well preserved Maiasaur. A small team of people developed the idea for this. I built the models, matched footage from the background, and animated the dinosaurs. Daniel Hornick painted the models.
The instalation ran off a laser disk and comprised of a dinosaur that interacted with visitors: blow on them, howl at them, run away from them, etc. One of the segments is seen here. The floor was a wooden platform that had an array of subwoofers which made it shake when the dino ran, or made sounds. Fans would blow when the dinsaur snorted. The exhibit and Maiasaur project was written up in Wired Magazine.