When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth is a parallax animation of a scene, demonstrating a separation of planes and respecting the speed of these planes. This work is half of a four-scene parallax animation, in which we would visit four different areas, known as Geological Formations, that would show us the beginning, rise, and fall of the reign of the dinosaurs and other Mesozoic species.

The parallax animation would visit each formation from each Mesozoic period, at a different time of day, referencing the cycle of the dinosaurs' reign. These were:
Chinle Formation, Triassic Period, at dawn. Representing the beginning of the reign of the first dinosaurs in prehistory.

Morrison Formation, Jurassic Period, at midday. Representing one of the most splendorous rises of the dinosaurs, reaching spectacular sizes and shapes.

Kimmeridge Clay Formation, Jurassic Period, at dusk. Representing the beginning of the end of the dinosaurs' reign, in addition to showing the other two groups of reptiles that coexisted with the dinosaurs (the flying pterosaurs and the various groups of marine reptiles) that expanded into the world during the Jurassic.

Hell Creek Formation, Cretaceous Period, at dusk. Representing the end of the dinosaurs' reign, in one of the formations where the last dinos lived before the asteroid that wiped them out.

Due to time constraints, work was only possible on the Chinle and Morrison Formation stages, allowing the camera to be animated in a continuous right-to-left parallax motion across both stages.