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imagine if dinosaurs never became extinct the good dinosaur tells that very story set against the most detailed landscapes ever seen in a Pixar film for this film we had to be able to see 50 miles into the distance and the camera had to be moving all the time following the characters director Pete Sohn wanted the set to be like another character in the film so to make the landscapes as authentic as possible some were based on real-world locations like Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park using hype data from the United States Geological Survey Pixar created a virtual model of the environment using special software add in all this extra detail of rocks and debris and brush and grass and and lots and lots of trees and so we can see miles and miles into the distance a real-world camera crew Scouts locations to find the perfect shot Pixar was able to do the same but virtually the virtual camera that we use in the computer we've actually tried to develop to be essentially an exact duplicate of a real-world cameras because it's in the computer they can also break reality and move the camera wherever they need to for whatever kind of shot they need but landscapes need characters to walk through them like our the dinosaur he looks cute and cuddly a deliberate design choice so he stands out against the environment we really tried to put just enough realism into the set so that he felt visceral and dangerous so that when Arlo is walking through the world that when you see him in danger that you feel that danger because you're looking at a landscape that looks natural and that's how Pixar makes a good dinosaur great in Emeryville California Lexus Avedis cnet.com for CBS News