Artist William Stout has released some early concept art over on his blog for a “mature” Jurassic Park cartoon that he was hired to work on soon after the movie was released.
Stout writes:
Towards the end of all of this merchandising I got a call from artist Will Meugniot, asking if I’d be interested in designing a Jurassic Park animated series. This was not going to be a kiddy show (although kids of all ages, including myself, could enjoy it). They wanted the show to be a mature prime time series with top writers and state-of-the-art television animation augmented with quite a bit of CG animation. Universal Cartoon Studios wanted a “graphic novel look” to the series. I came in, showed my portfolio and was hired.
We made a trailer to communicate the look and feel of the series, also showing how we would combine computer animation with traditional animation. All we needed was Spielberg’s approval.
I heard through the grapevine that he never bothered to watch what we had done. By that time the word was out that he was burnt out on Jurassic Park merchandising and all of the film’s commercial exploitation. So, it never got made.
*Shakes fist* Spielbeeeerrg!
Personally, I love these illustrations; they look like pages from a supremely creepy Robert Munsch book. What do you think?
(via io9, images via William Stout)
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