Pixar's "The Good Dinosaur" was finally released last November after spending six years in production, which included a total re-write of the script, a re-casting of its voice actors, and a change in director.
But while the film faced a rocky road to theaters, "The Good Dinosaur" blew audiences away with its stunning landscapes that imagined what the world would look like if dinosaurs never went extinct. To shine a light on the incredible attention to detail and CGI work that went into creating these virtual landscapes, a Reddit user collected all of the film's environments in one place, and even digitally removed the film's dinosaurs so you can see the landscapes in their full glory.
Admiring the film's landscapes and scenery, without the characters, might actually be the best way to admire Pixar's latest movie. The sprawling vistas were even based on real-world environments that were scanned by Pixar's team and painstakingly turned into what you see in the final film.
"There was a great idea of taking relief maps, actual data from terrain around us in the places we had visited, to use that information and to build and propagate plants on top of," director Peter Sohn told Wired back when Pixar was finishing the film. "So we did some really simple ways to fill that out — through math — and propagate water and plants and snow on this terrain. Those early tests enabled us to really fill out parts of the world."
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