QuoteSounds interesting, but you never posted the footage online right?
No. It was just a muck around home movie for the kids.
For this Star Wars film I've been doing for some years, it's nothing but combining live action with CG (with generally lack lustre results) - be it comping actors shot against badly lit greenscreens, on to digital sets, or comping in digital starships and droids. For a film that will eventually run to around 40 minutes, I could probably count the number of shots that didn't need some sort of digital effects on one hand.
As for dinosaurs, I used Poser which comes with a raptor model. I mucked around with the proportions to make it look more like a Rex, then gave it a walk cycle (very simple in Poser), then set about matching into the footage which I foolishly didn't lock off.
I have a bunch of dinosaur Poser models at home that I download yonks ago, but the follow up I was going to make when the Second Born came along never eventuated because I wanted to use quadrupedal dinosaurs and as Poser is more for humans, quadruped walk cycles are a pain in the arse.