the gyrosphere is a self-righting all-terrain vehicle that two passengers can ride in and
they get on at the loading ramp and action and it's basically a six and a half foot
diameter Plexiglas sphere the inside is a gyroscopic computer-driven stabilization
system when you get inside the doors close but then they become part of the sphere that rolls
the actual design of them was young artist named rod Mendel who did all the drawing and all of the
three-dimensional work usually what happens is I'll read a few script pages or get some notes
from editor production designer from column the director and he'll say the scene calls for this
type of vehicle I'll come up with some initial sketches that might approve and we'll mark up
on those you know refine his sketches into a three-dimensional drawing so he can present to
college we had an early show-and-tell with the gyroball at that point it was mostly plywood and
some simple plastic pieces but it was basically a full-size mock-up and Steven took a look at
the gyrosphere and there's an area above the head he said wouldn't it be cool if there were
some spotlights pointing out and even though you're gonna be seen this today you'll never
need the lights at least we'll be able to see that there I just figured that the scene park
is also open after dark and if you were to get into the gyrosphere and you want to go
through an area of plant-eating dinosaurs that you would want to have lights on the vehicle I
learned that we're working with Steven when he has a cool thing like that or any director any
producer and they have a note like that you make sure it makes it into the final design
so we're gonna be making three gyrosphere the first is actually already shipped that was a
rush and they needed in Louisiana to get set up on the gimbal and then the other two are gonna be
going to Hawaii my role here is to do all the lamination do all the prep being of the mold
laminate floors do all the fiberglass pieces and then bodywork and then prep everything for paint
once all the parts are cut out we start sanding them getting ready for primer making sure that
all the bodywork is done once it all that's done I go ahead and primer everything then all the
guys come in sand everything I help them out with pretty much throughout the whole process so that's
ready for pain and then that's when I come in and just you know shoot that color originally we were
gonna have barrel balls in different colors sort of like it another theme park you might imagine
there's a blue car that rides up a yellow car a green one and we decided on blue that seemed to
be the theme for Jurassic world these parts here they were painted last night we brought them in
and we just have a heater in the back and we're drying them everything is really fresh so we can't
actually touch it right now as soon as we can we want to bring it out to the shop and start
to pre assemble the bigger pieces are some of the easiest ones but yeah you have to be more careful
because if anything goes wrong I have to do the whole thing again you know we needed to add a
lot of structure because the actors are gonna be pretty violently shaken on this so they've
got this big gimbal rig that's gonna be simulating it being grabbed by a dinosaur and bit all around
it was pretty challenging because they had keeps a Java ball at three and a half inches from the
ground so it worked for visual effects and then later on this week we'll rack the job all girly
filed instructional in a dinosaur on the ground welcome aboard the gyrosphere an amazing machine
made possible by science because of the talent that Adam has with his crew at Wilde Factory
they really made the job all possible yeah and we're getting there it's been a great crew yeah
when you see the movie you're just gonna think oh there's this really cool gyrus fear that these
two kids are riding around it but it really is the work of a lot of hands and a lot of
a lot of people that's the real machinery right there I think we went above and beyond the bill