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Challenge
Walking with Dinosaurs returns with a new title sequence that reconnects the series with its sense of scale and discovery. The titles unfold through a slow, atmospheric reveal of fossilised bones — ancient forms emerging from shadow with quiet weight and presence. Naturalistic textures, restrained lighting and deliberate pacing create a grounded, cinematic world. Dust is swept away to reveal the main title, uncovered like a fossil — a quiet, monumental introduction to the series.
Approach
The new series rebuilds Walking with Dinosaurs around a structural change. Where the original presented dinosaurs as wildlife documentary subjects, the six-part revival — a BBC Studios co-production with ZDF and France Télévisions — follows individual animals recovered from active dig sites, cutting between palaeontologists working in the field and the reconstruction of the creature they are uncovering.
That structure is what the titles had to set up. Opening on spectacle would have promised a different programme.
Instead the sequence begins underground and in shadow, resolving fossilised bone from darkness at the pace of excavation rather than the pace of a trailer. Naturalistic texture and restrained lighting hold it in the register of the dig site rather than the reconstruction.
The main title arrives the same way — swept clear of dust and particulate, uncovered rather than placed. The series' own method applied to its titles: something old brought carefully back into view.
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CG Work
Motion
Results
25yrs
Since the original broadcast — the series returns
3
Disciplines combined — design, animation, CG
BBC
Studios Creative — commissioning client
0
Dinosaurs animated — fossils only, by design