The premesis of Jurassic Park: Evolution is that it has been decided that Isla Sorna and its inhabitants are too dangourous, and therefore must be destroyed. A group of enviormentalists travel to the island and camp out there, thus making it impossible for Isla Sorna to be bombed without harming civilians. Of coarse, it’s not long before a team of United States government officials show up and attempt to put an end to the enviormentalist’s little stunt. However, everything goes wrong and both groups find themselves forced to team up and find a way off the island. Along the way they discover that InGen’s dinosaurs are not what they seem, and discover a completely new species of dinosaur called Titanonychus.

I first came up with the idea of enviormentalists camping out on Isla Sorna in order to prevent it’s destruction over a year ago, before Jurassic Park /// first hit theaters. I liked it, and outlined a Jurassic Park Fan Fiction based around it, as I had not yet started shooting dioramas at that point. I was unable to weasel out a long enough story with my basic idea, and abandoned it. The summer of 2001 came and went, and by the end of it I was a lead player in the art of Jurassic Park dioramas. It had successfully finished two diorama stories, Survivor and Chaos Effect, and was longing for a really big diorama project. Racking my brain for plot ideas, I remembered the enviormentalist idea from many months before. I decided to bring it to the world of dioramas. I began to outline my story, which was blandly titled “Jurassic Park 4” at that point. In the first draft, the enviormentalists on Isla Sorna was only half of the story. The other half involved Pteranodon sightings in Costa Rica, which were covered up by the government. It was mid November when I finnaly scrapped the Pteranodon side of the story, and rewrote it. This time around, I introduced the idea of InGen not cloning their dinosaurs how they actually existed in the Mezozoic, but altered the DNA to their liking, creating dinosaurs as they thought they should be, rather then how they actually were. I really liked this new twist, but in the third rewrite it was cut down significantly to make room for the mystery of the Titanonychus. The second draft of the story had Therizinosaurus in it, and it had some really cool scenes, including one where Jeremy Stevenson rides one through a herd of stampeding Triceratops and Parasaurolophus. I was sad to see the Therizinosaurus stuff go, but I was really excitied about introducing a fictional dinosaur, discovered by one of the characters.

With Jurassic Park: Evolution, my goal was to create a diorama story that focused on the tale itself rather then lots of pictures. I’ve read too many stories that contain no plot other then a helicopter crashing and people being chased by Velociraptors and Tyrannosaurs. In Jurassic Park: Evolution, I tried to create characters that have their own individual personalities that drive their actions. I wanted the readers to feel for the characters. When somebody died, I wanted people to feel bad for that person, or perhaps be glad that a villain got what they deserved. And from my humble perspective, I succeded in that respect.