Changes in animal design styles movie by movie
I used images of T-Rex just for illustration, but I looked at all animals as a whole:
Jurassic Park had a naturalist approach with muscular yet shrink-wrapped animals with brown coloration with subtle skin patterns
The Lost World followed the naturalist approach, but a bit more wild, being more muscular, more colorful and with more noticeable skin patterns
Jurassic Park III was the first huge change, scarier, sharper, mure brutalist, with more contrastant colors
Jurassic World intensified the shrink-wraping and gave a dull grey coloration and design for the herbivores and textured skin for the carnivores, specially with crocodile like osteoderms
Fallen Kingdom kept nearly the same style, but less shrink-wrapped and with more colorful herbivores
Dominion again kept the style, but intensified the monstrification and added feathers
Camp Cretaceous and Chaos Theory had more colorful animals with more expressive eyes and less texturized skins, ideal for animation
Rebirth seems to be going for a overdesigned monstrification with heavy textures, skin patterns and extra details, kinda reminding Ark Survival
Personally I like the original two movies styles the most, but I also apreciate Fallen Kingdom a lot
I used images of T-Rex just for illustration, but I looked at all animals as a whole:
Jurassic Park had a naturalist approach with muscular yet shrink-wrapped animals with brown coloration with subtle skin patterns
The Lost World followed the naturalist approach, but a bit more wild, being more muscular, more colorful and with more noticeable skin patterns
Jurassic Park III was the first huge change, scarier, sharper, mure brutalist, with more contrastant colors
Jurassic World intensified the shrink-wraping and gave a dull grey coloration and design for the herbivores and textured skin for the carnivores, specially with crocodile like osteoderms
Fallen Kingdom kept nearly the same style, but less shrink-wrapped and with more colorful herbivores
Dominion again kept the style, but intensified the monstrification and added feathers
Camp Cretaceous and Chaos Theory had more colorful animals with more expressive eyes and less texturized skins, ideal for animation
Rebirth seems to be going for a overdesigned monstrification with heavy textures, skin patterns and extra details, kinda reminding Ark Survival
Personally I like the original two movies styles the most, but I also apreciate Fallen Kingdom a lot