Which Amblin employee expanded Jurassic Park storyboards into simple animatics?

Which Amblin employee expanded Jurassic Park storyboards into simple animatics? The answer was Stefan Dechant.

Dechant's work belonged to the film's previsualization process. Storyboards provided still drawings of planned shots, but Jurassic Park's dinosaur sequences involved complicated movement, scale, camera angles, and spatial relationships. Expanding those drawings into simple animatics allowed the production team to examine how the scenes might work in motion and three-dimensional space.

The animatics were made with an Amiga 2000 and the Video Toaster. They were deliberately rough and should not be confused with the finished computer-generated imagery produced later by Industrial Light & Magic. Their purpose was planning: helping Spielberg and the effects team refine shots before committing to full-scale animatronics, sets, and visual effects.

The answer is sometimes muddled with other important production figures. Mark Dippé was an ILM visual-effects artist, John Bell was a production designer, and Rick Carter was the film's production designer. None of those names identifies the Amblin employee credited with this particular storyboard-to-animatic step.