• Harbinger Down : A 100% Practical Creature FX Film by the guys who worked on Terminator, Alien and T
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First and foremost note that this movie is being funded via kickstarter, so whether it will get the funding necessary or not isn't totally certain but I imagine a project with this much ambition would definitely make its target. But anyways, the guys from ADI (Amalgamated Dynamics who have done practical effects for every major movie you can think of like Alien, Terminator, John Carpenter's The Thing) want to make [B]a sci-fi horror with absolutely nothing but animatronic and makeup effects.[/B] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPbolNt-Vmg[/media] [quote]A group of grad students have booked passage on the fishing trawler Harbinger to study the effects of global warming on a pod of Orcas in the Bering Sea. When the ship's crew dredges up a recently thawed piece of old Soviet space wreckage, things get downright deadly. It seems that the Russians experimented with tardigrades, tiny resilient animals able to withstand the extremes of space radiation. The creatures survived, but not without mutation. Now the crew is exposed to aggressively mutating organisms. And after being locked in ice for 3 decades, the creatures aren't about to give up the warmth of human companionship. [/quote] In all honesty I feel like they've attempted this because of the shit that happened with The Thing prequel. As he states in the video they weren't pleased by the fact that most of their work got CG effects on top of what they did but I imagine they weren't really happy with the movie overall since it was pretty damn awful.
[url]http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1117671683/harbinger-down-a-practical-creature-fx-film[/url] Should put the link to the kickstarter [editline]13th May 2013[/editline] And holy shit Lance Henrikson looks almost unrecognizable...
I don't know about you guys, but to this day, The Thing's (1982) monsters are still one of the more good looking ones I've seen in a movie. The CGI monsters of today, just don't bring the same feel the animatronics did. It's truly a shame that directors started to use CGI this much. [editline]13th May 2013[/editline] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqVbOSEsJNo[/media] I mean fuck.
How has this Kickstarter made so little, yet the Veronica Mars Kickstarter had 2 million by this point?
[QUOTE=Zeos;40628417]How has this Kickstarter made so little, yet the Veronica Mars Kickstarter had 2 million by this point?[/QUOTE] It went up about 3k since I last checked yesterday, but I'm afraid it won't hit the mark. I'm equally surprised mainly because the amount of people who bitch about movies not using practical effects is staggering. Most would jump at the chance to get a movie like this.
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