Original Aliens VFX Team Is Making A New Movie
ChristopherMoonlight
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I am so excited about this project. These are the guys who worked on Aliens, Alien 3 and all the other Alien franchise movies that came after. They also worked on The Thing reboot, Tremors, and Starship Troopers.
"What is Harbinger Down?
In the spirit of sci-fi/horror classics, Alien and The Thing, Harbinger Down is a tense, claustrophobic full-length creature film that will feature only practical Animatronic and Makeup Effects.
If you're a fan of the art of Animatronics and Makeup FX, you know that this technique is overlooked by the big studios. I'm hoping that you will help us change that by supporting this labor of love. I will write and direct and ADI co-founder Tom Woodruff, Jr. will produce.
Our company, Amalgamated Dynamics, will create the kind of Oscar caliber Creature Effects for which we are known.
The Story
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."
[url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1117671683/harbinger-down-a-practical-creature-fx-film]More About The Project, Here.[/url]
*Image link fixed by Svanya
May 22, 2013
Er...
ADI did not create the Alien effects for James Cameron's 1986 Aliens, Stan Winston Studios did, under the guidance of the late, great Stan Winston and Cameron himself.
Yes, at that time Tom Woodruff Jr. and Alec Gillis worked for Stan Winston Studios, but left shortly afterward and founded ADI.
And IMO ADI and Brandywine Productions ruined the look and feel of the creature making it more fleshy and generic, as opposed to the bio-mech look in Alien or the skeletal look in Aliens. Never mind how rubbery and bulky the predators looked in 2004's AVP. This is compounded with Woodruff's need to wear every suit. IMO the Alien would better being portrayed by a woman in the suit - a woman's curves would help accentuate the features of the Alien IMO - the thin waist, the jutted out ribcage, the wider top of the legs...
Look at Alien 3 - the suit alien doesn't match the rod puppet, it almost looks like theirs two aliens running around - a skinny one and a stocky one.
