![]() ![]() Elizalde then explained to me that the first test with the Thing suit took about four and a half hours to apply to “Michael’s body. Doom suit which was “similar to the Thing suit” and designed by Jose Fernandez. ![]() he doesn’t even give it a name,” Elizalde insists. The actual material that Blancaflor designs is actually a secret that he “never divulges. He really used it” in how he expressed the emotional states of the Thing, “especially in his walk.” According to Elizalde, Chiklis described the temperature inside the suit as “middle of summer, Sahara hot.” Using a “heating system similar to what race car drivers wear” underneath the suit Chiklis wore a “capillary system that pumps cool water around the body.” This water is constantly replenishing itself but the only problem was that Chiklis wasn’t able to be plugged into the machine that activated the system when he was “on camera.”Įlizalde went on to say that the Thing suit was designed out of “a latex based material” by Roland Blancaflor. Elizalde explained that “the suit held up really well and we only had 5 suits for Michael Chiklis and then another 4 suits for the stunt people.” He even went on to say that because of the physical aspects of wearing the Thing suit, this “informed Michael’s portrayal of the character. The fourth stage involves “molding” these impressions, then they are taken to the Foam Department (stage #5) and the sixth and final stage sees them being handed over to the Paint Department.ĭue to the fact that the Thing is anything but immobile, I had to ask if these intricately designed suits were damaged during the rigors of the filmmaking process. “This lets us know what we can and can’t do on a human being.” For instance, with the Thing they started with an actual model of Michael Chiklis as a normal personal “and then we build out.” Once this idea has been agreed upon for how the actor will look once he has been “made up,” the third stage sees Elizalde and his team creating a series of “lifecasts.” They essentially take “impressions” of the actor’s entire body and from there “positives are generated” by which the sculptors can begin to sculpt how the character is going to look. The second stage in the process has them making a model of the illustration. After this process of trial and error, they then take the final illustration and it is based on that that the character/creature starts to be created. they are then combined into one.” He states. He was the person who brokedown for me how they made Michael Chiklis become the Thing on the big screen.įirst off, Elizalde said that before any latex is applied everything begins with 2-D illustrations. Greeted by many life-sized creature renderings as I made my way through their lobby, I was soon led up to Mike Elizalde, the President/CEO of Spectral Motion and the makeup effects supervisor on the Fantastic Four. MovieWeb recently was invited to visit Spectral Motion in Glendale to get a hands on impression of how they have created the creature FX for among other films Hellboy, Fantastic Four and the forthcoming X-Men 3. To create these monstrous creatures, director Lee Eung Bok (' Descendants of he Sun' & ' Goblin') has teamed up with two world-renowned CGI studios - Legacy Effects (' Avengers', ' Avatar') and Spectral Motion (' Stranger Things')! Domestic production powerhouses such as West World also took part in the live production effects on the filming set, while choreographers like Kim Seol Jin and Troy James took charge of drawing up the monsters' movements.Mushy gets the skinny from Effects Supervisor Mike Elizalde on how they brought The Thing to the big screen In addition to the human characters of 'Sweet Home', many of the monstrous creatures expected to appear in the series will also play key roles as the main characters of the storyline.Īhead of the series' premiere later this month, Netflix has released brand new still cuts of the key creatures of 'Sweet Home' including the muscle monster, the one-eyed monster, the blood-sucker monster, the spider monster, and more. Rising actor Song Kang of ' Love Alarm' returns to Netflix as the male lead Hyun Soo, joined by veterans like Lee Jin Wook, Lee Si Young, etc. Shortly after his move, the world begins experiencing strange phenomena in the form of a deadly, infectious virus, terrifying monsters on the loose, and more. Netflix brand new original K-thriller series ' Sweet Home' premieres worldwide in a little over a week!īased off of a popular webtoon series of the same name, Netflix's 'Sweet Home' tells the story of a lonely high school student named Hyun Soo, who moves into a rundown apartment complex. ![]()
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