That Prometheus film really divided fans. Some people loved it and some people really really didn’t. Around here we find the film pretty favorable as a fun summer film and I like to look back at some of the effort and designs put into the film. Ridley Scott is an old school sorta director with the preference to rely on practical shots rather than rely on CGI to help with some of the more alien imagery but that didn’t halt any ideas from getting created just for the sake of comparison and today we get a look at some of the WETA designs that were created and ultimately unused.
“To mutate Fifield beyond what was possible using practical makeup effects, Weta Digital generated a digital character with elongated limbs and an engorged, transluscent head, incorporating a semblance of Harris’ face. Scott filmed the sequence both with the actor in makeup and without, providing clean plates that would allow for the insertion of the digital character. The final cut featured mostly makeup effects, which Weta enhanced with digital wire removal, bullet hits, and one shot of the digital creature’s body blended to the actor.”
Very interesting look at the alternatives. Now the question remains as to which one do you like better? I’m undecided…
