It's All In the Details: Giving a 14-Foot Creature a Giant Makeover
Released on 08/20/2014
Alright, so I wish this was a picture situation
where we could all take a picture
with the finished creature, but it's not done.
(laughing)
This is on Jimmy Kimmel tomorrow night.
We go down there at 8:00 in the morning.
This is our last chance.
There's a lot to do.
(calm electronic music)
We decided on the giant creature to go with an epoxy mold.
It gives the the best results in foam rubber.
You have a nicer surface, the skin looks cleaner,
you get far more detail from the sculpture itself
with epoxy,
your mold will last longer.
And then we'll glass over that,
we'll cut it off, pop it off,
and then give that that fiberglass to the mechanics
so they can start making the facial mechanics
for the creature,
and then we'll make sure the grunning core is clean,
and then once that's clean, once the mold is clean,
it goes into the foam room,
and then they can run the foam skin.
We're gonna inject this thing completely
the exact opposite of what you see here.
We're gonna have it upside down.
We're gonna shoot it from the core.
What I'm gonna do I
is I'm gonna create a little 'T' inside here.
So we're gonna shoot the foam this way
and it's gonna hit the 'T', split this way,
and then come out two injection holes at the same time.
The foam will rise equal.
(relaxing electronic music)
This head is huge!
[Man] Is this the largest head you've ever painted?
Yes!
It's gonna be great, yep.
Tomorrow's gonna be pushing everybody,
but everything is almost so close to being there,
so seeing everything be arm on today.
It's massive, you see the chest, everything painted.
I'm like wow, no problem.
Tomorrow's just gonna be another deadline
which we'll meet.
Everybody will feel good about Tuesday night.
It's been a great crew.
Everybody's been collaborating and helping each other out
and coming up with great solutions
to problems that we're facing.
So all in all, I think it's been going really well
and I think the final product's gonna show that.
[Man] I'm kinda making little comma shapes
and little 'X's in there.
I'm just trying not to make them all the same.
Little more organic.
We just gotta be really sure
that we get all the details we can get in there.
[Man] Dudes!
(laughing)
It's funny, you end up telling the story in your head
about what this things been doing
and where it's been,
and it sounds stupid, but I look at stuff.
Driving into work today, there was a trash truck.
Believe it or not,
I was looking at the side of the trash truck,
thinking Look where all the dirt goes.
and it's kinda second nature now,
but that's kinda what you do.
You have to observe stuff in the real world
and try and use those observations in your paint job.
Otherwise it doesn't have the same character.
The feeling's weird, but I'm so happy.
Close to the end.
I don't know what I expect.
You see a little design and you look at it
and you go Oh, okay.,
but once you see it in the big almost completed stages
and it is 15 feet tall
and it has an arm the size of a car,
it's just wow, look at that.
It's insane!
We built that!
I think people are gonna be wondering who's in it,
how are they doing it, how much does it weigh?
Right next to ya it's really big.
I think it's gonna be a pretty impressive viewing
for this one.
This is live, in your face.
There's no tricks here.
It's just a full on animatronic costume/puppet.
I think it's gonna blow people's minds.
After two weeks of design, six weeks of building,
we were ready to go to Comic-Con.
When I saw this thing come to life today,
I couldn't believe it.
I knew it.
That was the point when I think
everybody looked around and went,
Oh, he's alive.
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