Watch the Full-Body Mechanics of the 2,000-Pound Giant Creature in Action
Released on 07/22/2014
(deep growling)
We want the guy who's actually taking the steps
to have control of when he turns,
when he steps
which way he goes.
So we're driving!
We are driving.
And remember Peter, the driver's
going to have big creature legs
so he's actually walking the legs
as he's doing this.
He has the control which is great.
Because he can stop if he
kinda gets tripped up or anything.
But Man!
And he won't have to be hunched over like that.
So he should be able to get big.
Actually it moves great!
This rig will be, with the puppeteers,
close to 2000 pounds.
What you're seeing now is movement
of both the arms.
You're seeing now movement of the head.
This is the final bottom
so this is the power's in place.
[Man] Yep
This now has multi-function, right?
I see your wrist is moving.
We've got all the shoulder joints are up here.
The rotate is
on a really nice, sturdy bearing.
This is the head movement right here.
Yeah.
And then we're calling this the base neck.
Okay
So it turns left and right.
And I was concerned that it wouldn't be able
to look down enough.
But with what the parallelogram does
go all the way down.
Alright
Ah wow!! (laughing)
So that's the important thing
that we're able to look at kids.
Just imagine a little three year old.
Yeah Ahhh!
(pop music)
This is the first time that we've seen
this actually happen.
(pop music)
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(pop music)
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Executive Producers: Matt Winston, Erich Grey Litoff
Producers: John Ales, David Sanger
Director of Photography: John Ales
Production Coordinators: Maggie Sayer, Teresa Loera
Camera Department: John Ales, Jake Borowski, Ben Saltzman, Peter Gould, Chris Trueman
Production Intern: Nick Norton
Post-Production:
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Editor and Live Editorial Lead: Yukako Shimada
Editors: Peter Gould, Jacob Goodman
Assistant Editors: Jake Borowski, Ben Saltzman
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DESIGN: Jim Charmatz, Kourtney Coats, Darnell Isom, Scott Patton, Greg Smith
Won-Il Song, Bodin Sterba
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ART DEPARTMENT: David Monzingo-Supervisor, Vance Hartwell, Trevor Hensley, Akihito Ikeda, Mark Killingsworth, Mark Maitre, Jason Matthews, Paul Mejias, Rob Ramsdell, Christopher Swift
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MODEL DEPARTMENT: David Merritt-Supervisor, Brian Claus, Ken Cornett, Alan Garber, Jesse Gee, James Springham
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT: Peter Weir Clarke, David Covarrubias, Rich Haugen, Seth Hays, Russ Herpich, Hiroshi 'Kan' Ikeuchi, Jeff Jingle, Jim Kundig,
Richard Landon, Lon Muckey, Brian Namanny, Hannah Wilk
ELECTRONICS DEPARTMENT: Rodrick Khachatoorian, Greg Keto
MOLD DEPARTMENT: Damian Fisher-Supervisor, Javier Contreras, Tony Contreras, Lou Diaz, Jeff L. Deist, Chris Grossnickle, Clay Martinez, Jacob Roanhaus, Frank Ryberg, Jaime Siska, Gary Yee
FOAM DEPARTMENT: Cory Czekaj-Supervisor, Ken Culver, Jacob Roanhaus
HAIR DEPARTMENT: Connie Grayson Criswell
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Dan Snow, Tom Boykin
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