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The Enchanted One
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Cinefex Cloverfield Highlights (From Cinefex Issue 113) The monster has barnacles and "ear membranes"
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"We made the creature translucent whitish gray," observed Leven, "but most of the movie was at night, so he tended to reflect the color of his environment and appear orange under sodium vapor lights or bluish under xenon light."
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...developed battle injury looks, and detailed the creature with veins, broken blood vessels and barnacles. "The creature does spend some time in the ocean, and the barnacle encrustations were an indication that he may have spent some time on the ocean floor, but the producers wanted to keep its origins a mystery."
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Hud's roving camera pans and zooms back to the Manhattan shoreline where a crashed oil tanker-the source of the initial fiery explosion-lies beached. Double Negative generated the burning tanker digitally and detailed the ship with pyrotechnic elements and a 'Tagruato Corporation' logo-a fictional Japanese oil company conceived as part of the film's online marketing campaign that hinted at the creature's origins.
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"We had Clover standing and moving amid buildings as a gigantic mass," said Leven. "We used his little 'feeder' claws to disguise how many arms and legs he had, and used his tail to hide his face." Lead technical director Alfred Young and lighting director Steve Reding kept the creature shrouded using naturalistic lighting cues. "When the 350-foot tall monster stood at street level at night, the 40-foot hight street lights only lit his feet. Past his ankles and his knees, we used building lights to cast a little ambient light on him, and helicopter spotlights illuminated portions of his body, keeping him a crazy, shadowy figure."
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The creature rubs itself against buildings, dislodging parasites, which drop to street level and attack unlucky bystanders. Tippett Studio modeled parasites as Rottweiller-sized arthropods, with six fleshy legs and four attack claws.
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Marlena Diamond (Lizzy Caplan) receives a parasitic bite to the shoulder, which proves fatal as a hemorrhagic infection causes her torso to explode at an Army triage center.
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Outside the hospital, survivors emerge onto Columbus Circle where they observe Beth's apartment building, the north tower of the Time Warner Center, half-collapsed and leaning against the neighboring south tower.
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Tippett Studio added the creature below, being strafed by F-18 Hornet fighter jets, and generated the creature in a subsequent scene as Hawkins and his friends run along Park Avenue, guiding rescued, but gravely injured Beth to a helicopter evacuation point. "As they ran past Grand Central Station," said Blank, "the camera looked up, and towering behind them was the Chrysler Building and a glass exterior hotel building that Clover smashed through."
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"We animated the B-2 flying in, dropping bombs, destroying buildings and shattering windows. As Clover was hit, he threw out his arm in a last-ditch effort to keep his balance, smashing the side of a building, then he fell into a gigantic cloud of smoke."
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"This was our big Jaws moment. We animated a huge shadow coming up through the smoke; then Clover smashed up into camera and took the chopper down." Double Negative created the helicopter crash-swirling backgrounds flashing past windows-using aerial plates of Manhattan composited into greenscreen helicopter interiors, with camera shake and motion blur effects.
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The entirely CG shot revealed the creature's four-way jaw mechanism, flaring nostrils, nictitating eye membranes and pulsating ear membranes on either side of its head. "Phil Tippett suggested that shot to J.J. and Matt Reeves," recalled Leven. "Clover was catching his breath. He wasn't beaten or downtrodden, and he was considering Hud, and it gave us a chance to show how the creature breathed and moved-and then he lunged at the camera and ate him!"
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Tippett Studio created a digital double of the lower half of actor T.J. Miller's body, which caught in the monster's teeth as the jaws chomped down. Andrew Clement's team created a severed upper-torso likeness dummy of Hud to fall to the ground. Both are seen in fleeting frames that tumble into a closeup of Hud's face lying in the grass as he expires, the camcorder auto-focus twitching.
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:51 pm
Headman
Entrenched
Very very cool! Thank you! Great read.
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 12:31 am
TP516
Decorated
correct me if I'm wrong, but it clears up the confusion on those two sacks.
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 12:55 am
suckaH
Unfettered
This clears up a lot about a few confusing issues. Great find!
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:21 am
Hibari-san
Boot
Barnacles? That answers what fell off MGP right before he ate Hud.
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:31 am
Animaniac
Unfettered
Re: Cinefex Cloverfield Highlights (From Cinefex Issue 113) The monster has barnacles and "ear membranes"
The Enchanted One wrote:
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Hud's roving camera pans and zooms back to the Manhattan shoreline where a crashed oil tanker-the source of the initial fiery explosion-lies beached. Double Negative generated the burning tanker digitally and detailed the ship with pyrotechnic elements and a 'Tagruato Corporation' logo-a fictional Japanese oil company conceived as part of the film's online marketing campaign that hinted at the creature's origins.
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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 3:39 am
The Enchanted One
Decorated
Here's the full article Enjoy!
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 3:59 am
JPZilla
Boot
The scene from page 65, was my fave in the whole movie, he just looks so pissed and intense, i love it.
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 8:29 am
BranJ
Decorated
wow thanks alot the enchanted one that pic with his face right before he attacks hud that has all the shadow gone is GREAT, thanks alot for postin that ...is SO AWESOME
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 12:21 pm
clover890
Decorated
where did u get tht book
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:28 pm
MGPtracker
Greenhorn
wow,i really like the high res clover scans. thanks heaps Enchanted one.
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:37 pm
Magejutsu
Decorated
is this from a magazine fo some sort? where can i get this issue xD
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:53 pm
dan_pckns
Boot
These are the most amazing pictures I've seen ever!!!
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 3:49 am
Anteros
Unfettered
Where can we get this Magazine?
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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:38 am
Matt Horvath
Boot
just wow! The pic that shows the monster before it eats Hud is one of the best! I hope the quality stays the same on DVD
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 12:10 pm
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