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furtechWhy is it that so many studios think that ugly, scabrous werewolves look more "real"? Being Human has werewolves, but it feels like they couldn't decide what was cool and what was doofy, so the final beasts look...awful. Imagine the Twilight werewolves with terminal cases of mange.
Here is the werewolf:
It looks like one of those mange-ridden coyote carcasses that show up every so often as genuine "chupcabra". It is fat and lumpy and my first inclination is to take it to a vet. Why do they think that "mangey/scabrous=REALISTIC!!1!" ??? The coolest scene was where they used an actual dead werewolf prop--that was the one time any of them had any heft or weight to them. CG garbage.
I did some checking and found that the original British version of the show actually had a really nice werewolf design-- far different from the American one:
Wow-- a classic crinos-style, upright, not-too-mangey, not-scabrous werewolf! Neat!
More pics:
I have -no- idea if the British series is better than the American one (I get the impression the American/Canadian team "remade" the series to fit "American" tastes), but at least the werewolf is an actual practical effect-- classic rubber suit! Yes, I can predict that they have the same problem that the producers of "Werewolf" (the tv series from the 80's) had: totally cool looking werewolves, but without the budget to do full animatronic heads, so they looked great in stills, but kind of rigid on camera, leading to very quick cuts of the heads.
Still, I've enjoyed a lot of Brit series more than their American counterparts, so I'll be curious to see how they play out. Hopefully the Ghost is less annoying than in the American series. (SO ANNOYING!!)
Here is the werewolf:
It looks like one of those mange-ridden coyote carcasses that show up every so often as genuine "chupcabra". It is fat and lumpy and my first inclination is to take it to a vet. Why do they think that "mangey/scabrous=REALISTIC!!1!" ??? The coolest scene was where they used an actual dead werewolf prop--that was the one time any of them had any heft or weight to them. CG garbage.
I did some checking and found that the original British version of the show actually had a really nice werewolf design-- far different from the American one:
Wow-- a classic crinos-style, upright, not-too-mangey, not-scabrous werewolf! Neat!
More pics:
I have -no- idea if the British series is better than the American one (I get the impression the American/Canadian team "remade" the series to fit "American" tastes), but at least the werewolf is an actual practical effect-- classic rubber suit! Yes, I can predict that they have the same problem that the producers of "Werewolf" (the tv series from the 80's) had: totally cool looking werewolves, but without the budget to do full animatronic heads, so they looked great in stills, but kind of rigid on camera, leading to very quick cuts of the heads.
Still, I've enjoyed a lot of Brit series more than their American counterparts, so I'll be curious to see how they play out. Hopefully the Ghost is less annoying than in the American series. (SO ANNOYING!!)
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Date: 2012-03-26 11:36 pm (UTC)I'm curious, though, whether you've seen the movie "Attack the Block"? It's a small-budget British alien invasion movie, and I'd be curious what you thought of the alien designs. They were mostly done with practical effects too -- suits, puppets, animatronics, very little CG here and there just where needed -- and I was really impressed with them. Very cool-looking AND creepy as hell (in that cool-creepy way).
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Date: 2012-03-30 05:40 pm (UTC)