It looks as if Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. is set to provide creature effects for The Predator! Earlier last week Tom Woodruff Jr.’s IMDB profile was updated to include The Predator, specifically Predator creature effects. Woodruff’s ADI partner Alec Gillis also confirmed via Twitter that he will be working on The Predator, tagging Woodruff in his post.
A recent Facebook post by The Predator creature designer Ben Mauro revealed that he had been for a tour around the Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. studios and Alliance Studios: “Was really cool to go check out ADI and Alliance Studios earlier this week, thanks Steve and Alec for showing me around your studios…….so much film/creature history and fun stories!”
Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. to provide creature effects for The Predator!
Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. (also known as ADI) has an extensive history with the Alien franchise, going as far back as Aliens when company founders Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. worked under Stan Winston, to the more recent Alien vs. Predator films. While they haven’t worked on a solo Predator film, ADI provided the Predator creature effects for both Alien vs. Predator films where they created the fan favorite known as the Wolf Predator.
Alliance Studios is co-owned by Steve Wang, another of Stan Winston’s former employees who worked on the earlier films. He worked with Stan Winston on Predator, on Alien Resurrection as sculptor and later on AvP: Requiem with ADI. Perhaps Alliance Studios will working alongside ADI on The Predator?
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But ADI. Man. Great guys, love hearing them speak on the documentaries. But if they were evaluated on their Alien and Predator work alone, theyre outright terrible. Fabulous animatronics and puppeteers. But Alien 3 ASIDE, directorial creative decisions ASIDE, there work has been deminishing returns. I thought KNB did OK on Predators. But the Aliens in Resurrection, AvP and AvPR looked fake as shit; chunky slimey fat fingered suits
Would LOVE it if they knocked the ball out of the park on this one though. I'm rooting for them, but I'm highly suspect
Sure, you can say that the problems were due to other people's decisions, but seeing as how AvP1 and AvP2 had different people calling the shots and ADI still underwhelmed, I don't think that it's unreasonable to blame them.
So yes, despite some questionable design decisions in the past (which, as has been pointed out, can't necessarily always be leveled at them), they have also done some great work too, so I think they're a good choice. I just hope the faces of the Predator or Predators in this one are more Wolf than Scar. ;p
And while I'm sure lots of us would love to see or have seen Legacy get the gig, I feel like they're just priced out of the running at this point (same reason I imagine Stan Winston Studios was never involved with either franchise past Aliens and Predator 2). So ADI is really the next logical choice.
I imagine we'll get WETA with Alien 3.2. WETA and Blomkamp go hand-in-hand these days. There's also Image Engine who work with him a lot. Really can't wait to see what they come up with!
I think it goes both ways, some people blame them too much for their rubbery creations, and others give them a free pass on everything, like it was all the directors fault.
He just looked surprised all the time... I don't know... it just looked wrong
I'm so happy more people are realizing this. For all we know ADI came up with some bad-ass Predators for the AvP movies, but the directors shot those down. People seem to forget that little detail some times, that the director ultimatly decides what to go with. Well, him/her and the studios. Don't forget about them.
Broken record mode, activate! I still think they get way too much stick for the stuff we didn't like from Resurrection and the AvPs. There's so much going off that effects them. They follow director mandates with their design explorations (and Resurrection had story reasons for the Aliens to be bastardised). All that slime was down to the the DoP. In AvP, it was cost related for the reuse of the Resurrection moulds (not their fault). I wasn't a fan of the teeth of their Alien head in Requiem (damn overbite!!) but again, they had only the money to redo the heads.
The Predators in AvP looks fake because of the lack of moisture - again the director. Granted, that silicon (?) doesn't look the greatest so hopefully they explore other materials for The Predator.
To be perfectly honest though, I would have been happy with Legacy, ADI or KNB. Hopefully ADI will be able to work well with Black and get a cracking new design. I'm sure he wont have the mentality that the Predators can't look wet.
I hope to see better creature effects from them in The Predator. Your effects in Alien 3 were extremely well done.
http://oi43.tinypic.com/mugwvm.jpg
Though Wolf in AVP R was an improvement.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/c7/bc/c9/c7bcc9865772e65cd97e01aaf4a5e935.jpg
Though there were some digital enhancements applied.
http://www.avpgalaxy.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/20071128_01.jpg
I, for one, don't think the predators in AVP are that bad. And most people can agree that Wolf is awesome.
I wouldn't want them returning to do the aliens, though.