Odd Studio is to provide make-up effects for Alien: Covenant. Talking to If.com.au about their Oscar win for their work on Mad Max: Fury Road, Odd Studio owners and directors Damian Martin and Adam Johansen briefly mentioned that they would be providing the make-up effects for Alien: Covenant:
“For their next gig, Martin and Johansen are sinking their teeth into another sequel to an iconic sci-fi franchise – Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant. The two are on creature effects for the film, which they describe as “a dream job for us rubber monster nerds!”
Odd Studio to provide make-up effects for Alien: Covenant. The studio recently won an Oscar for their work on Mad Max: Fury Road.
The quote from Martin and Johansen doesn’t state specifically what work they’ll be providing but the If.com.au article says it’ll be “creature effects.” We have reached out to Odd Studio for a clarification on the matter.
Odd Studio has an impressive list of credits to their name that spans many genres. Whilst Odd Studio hasn’t worked with Sir Ridley Scott before they have worked on several science-fiction productions including Wolverine, Superman Returns, Farscape, The Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions and the last two Star Wars prequels, Attack Of The Clones and Revenge Of The Sith. Most recently they have also been working on Duncan Jones’s World of Warcraft.
Thanks to Stolen for the news.
Tom Woodruff also posted this on Facebook last night...
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In the final film thy clearly applied cgi.
Is it just of matter of how many takes they took they felt that it didn't quite look convincing, or could it have been just to be on the safe side?
Scott had a tough time filming the Chestburster Scene form the original Alien, set up, timing, technical difficulties ect but though it was clearly a puppet your caught in the moment and believe that the puppet is a real creature, they used the right angles and timing capturing the scene perfectly.
It is just a matter of Lighting the Set, not wanting to resort to footage which differs from the story boards and High Definition Footage makes it harder to convey the old tricks of practical effects to work?
While I myself and not apposed to them applying cgi, I suggest they use it accordingly, or else we'll get what happened to The Thing 2011 prequel, with all the practical effects erased by the cgi.
Shame that Legacy Studio who are the successor of Stan Winston Studios who worked on the Creature Effects from Aliens nor Amalgamated Dynamic Inc who did the Creature Effects for Alien 3, Alien Resurrection AVP and AVP-R aren't returning to handle the Creature Effects. I guess Ridley selecting the team he feels are best suited in bringing the Xenomorph to the big screen. I must say I'm glad they're still utilizing Practical Effects and not going overboard with CGI.
On another note do any of you think this Alien esthetic will be more closer to the bio-mechanical look of the original Alien from 1979, because all movies Particularly Alien Resurrection up to Prometheus went with a more overtly Organic quality. https://images3.alphacoders.com/239/239249.jpg
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/aliens/images/b/b1/Deacon_alien_prometheus_born.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130922115612
Ditto! That one is incredible!
Well when I think of all the practical creature effects used in the prequel films, actual complex animatronic creature effects don't come to mind. But like I said if Ridley hired em they'll probably do great work.
Also some of the pics hicks posted do look good.
They've done a fair bit of character and creature work before: http://oddstudio.com/creature-effects-character-design/
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https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Foddstudio.com%2Fwp2%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F10%2Falien-dude-1.jpg&hash=1deec8005bb7d51adc634e1c3cd48bdec17e9b4a
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https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Foddstudio.com%2Fwp2%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F08%2Fhyena-4.jpg&hash=bdf1ab9f211743be3c5b1aeb147708ed37341cc0
As far as I'm aware, all those films were shot at Fox Studios, Sydney.
So basically, any film gets made there, they get the job.
Didn't those Star Wars films have aliens in them?
I trust Ridley to deliver good FX in all his movies though.
When speaking about Ridley, my only concern is always story!
P.S. This guys from Odd Studios are, by the way, very good (I would say excellent) artists for monster makeup! (all sorts of makeup, prosthetic make up, creature effects, animatronic characters, special effects, props and models)
I have confirmation that they are going to do mainly monster/creatures work for Covenant.
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