[SPOILERS] Feral Predator Design Thread

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I'd say it was closer to about a 7 to a 7.5 out of 10.  Like ACM.

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[ace3g]

[ace3g]

[BlueMarsalis79]

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch22RZzPyBg/

Nice to see some thinking in historical terms of the evolution of the weaponry.

[ace3g]

[BlueMarsalis79]

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch3FfjjPgNO/

Love how he looks here.

[Immortan Jonesy]

Nightmare fuel! This one in particular reminds me of that creepy Goya painting 😂

[frasermaxx]

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch3FfjjPgNO/

I actually prefer this over what we got, looks a lot more menacing here. 

[BigDaddyJohn]

Me too.

[BlueMarsalis79]

It's almost like when it comes to the practical application, ADI's never put the concept in practice as good as the drawings. When it comes to the Predator in particular.

[ace3g]

[frasermaxx]

It's almost like when it comes to the practical application, ADI's never put the concept in practice as good as the drawings. When it comes to the Predator in particular.

Yeah it was a bit too clean/smooth and lacked the fine details, grit and wet look that is present in the concept art. Had they pulled this design off like the art on screen I say we would've got the second best face design after the original Stan Winston one. It doesn't matter here that the mandibles don't close in an 'X' fashion but the concept art is very cool and intense looking like the original predator. Its all in the eyes, look at the eyes in the artwork, brilliant. The CGI ruined it too.

[SiL]

It's almost like when it comes to the practical application, ADI's never put the concept in practice as good as the drawings. When it comes to the Predator in particular.

These concepts clearly aren't the final approved design, given they lack mandibles.

It's not up to ADI if the director says "Nah version 800 with dry skin and hella drool is where I wanna be."

[BlueMarsalis79]

Looks pretty moist to me honestly, and ADI has spoken about Dan Trachtenberg wanting it even wetter than ever before and them being unable to accommodate, because the K-Y Jelly solution that they use just dried up constantly.

As for the mandibles in concept art sometimes they are present sometimes they are not for the sake of clarity. 

Four times now I have seen the final design for the face of a Predator by ADI in either concept art or maquette form looking good, but then the actual practical head, does not look good. At some point here "what the director wants" stops working as an excuse for the final practical iteration, especially in the case of Prey, where it got replaced by CGI probably wisely.

[SiL]

So is it ADI's fault the thing dried up or is it the material limitations of trying to create the design?

The original moist Predators are seen in pretty quick cuts, easy to respray each time.