{"id":21495,"date":"2016-07-15T21:31:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T01:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=21495"},"modified":"2020-07-29T11:12:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T15:12:11","slug":"creature-designers-the-frankenstein-complex-2016-fantasia-international-film-festival-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/15\/creature-designers-the-frankenstein-complex-2016-fantasia-international-film-festival-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex (2016) [Fantasia International Film Festival 2016]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"creturedesigners\"<\/a>Film buffs will be elated to see \u201cCreature Designers,\u201d a very technical cogs and gears documentary that spotlights the grueling process of creating creatures for movies. Directors Gilles Penso, and Alexandre Poncet mold a love letter to the classic master creature creators, as well as a very down to business film that shows the technology behind some of the most iconic creatures and monsters of all time. It\u2019s a thrill to see how the directors have such a reverence for these artists, as we get to visit with a ton of unique artists and concept designers that are enthusiastic about their work. Since the beginning of film, special effects and creature have found a wonderful marriage with filmmaking.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s thanks in part to Lon Chaney who was able to use his make up kit to build some amazing monsters out of his face and own features. From there it\u2019s been a rising tide of artists and creators that have added to the cinematic experienced and helped advance storytelling as a whole. Both filmmakers visit with iconic masterminds like Rick Baker, Joe Dante, and Guillermo Del Toro, all of whom explore their love for special effects, and convey the process of building creatures for some of their films. What becomes apparent within \u201cCreature Designers\u201d is that the advancement of special effects would lead in to less and less necessity for suits and machines, and more need for computer technology.<\/p>\n

This darker period is chronicled in \u201cCreature Designers\u201d where we\u2019re able to view a more vulnerable side of these individuals, all of whom had to adapt to the shift in technology or risk losing their livelihoods. Thankfully, the documentary doesn\u2019t depict the introduction of CGI and motion capture as the bane of the special effects industry. Directors Gilles Penso, and Alexandre Poncet explore some of the amazing advancements made in computer technology, from motion capture, facial recognition, and how they\u2019ve used this kind of programming to bring to life amazing characters like Golum from \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d and the T-1000 from \u201cTerminator 2.\u201d No stone is left unturned, as every interview is informative, exciting, and filled with amazing anecdotes.<\/p>\n

For folks that are seeking a career in the special effects industry, or for films buffs very invested in the special effects element of filmmaking, \u201cCreature Designers\u201d is a wonderful documentary that brings us up close and personal from the fan viewpoint and a technical viewpoint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Film buffs will be elated to see \u201cCreature Designers,\u201d a very technical cogs and gears documentary that spotlights the grueling process of creating creatures for movies. Directors Gilles Penso, and Alexandre Poncet mold a love letter to the classic master creature creators, as well as a very down to business film that shows the technology […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2497,1284,12],"tags":[170,292,349,359,469,472,501,678],"class_list":["post-21495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fantasia-fest","category-festivalsevents","category-movie-reviews","tag-c","tag-documentary","tag-fantasy","tag-filmmaking","tag-history","tag-hollywood","tag-indie-film","tag-monsters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21497,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21495\/revisions\/21497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}