i died once. it was boring.
so i stood up.
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the bots finally got to me and heres what got tagged out of my entire blog:
- my hand - banes titties, nipples excluded bc everyone knows comic men dont have nipples - Rightfully, Someones Butthole - art i forgot i drew that also contained no women - a shitpost.
One of those other stories in question is Hellboy in Mexico, a comic that saw Hellboy go south of the border to fight monsters with a group of luchadores, and Mignola said a big chunk of that story will be used in the movie. The comic features Camazotz the Mayan Bat God of Death, who can be glimpsed in the new trailer.
I feel like it’s not acknowledged or appreciated nearly enough that Hellboy is a book about a demon summoned to Earth by a mad Russian scientist using Nazi super tech in order to win World War 2 and bring about the apocalypse and instead of being a grimdark edgefest, Hellboy is just a big kid who really likes pancakes and his favorite superhero is an idiot named Lobster Johnson and one of his best friends was a homonculus who couldn’t wear pants.
Dec 4: Remember that time we learned Clark Kent totally peeked at all his Christmas presents with his X-Ray vision? (Justice League, “Comfort and Joy”)
Because Clark is awesome and loves christmas.
remember that time we learned clark kent is a grown man who still believes santa exists
He’s an alien and a superhero who knows other superheros in a world with a talking telepathic Gorilla, ofc he believes, anything is game.
Thats because Father Christmas/Santa Claus totally DOES exist in the DC universe, and every year, without fail, Santa fights through Apokolips’ defenses just to give a lump of coal to Darkseid.
Look at this! Look at this fucking thing! This was done in 1986, and used absolutely no CGI whatsoever. It was ALL practical, and ALL done through puppetry. Look at the last gif. Over a dozen vines are moving at once along with its head, lips, and tongue! In interviews Rick Moranis has stated he often forgot he was working with a puppet, as opposed to a really ugly guy. Even today it looks so real. Audrey ii is nothing short of miraculous
The practical effects of Little Shop of Horrors was fucking astounding. It’s worth it to mention that, in the scenes where the plant is moving, the filming was slowed to 12 to 16 frames a second, so that the film could be sped up to give the Audrey II a more lifelike appearance. In such scenes where actors like Rick Moranis had to speak with the plant, he had to mouth his lines at a slower-than-normal speed while still looking convincing, only to have his voice added in post.
It’s also worth mentioning that a crew of 60+ puppeteers were needed to operate the plant, as the entire puppet weighed over a ton.
It’s so strangely entertaining to see people finding out with shock that these movies didn’t use computer effects.
This movie came out when I was little and still feels like a recent phenomenon to me. I’d never even personally seen a computer outside of a cartoon at the time, nobody else I knew had, and computer generated images just weren’t a concept the average person ever even imagined.
I mean, I was there when THIS was considered the most jaw-dropping cutting edge of video game graphics, some time after Little Shop of Horrors would have come out:
CG effects didn’t go mainstream until Jurassic Park, and even that still used gigantic puppets and animatronics for many of its scenes.
Puppetry by the late 80′s had been refined to the point of really looking like a flesh and blood creature, but then Hollywood became enamored with computer effects and started all over again. It feels like CG here in 2018 is only just now managing to look as real as 1989′s latex puppet work, but still looks really off to me. There’s still no perfect replacement for a real, physical on-set object.
Can someone tell me how they got that shot from inside the guy’s mouth at the dentist?? This has been keeping me up at night for years!
Oh that was another puppet
You can tell by the way it moves that it’s a thin construct of latex. The teeth would have been resin replicas and the whole thing would have been sprayed with glycerine solution to make it look wet.
