How Do You Scale Up the Design of a Giant Creature?-WIRED

Designer Greg Smith walks us through the process of scaling up the massive beast to see how much volume is needed to create it. After taking photos and videos of the rough frame and superimposing it onto an image of the creature, the team is able to get a better idea of what dimensions they'll need to bring it to life.

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How Do You Scale Up the Design of a Giant Creature?-WIRED

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HOW TO MAKE A GIANT CREATURE - The Webseries

Produced by Stan Winston School for the WIRED channel:

In Association with:

Legacy Effects
Condé Nast Entertainment
Stratasys

Executive Producers - Matt Winston & Erich Grey Litoff

Producers - John Ales & David Sanger

Director of Photography - John Ales

Production Coordinators - Maggie Sayer, Teresa Loera

Camera Department:
Camera - John Ales
Camera - Jake Borowski
Camera - Ben Saltzman
Camera - Peter Gould
Sound - Chris Trueman
Production Intern - Nick Norton

Post-Production:
Lead Editor - Damien Acker
Editor and Live Editorial Lead - Yukako Shimada
Editor - Peter Gould
Editor - Jacob Goodman
Assistant Editors - Jake Borowski, Ben Saltzman

Giant Creature LIVE Team:
Live Coordinator - Christopher Vaughan
Live Editorial - Yukako Shimada
Camera - Jake Borowski
Camera - Peter Gould
Camera - Ben Saltzman
Sound - Chris Trueman
Giant Creature Live Assistant - Ryan Cultrera
Production Intern - Nick Norton

Social Media for SWSCA - Andy Franco

GIANT CREATURE CREATED BY LEGACY EFFECTS

Giant Creature Project Supervisor - Alan Scott

DESIGN:
Jim Charmatz
Kourtney Coats
Darnell Isom
Scott Patton
Greg Smith
Won-Il Song
Bodin Sterba

RAPID-PROTOTYPING:
Jason Lopes

ART DEPARTMENT:
David Monzingo - Supervisor
Vance Hartwell
Trevor Hensley
Akihito Ikeda
Mark Maitre
Mike Manzel
Jason Matthews
Paul Mejias
Rob Ramsdell
Christopher Swift

FABRICATION DEPARMENT:
Dawn Dininger
Ted Haines
Bruce D. Mitchell
Tracey Roberts
Amy Whetsel

PAINTERS:
John Cherevka
Jamie S. Grove
Derek Rosengrant

MODEL DEPARTMENT:
David Merritt - Supervisor
Brian Claus
Ken Cornett
Jesse Gee
James Springham

MECHANICAL DEPARMENT:
Peter Weir Clarke
David Covarrubias
Rich Haugen
Seth Hays
Hiroshi 'Kan' Ikeuchi
Jim Kundig
Richard Landon
Lon Muckey
Brain Namanny

ELECTRONICS DEPARTMENT
Rodrick Khachatoorian

MOLD DEPARTMENT:
Damian Fisher - Supervisor
Javier Contreras
Tony Contreras
Lou Diaz
Jeff L. Deist
Chris Grossnickle
Mike MacFarlane
Jacob Roanhaus
Jaime Siska
Gary Yee
Chris Zega

FOAM DEPARTMENT
Cory Czekaj - Supervisor
Ken Culver
Jacob Roanhaus

HAIR DEPARTMENT:
Michael Ornelaz - Supervisor
Connie Grayson Criswell