It's All In the Details: Giving a 14-Foot Creature a Giant Makeover-WIRED

From the final moldings to the last paint job, find out how the design team added character and life to the giant creature in under two weeks.


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It's All In the Details: Giving a 14-Foot Creature a Giant Makeover-WIRED

HOW TO MAKE A GIANT CREATURE - The Webseries

Produced by Stan Winston School for WIRED 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: John Ales, Jake Borowski, Ben Saltzman, Peter Gould, Chris Trueman

Production Intern: Nick Norton

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

Giant Creature LIVE Team:
Live Coordinator: Christopher Vaughan
Live Editorial: Yukako Shimada
Cameras: Jake Borowski, Peter Gould, Ben Saltzman
Sound: Chris Trueman
Giant Creature Live Assistant: Ryan Cultrera
Production Interns: Nick Norton, Marni Roberts

Social Media for SWSCA: Andy Franco

Music by Network Music Lab: www.networkmusiclab.com

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 Killingsworth, Mark Maitre, Jason Matthews, Paul Mejias, Rob Ramsdell, Christopher Swift

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

PAINTERS: John Cherevka, Erick De La Vega, Jamie S. Grove, Derek Rosengrant

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

MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT: Peter Weir Clarke, David Covarrubias, Rich Haugen, Seth Hays, Russ Herpich, Hiroshi 'Kan' Ikeuchi, Jeff Jingle, Jim Kundig,
Richard Landon, Lon Muckey, Brian Namanny, Hannah Wilk

ELECTRONICS DEPARTMENT: Rodrick Khachatoorian, Greg Keto

MOLD DEPARTMENT: Damian Fisher-Supervisor, Javier Contreras, Tony Contreras, Lou Diaz, Jeff L. Deist, Chris Grossnickle, Clay Martinez, Jacob Roanhaus, Frank Ryberg, Jaime Siska, Gary Yee

FOAM DEPARTMENT: Cory Czekaj-Supervisor, Ken Culver, Jacob Roanhaus

HAIR DEPARTMENT: Connie Grayson Criswell

3D PRINTING BY STRATASYS: Terry Hoppe, Bonnie Meyer Darren Perry, Isaac Damhoff, Michael Block, Jay Beversdorf, Kevin Nerem, Mac Cameron, Paul Merrill, Dan Wahtera, Jamal Muhammad, Bill Morrow, J Consuelo Mendez

RANCHO CA OFFICE UNDER TERRY HOPPE: Steve Gibson, Mark Bashor, Patrick Brault

BILLERICA OFFICE UNDER TERRY HOPPE: Leslie Frost

ADDITIONAL STRATASYS STAFF: Jessica Songetay, James Berlin, Chris Cates, Dustin Kloempken, Cathleen Kadletz, Marc Downie, Ryan Litman, Daryl Baumgartner

FUR BY NATIONAL FIBER TECHNOLOGY:

Maggie Bloomer, Kim Clark, Fred Fehrmann, Emile Gagne, Carol Goans, Juan Gomez, Talia Harvey, Kaitlin Hardy, Allison LeSaffre, Kate Maloney, Chris McMullen, Abby Roy

"AUGMENTED REALITY" BY BLIPPAR:

Marc Florestant-3D Artist, Leon Tyler, Radu Nicolau, Matt Banyard, Gareth Upton, Mike Harris, Brian Morales, Cheena Jain, Patrick Aluise

FOAM MILLING BY ALCHYMIA: Alfred Kuan

SOUND EFFECTS BY ANARCHY POST:
Dan Snow, Tom Boykin

SOUND & LIGHTING CONTROLLERS BY ADAFRUIT:
SPECIAL THANKS: John Rosengrant, Shane Mahan, Lindsay MacGowan

New Deal Studios: Shannon Gans, Matthew Gratzner, Ian Hunter

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