monsterbaker wrote:
Yes sirharry that was Dave Elsey that you spotted on the panel. Lou Elsey was up there as well. Both Dave and Lou were my right hands on this film and made it possible for me to do this film. The work had to be done in England and I did not want to live in England for the 10 months necessary to build and shoot the film. So I contacted my friends Dave and Lou and asked them if they would be interested in running the shop in my absence. I have always been impressed with their work and their enthusiasm for this type of work. I must say it was a real joy working with them.

As far an the CGI transformation goes it has gotten blown out of proportion a bit on the net. I personally feel that it would be really stupid not to take advantage of what can be done with CGI, just as I think it is stupid not to take advantage of what can be done with makeup effects as well. A marriage of the two techniques ,I think, would make for the best transformation. What I object to the most is just being left out of this whole process, after all I have done transformations before and it is a character that I designed that he is transforming into. I am just hoping that I will be involved in the transformation in one way or another.

I agree monsterbaker, I hope you are involved one way or the other, I was thinking the same thing - what u had mentioned - "A marriage of the two techniques" - That would be the best alternative. Both on camera effects and apply CG to enhance the transformation would be the logical approach IMHO.