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Aug 2 08 9:21 PM
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.
Thanks for the confirmation Rick. Thought it was Dave, but the footage is a tad blurry so I wasn't entirely sure. He and Lou certainly do fine work. From Dave's comments, being the fan of classic horror that he is, I get the impression he's extremely chuffed to have been working on this film with/for you. Of course, being the Hammer fan that I am, I was delighted and amazed by the Elsey's make-up designs used to transform Wayne Pygram into a young Peter Cushing for a near throwaway scene in Revenge of the Sith. Regardless of all his impressive special effects make-up work, Dave is a Sherlock Holmes fan too, so rates high on my respect scale and I'm thrilled he has a hand in, with a few friends of mine, on a forthcoming Holmes comic book project being produced in Australia. Nice guy and a hardcore fan of the genres he's working in!
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.
Sounds like the best approach to me. In this day and age, not making use of CGI, at least to soften transitions, in tandem with physical effects would be a real shame. CGI alone wouldn't be as impressive, so I hope it all works out and fingers crossed that you've got a hand in on the final approach to the transformation sequences.
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