Btw the creature that Rick is sculpting out of clay throughout the video is a little gnome of his own design that when it was finished was donate to his good friend and monster memorablia collector Bob Burns....I know all this because I saw a another video about Bob's Basement where he showed off the little guy and I recognized him instanly and on the vid, Bob explained it was a gnome that Rick created one day for fun
He made that because he was working on "Night Skies" which was an early version of what later became "E.T." for Spielberg. He left the project, but had been designing sophisticated mechanics for those characters. He decided to just forge ahead and make his own stuff in his down time which is cool.
@@Valkonnen Yeah, I read more about Night Skies in the recently released two volume book on Rick Baker called Metamorphosis. And according to Metamorphosis, Rick was trying to break new ground even on Night Skies because he had been tinkering with this new process which he called “antatomation” which is sort of like stop motion animation but according to Rick “It’s not stop motion; it’s shot in real time before the camera. A lot of it is based on the way human anatomy works, which allows me to take puppetry a step further.” “Anatomation” was apparently similar to the “Go-Motion technique that ILM had been developing, but the book didn’t give much more of an explanation of how it worked beyond that. It was almost too bad that they pulled the plug on Night Skies because I just wanted to see how anatomation would work, but I also have a special love for what Night Skies later became which was E.T.. And it kinda goes to show you that even the stuff Rick makes that doesn’t end up onscreen is sometimes the coolest stuff-it was all about perfecting his craft.
@@71crm I am in the same business as Rick for 35 years and know the whole story. It's called "Animatronics" and even though Rick described it that way, it's just a convoluted explanation. He worked on "King Kong" and learned the technique of making mechanical masks and bodies (Animatronics) from Carlo Rambaldi, who was the guy behind "E.T." . He improved upon these techniques and began making his own projects . Right before he closed his shop , he had Mark Setrakian heading his animatronics division. You have seen Mark's fantastic work and fluid animatronics on Samael's tentacle hair in "Hellboy".
@@Valkonnen Oh, I didn’t know they were the same thing-I was just quoting what Rick said in the Metamorphosis book-but I guess you would probably knew Rick better! Actually I think Walt Disney was the one who coined the term “Animatronics” with his Audio Animatronics which he had at Disneyland and actually probably the first animatronic used in a film was the robin in Mary Poppins-so long before Rick had attempted to use these in his movies, somehow else had.
@@71crm Yes, Disney coined the term 'Audio-Animatronics" but that was based on hydraulic systems for movements . "Animatronics" is the use of cable or radio controls to make something move. Before this, Gorilla suits and the masks in '2001: A space odyssey" had a self contained spring or rubber band mechanism that was self contained for movement. It was rigged so that the operator could move a toggle near his real mouth and that would make the lips on the mask raise and lower.
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Rick doing demos of how his masks work...Total love!
"Morbid curiosity" man... too bad I didn´t meet him younger :(
Great posting! Thank you ;)
i have been looking for this special for years, especially since it had a filmed black and white clip of Nessie, from 1912, I think.
Btw the creature that Rick is sculpting out of clay throughout the video is a little gnome of his own design that when it was finished was donate to his good friend and monster memorablia collector Bob Burns....I know all this because I saw a another video about Bob's Basement where he showed off the little guy and I recognized him instanly and on the vid, Bob explained it was a gnome that Rick created one day for fun
He made that because he was working on "Night Skies" which was an early version of what later became "E.T." for Spielberg. He left the project, but had been designing sophisticated mechanics for those characters. He decided to just forge ahead and make his own stuff in his down time which is cool.
@@Valkonnen Yeah, I read more about Night Skies in the recently released two volume book on Rick Baker called Metamorphosis. And according to Metamorphosis, Rick was trying to break new ground even on Night Skies because he had been tinkering with this new process which he called “antatomation” which is sort of like stop motion animation but according to Rick “It’s not stop motion; it’s shot in real time before the camera. A lot of it is based on the way human anatomy works, which allows me to take puppetry a step further.” “Anatomation” was apparently similar to the “Go-Motion technique that ILM had been developing, but the book didn’t give much more of an explanation of how it worked beyond that. It was almost too bad that they pulled the plug on Night Skies because I just wanted to see how anatomation would work, but I also have a special love for what Night Skies later became which was E.T.. And it kinda goes to show you that even the stuff Rick makes that doesn’t end up onscreen is sometimes the coolest stuff-it was all about perfecting his craft.
@@71crm I am in the same business as Rick for 35 years and know the whole story. It's called "Animatronics" and even though Rick described it that way, it's just a convoluted explanation. He worked on "King Kong" and learned the technique of making mechanical masks and bodies (Animatronics) from Carlo Rambaldi, who was the guy behind "E.T." . He improved upon these techniques and began making his own projects . Right before he closed his shop , he had Mark Setrakian heading his animatronics division. You have seen Mark's fantastic work and fluid animatronics on Samael's tentacle hair in "Hellboy".
@@Valkonnen Oh, I didn’t know they were the same thing-I was just quoting what Rick said in the Metamorphosis book-but I guess you would probably knew Rick better! Actually I think Walt Disney was the one who coined the term “Animatronics” with his Audio Animatronics which he had at Disneyland and actually probably the first animatronic used in a film was the robin in Mary Poppins-so long before Rick had attempted to use these in his movies, somehow else had.
@@71crm Yes, Disney coined the term 'Audio-Animatronics" but that was based on hydraulic systems for movements . "Animatronics" is the use of cable or radio controls to make something move. Before this, Gorilla suits and the masks in '2001: A space odyssey" had a self contained spring or rubber band mechanism that was self contained for movement. It was rigged so that the operator could move a toggle near his real mouth and that would make the lips on the mask raise and lower.