It's Back! A new Giant Creature comes to life for Comic-Con
Check out the new digital season of How to Build a Giant Creature! Over the next week, the series will give an insider's look into the making of the nearly 14-foot-tall creature, leading into Comic-Con, where it will be unveiled to the public.
The creature known as Bodock was built over six weeks in 7,500 hours by the Award-winning Creature FX studio, Legacy Effects. He is fully functional, stands at 13'6" tall, 9'9" wide, 13'6" deep, weighs 2K pounds, and was partially created using 3D printing solutions from Stratasys, a global leader in 3D printing and additive manufacturing.
Along with our Giant Creature partners at Legacy Effects, WIRED, and Stratasys, we hope that everyone he encounters, artists and techies alike, will be inspired to THINK BIG.
STAY TUNED for more episodes rolling out daily!
Jump To Section
- Designing the Giant Creature
- The Scaling Up Process
- How to Prototype
- The Journey of the Head
- 3D Printing the Creature Maquette
- Testing the Mechanical Skeleton
- Sound Effects: Making the Creature Sounds
- Animatronics and Mechanics Behind the Giant Creature
- How Stratasys Grew by Over 30% of Giant Creature
- Adding Fur
- Getting Ready for Kimmy Kimmel
- Giant Creature on Jimmy Kimmel LIVE
- Giant Creature at Comic Con 2014
- Project Credits
Designing the Giant Creature
See the Giant Creature design we selected to build:
The Scaling Up Process
How do you take a Giant Creature design into the Real World?
How to Prototype
Now that we have a design, it's time to see if it will work:
The Journey of the Head
Find out what it takes to sculpt a Giant Creature head:
3D Printing the Creature Maquette
Using 3-D Printing to Build a Small-Scale Figure of a Giant Creature:
Testing the Mechanical Skeleton
Testing the full-size Giant Creature mechanical rig for the first time:
Sound Effects: Making the Creature Sounds
Anarchy Post shares Sound Effects with the Creature crew:
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Animatronics and Mechanics Behind the Giant Creature
Giant Creature comes to life via Mechanical FX wizardry:
How Stratasys Grew by Over 30% of Giant Creature
Adding Fur
The hair artisans at National Fiber Tech work their furry magic:
Getting Ready for Kimmy Kimmel
Getting Giant Creature ready for his big debut on Live Television:
Giant Creature on Jimmy Kimmel LIVE
Giant Creature makes his Television Debut:
Giant Creature at Comic Con 2014
Check out all the Giant Creature Comic Con videos below!
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Project Credits
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, Marni Roberts
Director of Marketing for SWSCA - Andy Franco
Music by: Network Music Lab
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-Prototypeing:
- 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
Giant Creature 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 Hope
- Steve Gibson
- Mark Bashor
- Patrick Brault
Billerica Office Under Terry Hope
- Leslie Frost
Additional Stratasys Staff:
- Jessica Songetay
- James Berlin
- Chris Cates
- Dustin Kloempken
- Cathleen Kadletz
- Marc Downie
- Ryan Litman
- Daryl Baumgartner
Giant Creature Fur by National Fiber Technology
- Maggie Bloomer
- Kim Clark
- Fred Fehrmann
- Emile Gagne
- Carol Goans
- Juan Gomez
- Talia Harvey
- Kaitlin Hrdy
- Allison LeSaffre
- Kate Maloney
- Chris McMullen
- Abby Roy
Giant Creature Foam Milling by Alchymia
- Alfred Kuan
Giant Creature "Augmented Reality" by Blippar
- Marc Florestant - 3D Artist
- Leon Tyler
- Radu Nicolau
- Matt Banyard Gareth Upton
- Mike Harris
- Brian Morales
- Cheena Jain
- Patrick ALuise
Special Thanks:
John Rosengrant, Shane Mahan, and Lindsay MacGowan
New Deal Studios - Shannon Gans, Matthew Gratzner, and Ian Hunter
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