I’m starting to think about what kind of
limitations – if any – my creature designs will have. Will they be able to
talk? Will they be highly intelligent? Will they all be apart of the same
world/universe? I looked into some films that have aliens or animals in them
and wrote down some notes on each of their limitations and some on the film in
general. Below are the bullet points on each film:
Jungle Book (2016)
- Live action
- Animal characters are CG, the child and some other animals in shot are real
- Anatomy of the animals look correct apart from their huge size (possibly for plot/story progression)
- They can talk
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
- Stop motion
- Actors played out some scenes while recording
- Animals can talk and wear human style clothes all while living in the same world as humans
- They can drive and have fully furnished homes.
- Animals associated with humans (dogs) don’t talk/wear clothes.
Rango (2011)
- Creatures can talk, wear clothes, have fully furnished homes/bars, can play instruments etc
- All in the same world as humans
- Entire film is shot live action and then used the voices recorded for the final film.
Star Wars (1977-2005)
- There are both domesticated creatures and highly intelligent alien races
- Some are designed by Terryl Whitlatch
- Alien species have their own planets, governments, languages and technology.
- Star wars uses creatures for both plot line and to fulfill the environment/universe.
District 9 (2009)
- Within the same world as humans
- Different reproductive system
- Intelligent, have their own technology and language
- Aliens can understand human language,
- Very facial expressive (for audience) human like expressions
- Humans can become infected and turn into the same alien species
As I’m starting to create my own creature
designs, I’ll be thinking of what limitations to give them, each design could
have different limitations but I intend to create a handful and see what I create
and move on from there.
Below are the links to the trailers for
each of these films:
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