thread: puppets or CGI?
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01-26-2004, 03:47 AM
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I hate to tell you SS but CGI was never around during the time when Alains was filmed. James Cameron shot the film useing Miniatures, puppets, and special effects with smoke and mirrors and lighting. Every shot you see with the queen is a giant puppet much like what Jabba the Hutt was in "Return of the Jedi."

Eather that or there was a small modol of the queen they filmed in a miniature and they just use some cool hand tricks. But there was no CGI at all. If you seen CGI effects in Aleins it means you saw a special edition where nowadays they go back into the original film and twek it up with some CGI. But everything you see with the Alien curling his lip is all puppet work. You don't have believe me but thats what it is.

Alien 3 was the first to introduce a minor CGI effect and I am saying very minor CGI. Aliens was filmed during the 80's where CGI was never herd of at the time. And then Alien 3 was filmed in 1990 where CGI was starting to make its appearence for the first time in film. It wasn't much but it helped.
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