1900 Black and cream wool felt with contrasting black & cream embroidery & soutache, silver military style buttons. Augusta Auctions lot 706, number 9.6618.589.706
Look at this! Look at this fucking thing! This was done in 1986, and used absolutely no CGI whatsoever. It was ALL practical, and ALL done through puppetry. Look at the last gif. Over a dozen vines are moving at once along with its head, lips, and tongue! In interviews Rick Moranis has stated he often forgot he was working with a puppet, as opposed to a really ugly guy. Even today it looks so real. Audrey ii is nothing short of miraculous
The practical effects of Little Shop of Horrors was fucking astounding. It’s worth it to mention that, in the scenes where the plant is moving, the filming was slowed to 12 to 16 frames a second, so that the film could be sped up to give the Audrey II a more lifelike appearance. In such scenes where actors like Rick Moranis had to speak with the plant, he had to mouth his lines at a slower-than-normal speed while still looking convincing, only to have his voice added in post.
It’s also worth mentioning that a crew of 60+ puppeteers were needed to operate the plant, as the entire puppet weighed over a ton.
It’s so strangely entertaining to see people finding out with shock that these movies didn’t use computer effects.
This movie came out when I was little and still feels like a recent phenomenon to me. I’d never even personally seen a computer outside of a cartoon at the time, nobody else I knew had, and computer generated images just weren’t a concept the average person ever even imagined.
I mean, I was there when THIS was considered the most jaw-dropping cutting edge of video game graphics, some time after Little Shop of Horrors would have come out:
CG effects didn’t go mainstream until Jurassic Park, and even that still used gigantic puppets and animatronics for many of its scenes.
Puppetry by the late 80′s had been refined to the point of really looking like a flesh and blood creature, but then Hollywood became enamored with computer effects and started all over again. It feels like CG here in 2018 is only just now managing to look as real as 1989′s latex puppet work, but still looks really off to me. There’s still no perfect replacement for a real, physical on-set object.
Growing up in the 70s/80s I really miss seeing the use of practical effects. When done right, they can really add levels of depth to movies and leave you thinking how the heck did they do that? Remember how different Mad Max: Fury Road looked from other recent action/adventure movies? That was because they used practical effects in their stunt work. It looked real because it was real. I’m not saying get rid of CGI (they even used some for the settings in Fury Road), but use it wisely and only when needed. There are times CGI is used when it was completely unnecessary and its obvious CGIness distracts you from the movie (looking at you Steppenwolf from Justice League.) I think it’s a lost art and I hope gets rediscovered in earnest someday.
I’m so happy to share the first chapter for ALICE. Done with a lot of love with @piratefox . We will soon upload it here in tumblr too but for now you can check it out at webtoon ✧☆.*･
おばんざいランチ // Kyoto ‘Obanzai’ Lunch So many things I needed to stand up to get a picture of the whole tray. From left, we have chicken tempura in sauce, konjac and daikon simmered in a mild broth (weirdly, I liked this the most), mackerel with grated daikon, and finally hijiki seaweed with mushrooms, a bit of uncurdled tofu, and takuan pickles and dried bonito for the rice. Also some chikuwa fish sausage, but I gave those to my husband because I was not in the mood to deal with that texture.
