American Cinematographer - January 1987 - 75

and intercut them together. We
were able to shoot the majority of
the cable-controlled miniatures
live on set, and that gave us an
over most of the stopmotion effects you see, in that
Stuart was able to direct them."

advantage

Pretorius' ultimate

trans¬

part was trying to figure out how
to foam the skin up," Shostrom
recalls. "The skin only had to be
about an inch thick, but we had
this totally convoluted surface
that had to be filled up. I talked to
some

people who worked

Winston's

on

at

Stan

Invaders From

formation begins
creation by Mark

Mars, and I found out that they'd
invented this technology of mak¬

almost

ing things out of polyurethane
foam that sets in about three min¬
utes. Their advantage was that
those large Martian drone suits

with a unique
Shostrom that
defies description. The

is about one-and-a-half
times the size of a man, has one
human arm and leg - and that's
where all resemblance to any living
creature

organism ends. The left side of its
body features one long, spindly leg
(somewhat insect-like) and a long,
muscular

arm

that ends in

a

de¬

formed, three fingered hand. A
huge stalk-like protrusion atop its
shoulders ends in a perverted and
malformed likeness of Pretorius'
face.
The creature required
more than a thousand pounds of

clay

to

sculpt. "The really tough

basically round, while our
like foaming up some

were

wild, and it's toxic as hell. After¬
wards, we had to step on the suit
for quite awhile to squeeze out all
of the cyanide fumes. Once we got
the

technology sorted

out, then
Kindlon spent the next
three-and-a-half months devising
all of the mechanical parts. It re¬
Dave

ally became

Kindlon's problems be¬
with Shostrom's offbeat de¬
sign. "I designed it with the idea of
getting away from the man-in-asuit concept," Shostrom elabo¬
rates.

odd

son

stump!

"Shannon Shay had to
devise this thing called the octoa day
and required several peo¬
ple to run the jiffy mixers full of
foam. We needed other people to
blow compressed air into the
molds as we were injecting the
foam, which was setting up as we
were doing this! It really got pretty

heckuva project for

gan

creature was
tree

a

Dave."

"In this case, we

lying

fulcrum
see-saw

-

-

on

had

a per¬

his stomach

on a

which is kind of like

and the

creature was

a

de¬

injection system, which took

signed around that. The operator's

to set

left arm had an arm-extension in
order to manipulate the monster's

up

big left

arm.

His head

was

tucked

inside the monster's shoulders and
his right arm operated the head
and neck of the creature. The plat¬
form the operator was on allowed

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