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looking at the previous shots and all
the surrounding effects with the
alien,
this

knew that we had to make

really special shot. This is an
intimate, close-up look at the alien,
and when they open that cocoon it
should have good impact. This
opening shot was something like
350 frames. It was so long that we
didn't want to have the edge rotoscoped. A hand drawn pencil line
a

around the alien wouldn't work, it
would make an 'edgie' line - so we
set about to

pull a matte off the
actually came off pretty
easily. After we got a matte off the
alien. It

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able to do

our

three

and create the alien
opening shot.
"I wasn't quite sure how
smoke in the plate was going to

vapor steps
look for that

are

making films.

we were

the

work for us, but it worked in our
favor as a kind of built-in revelation

of the alien. When

pulled off the

mattes, the smoke helped dissolve
in the alien. Also, I think the shot
itself is very pretty. The woman
who

played the alien had these ex¬
ceptionally blue contacts on and for
somebody with no hair and a latex
costume, it looks pretty, somehow.
We did have to tone down the blue
in her eyes.

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