Anyone have any info on what was used to portray the squids? This movie has some of the most realistic looking creatures in it and I was wondering if they just used good CGI or if there was some other stuff involved.
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The scene where the mother squid came to the rock pool and showed her with the baby, that segment was completly CGI. All close ups were Anamatronic.
The further back the squid is viewed, the more it becomes CGI.
All scenes involving the victims being killed are all a single length of thick rubber like material used to resemble a tentacle.
The scene where Talley is unfortunatly killed off, you can see that it is just a single piece of tentacle. A model of the huge squid was later composited into the shot to make it appear Talley was dragged to the beak head first and killed off.
The big squid head model weighed just over 2000 pounds and was used as the main mother squid model.
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just curious as to where you got your info from - an interesting mix of fact and fiction - for example our largest squid [the dead baby] did weigh around 2,000 lbs. but was never use as the mother squid.
shareThis movie has some of the most realistic looking creatures in it.......
Sorry, but I almost spit out my coffee reading that. The special effects in this movie were awful. You could tell the miniature squids, they looked like toys. The CGI squids were poorly done. The only decent effect, was the giant puppet, used for the dead "baby" squid.
I thought the giant octopus in the movie Warlords of Atlantis, was more effective.
Um seriously? I thought the effects were great.
shareFor 1996 the effects were at the cutting edge point of in between old style effects to the early beginning of the new special effects.
Titanic 1997 was a movie renowned for creating new special effects and the Beast was just in that time frame so we got the best they could deliver us.
But on that note it was a TV movie the effects again were not that good compared to that of a movie but I still enjoy watching it.
NO cgi was used - it was all practical effects - four different scales of squid puppets used
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No latex rubber used
shareMixonlab-1 that's not entirely true. The mother squid is shown as cgi in that Brief scene where it collects it's young from that pool and it looked reaaalllyyy bad, but I'll cut the film a break since it's a TV movie from the mid 90s and most digital fx from that time period were obviously pretty rough, apart for a couple exceptions like Jurassic park of course. The rest didn't appear to be cgi though and it looked pretty convicing with the models and animatronics they used.
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