Deep Rising is the movie that made Rob Bottin leave Hollywood.
Sad really
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Who is Rob Bottin??
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Mega, Rob Bottin is the makeup effects genius who worked on "The Fog", "Robocop" and, most significantly, "John Carpenter's The Thing". His effects work on that movie is considered some of the best of it's kind, if not the best ever. Unfortunately, Bottin's brand of effects work is becoming less and less in demand thanks to all the Computer Generated Imagery that film companies seem to prefer now.
sharethere is a great article here that explains some of it but this is the most essential part.
"The initial approach towards the effects intended by Sommers was to use a majority of practical effects, with an animatronic tentacle scheduled to be built. The digital counterparts were to be implemented only for the more visually complex sequences. After the first Computer Generated test, however, the director eventually decided to use digital effects for most of the film."
full article here: http://monsterlegacy.wordpress.com/tag/deep-rising/
This is what made Bottin feel the same way Winston did when they were shooting Jurassic Park. For Jurassic park they were gonna use animatronic AND stopmotion. But that´st nother story, Personall i dont really like stopmotion at all looks terrible and is perhaps the only bad thing in JC´s the thing. "Ending Blair monster"
So rumor has it Bottin realized his skills will get replaced maybe work asa consultant which is NOT what h e wanted at all and not by his standards with the howling the thingfog robocop i mean this guy really made movie magic!
but he saw the future and what it would mean for him and he left.... he´s in real estate now :S it´s weird and his like completely off the grid no one really knows where he is at he doesnt want to do interviews or work in hollywood again it´s so damn sad.
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Sad indeed. Legions of fans would be eager to pay tribute to him at any horror/sci-fi convention in the world.
shareI thought the Blair monster at the end was a practical effect rather than stop motion. Did we see different versions of the movie? Do you have a reference for that?
shareIt was, but there is deleted footage showing the Blair Monster in stop motion form that sticks out like a sore thumb compared to the rest of the effects.
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Yeh that was really quite bad, especially given the quality of the rest of the effects.
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