Rick Baker’s Transformation Concept Art for The Wolfman
Friday, February 27 2009 – 8:34 AM
Posted by Andrew
In the past, special effects legend Rick Baker has expressed a cetain reluctance about the use of computer-generated creature effects in film. Apparently this hasn’t stopped Rick from messing around with ZBrush, and he’s been sharing his progress and experiments over at the ZBrushCentral forum. Starting two weeks ago, he started posting concept art for The Wolfman. Judging from some of his back posts, these are probably proofs-of-concept instead of anything official, but it’s really exciting to see the different stages of the creative process getting posted to a forum by the artist. Amazing stuff!
February 27th, 2009 at 9:39 am
I was just coming here to post this. Awesome stuff.
February 27th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Frightening but beautiful. I hope that the lead character will eventually turn full-wolf, but whether or not that happens, I wonder if they’ll be able to make his change as terrifying as David’s in American Werewolf in London.
Ughh, God PLEASE let them bring some sort of lupine consultant on board so that this movie doesn’t nosedive!
February 28th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Pure badassery. Kinda wishing for full wolf (head) as well.
March 2nd, 2009 at 8:59 am
Nah….no full wolf needed in this one. He’s a wolf*man* after all. :)
March 2nd, 2009 at 10:00 am
I think these photos represent the maximum level of werewolfiness that will be attained in The Wolfman. I’m not usually a big fan of “wolf man” style werewolves, but Baker and Del Toro make it look pretty awesome. I mean, you’d kiss him, right, girls?
May 12th, 2009 at 9:05 am
I want so bad for this movie and it’s effects to be fantastic, but I can’t say I’m holding my breath either. Hollywood keeps letting me down, so it’s best to not get my hopes up.
May 20th, 2009 at 6:14 am
I think this will be great! I would have liked for it to have been released in September or October rather than November, but it will have to do. It’s not too late to move up the date anyway. Here is hoping for Universal to reign the horror world once again with these iconic creatures. And this time with a serious approach and not the Sommer’s trash. If this is successful, we should receive the rest of the Universal Monster films with respectful, SERIOUS remakes. Very exciting stuff.
June 21st, 2009 at 3:18 am
As a remake of the old universal movie , turning the lead character into a complete wolf would not be in keeping with the story. glad to see the make ups are like a modern day version of the jack pierce design. ive been up close and personal with the prosthetics and some other stuff from the wolfman , my opinion…no one will be dissapointed. what ive seen was fantastic stuff !! cant wait for its release !!
February 21st, 2010 at 2:09 pm
Rick Baker is simply the best special effects person period. The guy is a genius.