Practical Creature FX Are Awesome! Watch “Underworld: Awakening – Building a Better Lycan”

2012-05-11

I’ve always liked the Underworld werewolf aesthetic, which was originally developed and executed by Patrick Tatopoulos & crew. The Lycans are the polar opposite of the Twilight / True Blood “fluff-wolves” I detest – they’re big, hairy, and monstrous in a way that’s fantastically bestial. The task of bringing these big guys to life for Underworld: Awakening fell to the folks at MastersFX (based in the Vancouver area, which gives me fanboy “cool stuff in close proximity” paroxysms). Todd Masters and his staff had to evolve Tatopoulos’s…
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Behind-the-Scenes Photos from Cabin in the Woods [partial spoiler]

2012-04-20

The fact that I’m even posting about Cabin in the Woods is a spoiler in itself, but the fact that I’ve said “spoiler” three times already and you’re still reading means you’ve already seen it, you haven’t seen it and don’t care, or you have poor reading comprehension skills. In any event, Werewolf News reader Nyetwerke sent in a link to an Ain’t It Cool News interview with CITW director Drew Goddard, and there are some photos in there that I…
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Werewolf Wednesday Digest – April 2012, Part 2

2012-04-18

Hey, what do you know, it’s Werewolf Wednesday again! Put on your special bib and suck the marrow out of these bloody tidbits. A week or two ago, I was asked to provide a Twitter signal boost for a search being undertaken to identify this handsome devil. A number of people came to our collective rescue and identified the creature as a were-hyena (or werewolf) created by Spectral Motion for an ultimately deleted scene from Blade: Trinity. Not content to…
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Exclusive: Makeup FX Pro Adrien Morot shares photos of his “relaxing” werewolf project

2012-04-07

Back in January, special makeup effects artist Adrien Morot shared some behind-the-scenes werewolf media with us, and now he’s made my weekend with a surprise email: I have been stuck on the new Chronicles of Riddick movie doing insane hours for the last few months… I finished Riddick last Saturday morning and I wanted to relax from all of the madness by spending a few days in my shop and working on a personal project for once. So I took out the molds…
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Life-Size Werewolf Statues and Busts by Tom Spina Designs

2012-03-16

Tom Spina is one of the nicest people I’ve come in contact with through Werewolf News. I’ve posted before about the great work he and his colleagues do, and he always gives me a heads-up (and an early preview) when he’s about to share something werewolfy. Here’s a new promo video for his “New Moon” werewolf statue and head display (no, not that New Moon), which you may have seen previously, but which I am promoting again because they’re fucking awesome. Enjoy, and…
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Video Tutorial: Realistic Werewolf Claws for Under $10

2012-03-13

Convention season is fast approaching (ahem, ahem) and if you’re not already thinking about how to step up your game vis-à-vis werewolf costumes, well, there you go – I’ve just given you another anxiety to cope with. Werewolf hands are tough to do realistically, especially on the cheap, which is why I like this video tutorial by fumsmusing. I saw this on YouTube last weekend, and fully intend to have tried it myself by the end of this weekend. There you go!…
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Exclusive behind-the-scenes photos & video of werewolf suit & effects by Adrien Morot

2012-01-09

The folks at at Adrien Morot Special Makeup Effects Studio in Montreal are responsible for some amazing creations, from creature effects and animatronics to unsettlingly life-like dummies. Adrien was even nominated for a 2010 Academy Award for his incredible age makeup in Barney’s Version (although that was the year The Wolfman won, which makes me feel vaguely guilty for some reason). A while back Adrien emailed me with some questions and comments about Werewolf News, which I was happy to answer, but he made one fatal mistake:…
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Life-Size “The Wolfman” Movie Costume display by Tom Spina Designs & Gotham FX

2011-05-21

Two years ago Tom Spina made collectors and werewolf fans everywhere jealous with an incredible Underworld: Rise of the Lycans display. After giving us all a year off to recover, he and his accomplices at Tom Spina Designs and Gotham FX are back to make you clutch your face in envy with this gorgeous restoration and display of a screen-used werewolf costume from 2010′s The Wolfman. I got in touch with Tom after some rather interesting photos appeared on the…
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Photos of Tyler Posey’s “Teen Wolf” werewolf form + I try to stop whining about a show I’ve never seen

2011-05-20

NY Times writer Alex Pappademas has written an article that perfectly articulates my own mixed feelings on MTV’s “Teen Wolf” reboot, and it only took him six pages. From the article: The new “Teen Wolf” show is not as clever or allegorical as “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” but the comparison is almost unfair; Buffy was about teenagers but didn’t try particularly hard to be for them, whereas “Teen Wolf” is on MTV, which has a bigger investment in selling youth to…
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Tom Spina Designs “Mystery Project” Werewolf Teaser Photos

2011-05-11

What kind of werewolf project are they working on over at Tom Spina Designs? I know the answer but I ain’t tellin’ (until the man says I can). A number of teaser photos have appeared on their Facebook page over the past few days (go and Like them!), with this lovely hand shot being the latest. Seeing this stuff make me want to quit my day job and go back to school. Look. Covet. I know I am. Check out the…
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