Why do film makers not do any homework on practical makeup or social structure - Page 2

Anahki · 04-07-2017

If you want tons of fruitless discussion about the matter, you should have gone directly to The Pack Forum: http://wiki.thepacksden.net/thepackboard/
There, we tried to help certain guy to make "the perfect werewolf movie", but through the time, after lots of promises and shrinking ambition with larger budgets, everything went down and down and vaporized.

Sunstrider · 04-08-2017

Technically speaking... which movie gets closer to the 'ideal' werewolf design?
(i.e. bipedal predators mixing primate/human and wolf characteristics?

The_Nameless_One · 04-08-2017

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Originally Posted by bcislandguy

it just seems so many of these amateur SFX think a werewolf is pointed ears, some glued on hair and contact lenses and thats a quality product.

Honestly..I'd love it if more transformations featured (long) pointed ears at all. That would be a (baby-)step forward already cause so far it tends to stop with glued hair and contactlenses. Oh and cheap fangs, painted nails and drooling for no reason.

(But yeah...)

Prof_Sai · 04-20-2017

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Originally Posted by bcislandguy

Its always stuff like these spindly spider fingers that are twice as long as they should be, claws that are like these excessivly long catlike shape that are somehow razor sharp, they don't even get canine claws are for holding not ripping.

I think the problem is that if you mix an attractive movie star with a healthy realistic wolf, you are going to get something too cute. More like Furries the movie then a horror film.

Xanderfox · 04-21-2017

the "monster" aspect is the over exaggeration of features. A realistic blending of lupine and simian features might be off putting to most but it's not really terrifying.
Further as always with Werewolves being a fantasy creature there isn't actually a real creature to compare too so you can only say "this is what I THINK werewolves SHOULD look like" not "this is what I KNOW werewolves DO look like."
Being a furry one of the oddest debates is "Do female werewolves have breasts?" It's easy to say Bipedal Humanoid Wolves would have them but is that what werewolves are? Would they have them or would they be super muscled savage killing machines who's gender wasn't visibly determinable? Maybe werewolves have 4 different forms? A human, a wolf, and athromorphic wolf and a hyper muscled "savage" form. Maybe they don't have a transitionary form.
It's easy to say "I think the effects look bad" but the statement "the effect isn't correct" is a objective thing.

04-07-2017	#1
Anahki AAWIL fanatic Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Talbot Manor Posts: 1,787	Re: Why do film makers not do any homework on practical makeup or social structure If you want tons of fruitless discussion about the matter, you should have gone directly to The Pack Forum: http://wiki.thepacksden.net/thepackboard/ There, we tried to help certain guy to make "the perfect werewolf movie", but through the time, after lots of promises and shrinking ambition with larger budgets, everything went down and down and vaporized.

04-08-2017	#2
Sunstrider Process Fan Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 94	Re: Why do film makers not do any homework on practical makeup or social structure Technically speaking... which movie gets closer to the 'ideal' werewolf design? (i.e. bipedal predators mixing primate/human and wolf characteristics?

04-21-2017	#5
Xanderfox Process Master Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 589	Re: Why do film makers not do any homework on practical makeup or social structure the "monster" aspect is the over exaggeration of features. A realistic blending of lupine and simian features might be off putting to most but it's not really terrifying. Further as always with Werewolves being a fantasy creature there isn't actually a real creature to compare too so you can only say "this is what I THINK werewolves SHOULD look like" not "this is what I KNOW werewolves DO look like." Being a furry one of the oddest debates is "Do female werewolves have breasts?" It's easy to say Bipedal Humanoid Wolves would have them but is that what werewolves are? Would they have them or would they be super muscled savage killing machines who's gender wasn't visibly determinable? Maybe werewolves have 4 different forms? A human, a wolf, and athromorphic wolf and a hyper muscled "savage" form. Maybe they don't have a transitionary form. It's easy to say "I think the effects look bad" but the statement "the effect isn't correct" is a objective thing.