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18 Nov 2005, 8:25 pm
What does this creature (from the last part of Heavy Metal) most resemble?
(According to Thagomizer, it's all four. I don't know why this was as funny to me as it was but I was laughing for quite some time, though he originally said 'parakeet' in my defense.)
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20 Nov 2005, 3:16 am
Lurker_Extraordinaire wrote:
To me, It has a very bird-ish head and prehistoric reptilian body.....so I voted dinasour.
Are those clips from fantastic planet?
Lurker, does the bunny in your avatar have a pancake on it's head or what?Are those clips from fantastic planet?
Well, to answer the thread's question, the part of the critter that throws me off the most is the airplane/tail bit. NO flying creature that I know of, living or extinct, real or fictional, has a tail like that. The only time it is ever referred to is when the green bad guys call it a "bird". When I examined some of the concept art by Chris Achilleos, the creature looks like an amalgamation between a bird and a dragon. It had wings that are both feathered and webbed fingertips. How's that for weird? And the tail isn't shaped like the tail of an airplane, it's dragon-like. The head is bird-like. Here's what it says in Sirens:
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The animated film Heavy Metal was one of Achilleos' first involvements with the film industry and also his greatest to date. He was delighted to be offered the commission even though he found himself tripping over the shadow of his old hero again. Frank Frazetta had been offered it first but had been unwilling or unable to take it on.
What the film-makers wanted from him was a female warrior for the final heroic fantasy sequence of the film, an Amazon was carve a trail of vengeance through a marvellous world that had fallen into barbarism.
Achilleos was flown across the Atlantic and worked with producers and screenwriters in Montreal providing the basis for Taarna and her entourage. Her flying steed was in the end modified from his reptilian original shown opposite because this would have proved far too difficult to animate. It became a simple, stylised bird but for the promotional poster Achilleos was allowed to produce his own more detailed and realistic version of it.
What the film-makers wanted from him was a female warrior for the final heroic fantasy sequence of the film, an Amazon was carve a trail of vengeance through a marvellous world that had fallen into barbarism.
Achilleos was flown across the Atlantic and worked with producers and screenwriters in Montreal providing the basis for Taarna and her entourage. Her flying steed was in the end modified from his reptilian original shown opposite because this would have proved far too difficult to animate. It became a simple, stylised bird but for the promotional poster Achilleos was allowed to produce his own more detailed and realistic version of it.
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