Beyond Skyline
For “Beyond Skyline” I was tasked with creating 6 alien suits, some weapons and other various effects. The performers needed to be 7 feet tall, have extended arms, LED eyes, mechanical fingers, and survive extensive fight scenes.
The Shepard Alien flying her ship. We provided a hero and stunt version of this suit.
The Pilot alien. We made 4 of this behemoth character, nearly 8 feet tall.
The "power claw". We made 3 sizes of these and in this case we hand-sculpted them instead of 3-d printing.
The Shepard and Pilot aliens fight it out.
We painted this suit with extra intense colors, knowing it would be filmed in the dark.
After the human legs were removed.
The pracitcal alien suit in front of a giant CGI creation.
The Pilot alien enters the catacombs
The pilot alien towers over one of our heroes.
For certain action shots we removed the stilts and attached the creature feet to the performer's shoes. The actor's legs were removed digitally.
The shepard's crazy upper back.
The pilot's leg sculpt splits away from the human leg underneath, which stand in stilts.
I got to boss around great artists on this show. Here Joey Orosco and Jon Wrightson detail the Shepard.
Joey's excellent Shepard chest. A great interpretation of a very challenging design.
Joey works on the Shepard head.
Huge fibgerglass mold #1
The foam latex team injects gallons of foam into the shepard body mold.
creature corset!
Head molds ready for action!
A suit with many parts needs a lot of configuring
The Shepard calf ready to mold
Large alien power claw getting molded
