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best and most beautiful mermaid tail construction i've seen till date

posted 16 years ago by fabjoerob
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no other mermaid tails/movies i have seen have been so believable and beautiful like that of splash's.....they took great pains for it and the result DEFINITELY PAID OFF!!!.

[–] MSStMarie 16 years ago

Apparently, it was very heavy and she had to stay in it, underwater (or her circulation would be cut off), for entire shooting days.

She couldn't eat or drink at all on days when she wore it, because taking it off and putting it back on for bathroom breaks was out of the question.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qQkozkn8Cc

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[–] screenman 16 years ago

That's strange. I wouldn't have thought some kind of catheter device would have stretched the imagination or the tail. Female needs in this regard are usualy pretty modest after all.

[–] MSStMarie 16 years ago

Agreed. Just know what I read.

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[–] vixsmith1982 16 years ago

Splash was just on tv now - one of my favourite films ever and you're so right, that tale looks real. Now it would be completely CGi. Also the bathroom scene where the scales appear, how did they do that??

[–] lilmarkuk 16 years ago

hmmm im not sure cos wasnt talked about in the documentarys would be something like they make a small piece of scaled skin that are hollow then push air through them making it look like transforming

[–] vixsmith1982 15 years ago

that makes sense as you only see part of it transforming and Daryl Hannah's arm covers part of it so it must be some sort of mechanism like that. awesome!