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Any behind the scenes photos of the G'mork puppet?

posted 9 years ago by Purplesquirrel27
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So I make art using real animal skulls (naturally deceased only) and my specialty is a 'Skritter' which is my term for a fantasy creature I've sculpted using a skull as the foundation. (Skull + critter = Skritter.) I am doing a series of 80's nightmare fuel movie monster Skritters and just finished and sold the first one (the Red Bull from TLU) and I want to do G'mork as the second, using a german shepherd skull. I am trying to find side view photos of the puppet used in the film for reference. If anyone has any links for me I would really appreciate it!

I am planning to run wiring through the 'skullpture' with LED lights so I can give him a proper set of glowing green glass eyes. >:) Oh, and if anyone has a suggestion as to what the third in the series should be, let the ideas fly!

Here's a link to my version of the Red Bull if anyone wants a peek.
http://raintulgey.tumblr.com/post/142035640097/finally-after-six-weeks-of-sculpting-painting

[–] DaveWasHere 9 years ago

I ran into the same problem some months back when trying to make a 3D model of him for the game Skyrim(I wanted to replace the default game wolves with Gmorks).

There's a ton of side profile pics of the Mora and Falcor animatronic puppets, but I've yet to dig up any of Gmork.

My next idea was to make some screencaps directly from the film itself, but there are also very few, if any, clear side profile shots during any of Gmork's time on screen.

In fact, the only time we see him from the side at all is during the brief cuts to him during the Swamps of Sadness chase scene.

Anyways, here is a couple of the only real "decent" looking ones I could capture from that scene. Hope they help you in some small way. 😉

https://postimg.org/image/q6fdoju3z/

https://postimg.org/image/72m287h9r/

Good luck and great work btw on the Red Bull. Looks great! 

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[–] DickyBettsBass 8 years ago

Wow, that's a great-looking monster puppet! Good luck with your work!

Though you don't get any real profile views of the Gmork from this source, I think it would help to study the highly detailed footage from the German making-of documentary "60 Millionen für Phantasien".

This includes a long behind the scenes look at animating Gmork.

This YouTube link will cue you right to this bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD9tbQLM6iE&t=37m57s

There are subtitled clips too, but I don't think these are necessary in this case.

Dicky

[–] Captain_Wesker 8 years ago

http://yotaro-sculpts.deviantart.com/art/Gmork-The-Neverending-Story-425760262

http://yotaro-sculpts.deviantart.com/art/Gmork-The-Neverending-Story-2-425762302

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