Concept art by John Bisson.
Tentacle concept by Bernie Wrightson.
Tentacle concept by Lei Jin.
Mike McCarty paints a practical tentacle.
Filming the tentacles.
Digital tentacles.
Concept art of the bug creature by Bernie Wrightson.
Practical bug creature models.
Building the digital bug.
In the film.
Concept art of the bird creatures by John Bisson.
Concept art by Lei Jin.
Concept art by Jordu Schell.
Concept art by Bernie Wrightson.
This one looks like a Skeksis. I’m sorry, I insist.
Leaning towards a four-winged configuration…
Early maquette by Jordu Schell.
Building the bird creature puppet.
Filming.
The completed digital model by Miguel Ortega.
In the film.
Concept art of the spider creature by John Bisson.
Concept art by Bernie Wrightson.
Concept art by Lei Jin.
Jordu Schell’s original spider creature maquette, which closely follows the description from the novella.
Final design maquette.
Darabont films one of the spider creature puppets.
In the film.
Concept art of the mantis-lobster creature by Lei Jin. Final creature model on the top right.
The mantis-lobster digital model.
Early concept art of the Behemoth by John Bisson.
Concept art of the Behemoth by Bernie Wrightson.
Building the digital Behemoth.
In the film.
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