When a movie or TV show wants to film an action that it never could with a real animal, special effects artists have to come up with a convincing fake version.

Thanks to the special effects artists at MastersFX, “The Boys” season three created several infamous scenes involving octopi and hamsters. Many instances, like in “Nightmare Alley” (2021) and “The Love Guru” (2008), involve scenes that switch between a real animal and a fake version for moments that wouldn’t be safe for a real animal to do.

To make sure the switch is seamless, the artists need to focus on skin texture and blotchy skin tones while adding hair and feathers by hand. This all gets more complicated when the animals need to move on-screen. With creative thinking, an animatronic chicken can flap its wings while pieces of fishing line can stand in for CG tentacles.

MastersFX:
https://www.mastersfx.com/
  / mastersfx1  
Zane Knisely:
  / zeelowcee  
Kayla Arena:
  / kayla_arena_fx  
Sean Sansom:
  / sansom.sean  
Ron Stefaniuk:
https://www.steffxstudio.com/
   / @steffx6427  
MPC:
   / mpcvfx  

MORE MOVIES INSIDER VIDEOS:
Why It’s So Hard For Foley Artists To Make Footstep Sounds | Movies Insider | Insider
   • Why It’s So Hard For Foley Artists To...  
How Cars Are Destroyed For Movies & TV | Movies Insider | Insider
   • How Cars Are Destroyed For Movies & T...  
How Fight Scene Props Are Made For Movies & TV | Movies Insider | Insider
   • How Fight Scene Props Are Made For Mo...  

------------------------------------------------------

#Movies #Props #Moviesinsider

Insider is great journalism about what passionate people actually want to know. That’s everything from news to food, celebrity to science, politics to sports and all the rest. It’s smart. It’s fearless. It’s fun. We push the boundaries of digital storytelling. Our mission is to inform and inspire.

Subscribe to our channel and visit us at: https://www.insider.com
Insider on Facebook:   / insider  
Insider on Instagram:   / insider  
Insider on Twitter:   / thisisinsider  
Insider on Snapchat:   / 4020934530  
Movies Insider on Snapchat:   / 9616609930  
Insider on TikTok:   / insider  

How Realistic Animal Props Are Made For Movies & TV Shows | Movies Insider | Insider