‘Alien vs. Predator 2′ Set Talk
Andrew Li, Assistant Art Director talks about the work he's done
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An Alien and Predator fansite I hadn’t heard of called AlienExperience had a chance to speak with Andrew Li, Assistant Art Director on Alien vs. Predator 2 and he had some interesting things to say about the upcoming sequel.
In this follow-up to the 2004 film the iconic monsters from two of the scariest film franchises ever, wage their most brutal battle yet in an unsuspecting Colorado town. Colin and Greg Strause are directing.
Here are a couple of clips from the interview:
I worked mainly on the sewer set and the predator spacecraft. We wanted to keep the sewer relatively small so that the aliens and predators would look very menacing and horrifyingly huge in the set. In fact, when the predator is standing in full costume, he is over 8 feet tall!!!
When we seen him wading through the sewer water hunting down the rogue aliens, he definitely looks VERY, VERY scary!!! We did not have a big budget for this set so we tried to put a lot of the money in the beautiful sculpted predator architecture of the ship and we used lots and lots of aluminum extrusions and pipes to fill in the rest of the set. In some ways, the detailing on the set is similar to what I did on the Virgil “earthship” on The Core. But we were careful to keep the design non-human like as well. I got a lot of inspiration from the creature and prop design work coming out of Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. We wanted to make the predator spacecraft organic and beautiful, but also very rugged and macho.
…For the Predator, we got a glimpse of their starship at the ending of the last AVP when we see one of their own lying dead on a Predator altar bed. We take cues from that design and ramp it up for our version of the altar bed and the Predator spacecraft. We developed our own version of the Predator alphabet which is similar to the characters that have already been established.
…What’s unique about this Alien movie is that we finally see the Aliens invading somewhere that most people would be familiar with - small town U.S.A. In a sense, this puts the movie in the classic horror genre where some evil being is killing innocent people in places that were once considered safe. So by this measure, it was not difficult to create new and convincing settings. The Alien is an incredibly resilient character.
For the complete interview, which has a whole lot more information in it, click here, and for more on AVP2 click here.
AVP2 is set to hit theaters on December 25.
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