SPIDER-MAN's Doc Ock described

By: Patrick Sauriol
Date: Friday, March 21, 2003
Source: Sci-Fi Wire

Steve Johnson, the anaimatronic designer working on the Doctor Octopus tentacles in THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, told Sci-Fi Wire the reasons why the Doctor's mechanical arms will be real and not pixels.

"Sam's [Raimi, the director] a fan [of animatronics], and he feels like the fans would prefer to see the real thing," Johnson told the website. "It's a lot harder when you have a puppet, and you've got 18 performers on the set. It takes a lot longer to shoot than if you do it digitally."

This information matches with what Coming Attractions was told by an insider with close ties to the SPIDER-MAN 2 production. That source told us last December "Sam [Raimi] wants to use mechanical tentacles whenever possible. He wants the actors to have actual physical tentacles to interact with. Sam wants to 'save the CGI for Spider-Man'."


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