“Our concept evolved over time,” Boylan says. Susan Murphy, aka Ginormica, leaves a stream of particle system-created destruction in her wake as she waves good-bye to the alien robot chasing after her. Character technical director Terran Boylan worked for two years to create a rig that animators could use to control him and still have the creature look amorphous. BOB is a cross between a character and a fluid simulation. And Susan Murphy is almost as tall as Nancy Fowler Archer in the 1958 film Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.Īll these monsters are bipedal variations, although two have tails (Link and Insectosaurus) and Dr. The Missing Link is a cross between the Creature of the Black Lagoon and King Kong. “He looks like a toothpick with a giant olive on top.” Insectosaurus is a Godzilla-sized bug he looks like a 350-pound fuzzy grub. “He has a huge head, giant eyes, antennae, elegant hands, and skinny feet,” says head of character animation Dave Burgess. Cockroach is the team’s homage to The Fly. Similarly, the monsters trace their origins to classic sci-fi films, but are unique to this one. But, he’s still quite unique to our film.” “He has a disco shirt, ‘dealiebobs’ on his head, squid legs, and four eyes,” Vernon adds, “all the 1950s sci-fi attributes. At one point, he had a sinister moustache, pointy beard, and sharp teeth.” They dumped the moustache, beard, and teeth, but kept the other attributes.
“Sometimes we’d see brains through the skull, sometimes antennae, sequined disco shirts with belts, and squid-like legs. “Craig drew 30 or 40 different designs,” Vernon says. The alien, in particular, represented an amalgam of these influences. They were caricatures, but you believed them in serious situations.” Davis, a Mad Magazine cartoonist, also drew for Tales from the Crypt. But, our biggest influence was Jack Davis, the way he handled humans. So, everyone checked them out and watched the acting, lighting, and the cameras. “DreamWorks gave us a budget to buy 150 films on DVD. “We put together material from old 1950s B-movies, horror flicks, and sci-fi films,” Vernon says. To create the look of the film, the directors worked with production designer David James and character designer Craig Kellman.
On the other side is the alien overlord Gallaxhar (Rainn Wilson). Cockroach, PhD (Hugh Laurie), Insectosaurus (Jimmy Kimmel), The Missing Link (Will Arnett), Ginormica, the former Susan Murphy from Modesto, California, a 49-foot-11-inch-tall woman (Reese Witherspoon), and BOB the blob (Seth Rogen). “We thought it was an interesting idea to give monsters personalities, hopes, and dreams, and take them down a comedic path,” says Vernon.įighting for Earth on the monster team are Dr. Monger (Kiefer Sutherland), releases a team of imprisoned monsters to fight an alien menace.
Put the two ideas together, and you have a story in which an Army officer, General W.R. Rob Letterman, one of the Shark Tale directors, wanted to create an animated feature with a Dirty Dozen plot. You’d need to have a mighty inventive mind to think of combining Mad Magazine with 1950s monster movies and the film The Dirty Dozen, but that’s exactly how two DreamWorks Animation directors started when they created the studio’s latest feature animation, Monsters vs Aliens.Ĭonrad Vernon, one of Shrek 2’s directors, had the idea of making a film told from monsters’ points of view albeit in Mad Magazine style. Read in-depth features about how cutting-edge CG was created for various movies making Oscar buzz.
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