A small crew from Rick Baker’s shop went on location to shoot the gorilla suits and puppets. The live action footage of real gorillas being gorillas and interacting with Sigourney had been previously shot at the Karasoke Research center in Rwanda. The editor, Stuart Baird had the difficult task of editing scenes of the real […]
The best gorilla puppets and suits that nobody knew they saw…
If you saw the film “Gorillas in the Mist” you watched scenes of mountain gorillas in the wild. However, you might not realize that alongside footage of actual mountain gorillas, you were looking at one of the greatest feats of realistic puppet and creature making ever executed by a special effects crew. In 1985 I […]