A mask by K&B Productions was used for most photography.

The mask used in most of the close ups by Stan Winston Studios and the awful CGI mask for Jumanji Kid's desk.

Who's Jumanji Kid?

Wait, who is this Jumanji kid? Was that the, yeah.

It, it, it's funny.

He teamed up with Stan Winston Studios, uh, because ironically, uh, h- his former boss, Boss Film Studios, they were the ones that created the original insect-like design for Predator that was, uh, originally worn by Jean-Claude Van Damme, and then they got axed when they were like, "This thing isn't working.

We can't, we can't put this on screen." Uh, so s- uh, Stan-

But the Predator was, like, 4'2", so that didn't help.

Disc jockey.

Uh, so Stan Winston Studios built the full size animatronic croc.

So I'm sure, I'm obviously gonna talk a bit about it in film school I think, but yeah.

So it's pretty good.

Oh.

The creature effects of creature works, Stan Winston Studio.

Practical creature effects were designed by the legendary late Stan Winston, relying heavily on physical suits and custom contact lenses instead of digital computer-generated monsters.

The werewolf body's hair was crafted using individual angora fibers that were glued and hand-sewn onto fine mesh nets applied directly to the actors.

But how about you, Cody? How was your rewatch?

Yeah, to echo you guys, this is such a special one, mostly because of the very clear 90s movie vibe that I think we all, you know, pine for in these difficult times and just the sheer scale of the puppetry by Stan Winston Studio.

And yes, of course, there are digital versions of these toys performing, you know, maneuvers in the film that were clearly impossible to puppeteer given their time and resources.

But they seemingly did as much practically as they could.

He has a very calming, like nice voice.

A lot of gravitas.

Speaking of gravitas, you know, one of the biggest names in the biz at the time, Stan Winston Studio.

They had just five months to design the characters before filming.