Tuesday, April 02, 2013

SHOT STITCHING: 'ALIEN' & 'ALIENS'



RIDLEY SCOTT'S ALIEN 1979
THE UNDERCARRIAGE ROOM


No artistic effects were applied to this photo. It's an original screenshot unaltered. This is the room, often called the "chain room", where Brett is attacked by the alien creature. It's filled with massive hardware. However during that scene the camera starts panning up till it reaches the ceiling. But the camera never pulls back and allow us to see just how massive that hardware was.

I imported key frames from that sequence, into Photoshop and merged them using layers and fading effects to compose the complete picture. Now after 33 years, you can see the massive size of that hardware in the Undercarriage room. Because angle views were involved the chains don't quite match up, but I sacrificed that discrepancy to give priority on capturing it's entire size .


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JAMES CAMERON'S ALIENS
THE ALIEN ENCRUSTED CHAMBER


No artistic effects were applied to this photo. It's an original screenshot unaltered. However during that scene the camera starts at the ceiling and pans down till it reaches the lower walls where the marines are. But the camera never pulls back and for over 25 years we have never seen that entire room.

I imported key frames from that sequence, into Photoshop and merged them using layers and fading effects to compose the complete picture. Now you can see the alien encrusted chamber in it's entirety .

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

would have been nice to see them a bit bigger.

Jim said...

Yeah I know. But I can only post what they posted, which are those sizes :(