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40 foot animatronic anaconda from the movie "anaconda" on display

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rlemmon:
The 40 foot animatronic anaconda from the movie of the same name was recently on display at the California academy of science recently. Anyone else want one? Would be cool as hell for halloween. I had heard they made two of these for the movie. I'm not sure if this is the smaller one or not. Here's some pics and videos of him.









This one is great after 54 seconds when is has its skin on.



newmanfamilyvlogs:
I wonder how much time/money difference there ends up being between building something complex like that versus doing it in CG.

rlemmon:
I'm a pretty big fan of this movie and from what i remember the animatronics were 10 million dollars to build. I believe that's the price for each of the two snakes that they built but i may be wrong. According to the internet movie data base the cg was $100,000 per second of film. I would say it was pretty damn good cg especially towards the end of the movie when the 2nd larger anaconda comes down from the rafters and goes apeshit. Some of the attacks towards the beginning were a bit off. You can also clearly tell when your looking at the cg vs the animatronic snakes.



What i wonder is why they didn't reuse the anamatronic snakes for anaconda 2 (aka anacondas) They were all cgi except for one quick scene where one pokes its head out of a tunnel/hole in the jungle and gets decapitated. I loved the first movie because I'm a special effects geek and it was one of those so bad its really good types. In the second one they hardly showed the anacondas.

it was more about them searching for the blood orchard for a pharmaceutics company and having an occasional giant snake problem. As for anaconda 3 and 4 which were made by the syfy channel they were total crap.

Mikezilla:
As usual I cant see ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---. Im huge into practical effects, I think they are exponentially better than stupid CG effects. The only time that is necessary is when you cant do something with live action effects, like a huge fight sequence or an army of something that would be impossible to do practically. I think the animatronic snakes look way better than the stupid CG ones. There was so much motion blur on em anyway you could barely tell what it was anyway...  ::)

I would choose a guy in a rubber suit over a CG character anyday of the week.

Dartful Dodger:
The CG is why I want to see some movies.

Red Tails looks like the movie Pearl Harbor should have been.

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