ALEC GILLIS AND TOM WOODRUFF, JR.
OF STUDIO ADI (AMALGAMATED DYNAMICS INC.)
LAUNCH KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN
TO FINANCE “HARBINGER DOWN”
The Upcoming Sci-Fi/Horror Film Will Celebrate Animatronics and Makeup FX.
Through Kickstarter, Fans Can Help Keep FX Real!
LOS ANGELES, CA – May 8, 2013 –Award-winning
Visual Effects artists Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff, Jr., co-founders
of Studio ADI (Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc.) launched a Kickstarter
campaign today to finance Harbinger Down. “In the spirit of sci-fi/horror classics, Alien and The Thing, Harbinger Down is a tense, claustrophobic full-length creature film that will feature only practical Animatronic and Makeup Effects,” announced Gillis, who will write and direct.
“Our company, Amalgamated Dynamics,
will create the kind of Oscar caliber Creature Effects for which we are
known,” commented Woodruff, who will produce along with Studio ADI’s
Jennifer Tung. Lance Henriksen is set to star. Kickstarter link for Harbinger Down:
Gillis
and Woodruff have over 60 years of experience between them, and have
worked with many top filmmakers, including James Cameron, David Fincher,
Paul Verhoeven, Ridley Scott, Neil Blomkamp, Robert Zemekis, Joe
Johnston, Nora Ephron, and Mike Nichols to name-drop a few. But what
will really make Harbinger Down special is passion.
Gillis
added, “Fans of the art of Animatronics and Makeup FX, know this
technique is currently overlooked by the big studios; I'm hoping the
fans will help us remedy that by supporting this labor of love.”
Contributors to the Kickstarter Campaign will also receive unique,
amazing, thrilling, one-of-a-kind incentives for supporting the
project. Details are available online.
In Harbinger Down, a group of grad students have booked passage on the fishing trawler Harbinger to study the effects of global warming on a pod of
Orcas in the Bering Sea. When the ship's crew dredges up a recently
thawed piece of old Soviet space wreckage, things get downright deadly.
It seems that the Russians experimented with tardigrades, tiny
resilient animals able to withstand the extremes of space radiation.
The creatures survived, but not without mutation. Now the crew is
exposed to aggressively mutating organisms. And after being locked in
ice for 3 decades, the creatures aren't about to give up the warmth of
human companionship.
Orcas in the Bering Sea. When the ship's crew dredges up a recently
thawed piece of old Soviet space wreckage, things get downright deadly.
It seems that the Russians experimented with tardigrades, tiny
resilient animals able to withstand the extremes of space radiation.
The creatures survived, but not without mutation. Now the crew is
exposed to aggressively mutating organisms. And after being locked in
ice for 3 decades, the creatures aren't about to give up the warmth of
human companionship.
Gillis
and Woodruff hope fans are excited to help not only make a cool movie,
but also to uplift an art form. Animatronics and Makeup FX have been
utilized less frequently in films, and not because of audience
disinterest. Traditional techniques still have a place in modern genre
films. The filmmakers ask supporters of “old-school” visual effects to
give them the opportunity to show it. That's what HARBINGER DOWN is all
about!
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About Studio ADI (Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc.)
Tom Woodruff, Jr. Alec Gillis
Studio ADI YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/studioADI
Harbinger Down Kickstarter Campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1117671683/harbinger-down-a-practical-creature-fx-film
1 comment:
please keep us updated about this -- it sounds awesome!
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