







NOTES: Original,
random rough storyboard thumbnails I dug up from many
years in storage and I recently scanned them into
computer. Tom "Evil Dead" Sullivan, also years
ago, lived in Bay Area for a short time. I asked him to
do some rough concept sketch of an Alien around an
existing armature and I then reproduced it as a puppet.
Also, the alien space ship, he did rough sketch capturing
similar organic-ness & bug flavor. I made some
changes as I fabricated, constructed alien & ship,but
essentially very similar to those rough sketches. Above
is only rough initial idea of sequence. This is very old
& just resurrecting to see the early years stuff.
This was conceived way before all this computer
digital-schmigital imaging technology and I was
going to shoot tests & experiments on Super 8
"film". Whenever you see the
word "split" with yellow
highlighting .... that was in reference to in-camera
front projection split screen compositing
techniques, also using other in-camera special
effects methods as Uncle Ray
would have done .... aka Dynamation
(but mine was more crude)
"Proof of Concept" .... Testing 1-2-3, Testing 1-2-3 .... this is only a
test 
( Dial-up Internet users: Be patient
and WAIT / After Download, click player controls to Start
)

Turn
off room lights .... crank up the volume .... let's
return to B-Movie escapism &
fun.....
Old
Super 8mm Film test .... ALL done in-camera ....
no computers, no software. Also, rough looking because of
poor man's do-it-youreslf, film-to-video transfer, years
ago. Projected film on wall and aimed ancient camcorder
at it.
Stay tuned ..... 
© Stop Motion Works / LIO -
2006
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