Spore Creature Creator - Land Strider from The Dark Crystal

[Phantomseeker293]

The Landstrider has never been more flexible! lol

[messy31]

The landstrider was indeed a stuntman(men) with crutches and stilts. They practised for days befre the shoot & wore a safety cable in case they fell. For the external running scene, the cable was fixed to a massive tower crane with a huge extended jib overhead, whilst a citroen CV with it's roof cut off, was used as a tracking vehicle.

Basic, but clever stuff in those days before CGI

[Steamrollergirl71]

The Landstrider in the film was a man in a suit on stilts and crutches. Strong enough to carry a small person able to run and fight. It worked brilliantly without the use of CGI. Yes there's a place for CGI. But Don't let Animatronics Die. Or the Magic will be lost too. Green Screen is a soulless way to make a movie

[MAUL0r1]

this was made using a video game's creature creator tool. it was an exercise in using a free-form video game tool to re-create a recognizable creature. It is in no way intended to "replace" the classic, in fact, it's more to pay homage to it.

[crazyramus]

@Steamrollergirl71 completely agree

[stuntsquiral1]

nice work!

you did a really good job on the face and whiskers. I have the spore game (I'm sure a lot of people do) It's really handy for creations like this. You've done an amazing job, and for that, I congratulate you!

[burningface]

Nice! Now for an even greater challenge... can you create one of the characters riding it's back???? Great work!

[mitrooper]

Great job! Very close to the movie.

[Fishercardinal]

AWESOME!

[fernfearie]

THATS really reeeeally close... but being a dork that i am... the ears are supposed to be on the shoulder blade... but i'm sure the game doesnt have that option right? lol WAY KEWL.

[sonicking2004]

I imagine you're right about the options, good eye about the ears though. Excellent craftmanship.

[acageybee]

Wow! That's perfect. You did an amazing job.

[AkiraTakahara]

Great job on the face and whiskers!

[BakaniBoko]

Amazingly good! And the noises are pretty close even too!

[odin557]

Danm thats good, I hated the part when they died :(

[MAUL0r1]

me too, such cool creatures. fighters to the bitter end!

[odin557]

amen

[ZephDavies]

Well blow me. Damn you did a great job. Looks just like it honestly. Better then my attempt!

[LtStarkiller]

Wow....totally impressive. I remember them being white in the film with red eyes? Albino like? Spot on though.

[Frogmaiden27]

wow! I want me one of these :)

[plarkmoby]

I wanted to build one of these.

That's brilliant.

[tanatoes]

Spectacular! You got the face exactly right. I can has creature data?

[MAUL0r1]

I used the "share" feature so technically it should be available to all... though I am skeptical. if you can't find it gimme your e-mail in a PM and ill e-mail it to u or something.

glad you like it!

[solowfilmz]

super cool great god!