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“There’s a scene in Star Wars where Luke is kind of going through this pit, and it has this creature that opens up,” Kim continues. “So I’ve never really, really looked at crabs.” As the team worked on the Crustacean, Kim sought out images of Japanese spider crabs, specifically their mouths. “For me, one of the best things about being a character designer is you’re always designing things that you’ve never done before,” Kim says. To design the Crustacean, the film’s designers again looked at its real-life inspiration - and wound up learning a few things.
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It soon snaps and skitters its way into a fight with Red, the film’s eponymous scarlet sea beast. When Maisie and Jacob wash ashore on an uncharted island, they’re attacked by this crablike purple behemoth. “And so we needed to create two monsters that could be a good match for each other.” The team found that match with the Purple Crustacean. “I think most of the great monster movies, there’s an audience expectation that there’s gonna be a supercool monster fight, and we wanted to deliver,” Williams says. “And so the first creature you see lives up to your expectation as far as a menacing-looking monster.” “We had to be on board with our heroes initially,” Williams adds. “Chris was very on the fact that we cannot connect emotionally to the Prickleback,” production designer Matthias Lechner says. And that means the first beast we encounter has to be menacing and mysterious. the hard shell of a crocodile.”īefore Maisie and Jacob’s journey begins, the beasts (like the Prickleback) are just that: beasts. “So looking at the creatures that had tentacles, like octopuses and certain sea creatures, and the way that there’s texture on them was really fun to get into, and then mixing that in an appealing way with. “I was inspired by crocodiles, but it also had tentacles,” character designer Shiyoon Kim says. So the team turned to an unlikely combination. “We are going for grounded, very realistic, believable creature design,” says art director Jung Woonyoung. It’s a creature of pure fantasy, but one that was inspired by real animals. The first creature we get a good glimpse at in The Sea Beast is the Prickleback, a ferocious green beast with whipping tentacles and a massive pair of jaws. Join us as we take a dive into those depths, and learn how the sea beasts of The Sea Beast came to be. The creatures have to make sense or people will feel it.” To strike this balance, the film’s designers drew from real-world animals, while also plumbing the depths of their imaginations. “It’s really trying to find this middle point between an artist’s imagination but also actual practical research.
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“We work with amazing designers, and it’s a lot of back-and-forth,” director Chris Williams tells Tudum. Some are massive, others miniature, but all are instantly memorable.įor the team behind the film, designing these creatures was a long and intensive process.
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As our heroes Maisie (Zaris-Angel Hator) and Jacob (Karl Urban) venture into the uncharted open ocean, they meet beasts beyond their wildest dreams. Alongside Red, the film’s crimson star, there are crabs, blobs, tentacled green beasties and more. The new animated film showcases a vibrant menagerie of nautical monsters, ranging from ferocious to friendly.
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The Sea Beast is full of fantastical creatures of the sea and shore.